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    This may be a stupid question. Media center linux?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by mas5acre, Oct 23, 2006.

  1. mas5acre

    mas5acre Notebook Evangelist

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    I want a linux distibution that pretty much does nothing but the same features the media center program of win mce2005
     
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    mach_zero Casual Observer NBR Reviewer

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    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    :D That is so Freaking Kool :D

    It's the next best thing from playing music & movies without booting your OS.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Oct 23, 2006
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    It is still a Live CD pack. It would be nice if someone can modify it into a bootable HD partition with 1GB space.
     
    rockharder, Oct 23, 2006
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    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    ^^^that would be sweet^^
     
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  7. mach_zero

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    You can install it to your hard drive if you wish. Link
     
    mach_zero, Oct 23, 2006
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    Isn't this what MythTV and KnoppMyth are for?
     
    noahsark, Oct 23, 2006
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    ^^^Those seem more for Tv tuners^^^^

    I tested GeeXboX and it works perfect.
    I actually like it better than win mce, being thats it's faster and easier with more options.

    I'll try to install in to my harddrive later.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Oct 23, 2006
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  10. mach_zero

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    As Liver said, MythTV is essentially just a PVR app for HTPCs. It doesn't do any of the other media center stuff.
     
    mach_zero, Oct 23, 2006
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    Gee, I figured if it could do TV it would do music and movies, too. Guees I'll actually have to figure out what's what.
     
    noahsark, Oct 24, 2006
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    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    It does those too, I would say at first glance, you were correct, MythTV looks to be a great Media Centre application.

    http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures
     
    Lysander, Oct 24, 2006
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    I guess I kind of worded that wrong. It's not that it doesn't do any of the other things that MCE does, and it does some things MCE doesn't, but I don't think it's a full-fledged jukebox or video library manager like MCE is. It started out as and still primarily is Tivo for Linux. I'm sure if you looked around enough you'd find a branch of Myth that has more or different features just like any other distro has it's various derivatives. I simply suggested GeeX because it is lighter and does all the things the OP desired right out of the box.
     
    mach_zero, Oct 24, 2006
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  14. Ekim

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    Myth Tv can do ANYTHING that MCE can do, and more
    no worry about that..... sometimes the problem is to figure how to make it do it..but :D
     
    Ekim, Oct 25, 2006
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    Hehe. MythTV has a plugin architecture with lots of other plugins, so that it will work as a complete media center. It doesn't manage your music, but it will import it, allow you to create playlists, etc. It doesn't move around video files, but it will associate them with IMDB covers and such automatically, etc. MythTV is primarily a TV recording system, but it does much more, and it does it well.
     
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  16. shiggs

    shiggs Notebook Guru

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    myth also runs as a client server app. For a notebook I would only run the client and have a dektop with tuner cards and/or lots of storage running the server/db apps.
     
    shiggs, Oct 30, 2006
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    Geexbox looks cool, I'll have to try that. It's based on mplayer, which is very powerful.

    If you are familiar with ffdshow on XP/MCE, mplayer uses many of the same libraries so most of the functionality is there.
     
    shiggs, Oct 30, 2006
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