http://base-art.net/Articles/58/ <p>I'd like to setup a HTPC software in my living room, running on this <a class="reference" href="http://base-art.net/Articles/24/">tiny computer</a> ... I had a look at various softwares but i'd prefer one implemented in Python, so that extending would be quite easy.</p> <p>I'll mainly use it to have tv channel schedule (XML-TV), listen music (<a class="reference" href="http://respyre.org/">ResPyre</a>), and handle video content. The machine won't be able to handle PVR-like usage, but it's not critical since i'm not TV-addicted :-)</p> <p>So, first off, i looked at the widespread <a class="reference" href="http://mythtv.org/">MythTV</a>, and it's really a pain in the ass to setup, then it's easy to understand the success of <a class="reference" href="http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html">KnoppMyth</a> (a full blown linux distro including the Myth out of the box). Anyway the main killer feature of MythTV is TV time-shifting, in this particular field it rocks, but i don't need that feature, i'm not inclined to install KnoppMyth, so i forget MythTV.</p> <p>Next, i had a look at the Python powered <a class="reference" href="http://freevo.sf.net/">Freevo</a>. The website seems dead, Freevo's 1.5 code is a mess, but hey, there's a rewrite taking good shape! In fact <a class="reference" href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freevo-2.0/">Freevo 2</a> will be a good candidate for me, architectured around <a class="reference" href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freevo-2.0/Kaa">Kaa</a> which is an amazing Python multimedia (GUI, EPG, ...) framework using a bunch of good bricks like Evas and Imlib2, allowing full-blown effects in Freevo. Well i tried it, and it looks good, even still in heavy development. The configuration is quite simple, it's my best candidate for now, and guess what ? Plugins seem really a piece of pie to implement :-)</p> <p>Any other HTPC challenger ? (please no MS Media Center, my box runs linux :)</p> <p><strong>update</strong>: for a more in-deep view of MythTV gaz usine, check <a class="reference" href="http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/">http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/</a></p> en The contents of this blog are available for non-commercial use only. Alinea http://pythonfr.org/alinea/ http://base-art.net/Comments/189/ http://base-art.net/Comments/189/ phil 2006-02-20T21:16:11Z http://base-art.net/Comments/186/ http://base-art.net/Comments/186/ umaxx 2006-02-20T13:06:37Z http://base-art.net/Comments/177/ http://base-art.net/Comments/177/ GreyFoxx 2005-11-03T16:14:49Z http://base-art.net/Comments/176/ http://base-art.net/Comments/176/ phil 2005-10-27T14:07:17Z http://base-art.net/Comments/175/ http://base-art.net/Comments/175/ umaxx 2005-10-27T12:51:26Z