XBMC Media Center 13.1 Beta 1

XBMC Media Center is a great media center alternative, though brilliant in its simplicity of use by its features allowing to navigate photo, video and audio content via a remotely controllable interface.

XBMC Media Center is an Open Source Media Center compatible with DLNA. This software provides access to all media sources that exists on the local network. Movies, music, videos or Internet, all sources can be managed and accessed from the laptop, PDA, XBox, TV or simply from the computer. If any connections to a DLNA-compatible network drive are opened, the application instantly identifies all multimedia files in it to make them available through its interface.

Upon launching the application , the interface is distinguished by its elegance and fluidity. The default theme is very successful, but user can opt for many other skins available directly from the application settings. The themes are applicable without rebooting.

XBMC supports many video formats (MPEG 1, 2 and 4, MOV, MKV, AVI, XVID, Real Video, WMV) and audio (MP3, FLAC, Ogg, WMA, WAV, MPC, APE). Side options, for each section there are available several parameters: HD optimization SD video format 4:3 movies, customize the display of subtitles, auto-hide summary movies for video unread, activation crossfade to music or pan and zoom effect for photos.

By default, the application offers a weather and a RSS reader but, there is everything from BitTorrent client frontend for MAME emulator .