GB-PVR Alternatives
GB-PVR is described as '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:' and is a Media Center in the Video & Movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to GB-PVR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android. The best alternative is Kodi, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GB-PVR are MediaPortal (Free, Open Source), Android TV (Free, Open Source), Oblecto (Free, Open Source) and VidOn Server (Free).
- Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Raspberry Pi
- Fire TV
- 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.
- 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
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Smartly manage all your multimedia resources and automatically transcode videos for your Phone, Pad, etc.
- 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.
- Free • Open Source
- Apple TV
- Roku
- Kodi
- Fire TV
- Chromecast
No screenshots yet - MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
- Easy-Data Mediacenter is a video and audio player with lots of tools. It is able to deliver bit perfect audio, and does not require any external codecs. It is able to run from a memorystick and does not require installation.
- 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The project seems to be no longer maintained.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.