Anyone here run a HTPC?

Post by **Vtecmec** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:04 pm

Never been able to get along with media portal because of the bugs, complex install and designed by committee feel. Looks sweet though.

Post by **Gayno** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:06 pm

I'm still running Xbian on the Pi, working like a charm.

Post by **Ammo** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:10 pm

Vtecmec wrote:Never been able to get along with media portal because of the bugs, complex install and designed by committee feel. Looks sweet though.

It's not the easiest to setup I'll admit, MP2 is way easier, auto scans your drives and downloads album art etc just won't play 90% of my files lol while MP 1.0.14 does

Plus MP has TV tuner support out of the box (again a ball ache to setup though)

Post by **Vtecmec** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:24 pm

Have you tried windows media centre, amazingly easy install, looks great, never crashes and plays everything I throw at it.

Post by **Gayno** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:26 pm

I used to be WinMCE, purely for the out of the box setup and TV tuner support.

However I got a Freeview HD recorder box so no longer required the tuner support, moved to XBMC and now I won't look back.

Post by **Ammo** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:30 pm

Yes I have tried MCE, it's a bit well, Microsoft

Hence not using it