simonlang Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 i need a good media-center software. kde's plasma-mediacenter just hangs and crashes and looks unfinished to me. i know i tried out a mediacenter version of ubuntu years ago which looked good and i have seen many mediacenters running on raspberry pi where it looks MUCH better and advanced than windows mediacenter software. i am asking this, because i have not used any linux mediacenter software for years. the reason was, because there was no way to get audio-output via hdmi on my tv, and i gave up on this and used windows media center for this with working audio output. however today i tried again and audio output now works. so there is no reason anymore for even keep windows on my notebook for the occasional sound recordings if i find a decent mediacenter software. it should have: - the easy possibility to add free internet radio channels like in windows media center. - http://www.ravetrax.com must be there as a channel or an easy way to add that one manually. - i dont need any tv channel support because i can watch my tv channels on my tv - built in youtube support would be awesome (this makes plasma-mediacenter to crash immediately) - built in recording option like in windows media center if possible - should run stable (if it crashes only once a week like windows media center i can live with that :P) suggestions welcome :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulphy Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 XBMC or Plex are ones i have played with... :) simonlang, Terry504 and Dick Montage 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 xbmc looks fine, i just need to find a way to have it running not in fullscreen mode but just as a normal window, and whats the hotkey to save the currently playing radio station as your favorite? the mousecursor is also wayyyyy too fast - i checked in the settings but no option to make it slower? nevermind: i just found it out, windowed shows the mediacenter as a normal window and that also uses the mouse-cursor settings from kubuntu default which is fine. all solved thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulphy Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 not sure about the radio station bit... i used it mainly for streaming, but wasnt a big fan of the interface, which is beautiful, but i prefer my media in a listed format... so moved to Twonkey instead... Nice thing about XBMC is that they offer it pre-built into ubuntu as well! Another one i looked at was AMAHI, BUT, it takes over your whole network, so you need to let it set itself up as your DNS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 so far xbmc does everything i need it to do :) next time i flash my sgs3 i will try to restore/root it by using linux instead of windows (found a good tutorial) and if that goes well too, i will finally be able to completely remove windows from my notebooks hdd. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulphy Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 so far xbmc does everything i need it to do :) next time i flash my sgs3 i will try to restore/root it by using linux instead of windows (found a good tutorial) and if that goes well too, i will finally be able to completely remove windows from my notebooks hdd. :D Awesome! :) Have a good one! I did notice there are some pretty good addons for xbmc!! simonlang 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 yep even a jdownloader addon and so many others... :) foxnews is also running fine :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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