OpenELEC Alternatives

Plex

Plex bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.

Features:

• Play local content
• Local Storage
• Media Transcoding
• Media Streaming
• Media sharing
• Remote Media Access
• Self-hosted in intranet or private cloud
• Automatic Library Search
• Dedicated Server Hosting
• DNLA Server
• Local server
• Media Streaming
• Offline sync of media files
• Remote File Access
• Stream audio

LibreELEC

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, but the project follows its own path and has intentional differences: LibreELEC is governed by a project board elected from active team members to set project goals, priorities, and take executive decisions.

VortexBox

VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use music server/jukebox. Once VortexBox has been loaded on an unused PC, it will automatically rip CDs to FLAC and MP3 files, ID3 tag the files , and download the cover art. Vortexbox will then serve the files to network media players such as Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos, or Linn. The music files can also be streamed to a Windows or Mac OSX system.

Enna

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.

Daphile

The Daphile is the heart of a digital music system. Its primary focus is in storage and playback of your digital music library. It enables the best possible audio quality and future-proof flexibility by providing plug&play support for USB connected digital-to-analog converters (DAC). You can easily setup a multi-zone system just by connecting another USB DAC for each zone. The software solutions of the Daphile are optimized for the best possible audiophile experience.

GeeXboX

GeeXboX is a free and Open Source Media-Center purposed Linux distribution for embedded devices and desktop computers. GeeXboX is not an application, it’s a full-featured OS, that one can boot as a LiveCD, from a USB key, an SD/MMC card or install on its regular HDD. The GeeXboX distribution is lightweight and designed for one single goal: embed all major multimedia applications as to turn your computer into an HTPC. GeeXboX runs on x86, PowerPC and ARM devices.

CoreELEC

CoreELEC is a ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution for running Kodi® on popular Amlogic hardware. CoreELEC is a fork of the LibreELEC project with a stronger focus on Amlogic hardware and the community CoreELEC consists of a barebones Operating System purpose built for Kodi media center.

Features:

• Music Player
• TV Shows

Fedberry

FedBerry allows people to easily install and use Fedora on the RPi2/3. FedBerry was created when Fedora did not previously support the Raspberry Pi 2/3 Model B (RPi2/3). The major differences between Fedora arm releases as compared to Fedberry releases are: • The use of our own custom kernels (using the Raspberry Pi foundation's bcm2709 kernel port). • The use of Raspberry Pi foundation's own bootloader (ie. we don't use uboot).

Features:

• Based on Fedora
• Single Board Computer

XBian

XBian is a 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.