MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Multi-Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means anyone can help develop MediaPortal or tweak-it for their own needs. It's for free, just give it a try!
TV:
Support for various international TV formats including Analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and HDTV.
Advanced recording options and Personal Video Recorder (PVR) scheduler to manage all your recording needs.
Watch, record, and pause live TV using integrated timeshifting capabilities.
Program guide based on the popular open source XMLTV project.
Comprehensive list of tested and supported tv cards including usage of multiple tuners.
DVD / Video
Organize and play videos / DVD's in a way never thought possible.
Customize your video library by actors, genres, year, rating etc.
Use the integrated player or use your favorite external application.
Automatically populates video artwork & information from IMDB.
Bundled with stable open source MPEG2 audio/video codecs, written by Media Player Classic.