Open Source Home Theater PC Software

NicePlayer is a fullscreen, borderless multi-engine player designed for playing movies on the computer. It features full screen or border-less floating windows, convenient controls for scrubbing or queuing movies, on the fly playlist creation and more.

New Windows Store App - Cinema Box moVee 8 is designed to provide you with fast access to information about your favorite or up-coming movies and allows you to browse your own movie collection within a Windows 8 styled interface. moVee 8 uses TMDb data to provide details about any movie, including information about the release date, the cast, the budget and so on. It features a search section to help you quickly find the desired movie and allows you to watch trailers. Furthermore, you can use it to view movie metadata for videos stored on the local hard drive.

A BASH script that will burn DVD movies from different sources like .iso/img/nrg or VIDEO_TS by utilizing FOSS tools like growisofs, nrg2iso and mkisofs.

A package of loosely-coupled tools to assist fan conventions, and similar events, with ripping, encoding, and playing DVDs in unattended theater rooms. Emphasis on scale (100s of DVDs), efficiency, batch operations, and picture quality. For Windows.

AutoCache is an XBMC add-on that automatically copies network media content to the local machine on playback. Files are locally cached as fast as possible, ensuring continuous playback if the network connection goes down.

Babel.TV started life as a desktop shell and replacement MythTV frontend, aiming to be a light, fast and elegant entertainment platform. It has grown to encompass instant communication, Web services and support for popular playback devices and phones.

Low calories PVR - the unix way. Will get EPG from DVB stream and have RPC interface for scheduling recordings. Will record scheduled programs using as little machine resources as possible (direct stream to disk). Will allow script hooks to process r

MediaCenter JukeBox is a plug-in for Windows 7 Media Center enabling to play ISO disc images from DVDs or Blurays, DVD ripped folders, Matroska and AVI containers. It also works with folder hierarchy, so you can better organize your library.

Grab movie info fast and easy. MRF is a software designed to fetch movie information from user folder. It can read files with garbled name in english or russian, and will try to predict its name using its own mechanism and web services.

A media player program that focuses on managing large collections of songs, videos and films.

A PHP media manager for video and audio file collections. It scans for files, groups them, references against IMDB where appropriate, then allows them to be streamed using Flash.

StaxRip is a powerful video/audio encoding GUI for Windows. It executes and controls console apps such as x265, mkvmerge, ffmpeg, etc. and uses scripting based frame servers, AviSynth+ and VapourSynth, for video processing.

TV_ENCODE! is a textual front end for MEncoder which allows the user to record live TV from NTSC, PAL, ATSC (or any future form) to industry standard MPEG-4 Video with MP3 Audio (DivX Compatible). Support for multiple capture sources.

ViewOn.tv is a Media Player that support audio, video and Internet radios. Play your music from your PC, DVD/CD or from your iPod/iPhone. It offers great ways to manage your music library, to create playlist, to copy and burn CDs.

A german gui for the popular YAMJ (Yet another movie jukebox).

Yet Another set of MEncoder Scripts; a source package of highly configurable, easy to use, and effective scripts for ripping DVD / VCD video (or transcoding other formats) to industry standard MPEG4 video format with MP3 audio (DivX Compatible).

A Xine frontend specifically designed for DVD playback. It has a nice OSD and works with lcdproc. Very suitable for DVD boxes like MythTV.