Today , I was playing with Geexbox , a 72MB distro specifically built for converting your PC into a powerful multimedia centre. GeeXBoX is based on Debian, it works very well on any x86 PC. Addional images are available for 64 bit architectures and PowerPC. It recognizes a large number of hardware and supports almost any audio / video or images, as well as we can playback CDs, DVDs etc.
Here is some features:
Supported Architectures:
- x86 32 and 64 bits PCs
- ARM TI OMAP4 Pandaboard
- ARM nVidia Tegra2 Harmony
System:
- Linux Kernel v2.6.38.8.
- Systemd v29.
- BusyBox v1.19.2
- Connman Network Manager v0.76.
- Xorg Server v1.10.3.
- Mesa v7.11.
- OPKG Package Manager v0.18
- USB persistent user data storage.
Audio Drivers:
- ALSA v1.0.24.1.
- Support for Analog, SPDIF and HDMI output devices.
Video Drivers:
- Support for Intel, nVidia, ATI, Matrox and VIA GPUs.
- Support for CRT, LCD and HDMI output devices.
- OpenGL and OpenGL|ES hardware assisted graphics acceleration.
- VDPAU, VA-API and Crystal HD hardware assisted video decoding for nVidia, Intel and Broadcom GPUs.
Input:
- Mouse and Synaptics touch pads.
- HID Keyboards.
- Remote Controls.
Networking Features:
- NFS shares.
- Samba auto-discovery.
- UPnP / DLNA media discovery.
- ZeroConf services announcements.
- HTTP server.
- FTP server
MediaCenter:
- XBMC Media Center 10.1 “Dharma” frontend.
- Movies and TV Shows, with subtitles support.
- Music Collection
- Pictures and Slideshows
- CDDA, DVD and (unencrypted) Bluray support.
- Media Database Support.
- Internet MovieDB / TVDB metadata and covers grabbers.
- Skins