SysAdmin Adventures » Media http://blog.tpa.me.uk Tech notes from a Systems Administrator Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 XBMC: Truly the Greatest Media Centre Software EVER! http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2009/09/21/xbmc-truly-the-greatest-media-centre-software-ever/ http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2009/09/21/xbmc-truly-the-greatest-media-centre-software-ever/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:04:58 +0000 Zordrak http://blog.tpa.me.uk/?p=152 I have been using XBMC for about two weeks now on Slackware-13.0 using an Asus infra-red remote control that presents itself to the machine as a keyboard & mouse. My opinion is thus: it is fantastic!! The interface is beautifully crafted and easy to use. With the remote control I have it’s easier to use than an iPod Touch. It all just works. Installation is a breeze as there is a SlackBuild script for it. The script hasn’t quite made it to the SlackBuilds.Org repository yet, however thanks to a patch from Pat for Slackware-13.0, I expect the XBMC SlackBuild to be accepted at SBo any day now.

The obvious drawback is that it doesn’t have TV tuner functionality but then it doesn’t need one. It’s not what it’s designed for. If you want TV, go give the MythTV developers a hand to see if we can’t get that shocking piece of floppyware to be usable again.

I haven’t even started looking into all the plugins and other bits that are available for XBMC, but the reason is simple: I haven’t needed to. More often than not, I start going looking through customisations because I’ve needed at least one to add functionality or fix something in an application. In this case I’ve yet to discover anything I needed changing.

XBMC is AWESOME

End of discussion.

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