XBMC Media Center is an award winning open source media center application for Xbox, Linux, Mac and Windows. Calling it a media center is really understating its capability since it is in fact an ultimate hub that supports almost every audio/video format and codecs available. It also comes with slick interface and include features such as playlist playback, picture viewing, audio visualizations and so on. Installing XBMC Media Center in Ubuntu Hardy Open your terminal. Type gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list Add the following lines to the end of the file deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main Save and close the file. Update the repository sudo apt-get update Install xbmc sudo apt-get install xbmc Open XBMC via Applications -> Sound & Video -> XBMC Media Center
Watching video To watch video, click on the video button, follow by Add sources to locate your video directory
Listening to song
Image viewing
XBMC setting page
Extending the functionality of XBMC XBMC allows you to extend its functionality via the use of plugins and scripts. There is a whole library of scripts at XBMCScripts.com. To install XBMC scripts: In XBMC main menu, click on the Scripts button to access your scripts.
