XBMC verses Meedio / MeediOS - what is the XBMC attraction that makes it so popular?

dtviewer Wrote:I had the same issue as you (kind of)
I solved it by using a modded version of a PM3-HD skin.
My home page has these buttons:
Movies
Tv Shows
Videos
Pictures
Weather
Music

Movies and TVShows point to exactly that, Movies and TVShows.

But the 'Video' button opens up a list of sub-folders. They are:
Music Videos
Cartoons
Videos (yea yea...this is where I hide the porn)

You can have as many sub folders named whatever you would like under the 'videos' button. This was the easiest and most elegant way for me.

If this sounds like something you are interested in just leave a message here and I'll post up the modded skin on Rapidshare.

Hi
I want to find out how you implemented this structure please. I am more or less happy with your approach and would like to copy it.

I guess the video button opens in file and not in library mode so it displays whatever structure you`ve created.

MeediOS ultimate is now released for anyone who had difficulties setting it up originally. Multiple menus with library modules is pretty standard and easy to do in MeediOS, it just links to a seperate database each time with its own importers. This way you can have a "stand up comedy" menu link, or "Sports DVDs" just as 2 examples.

I was tired of scratched disks from my 3 yr old daughter and a living room with DVD scattered around like coasters

From day 1 when I dusted off the old XBOX left in the basement and loaded it up with XBMC the entire family cheered.

If a piece of technology can be used by a 3yr old and the wife raves to her friends (for once) about something you did your a lucky man
Not too many Audio\Video or Home automation projects I do get's "Wife Approval".

Daughter is now almost 6 and this project just 100% works and used daily for years! Every TV in the house has a $40 XBOX attached it from craigslist and I have looked at the other projects and will never change. (Sage is the only tempting one, but expensive and with XMBC soon doing Live-Tv, I wouldn't consider Sage)

Many thanks to the XMBC team for moving forward to newer platforms and special thanks to ARNOVA for keeping the XBOX specific project alive.

Hi,

I am a new user and have just registered on the forums, so this is my first post and just thought I would introduce myself.

I have been a Meedio user since the very early days and still have three Meedio PC's setup in the house. These are all fed with media stored on a 3tb NAS server. The server has around 250 ripped DVD's, around 300 ripped CD's and all the family photos & home movies etc.

I am now starting to look for a suitable replacement for Meedio and, having ruled out MediaPortal, am now testing MeediOS and XBMC. As it stands at the moment, I far prefer the configuration of MeediOS but XBMC is more usable at the moment. However, bearing in mind that I have only just started using XBMC there is a lot I don't know yet and I may find it does just what I want albeit with a few concessions. However, I'm not going to hide the fact that I would really like to use MeediOS but with so few people working on the development it could be some while before it is ready.

I don't want to start an argument about which HTPC app is better, I think they all have their merits and it is personal preference. I also think that competition is important as it drives development & innovation.


Russell

Welcome to the forums! Best place to start is the XBMC Live! CD. Download it and give it a go. You can use a program called unetbootin to make the ISO bootable from a flash drive. If you like eye candy as well as functionality, XBMC is the way to go. The new default skin is Confluence and is very nice. TV Show, Movie, & Music scraping all work great which adds a LOT to the experience. Good luck!

-hogfan

Thanks for the welcome,

Well, I've got XBMC installed, I've scanned my DVD's and music folders and am now using the library view. It is coming together quite nicely and yes, you are right, the Confluence skin does look very nice.

The folder scan seems to have misread some of my ripped DVD's and none of my CD's have any thumbnails at the moment so I have some work to do. I also want to configure TheaterTek as an external player for DVD's as it is what I've always used and I think it is the best software DVD player available.

So, still lot's to do but it is coming along nicely.


Russell

Hey guys,

I finally retired the MeediOS website today after over 10 years running it. Its really sad to see it go but maybe others will take it up.

Anyway, I know a load of refugees are over here now I'm an XBMC user and official Team member now so will endeavour to help build any good features back into XBMC. We already have Library Nodes and a Add-on front end website like openMAID is in development.

Is there anything else people miss?

Very sorry to see MeediOS go. Even though I moved away nearly a year ago I still found myself checking in every week to see how everyone was doing.

We made some good friends and some amazing work was done. Hopefully we will keep bumping into each other around the web!

I haven't used MeediOS for years, but I must say that when I saw it was getting a MadVR add-on, it did spark my interest.