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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2009-09-16
I tried MythTV for 4 months and after constant battles switched to SageTV and haven't looked back since. MythTV was great while it was running well but it would just randomly loose things I had setup. Once my remote just stopped working and the lirc.conf had disappeared. Another time I was in the middle of watching a show when it froze, I had to do a hard reboot. I went back to the vid to keep watching - and then it happened again, at the same spot - this was not too uncommon for me.
SageTV is not only the most reliable and best featured HTPC I've ever tried, it is also the most cross platform - Linux, Mac and Windows versions. (No OpenSolaris(Which is a shame because the idea of a zfs media and homeserver all in once is sweet.))