If you keep your photo album on-line in the Google Picasa and use Windows Media Center on your HTPC a new MCE plug-in might be interesting for you. As you might guess mcePicasa allows to show photos from Google Picasa on your media center. You can see them, search, edit and upload using that plug-in.
[via eHomeUpgrade]
MythTV is one of the most popular Linux-based PVR systems. It offers a rich base functionality. But it also may be extended by using plug-ins if it is not enough for you. Basically, there are two groups of MythTV plug-ins: official which already included into MythTV distribution and unofficial, marked with “work-in-progress” characteristics.
Here is a brief overview of interesting official plug-ins. It’s easy to create custom DVDs from recorded shows using MythArchive. It’s possible add there themed menu structures, add new themes to existing titles from any accessible video collection, create auto-play DVDs, transcode and trim commercials from MPEG2 recordings, and re-encode resolution for DVD playback on commercial players.
MythDVD allows to playback DVD or VCD or ripping DVD images for safekeeping purposes. If you want to show your photos on TV MythGallery is the best way to do it. MythTV offers a way to play in Super Nintendo games. You have to just copy games to PC and run MythGame plug-in. Sure, you can listen your favorite music using MythMusic plug-in which provides a simple graphical interface tie-in to the audio playback software subsystem in MythTV. It supports FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files and allows to create complex play lists.
It’s may be good to read some news (MythNews) and check the weather (MythWeather) during the morning coffee. Moreover, you can configure your HTPC to receive Internet-based phone and video conference calls using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). It’s possible with MythPhone plug-in.
And finally, MythWeb – plug-in which allows access to the MythTV configuration and recording from any PC connected the same network using web browser.
As you can see, MythTV offers a lot of useful extensions and allows to build a power and flexible home media PC.
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