GeeXboX |
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Alternative To: Microsoft Windows Media Center, SnapStream BeyondTV |
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Description
GeeXboX is a full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class or Apple Macintosh computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.
You may wonder why you should have to boot another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX platforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. It's now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computer directly to your TV!! At the time of the first development releases (Dec. 2002), it was only capable of playing DivX movies, but now, nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX, with the OS supporting: * MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs ...) * MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD, |
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Home Page: http://www.geexbox.org/
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Interface: Graphical
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