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My family just got an Apple TV and I'm very impressed at the fit and finish, but I was disappointed at the lack of features. I would love a more open device whe
by nabilt 14y ago
My family just got an Apple TV and I'm very impressed at the fit and finish, but I was disappointed at the lack of features. I would love a more open device where I could install whatever I want. For example I would love to mirror my display, have better integration with Android and web browse directly on the box. Any recommendation for good media center software to install on the mintBox that can do this?
- w1ntermute 14y agoXBMC (supports Android remotes).
- DanBC 14y agoGeeXboX (http://www.geexbox.org/ http://www.geexbox.org/) OpenElec (http://openelec.tv/ http://openelec.tv/) XBMC (http://xbmc.org/ http://xbmc.org/) None of them have particularly good "elevator pitches" for what they are or do. I hear people like XBMC.
- baggers 14y agoI second OpenElec, which is effectively a minimal OS which boots straight to XBMC. I threw it on my aspire revo and it ran beautifully while using under 300mb of HDD. It pulls media wirelessly from my server and I use the android XMBC Remote to control it. I would warn that it probably worked so well for me because they have a build specifically for nvidia ion graphics based machines. Saying that though, they also have builds for Fusion HTPCs, Intel, XTreamer, Apple TV, and a generic build with or without proprietary graphics drivers.
- devicenull 14y agoNothing that can do Amazon or Netflix streaming without constant fiddling and other annoyances.