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[*]Watch/Listen to media on my MythTV box. Canola gets almost there, but I am recording my MPEG2 video at too high a bitrate or wrong resolution for the internal player or mplayer to handle smoothly.

I use Jaffa's mediaserv for my myth recordings and videos. I have a single top level folder with the recordings and video folders symlinked in.

Canola does not really like the RSS feeds though, so for me the optimum was the microb-mplayer plugin, which launches mplayer playing the video directly from the link on the mediaserv web page, and transcodes on the fly. Upnp from Myth seems to be very hit and miss regardless of what client you use. I have the rss feed from mediaser set to show the last 15 recordings to save loading and scrolling though all the recordings.

Videocenter works really well as a frontend for mediaserv as well, and will launch mplayer with a bit of coaxing.

Don't forget that there is a port of mythfrontend for the tablets, although your media will need to be transcoded down first, and there are no plugins compiled.

Second Qole's suggestion about flipclock as well. very nice little app.

Gaz