Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Sep 2009 22:31 UTC
While we at OSNews often talk about desktops, laptops, and netbooks, there is another "form factor" which is making inroads into various households: the home theatre PC, or HTPC. There are a lot of software packages out there that will aid in turning a computer into an HTPC, and since I've been testing three of them extensively over the past months, I figured we'd talk about what you use.
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2005-10-10
Every single one of them in some way or another.
WMC - well why would you trust your movie/music collection to such a piece of <insert favourite four letter adjective here> Not to mention the codec disaster that is windows!
MythTV - Are you kidding? Why should I have to go to university to use media centre based software.
Assorted Apple cra... - No brainer realy. Why spend huge wads of money when there's free stuff around just as bad.
XBMC - See MythTV
LMC - See XBMC/MythTV
GooBox, GeeBox and all the other unknowns - Well they're unknown because they're like I said, poopie!
Latest SVN-mplayer and lirc and you're good to go. Will do everything the others do without the headaches!