What is My Media System
My Media System is an application that manages, displays and plays media content such as videos, music, pictures, and more. MMS runs perfectly on anything from a Set-Top-Box connected to your TV-Set, to your specially tailored multimedia PC and HD display.
What makes it so special?
As the name implies, MMS is a media system with you in control. It lets other applications such as MPlayer, VDR, or Xine take care of what they respectively do best, and integrates them into one system, that is easy to understand and operate. By combining their individual strength, you get the best of all worlds, in one media application. MMS is easy to install, configure and use. It's even translated to 11 languages so there a good chance it's available in your native tongue.
That's great, but how do I install it and how much does it cost?
MMS is open source and available free of charge. It runs on Linux and is known to work with all major distributions.
New and fresh:
Old and stable:
Installation instructions for the distributions Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo are available in the wiki.
What is the latest news?
mms 1.1.0 rc7 released
rc7 brings many big new features to mms including: Clock support in notification area, zoom selection interface that is resolution independant, the ability to use multiple inputs, VDR integration in Electronic Program Guide and many bugfixes.
mms 1.1.0 rc6 released
A new version of mms 1.1.0 has been released. Changes include amon other things added VBOX support, better startmenu selector and new weather plugin. And 3 pyglets: File manager, youtube and apple trailer pyglets will now be installed by default. Furthermore a number of bugs have been fixed.
My Media System 1.1.0 rc5 released
I'm pleased to announce another release candidate. New in this release is notification area with clock, ffmpeg based thumbnailer (much faster) and simple finger scrolling support when using touch input. There is also a large number of bugfixes as usual so upgrading is highly recommended. Worth mentioning is that a lot of bugs related to the python plugin has been fixed, search performance has improved dramaticaly.
Where can I find more information?
The wiki contains the basic information needed to getting started. For questions, ideas or suggestions there is a forum and a mailing list.