Study on FLOSS Media Center (2008)

We are promoting a study about the State of the Art in current Media Center projects in the FLOSS community. We picked the 10 most prominent MC FLOSS projects out there and we're now collecting information about their features, functionality and support.

The 10 selected projects are: XBMC, MythTV, Boxee, Elisa, Neuros OSD, Freevo, My Media System, Entertainer, CenterStage+Plex and MediaPortal.

Because of our limited resources, we can't afford creating a Lab to run and test all 10 media centers. So we are relying on the community collective intelligence to gather all data necessary to provide you with a panoramic view on state of the art work in FLOSS Media Center projects.

There is a webform available for each project. The forms are very easy to compile and we invite Project Leaders, Developers and Power Users to actively participate, to provide the most accurate information we need.

So, what's the deal?

You collaborate by:

• Filling the appropriate Profile Form for the Media Center you currently use;
  Select: XBMC, MythTV, Boxee, Elisa, Neuros OSD, Freevo, My Media System, Entertainer, CenterStage+Plex or MediaPortal
  
  and/or
  
  
• Sending any particular snapshots of your MC, links to demo videos or web reviews to info (at) telematicsfreedom (dot) org

The benefits are:

• You'll get a panoramic view on state of the art in all prominent media center floss projects out there;
• You'll be promoting your favorite Media Center and showing how strong your community is;
• If you contribute, you will have credits at the end of the paper, in your project section;
• The best snapshots may be selected to appear on the paper and illustrate the project's UI

Controversial answers will be cross-checked and we may contact some of you for clarifications before the paper is published.

You can participate anonymously, but if you decide to leave your name and email address you'll be given credit for your participation and will receive an email notification of when the paper is available for download (it will be free as in free speech and as in free beer :-)

PS.: we're not targeting all-in-one solutions at this time (custom distros like LinuxMCE, KnoppMyth, MythBuntu, MythDora...), however, you can send us and email with useful information about those, links, videos or reviews... and we may decide to publish a paragraph or two about it.