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<blockquote data-quote="Tau" data-source="post: 152492" data-attributes="member: 51507">Alright so im tired with MCE as it does not do nearly everything that i would like, i have been doing some research and sofar Media Portal claims to do the things that i want!So basically i am looking for something that will do the following;allow me to play tv (duh) record, timeslip, all that jazzwatch movies i have on my computer (from across my network as well)play musicplay internet radioplay games through without having to close out of the front end (such as wow, CSS, NFS, etc, etc.)play Emulators with xbox360 controllersmust support the MCE remote, the wireless keyboard/mouse/remote thing, and support for the Soundgraph VFD in my case would be nice as well.But i want to be able to run any external application through the front end so that i do not need to use a mouse i can just go down to it on the remote and bam i can be playing a emulator with a controller, instead of having to go across the room use the mouse to launch the application close out of media center then reload it, etc.From what i have been reading Media Portal will do all this.&nbsp; though i have also read it has issues playing tv?&nbsp; also there are talks of it running as a server, and a client?&nbsp; I plan on just installing it as a front end on XP Pro and then streaming all the files across my network from my file server, is this possiable?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tau, post: 152492, member: 51507"] Alright so im tired with MCE as it does not do nearly everything that i would like, i have been doing some research and sofar Media Portal claims to do the things that i want! So basically i am looking for something that will do the following; allow me to play tv (duh) record, timeslip, all that jazz watch movies i have on my computer (from across my network as well) play music play internet radio play games through without having to close out of the front end (such as wow, CSS, NFS, etc, etc.) play Emulators with xbox360 controllers must support the MCE remote, the wireless keyboard/mouse/remote thing, and support for the Soundgraph VFD in my case would be nice as well. But i want to be able to run any external application through the front end so that i do not need to use a mouse i can just go down to it on the remote and bam i can be playing a emulator with a controller, instead of having to go across the room use the mouse to launch the application close out of media center then reload it, etc. From what i have been reading Media Portal will do all this. though i have also read it has issues playing tv? also there are talks of it running as a server, and a client? I plan on just installing it as a front end on XP Pro and then streaming all the files across my network from my file server, is this possiable? [/QUOTE]

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