Media players compatible with Linux?

[Robin Laing]

Gregory Gulik wrote:
> 
> I know this is slightly off topic but I've been wanting a media player 
> box hooked to my stereo so I can just stream MP3/OGG files off my PC and 
> play them through my stereo as easily as a CD player.
> 
> Based on a recommendation of a friend, who is a techie but not a Linux 
> user, I bought a D-Link DSM-320.  He told me it uses standard HTTP from 
> port 8080 to stream.   Among many other problems with the box, the 
> biggest is that there is another protocol layer on top of HTTP that's 
> Microsoft proprietary.  I found a free server from a site in Germany 
> that claimed to support this unit under Linux but it never worked.  Even 
> with XP I had a lot of problems.
> 
> Is there another competing device that uses standard protocols that can 
> be made to work with Linux (FC3) specifically relatively easily?
> 
> 

Another idea that I just remembered is this.
http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/Bereiche/Produkte/DM7000.php
http://www.dvbcorner.com/catalog/product_info.php?currency=USD&products_id=107

DreamBox FTA satellite receiver.

It is based on Linux with a full network interface.  It can have a HD 
added to make it into a DVR.

I was looking at this last week.

-- 
Robin Laing