Meedio

Meedio is a very powerful and configurable Home Theatre front-end for your PC.Official releases have since ceased and the official forums abandoned. The vibrant developer community have moved here and the activity has only increased. We now have over 450 freeware plugins for Meedio, as well as numberous other projects.

MeediOS

"MeediOS" or "Project MeediOS" refers to a new free opensource project started by the community which aims to provide an excellent alternative to the closedsource Meedio.

One of meedio's most popular theme's meedioVintage by Crn has had a major update to version 2.1.0. The update includes elements of the Xbox media center's Aeon theme, new fanart capabilities and performance improvements. Some of the screenshots are simply stunning so don't waste any time checking it out.
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Dhrandy has followed up his excellent Perception theme with a port of the xbox media center 'Vinci' theme. It should support all the latest plugins so what better excuse do you need to look at Vanessa mae all day!
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Looking at the openmaid stats tells us 28 different plugins have been updated in the last 30 days. Althack created a new web browser plugin that replaces the old meedio one that caused exit errors. Binary64 completely re-wrote his backmeup plugin to support ISO image ripping of dvds from inside meedio. Walts81 also released a tv shows importer that uses the new thetvdb.com xml interfaces, this should work with both the updated tvnight and meetvshow modules.
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UFGrayMatter has been working hard on a new version of his popular TVnight plugin by adding features such as custom fan art, random episode queuing, filters, trivia, actor details and episode quotes. Check out the TVNight3 Video for a demo or the link below for download.
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HDWagner has posted a couple of new updates on the progress of MeediOS. There are lots of changes to the WPF user interface including animations, scrolling menu items and full theme support. It's really starting to look like a proper home theatre application now.
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HDWagner posted a new progress update for MeediOS on the forums. The biggest improvement is the introduction of 3D menus shown in the screenshot. He also made the code more effecient by changing the way messages are sent internally.
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March has been yet another busy month for plugin updates with 28 different plugins being updated in the last 30 days. Jetblack updated Covercow several times to add support for embedded jpegs and additional view steps. Walts81 updated his movie information plugins (meemovieimporter and meemoviemodule) to work with movie-xml again and UFGrayMatter started a new tvnight 3.0 plugin with support for fanart.
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HDWagner informs me the MeediOS MediaFileBrowser has gone beta. The module plugin is feature complete and ready for testing. It features everything that's useful in Meedio's File Browser and Meedio's Media File Browser modules. HDWagner also added support for image players and prepared the plugin for all the suggested improvements.
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In the true spirit of open source, a forum member called timewinds has created a set of WPF controls including "elementflow". HDWagner didn't waste any time and already has it running in the MeediOS slide show viewer! [Link..]

Its been 3 weeks since the last report on the development of MeediOS and a huge amount of progress has been made. HDwagner has added support for events in screen files and Kairos has added a video player based on VLC. DocZoidberg has also been busy working on a tag mask importer. [Link..]

If you've ever used an apple ipod(and lets face it, who hasn't!) they introduced a great visual interface called coverflow. Forum member jetblack decided to learn delphi to port the cover browser to meedio. [Link..]

With the WPF skinnning engine is coming along nicely, forum member jkm78 decided to create the first theme for MeediOS based on his Vision theme. [Link..]