XBian is described as 'Small, fast and lightweight media centre distribution for the Raspberry Pi, CuBox-i, Hummingboard and many more devices to come. It is based on a minimal Debian and therefore offers much of the same freedom as Debian offers' and is a Media Center in the video & movies category. There are six alternatives to XBian for Linux, Raspberry Pi, Apple TV, Mac and Windows. The best XBian alternative is OSMC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like XBian are LibreELEC, OpenELEC, Raspbmc and MythTV.
OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux and founded in 2014 that lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community and is based...
OSMC is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to XBian.
LibreELEC is ‘Just enough OS’ for Kodi, a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware. We are an evolution of the popular OpenELEC project. LibreELEC software will be familiar to OpenELEC users.
LibreELEC is the most popular Linux alternative to XBian.
Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux based Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi (previously XBMC) media center.
Raspbmc is a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian that brings Kodi to your Raspberry Pi . This device has an excellent form factor and enough power to handle media playback, making it an...
MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. With its plugin architecture, MythTV can be transformed into a home media center suite, capable of managing your personal photo, video, and music collections...
MythTV is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to XBian.
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.
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