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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Berns" data-source="post: 537215" data-attributes="member: 96677">GoMad,Awaiting the purchase of my full HD TV, I'm using standard blue 3 skin (not even the wide one). I've got no intention to change skin because the default one is enough fit for purpose. As the kids are quite young, my spouce is the most important user, and after about a month of usage she has most appreciated timeshifting. (Pause and look with slight delay)I try to use the KIS principle (Keep it Simple).On server side I use TVXB and MC2XML to capture schedules that I load on the guide screen using XLMTV plugin. (XMLTV Default installed together with the server, no additional install needed).On client side I only use multishortcut (both to start corel windvd and "Squeezecenter web interface using IE7". This plugin is simple and enormously versatile.First I did not have sound on some Dutch channels, and I've solved that with FFDSHOW.HD is in experimental phase on my system. I'm using CoreAVC coded. It was absolutely worth spending the few dollars.Maybe nice to know:I've been playing around with tools to load animated GIF graphics into myweather as well. The only thing you have to do is tell myweather what city you want weather for and then point it to animated GIFs on the net.In Belgium, unfortunately, there are no animated gifs available. So I - well, my server, not me manually - create my own every night. For that, I have the server run a scheduled old school DOS .BAT script based on ImageMagickI seriously considered mythTV (bundle version Mythbuntu) before starting my MP project, but early in the software selection process I dropped it, because I found someting on the inernet that gave me the possibility to not have to teach my main user how to use a linux interface.By now, I've discovered that each HTPC project is so unique that tweaking around until it is perfect can last forever. As I'm much more familiar with Win-based systems I'm glad I did not go for Linux.</blockquote>

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