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Most probably the final version of LinuxMCE 0710 will include the game functionality. Tom – LinuxMCE user and developer has started to implement MAME Plugin/Player. MAME is an abbreviation from Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Actually, it’d be really cool to play thousands of classic arcade video games from the the very earliest CPU-based systems to your modern home control system.

Have a loot at that thread in the LinuxMCE forum to see its stage and progress.

Recently I thought about integration IPTV and LinuxMCE. Since satellite or analog TV can be watched, paused and recorded by VDR or MythTV it’d be nice to have similar for IPTV. That plug-in for VDR offers such functionality. IPTV plug-in allows to manage IPTV channels same manner as for DVB once. It supports both multicast UDP/RTP and unicast HTTP MPEG1/2 transport streams. Moreover there is a possibility to get also other formats like MP3 radio streams, MMS video streams and so on.

Personally, I like VDR more and more. Especially after announcing next version LinuxMCE which should contain VDR as alternative to MythTV. But I don’t understand how to connect IPTV stream to the VDR box. All IPTV providers offer TV service only via their own set-top-box (STB). In case of using IPTV plug-in with VDR it’ll be like STB. Will providers allow that? I guess no. But idea is good: consumers get all types of TV in one place – VDR, IPTV providers don’t need a special equipment and UI. But this is just a dreams 🙂