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Amiga Media Center
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Amiga Media Center (also known as AROS/Morphos/Any Media Center), is the name of a multipurpose, multimedia center aimed at all AmigaOS-like Operating Systems and created by the italian programmer Fabio Falcucci (a.k.a. "Allanon"). It was born using Amiga Hollywood Development Tool, and it is basically a very advanced front-end for mPlayer software, capable to play any kind of multimedia video, music files, images and photos, and streaming data using the ubiquitous capabilities of mPlayer, except for Audio CD reproduction features that are maged by Amiga PlayCDDA software by Finland Amiga developer Fredrik Wikstrom. Amiga Media Center (Shortened AMC) is proprietary software and it costs a small amount of money to keep alive the development project. History Amiga Media Center has been created in order to provide with a flexible media-center software the AresONE line of computer based on AMD processors, being sold with a preintalled version of AROS operating system. Characteristics AMC is a program realized initially for AROS operating system using Amiga . The use of Hollywood was intentional as long as this fact means AMC could immediately being also available for AmigaOS 3.9, AmigaOS 4.0 or MorphOS, with a few operations, because Hollywood supports compiling executable files for any existing Amiga Operating Systems. AMC is designed to be completely customizabile by the user. It is not limited to multimedia playing, but it is also capable to retrieve any multimedia content files from local media, stored in a lan or over the net, organize it in categories and creating playlists. It also copies, moves and store single files by demand of the user. For example AMC is also capable to interact and download informations from TMDb (The Open Movie Database on internet) and integrating the infos in a video database for the benefit of the user. Interface is very flexible and customizable. It features themes and skins and the user could also decide if to show it or not. The themes are based upont configuration files that are simple text files easy to learn or change. AMC supports streaming data and has Web-TV playing capabilities. As it supports also extensive key-command keyboard functions, then infrared remote controllers drivers present on Amiga can be instructed to pilot AMC from remote. 
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