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LinuxMCE (Linux Media Center Edition) is a free and open source software platform with a 10-foot user interface designed to allow a computer to act as a home theater PC (HTPC) for the living-room TV, personal video recorder, and home automation system.
MythTV is a free and open-source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living room TV.It turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming [1] digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater personal computer. [2]
A Plex Media Server can function as a home theater PC and can stream content to Plex's front-end media player client applications that run on a myriad of devices and web browsers. [39] [40] [41] The media player applications are Plex, Plex Web App, Plexamp, and Plex Dash, which provide a way for the user to manage and play content from a Plex ...
A Mac Mini as a home theater PC showing Apple's discontinued Front Row interface. A home theater PC (HTPC) or media center computer is a convergent device that combines some or all the capabilities of a personal computer with a software application that focuses on video, photo, audio playback, and sometimes video recording functionality.
DVDFab Media Player by Fengtao Software Inc. is a media player software for Windows, based on the XBMC source code. [20] DVDFab Media Player can play encrypted and DRM-protected Blu-ray Discs for 60-days for free before it has to be licensed to enable that feature again. It can however playback unencrypted and Blu-ray ISO-images, folders, and ...
Boxee was a cross-platform freeware HTPC (Home Theater PC) software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV. It enabled its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social network services and interactive media related features.
Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Jellyfin consists of a server application installed on a machine running Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux or in a Docker container, [2] and another application running on a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV ...
JRiver Media Center was created by J. River, Inc., a Minneapolis-based company founded in 1982 by James "Jim" Hillegass [3] that developed networking and internet software for Windows, DOS and Unix. [4] Originally the software was known as Media Jukebox and had both free and premium versions. [5] [6] [7] Media Jukebox 3.0