Free windows xp media center software for windows

Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 contains new features, functionality and improvements Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 contains new features, functionality and improvements, including:
- The ability to connect Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to Xbox 360 to stream music, photos, recorded TV and video
- Support for DVD changers
- Improved DVD burning capabilities
- Stability and quality improvements
This update is highly recommended for all Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 customers.

Windows Media Center SDK - Documentation, tools and sample code for developing Windows Media Center applications and services The Windows Media Center Software Development Kit was designed to help developers easily create applications and software components that will take advantage of features provided by Microsoft Windows Media Center.
This release includes documentation, tools, sample code and Visual Studio 2005 project templates for the following Windows Media Center platform models:
- Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Application (Local, Background and Web)
- Hosted .NET Framework 3.0 eXtensible Application Markup Language Browser Application (XBAP)
- Hosted HTML
Powered by Windows Media Center, Media Center PCs are complete Windows machines enhanced for home entertainment. These computers represent the evolution of home PCs into digital media hubs that bring together your entertainment choices and allow you to access them with one remote control in multiple rooms of your home.
The Windows Media Center platform enables you to create rich media applications and services for use with mouse, keyboard, and remote control.
This section contains programmability documentation, sample programs, and templates; Windows Media Center application user interface guidelines; and other resources for software development on the Windows Media Center platform.

Tivion is a complex media center which manages a lot of free- and shareware programs.
It incorporates an intelligent TV Player with commercial blocking functionality and an electronic program guide. The TV Player allows video capturing plus blockign of commercial spots and much more. The electronic program guide (EPG) delivers information about the currnt program and is able to load missed parts via filesharing-programs.
With Tivion you find a lot of information and tutorials of different topics. It also manages a complex software-suite of freeware programs and can therefore load, install, launch and in some cases even control specific software automatically

Elisa Media Center 0.5.36 provides users with a completely free and open source media center for Windows and Linux that plays back all common formats. It is very easy to use and allows you to enjoy movies, songs and pictures immediately after installation. Elisa mashes up media on your disc with media found online, organizes it all in one place and finds your covers back. A modern look & feel with amazing visual effects and animations make it into a unique experience.

Elisa scans your disc, your iPod and other external drives for video, audio and image files and organizes them all for you. You can also play your media from CDs, DVDs, VCDs or even in streaming. You can use Elisa with your keyboard, a remote control or even with a touchscreen. Plenty of plug-ins have been developed by the community and Fluendo to merge Internet media with your own within Elisa: you can listen to songs from Yes.fm, watch YouTube videos or just log into your Flickr account and show your pictures our those of your friends. Elisa plays almost all formats: MPEG, MPEG2, MP4, WMV, AVI, DIVX, MOV, MKV, XVID, SWF, WMA, OGG, REAL, AAC, FLAC, MP3, JPEG and PNG.

Enhancements: Version 0.5.36 includes an improved slide show, several bug fixes, and other enhancements.