Aeon Gives Your XBMC Style
June 27, 2008 by Mike
Filed under Linux Media Center
Aeon is a new interface for XBMC that was built upon a very simple brief: to create an attractive, sophisticated and above all personal environment for organising and enjoying media. Of the many HTPC frontends in development and circulation, too many like to bombard the user with overwrought textures that draw attention away from the most important thing of all: the media itself. Aeon’s solution is twofold. By favouring glass and otherwise transparent panels with little in the way of “bling”,...
What is XBMC?
June 3, 2008 by Mike
Filed under Linux Media Center, Other Media Centers
XBMC (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a free, open source (GPL) multimedia player that runs on the Microsoft Xbox as well as on PCs running Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The software is in the process of being ported from its original Xbox version, and currently some platforms are not yet feature-complete. What can XBMC do? XBMC can be used to play/view the most popular video, audio, and picture formats, and many more lesser-known formats, including: Video – DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD, MPEG-1/2/4,...
What is MediaPortal?
June 1, 2008 by Mike
Filed under Other Media Centers
MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. As Open Source software licensed under the GNU/GPL agreement, you get MediaPortal for free. This means anyone can contribute to MediaPortal or customize for their own needs! MediaPortal is built on the Microsoft .NET framework...