Best Distro for media

Blackhawk3D · 03-30-2006, 05:37 PM

Okay, I'm building a media center with Myth TV. For now, I'm going to use KnoppMyth, just to get going, but I want to do it eventually in a way that I can boot up regular linux whenever I want to, and I don't want a really default looking KDE. My question is, which linux distro is easiest to get good media support (Windows media etc.) but still looks good? Kubuntu and SuSE look good, but I don't think they have very good media support do they?

FredGSanford · 03-31-2006, 02:29 PM

Here is one I seen on distrowatch.com, looks like what you may want. I haven't tried it so can't say for sure.

http://videolinux.net/news.php

Let us know how is it, if you try it.

davecs · 03-31-2006, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FredGSanford

Here is one I seen on distrowatch.com, looks like what you may want. I haven't tried it so can't say for sure.

http://videolinux.net/news.php

Let us know how is it, if you try it.

Videolinux's ISP has closed down the website. It was based on PCLinuxOS, and you can add MythTV to that. There is a guy who does independent multimedia builds for PCLOS known as Thac and he has made MythTV available for PCLOS.

As for its other multimedia capabilities, read the various reviews at this site.

davecs · 03-31-2006, 06:58 PM

Correction: VideoLinux is back. It was a temporary failure!

Still if you want something "all round" then I would still say PCLOS is good and add MythTV.

Nailgun · 04-01-2006, 07:44 PM

Give LIMP a try. I was happy with the DVD play..and it's a live distro; no hard drive to mess up.

Blackhawk3D · 04-01-2006, 11:14 PM

PCLinuxOS is looking good, it's like mepis with a makeover. I'm still going to try the newest Mepis, but the older versions had very good multimedia support, but did not look very good in default trim, and most of the good looking KDE skins were for newer kde versions, and I didn't know how to make them. I like how PCLinux OS has a startup option for verbose mode, but doesn't default to it, it looks much cleaner.