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Title: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: thomas_surles on November 02, 2014, 10:19:22 am

I'm wondering if there are some good frontend for just playing movies. Maybe pick a genre and scroll through some movies with auto full screen.
Or would a modified arcade frontend such as maximus or hyperspin do the trick?

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: Le Chuck on November 02, 2014, 10:58:05 am

I use MALA and command line vlc.

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: upprc04 on November 02, 2014, 11:06:41 am

MediaBrowser.tv

I use this on my HTPC with Windows Media Player.  Looks like it has a lot more updates that I haven't been keeping up with.

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: jdbailey1206 on November 02, 2014, 11:19:05 am

Xbox Media Center.   Its been a while since I used it but it was really user friendly and Im sure its improved since five years ago.  It has a nice feature where you can set it up so you can scroll through the movie posters that are links to your movie files.

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: keilmillerjr on November 02, 2014, 01:47:31 pm

Check into plex.tv

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: spoot on November 02, 2014, 02:11:39 pm

XBMC or Plex

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: EMDB on November 02, 2014, 03:51:33 pm

XBMC for NAS or local playback, Plex for Client-Server playback.

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: thomas_surles on November 02, 2014, 06:25:10 pm

Alright cool. I'm thinking a fat external hard drive with a movie front end and a projector.

Title: Re: any good frontend for movies?
Post by: jaharr01 on November 02, 2014, 11:38:05 pm

xbmc, I had a Ras pi that ran ripped blue ray movies without a hitch. easy to install download on sdcard it installs itself.I had mine up in 10 min