StateOfTheArtSpecs

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|| || |||||||||| Supported features ||
|| Name || URL || TV || Movies || Music || Pictures || Effects||
|| Elisa || http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/index.php || || || || || ||
|| Freevo || || || || || || ||
|| MythTV || || || || || || ||
|| My Media System || http://www.mymediasystem.com/ || || || || || ||		 || || |||||||||||||| Supported features  ||
|| Name || URL || TV || Movies || Music || Pictures || Games || Effects|| Additional plugins ||
|| Elisa || http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/index.php || || Yes || Yes || Yes || || Yes || ||
|| Freevo || http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ || || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes (p)|| No ||Yes ||
|| MythTV || http://www.mythtv.org/ || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes (p) || || Yes ||
|| My Media System || http://www.mymediasystem.com/ || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || yes || || ||
|| LinuxMCE || http://linuxmce.com/ || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || || Yes || Yes ||

Nb : (p) means the feature with an additional plugin.
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 * GeeXboX teams up with freevo for LiveCD/distro.
 * LinuxMCE is more than just a Media Center. It can manage your whole house. So that's also a problem cause the installer comes with all its stuff (to manage the whole house) and, at the end, you're lost in all those functionalities ( and the software becomes unusable ).
 * My Media System (mms) also have a kind of plug in approach. It wrappes existing players and supports LIRC. However, it doesn't do a special job apart being an interface to existing players. I didn't find a way to select set up the player. It's easy installable and testable. I propose you do.
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 * [http://wattazoum.fr/spip.php?article56 A spec definition of a Media Center]

This page sums up the state of the art on the Linux Media Center subject.

This will allow the Ubuntu Media Center Team to have a clear vision for the software choice.

Supported features

Name

URL

TV

Movies

Music

Pictures

Games

Effects

Additional plugins

Elisa

http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/index.php

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Freevo

http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes (p)

No

Yes

MythTV

http://www.mythtv.org/

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes (p)

Yes

My Media System

http://www.mymediasystem.com/

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

yes

LinuxMCE

http://linuxmce.com/

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Nb : (p) means the feature with an additional plugin.

Notes

  • GeexBox has not been considered since it's a distribution, not a software.

  • non [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS FLOSS] software have been discarded:

    • SageTV
  • GeeXboX teams up with freevo for LiveCD/distro.
  • LinuxMCE is more than just a Media Center. It can manage your whole house. So that's also a problem cause the installer comes with all its stuff (to manage the whole house) and, at the end, you're lost in all those functionalities ( and the software becomes unusable ).
  • My Media System (mms) also have a kind of plug in approach. It wrappes existing players and supports LIRC. However, it doesn't do a special job apart being an interface to existing players. I didn't find a way to select set up the player. It's easy installable and testable. I propose you do.

Useful external links

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