MediaPortal (Windows) is free open source media center PC application.
MediaPortal turns your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center. The software allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations; watch and store your videos and DVDs; view, schedule (electronic program guide available) and record live TV as a digital video recorder; view local weather; and much, much more.
MediaPortal features much of the functionality of a regular Media Center, but as an open source project, it is a lot more customizable than the regular Windows MCE and you can tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovative plug-ins from a large community.
TV Features:
- Supports analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC
- HDTV and AC3 support
- Support for multiple tuners
- Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
- Advanced recording scheduler:
- Record once
- Record now
- Daily o Weekly
- Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
- Every time a program appears on this TV channel - Timeshifting,Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV
- Advanced recording management:
- Handle conflicts
- Set recording priorities
- Quality settings / recording
- Transcode to WMD, XVID or MPG
- Diskmanagement auto deletes old and/or watched recordings
TVGuide:
- Grab DVB-EPG & MHW-EPG directly for DVB
- Supports XMLTV
- Colors for genres - TV Guide search
- TV Channel grouping
- Supports over > 10000 channels
- Auto channel tuning
- Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv)
- Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV)
- Support for Teletext
- Standby control to put your HTPC sleeping. It will awake when there a recording needs to start