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As requested (and promised), here is the roundup of the open source media systems I did for the 24 in 24:
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- Watch, record and timeshift TV.
- Manage and play DVDs and movies.
- Play local and stream Internet music.
- Stream YouTube, Google and MySpace videos.
- Stream free Internet TV.
- Organize and show photos.
- Follow the latest news with RSS feeds.
- All this easily managed under friendly UI.
If you found this post useful, why don't you buy me a cup of coffee to show your gratitude?eAR OS is a state-of-the-art Operating System. It can run directly from a Live-CD and optionally be installed to a hard disk. That means you can try it out before you install it - for FREE!
eAR OS comes with the very advanced and beautifully simple to operate eAR Media Center.
Furthermore, eAR OS comes with the newest version of following applications: Wine for using Windows applications, Audacity Sound and Recording Editor, Audio CD extractor with FLAC and MP3 support, k3B CD- and DVD Burner, Kaffeine for DVB-S and DVB-T TV and DVD playback, VLC for Broadband TV, Exaile audio player, Firefox Webbrowser with mediaplayer connectivity, Thunderbird E-mail/News, Pidgin internet Messenger for MSN, F-Spot Photo Manager, GIMP Image Editor, auto-started Firewall and several utilities and accessories. With its package manager you can further install more than 15000 applications via the internet for FREE!
eAR Media Center is running out-of-the-box. Tune-in the digital TV programs and rip some CD’s to the hard disk in lossless FLAC quality or MP3, watch Digital TV and DVD’s, listen to Internet Radio, view Photos, listen to Music while surfing the Internet, and Enjoy
If you found this post useful, why don't you buy me a cup of coffee to show your gratitude?Remedie is a perl based media center application with pluggable architecture. You can subscribe to videocast feeds, watch local folder with media files and keep track of your favorite video sites like YouTube, Nico Nico Douga or Hulu. See Supported Sites for details.
It runs as a web server so you can use your favorite browser (Firefox, Safari) to browse your video collection, playback videos using your favorite player.
If you’re familiar with Plagger, Remedie is a fork of Plagger, optimized for media downloading and viewing, and comes with an HTTP web server with JSON APIs and web-based frontend built with jQuery and CSS.
If you found this post useful, why don't you buy me a cup of coffee to show your gratitude?FUPPES is a free, multiplatform UPnP A/V Media Server.
FUPPES supports a wide range of UPnP MediaRenderers (see “features” for details) as well as on-the-fly transcoding of various audio, video and image formats.
FUPPES also includes basic DLNA support.
