ChrisTV Alternatives
ChrisTV is described as 'PVR (Personal Video Recorder) is a software designed to control analog TV Cards, Graphic Cards with Video Input (VIVO), Combo Cards (Graphic Card and TV Card), Webcams, DVcam Capture that have WDM drivers (Windows Driver Model) or BDA drivers compatible with DirectShow' and is an app in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ChrisTV for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Android. The best alternative is Kodi, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ChrisTV are MediaPortal, Android TV, Oblecto and PseudoTV.
ChrisTV alternatives are mainly Media Centers but may also be Media Players or Media Servers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of ChrisTV.- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Raspberry Pi
- Fire TV
Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS.
MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and Music in a much more dynamic way.
Android TV is a Operating System made for the TV which has a custom launcher and custom apps to make it easier to navigate on the television.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
Oblecto is a media server, similar to Plex, Emby, Netflix and others. It runs in the background on a home server to index your media such as movies and TV shows to make them searchable and streamable through a REST based interface.
- Free • Open Source
- Apple TV
- Roku
- Kodi
- Fire TV
- Chromecast
PseudoTV Live is channel-surfing for your media center. Never again will you have to actually pick what you want to watch. Use an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to view what's on or select a show to watch.
No screenshots yetMythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer maintained. Last stable version, 1.9.2 Beta, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, v0.4.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
GB-PVR is a robust, full-featured Personal Video Recorder (PVR) or Media Center, which can record and playback several types of audio-visual (AV) media. Although it has many features, they can all be placed into one of two categories:
Zapping is a TV viewer for the Gnome desktop. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
Discontinued
No more updates since 2013