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[edit] My Media System

My Media System (MMS) is an Open Source Media Center application for Linux. MMS is fast, light and easy to configure.

As the name implies, MMS is a media system with you in control. It lets other applications such as MPlayer, VDR, or Xine take care of what they respectively do best, and integrates them into one system, that is easy to understand and operate. By combining their individual strength, you get the best of all worlds, in one media application. MMS is easy to install, configure and use. It's even translated to 12 languages so there a good chance it's available in your native tongue.

My Media System has been developed since 2002 and was formerly known as Mpeg Menu System V2 but changed its name in October 2006 with the 1.0.8 release to My Media System to better reflect its current feature set. My Media System was originally written as a software front end for the DXR3 card but has since been extended so that it now works with the DVB, SDL, X11, framebuffer and OpenGL output systems.

My Media System supports:

• Audio playback with cover, last.fm support.
• Movie playback and movie information retrieval from imdb.
• Image viewing with slideshow.
• Playing games: Using emulators old Amiga, Super Nintendo and Genesis games can be played on a modern machine.
• Viewing EPG and TV using VDR.
• Weather forecast
• Asterisk frontend (VBOX)

Pyglets (Python scripts):

• YouTube
• Filemanager
• Services
• IpodSync
• Lolcats
• Cover Downloader
• Apple movie trailers
• Torrent-Inspector (rtorrent)
• Vobcopy
• MP3 Organizer
• WebTV
• ZDF-Mediathek#
• CD ripping (beta)

Pyglets let you easily extend the functionality of MMS. You can write your own Pyglet, it's easy some pyglets are only 100 lines of code :-)