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 Open source media center alternatives
All of us knows about Microsoft Window XP Media Center Edition (MCE), but what actually makes up a full featured media center? There are a couple of main features and then a few less important ones.... |
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VLC media player
VLC media player - originally named VideoLAN Client - is a flexible media player available for virtually any operating system including portal/handheld computers. VLC plays all of the common media... |
 Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
Available as freeware from Microsoft - Windows Media Player is the default choice when it comes to playing either music or video on the Microsoft Windows platforms. Windows Media Player also allows... Alternatives: VLC media player Helix Player MPlayer Amarok Miro Songbird musikCube
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Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) transforms your PC into a media center and moves it into the livingroom. MCE is acutally an alternative to your VCR since it allows you to user your PC... Alternatives: MythTV MediaPortal Freevo
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Apple QuickTime 7
QuickTime is digital media software that lets you view pre-recorded or live video and/or audio. On the first viewing, QuickTime immediately shows its superior video quality. Users like the clear,... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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Helix Player 11
Helix Player is an open source edition of the media player - Real Player, but is only available for unix platforms - mainly Linux. The application is part of the Helix DNA Platform which is a... |
Corel WinDVD 2010
WinDVD is a fully featured DVD and Blu-ray player - with superb video and audio quality. It also plays Real media, QuickTime, H.264 - and high definition formats such as WMV-HD and other HD video... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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MediaPortal 1.0
MediaPortal is a complete open source media center including a digital video recorder (dvr) feature. MediaPortal lets you view and record TV from both analog and digital (DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S) sources... |
MPlayer
MPlayer is an open source movie player originally made for Linux. Today, however, a number of platforms are supported - and it is most likely the movie player that supports the most formats.... |
CyberLink PowerDVD 9
PowerDVD was one of the first software based DVD players on the market. It gained enormous momentum by being bundled with many DVD-ROM drive manufactures products - and today offers many more... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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Freevo 1.8
Freevo is an open source home theatre PC platform. It provides all of the features you would expect of any HTPC/media center such as being able to watch TV either terrestrial or from DVB sources.... |
MythTV
MythTV is an open source personal/digital video recorder (dvr) with alot of extra features making it a complete media center for your home. Besides the standard features of watching and recording TV... |
Winamp 5.24
Winamp has been and is still on of the most downloaded mp3 players on the internet. However, today Winamp does much more than just play mp3s - it supports a wide number of audio and video formats.... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer Amarok Miro Songbird musikCube
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Songbird 1.1
Songbird is a new audio player on the internet with unique features. It is, however, not a mature project yet - but for the enthusiast it is definitely worth a try. Songbird is built around the... |
Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1
Even though Microsoft Movie Maker is freeware bundled with Windows XP - it is still a powerful video editor for home users and can even be used by for semi-professional video productions. Imports... Alternatives: Kino Avidemux VirtualDub Cinelerra
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Corel Draw X5
Corel Draw part of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has a long history of being one of the most popular vector drawing software applications around. Wheter you are designing graphics for print, web or... Alternatives: Inkscape OpenOffice Draw Skencil Xara LX
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Partition Image 0.6.7
Partition Image is an open source disk cloner. It will create a complete image of the partitions you wish to backup that can be spilt into multiple files for storing on removable media - or copied... |
Jahshaka 2.0
Jahshaka brings the power of movie editing and effects to the open source environment. This free tool will offer almost the same features your will find in a profession/commercial editing suite.... |
Evernote
Evernote provides a means to capture just about anything you would want to save whether it is notes to yourself, something you saw or heard or even just things that you like. It works with nearly... Alternatives: RedNotebook NeverNote
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Acronis True Image
Acronis True Image is a backup system that saves everything on your computer. Should computer fall victim to a crash or virus attack you can save literally everything on your hard drive. Your... Alternatives: Ghost for Unix (G4U) Partition Image Clonezilla FOG
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Banshee 0.13
Banshee is a music player with many advanced features. One of the most important is iPod synchronization, which is now available simple and easy on Linux. On top of that Banshee does a great job as a... |
musikCube 1.0
musikCube is a music library and player. It plays virtually any music media format that is comes across, however, drm (digital rigths management) protected music (music bought on-line) is not... |
Nero Recode 2
Nero Recode is one of the fastes video/DVD converters on the market. With Recode you can easily backup non-copy protected media (e.g. DVD) into MPEG-4 (H.263/AVC) format - which takes up alot less... Alternatives: HandBrake
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Drupal 6.2
Drupal is an open source software package for individuals or communities of users that need to publish, organize and manage a website's content also know as a content management system (CMS). ... |
RedDot CMS 7.5
Whether you are designing your company's website, intranet or extranet - RedDot CMS is a professional tool with a simple interface. Like many other professional content management systems it... Alternatives: Umbraco SilverStripe Joomla Drupal Typo3 Concrete5 TextPattern
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MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a project that is creating an open content music database, a type of "Wikipedia for music" and software for auto-tagging your music. The base contains information about artists, their... |
TuneUp
Whether your music library is total chaos or just needs some organization, TuneUp can save you a lot of time, work and aggravation.
TuneUp is software that replaces missing track names and album... Alternatives: MusicBrainz
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SyncToy
SyncToy, a free download from Microsoft, is an easy to use application that allows you to manage files between folders and computers. You can copy, rename, delete or move files of any type whether... Alternatives: Create Synchronicity
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Open source media center alternatives 
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
