Top ten media centers

TOP 10 MEDIA CENTERS :-

A multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer is called media center.

1. XBMC:-  xbmc.org/‎

 XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcast, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. XBMC forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer.

Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and in over 30 languages.

2. MEDIA PORTAL:- www.team-mediaportal.com/‎

It is quite simply a revolution in media control, it allows you to watch, listen, read and play your media as you want to, without getting in the way, or having to learn difficult navigations systems. MediaPortal comes with a pretty stunning looking 'skin' (just look at those gorgeous screen shots). but you can also mix it up a little to make it even more to your liking, pop into the gallery to see how things can look. If you are looking for something a little more advanced, MediaPortal can connect to your AVR, to fully support Dolby Digital, DTS, and other HD formats; With the correct plugins it will even connect to your home automation system, allowing you to control things directly from MediaPortal.

3. JRIVER MEDIA CENTER :- www.jriver.com

J. River Media Center is an intuitive program that will allow you to manage all of your multimedia files - audio, video, images and more - from a single interface. Using Media Center's 10 foot interface, Theater View, you can watch from across the room on your TV and control it with a remote.

4. PLEX:- plex.tv

It contains two components – the Plex Media Server, which is the backend, and the Plex Media Center, which is the frontend. With Plex, you could make one computer in your house a media server and access it using the Plex Media Center on your home theater PC. You could also use the apps for iOS and Android devices to stream media to all of your devices from the central server.

The free Plex Media Server simplifies your life by organizing all of your personal media, making it beautiful and streaming it to all of your devices anywhere, anytime. 

 5. MOOVIDA :- http://www.media-app.com/

Moovida is a PC application which allows you to play all your media files (video, audio, etc).
It also connets you to internet radio and much more.

6. BOXEE :-  boxee.tv

Boxee (officially trademarked as BOXEE) is a cross-platform freeware HTPC (Home Theater PC) software application with  social networking features designed for the living-room TV that enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social network services and interactive media related features. Boxee was originally a fork of thefree and open source XBMC media center software which Boxee now uses as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform, together with some custom and proprietary additions.Marketed as the first ever "Social Media Center", Boxee recently announced the ability to watch live TV on the Boxee Box with the introduction of the live TV stick. Avner Ronen released it to the market in January 2012.

7. WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER :-windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows7/.../windows-media-center

Windows Media center (abbreviated WMC) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS,Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.

8. FREEVO MEDIA CENTER :- http://www.freevo.org/

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre. It integrates PVR / DVR functionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine, vlc and skype. Freevo also provides access to popular services such as YouTube, Flickr, Apple trailers, IMDB, Hulu Desktop and more through integrated plugins. Primarily aimed at the Linux platform it is also possible to run on OSX and for the determined on Windows.

9. MYTH TV:-

MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since 2002, and now contains most features one would expect from a good DVR (and many new ones that you soon won't be able to live without).

10. ENNA:- http://enna.geexbox.org/

Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.