The company that thinks PowerPoint is good for presentations and visual work… They have actually done it. The company that still delivers their operating system with “Paint” as the hard core imaging tool. The company that still does not have a clue about design and media. I bought a new screen card and installed Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) (I happen to work for a company that has an MSDN subscription).Īnd I must say… wow, now we are talking! Old and boring Microsoft. So, I was willing to sacrifice possibilities and features for stability and usability. If you are going to utilize the plugins and possibilities in Meedio you have to prepare for some late evenings ( and a lot of fun!)… The system needed maintenance quite often. The BeyondTV + Meedio solution gave me huge flexibility, but quite low usability and stability. It is very open and configurable.īut, I was tired of running several programs. Meedio has a big user base and huge amounts of plugins.
#SAGETV BEYONDTV MOVIE#
Meedio is a very powerful frontend to your music, DVDs, pictures and movie archive. In adition to this it was actually poorly integrated into BeyondTV. I tested BeyondMedia (SnapStream’s effort on a media frontend), but found it very limited and not very user friendly.
#SAGETV BEYONDTV SOFTWARE#
However, it is not a complete solution so you have to run it in combination with some other software to have a frontend to your music, pictures, DVDs and other movies. It has a fantastic WEB based configuration GUI, client / server support and built in streaming of recorded shows and live streams directly through the WEB GUI.
#SAGETV BEYONDTV TV#
This worked quite well, and upgrading to Meedio (successor of myHTPC) and Beyond TV (successor of SnapStream PVS) was obvious.īeyond TV is a very good PVR. SnapStream PVS was a PVR only solution so I installed myHTPC as the frontend to my music, pictures and video archive. I started using SnapStream PVS as my PVR because I wanted hardware encoding and an EPG.
#SAGETV BEYONDTV FREE#
If you are running ShowShifter, feel free to use my HTPC Backgrounds here. ShowShifter now includes this, but as far as I can see, they’re still slow on updates… Unfortunately, Home Media Networks (the maker of ShowShifter) are slow on updating ShowShifter, so they lost me as a customer while I was waiting for hardware encoding support and EPG. However, they did not provide an EPG and did not support hardware encoding cards. ShowShifter worked fine and offered a complete suite with PVR, DVD, a photo module, a very good music module and a movie archive. Software that I have not testet seriously: SageTV, MythTV, MediaPortal Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) Meedio + Beyond TV (+ tested Beyond Media)ĥ. Early experiments with an ATI All-in-wonder RADEON and the ATI Media CenterĤ. I have been messing around with home theatre PCs (HTPCs) for a couple of years. So, you’ll be better of with Windows MCE than with a Tivo.įor flexibility, total freedom and control: MythTV and MediaPortalįor usability: Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) Still, even Microsoft haven’t implemented something like the Tivo “we’ll delete whatever we want”-functionallity. Open solutions like MythTV and MediaPortal suddenly became even more interesting.
You can buy this VHS tape, but you’ll hand over the keys to your apartment so that the content producers can come and take it when they decide that you shouldn’t be able to watch your recording anymore. Tivo has recently made headlines as people have discovered a horrible functionallity that lets content providers delete shows on your box. Here you find my complete list with links to all the HTPC-frontends I know of.
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