I’ve been discussing home theater/media management software with Kevin, Mark, Otto and friends and thought I’d post a few screenshots of my OSS XBMC setup for them. Nothing fancy: just stock XBMC with the Aeon Nox skin. running on an older Mac Mini with an external 2TB drive, and serving to the household over Gigabit Ethernet.

Although both very nice and built upon OSS XBMC, I didn’t use:

• Boxee because I didn’t want/need to have the concept of [hosted] profiles in the household yet. It only complicates things with the kids, and if I stay logged into my account, they’ll start tweeting in my name.
• Plex, because I didn’t really need the concept of a server any mor than what XBMC offers out of the box, I need Linux support for some setups, and I already run Air Video for iPhone streaming.

I might change my mind on either of the above, but migrating won;t be a big deal since in the end, it’s just XBMC -> XBMC-like. I should be all future-proofed, or as close as I could be.