5 Best Media Centres

[mkenyon2]

I voted for GBPVR also.

[Deusxmachina]

No GBPVR in the list = lame list.

[_Iz-]

xbmc was really really really good in its day (and it is now), but the xbox is dead, its too slow to playback hidef media (try playing a 720p mkv in it, it just doesnt really work).
be interested in trying what its like on a pc now though, but no tv support, so meh.

yeah frodo left mediaportal a while back.

I have the xbmc live cd working quite nicely on a tv, old CRT type through s-video. I built a media centre pc for my dad (for playback of downloaded videos and retail dvd's only). I load the media on an external 2.5" drive he brings over every so often for new content. Works just like an xbox (have a softmodded one of those as well on my basement tv).

[nitrogen_widget]

I'm playing with the windows version of XBMC & the live version.
I don't need a tuner just something to work on an old PC & play back recorded shows & DVD's for the kids.

I'd rather use what I allready have then buy a cheap Divx DVD player that won't scale lower res. recordings to full screen.

I may just use GBPVR & disable the plugins I don't need if I wind up going windows.

The nice thing about XBMC is that they appear to be wanting to make it a universal front end for all HTPC software.

This on a linux live distro could mean a PC based solid state bootable front end for GBPVR.

It's allready a front end for Myth.

[steeb]

I know this is going over some very old ground (some mentions on this Forum, some on others) but just have to ask:

Given the popularity that XBMC still enjoys on the Xbox (not the new PC based software), and the brilliance of GBPVR to do other stuff that XBMC cannot (mainly LiveTV, linked to own EPG etc.) Why are there XBMC scripts for Myth, and I believe Sage was tried at some point, and none for GBPVR?

a) I understand that there may be a legal issue with the whole hacked Xbox thing but this hasn't stopped many others doing it?

b) I'm not a Dev in any way so forgive me for my stupidity but as the MVP and PCH are used to load the dongle from the GBPVR server is it a very difficult thing to do to emulate the Bootp and TFTP service on XBMC and load the dongle therefore bringing up the GBPVR GUI?

Of course as I write this I know some Guru will tell me what I'm missing and that I am in fact very stupid :-)


Steeb

[nitrogen_widget]

be interested in trying what its like on a pc now though, but no tv support, so meh.

I just discovered it was ready for PC yesterday literally so I havn't had time to scour the forums.

I think it allready has a built in EPG & has funtionality to launch an external video player, I wonder if it can be configured to use something like VLC or Mplayer with a software tuner card?

It wouldn't allow time shifting of course, but i couldn't do that nicely anyways on a low end system.