Media center software for Linux

So my fucking Xbox just crapped out (or perhaps just the modchip), leaving me without my beloved Xbox Media Center.

What I'm wonder is if there as any XBMC-like software that I could just run on my fileserver and use via TV-out and a PC remote control.  Preferrably something Mplayer-based.

Can something like MythTV be installed and used simply for its media-playing abilities and not all that Tivo crap?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Not for Linux, but you might want to consider Media Player Classic with FFDShow for Windows 2000 (XP/2003 too). It acts as a web server so you can control it from another machine, and it can pull files off SMB servers. The FFDShow filter has a bunch of awesome stuff like sharpening, softening, blurring, noise, dynamic deblocking, perspective correction, cropping, deinterlacing, audio volume normalizing, color map, basic properties, customizable subtitles, OSD, audio channel remapping, audio multibandpass, equalizer, any Winamp 2/5 plugins ever writen, and more. It also supports remote controls. The player and the filter are arguably the fastest and highest quality playing platform. Properly configured, videos look much better than anywhere else. There are hacks to support RealMedia and QuickTime without using the obnoxious players of both, too.

I recall seeing a distro - possibly Knoppix based - that was designed specifically as a media centre to do eveything you could possibly want. Can't find the link on Google though, dig around. Even if you don't want to mess around with an entire new distro, you can still use it to decide which packages you want to install on yours.

never actually tired it, but here ya go
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html

i tried geexbox. it was really neat and i liked it a lot, but it crashed all the time. maybe it wont for you though. its only a like 9 megs and easy to config.

also there is movix (google it), which is similar but i have not tried.

personally, i just ssh into the box with the big monitor (thus should work for tv out too) and run my anime on mplayer using the vesa output so it displays it on the monitor and not my laptop. then i can control it all like normal from my laptop.

>>2 im pretty sure ffdshow is based off the mplayer mpeg4 decoder. it can do all that stuff too.

>>5

Original Anon posting:

Heh, I must be a royal retard for just just doing that in the first place (the ssh thing).  For some reason I had my mind on a GUI but this is much better.  Thank you for enlightening me to the obvious!

s/just/not

:(