Currently, it’s no wonder how choosing a media center or media player to use in order to stream audio and video files could be such a bother – looking at the rising number of applications and all other media centers, it’s certainly not surprising that it’s really kind of difficult to choose one which will fit your liking.
When it comes to the setup and installation process, the ease of it greatly depends on the hardware and platform that you will be installing it on. If you are installing it on a rather modern Mac or Windows system, you certainly won’t encounter any hitches and the whole process will be painless – from a software standpoint. If you want to run it as a live system through a USB stick, it isn’t any harder either. You can even install it from into a different HTPC hard drive. But if you are planning to plug into a Madriva Linux system and hook to a specialized plasma TV with a resolution of 1080P, you will certainly need rocket science and several years of therapy.
Other than that, the best thing about the XBMC is that is an open source free ware that costs a very cheap of price of free. Aside from that, if you are among the nerdy hackers, you can certainly work on improving features that XBMC already offers. That is because XBMC does not sport the same kind of platform that Boxee has, but talented coders and programmers can certainly get inside and make it all the better.
From personal user trials and all other user stories, XBMC is really superb at grabbing the info when you’ve put new media content in your computer, figuring out what kinds of files they are whether it’s videos, music, or image; and reaching out to the internet to get important pictures, data, reviews, and even those trailer links for the music and videos that you play in it.
Aside from that, you’ll also be amazed by the slick and customizable look that it allows you to personalize everything with just a few clicks. You can add a new skin to it, if you find the default look too bland and boring. Relatively speaking, the XBMC program may really have some nice effects, graphics and menus, but due to the fact that it comes from a project to put a full and complete media center on a gaming system, it is focused on media playback – making files run as smoothly as possible.
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