Been looking for an HTPC front end

[Hdale85]

I've been looking for a nice front end for my HTPC as media center really sucks. I'm downloading Media Portal right now to give it a try as its free and it looks quite nice. I was wondering what thoughts you guys might of on the subject?

[audioqueso]

On Media Portal or a front end? I've been using Meedio for years now. No longer any support, but it's extremely customizeable. And all the lossless formats are supported as well (FLAC, APE, WML, etc)

[Hdale85]

Yeah same with Media Portal... I'll have to look at Meedio though I think I messed with it a while back.

[Hdale85]

Well right now I think I'm quite happy with Media Portal using the CoreAVC video codec and their PureSound player plugin. Music sounds great and movies look awesome. I just wish one of these players had native support for Blu-Ray playback.

[audioqueso]

I only use my HTPC for music and small home videos or downloads. I don't rip my movies (way too many). So I never cared for video options. Sorry.

[Hdale85]

Well currently my Blu-Ray player is a drive in my PC I haven't started ripping all my movies quite yet but I have several on my computer. It's just a convenience thing. I'm working on building a nice server that will have somewhere around 3-4TB's of space at that point I'll put all my remaining DVD's on the server which isn't many. Blu-Ray movies I can rip...I'm not sure I want to though we'll see. They take up a lot of space.