Staticmethod

I have a linux computer hooked up to my TV that serves dual purposes. First it’s a general file server/web server. Secondly it’s supposed to be a home theater PC. In the past I’ve used MythTV for a long time, but since I don’t use it for actually watching/recording TV at all I think it’s kind of bloated for me. My basic uses (or what I would want to use it for) are for watching video files and listening to music.

I’ve been looking around lately for good software to do this, something along the lines of Windows Media Center, but haven’t had any luck with anything. Most lately I’ve tried Elisa, and that project is so new that it was hard to get set up. It looks promising, but it doesn’t have good documentation yet.

So, I would ideally like to write something myself that focuses on watching videos and listening to music, runs fullscreen and is meant to be controlled with a remote. And I’d really like to write it in Ruby, but that’s turning out to be pretty difficult: I can’t find any good GUI libraries for Ruby, at least ones that are actively maintained. QtRuby/Korundum seems like it hasn’t been updated in years, and even Ruby-Gnome2 seems like it’s not maintained anymore (that and the Ruby/Gstreamer bindings aren’t even available in their regular distribution).

So I guess I’ll keep looking, or maybe even fall back to C++/Qt/KDE which I haven’t even looked at in like 4 years…and now with KDE4 out I think that learning curve is going to be kind of steep.