MediaPortal Alternatives for Linux
MediaPortal is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The most popular Linux alternative is 
Kodi, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MediaPortal and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to MediaPortal are 
Emby (Freemium), 
MythTV (Free, Open Source), 
Tvheadend (Free, Open Source) and 
Oblecto (Free, Open Source).
- 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
Mickael No dvb-t dvb-s dvb-c tuner supportdoes not work even as half as good like mediaportal and needs additional software to watch TV which causes lots of trouble - Media Center plugin that presents your media with a simple, intuitive, and fast interface.
- Freemium
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Apple TV
- Kindle Fire
- Roku
- Cloudron
- Playstation
- Xbox
- MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
really bad EPG handling. TV stops if you want to look at EPG - Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources.
- Oblecto is a frontend agnostic media butler bringing high performance high quality media streaming to the home.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more.
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The project seems to be no longer maintained.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.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Enna is a Media Center application.
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.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Kroozbox is a database to HTML gateway written in Java that can run under Windows or Linux.
- OpenSource Web Media Server to browse and stream any video file format supported by ffmpeg with easy web interface for play on any platform with html5 browser, dnla or kodi plugin.