Media Center Programs
And out of literally no where, the SageTV team surprises the hell out of me with a homerun out of the park. Shock and awe aside, this pre-beta preview of Hulu made its appearance at CES with Dave Zatz clicking a few pictures for your enjoyment. This would be a real coup for the SageTV team as it would be […]
Read moreThere are a couple of threads over at The Green Button that discuss Windows 7. The first one, the one I find most interesting, is using the Xbox 360 as an extender for W7MC. Good news is that DivX, Xvid and H.264 files all work :). mkv files did not work but once it was remuxed to a m2ts container, […]
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As a ton of Media Center programs gain popularity, its easy to bypass the old stalwarts that have been in development for years and years :). Media Portal turned 4 this year and brought with it version 1.0 :). I have yet to try out MP this year, but I assume with the popularity of it that it must be […]
Read moreIt never hurts to add a few major features to your HTPC software, however adding a couple of major HD tuning features is even better :). The first one, though somewhat less important these days, is support for Clear QAM tuning that allows the end-user to tune and record channels that are transmitted in unencrypted QAM. John had a chance […]
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Long Zheng has several great articles up about the upcoming Windows 7. It is worth it to check out his blog for all of his Windows 7 updates. What caught my eye was a nice chart outline Window 7 CODEC support. We all hope this advancement finds its way to the extender world. Check out his blog post here. […]
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More Open Source news today! XBMC Atlantis surfaces with releases for Linux, Mac, and Windows! This release focuses on bug squashing. Alot of problems, at least in the past, with open source media programs is they have not taken the time to freeze features and focus on squashing bugs. It certainly looks like alot of the open source teams have […]
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Boxee has certainly garnered alot of attention over the past few weeks. Enough so to get a bit of money from a couple of venture capitalist firms. In that same post, they state their lofty goal is to attract 1,000,000 users by the end of 2009. What do you guys think? Is the open source/free Media Center world getting a […]
Read moreMore good news in the software world, Plex, the mac XBMC fork, has released a new version . The post I link to doesn’t have much in the way of release notes, just digg back through a few of the recent blog posts to figure out what is new. Plex Media Server – Allows for a client/server interface iTunes Visualizations […]
Read moreI honestly didn’t think EVR support would be SageTV’s next development priority. Of course, if I was a mind reader I would have a happier wife ;). Along with EVR support major advancements include HDPVR support enhancements in Mac & Linux, and Placeshifting enhancements. Click the read more for release notes. Click here for the SageTV beta forums. It looks […]
Read moreBefore you read this, I will note that forum regular evilpenguin did admit he is highlighting the good parts in his quickie review of the new MacOS native media front-end Boxee. So don’t get all lovey dovey until he comes back and finishes his thoughts… I am sure he won’t leave us all hanging? Right? MetaData scraping – They put some […]
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