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View Poll Results: Media Center of the Year
XBMC
64 47.76%
Boxee
10 7.46%
Google TV
10 7.46%
Myth TV
44 32.84%
Enna
1 0.75%
Elisa
4 2.99%
Entertainer
0 0%
Freevo
1 0.75%
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,110
Media Center of the Year
A new poll this year.
#2
Member
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Milky Way
Distribution: Slackware64 13.1/Slackware 13.1/ -current
Posts: 783
Rep:
XBMC ! Best HTPC software ever! I have gotten so many positive feedback & comments for my HTPC setup with XBMC running on top of Slackware64!
#3
Member
Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 694
Rep:
I've gotta vote for XBMC. I have it on 3 xboxes and my laptop.
#4
Spirit Time Clock Maintainer
Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Treasure Coast, FL
Distribution: Suse
Posts: 9
Rep:
Media Tomb! Works great on Linux - serves up Movies to the Sony Bravia sets just fine!
#5
Member
Registered: Oct 2011
Location: Earth
Distribution: Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux
Posts: 49
Rep:
To be honest I haven't used any and didn't know much about it.
#6
Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: On the Beaches of Super Sunny Southern San Clemente, California USA
Distribution: Slackware - duh!
Posts: 407
Rep:
MythTV is good stuff. And he's involved with one of my LUGs so...
#7
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Carshalton, Surrey, UK.
Distribution: Pinguy OS 11.04 x86_64
Posts: 15
Rep:
I voted for MythTV because it's what I have used. Having said that, I've also seen XBMC on a few occasions at friends' places and it seems to do it's thing quite nicely.
Last edited by noah_vale; 01-17-2012 at 07:20 AM .
Reason: Speling!
#8
Member
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: Kerala, South India
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04, Ultimate Edition 2.9, Fedora 15, OZ Unity 1.0 Debut
Posts: 116
Rep:
XBMC is the Best
XBMC win handsdown for me
#9
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 4
Rep:
The best is Freevo, but it is missing in the list.
#10
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,110
Original Poster
Freevo has been added.
#11
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 12
Rep:
no good
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ps_sabu
XBMC win handsdown for me
for me never happens to work (tried on a lot different machines always got buggy results and
i am not intended to spend time fixing this...)
regular distro with multimedia packages works better i think...
apogarte
#12
Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Dyserth, Wales
Distribution: Slackware 13.37
Posts: 215
Rep:
Slackermedia ?
There is another alternative - Slackermedia. I would vote for this if it were on the list. See
http://slackermedia.info/
#13
Member
Registered: Oct 2010
Location: Serbia (Europe)
Distribution: Slackware 13.1
Posts: 74
Rep:
Sorry I don't watch television. :P
#14
Senior Member
Registered: May 2010
Location: Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Distribution: RHEL 5.3, CentOS 5, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian
Posts: 1,196
I vote for XBMC.
#15
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Distribution: Debian, CrunchBang, Ubuntu
Posts: 11
Rep:
XBMC
XBMC.
Will hopefully find a new home on a Raspberry Pi in the near future.
MythTV for recording DVB-T.
Last edited by buan; 02-08-2012 at 11:32 PM .
Reason: MythTV.
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