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TVedia is a networked Media Center application running on PC under Windows operating systems. Its overall functionality is similar to Microsoft's Windows Media Center edition. However, it can be installed on Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003. more...

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It's also known to work on 64 bit Windows, and Windows Vista beta 2, but they are not supported configurations.

Feature Highlights

Like most media center software, TVedia provides 10-ft user interface to browse and playback music, video, and pictures. Large fonts and graphics are suitable for living room use with a remote control. Here are some of the main product highlights.

Dynamic user interface

TVedia uses a Flash like dynamic user interface. User interface components are animated, and flow smoothly when users take actions that change the content on the screen. User interface is overlaid transparently over the background even if there is any video or picture slideshow playing back. Unlike Windows Media Center edition and MediaPortal (both of which also features similar animated user interfaces), TVedia doesn't strictly rely on the existence of 3D accelerated graphics cards on user's PC. When 3D acceleration is available, it's used; when it's not available, it falls back to CPU based processing with lower quality animation (Windows Media Center disables animation in this case). The same technology is used to enable dynamic user interface over Windows Remote Desktop session, so the media center PC can be easily managed over the home network.

Media collection management

TVedia features a sophisticated media importer that can parse meta tags in the files, including ID3, Windows Media, iTunes, OGG/FLAC, APE, EXIF, and DVR-MS. When tags are not available, which is the case for many video files, and pictures, users can use the importer wizard to specify meta data by folder names and filenames, or provide meta data manually. The specifications are remembered for future imports. During importing, TVedia uses a combination of online services from Amazon.com and AMG to supply missing meta data and cover art. In the extreme case that there is no identifiable meta tags in the file or filename, an acoustic fingerprint recogition procedure is performed to identify the music track. The success rate under this extreme scenario is around 70%.

The optional file change monitor can even detect changes in imported files, and update meta data automatically, if the embedded tags or folder and filenames are changed externally.

The user interface also offers many methods to browse music, music video, movies, and pictures, either by meta tags, or by imported folders. The browse file function allows browsing directly on local disks even the media files have not been imported yet.

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