Free Media Centers and Home Theater PC’s

Between June and September a good part of my time went into compiling a comparative study on FLOSS Media Center applications. Through an extensive research and contact with the communities of each project, I identified the 10 projects promising great innovation in this segment, which is still embryonic in Brazil and in part of Europe but already well developed in the United States.

The article is interesting even for those who don’t know what a Media Center or a Home Theater PC are.

Free Media Centers Comparison Study

The projects compared were: XBMC, MythTV, Boxee, Elisa, Neuros OSD, Freevo, My Media System, Entertainer, CenterStage + Plex and MediaPortal.

The document is available in English, Portuguese and Italian, under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa), and the download is free at: http://www.telematicsfreedom.org/en/flossmediacenter