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Entertainment Center General Autonymoose!x4vv0ZYuAo 11/07/19(Tue)13:57 No. 3457

So I've put together a box to act as a media/entertainment center. I also have an ATI Wonder Remote II; a bit old, sure, but it still works. So, time for a MC/HTPC general!

What kind of software/frontend should I put on it? Preferably something free, but if the price and software are right I'll pay.

I'd like to have something I can play with a bit; I want to add a launch button for Hulu Desktop, as well as the ability to play ROMs/Emulators.

Anonymous 11/07/22(Fri)01:55 No. 3472

XBMC or Boxee are the only real choices as far as I'm concerned. Nothing else I've tried has been an acceptable substitute.

Although lately, since I use my HTPC more for streaming videos to my iPad, I've just decided to toss together an HTML5 video-streaming site that works from a SQL database of all my videos. I've got it listing and showing my TV shows and allowing me to edit the database from within the webapp, so my current step is to make "Station" playlists so I can have it randomly choose a show or a movie from its list to play, then play shows with continuity in order or shows without continuity at random. After that all that will be left is skinning it, really.

Well, that and converting my videos that are in MKV format to H.264 encoded M4V's. Most of my videos were already M4Vs to begin with, so that's not that big a deal, I've just got to leave Handbreak running for a few days.

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