I'd like to setup a HTPC software in my living room, running on this
`tiny computer`_ ... I had a look at various softwares but i'd prefer
one implemented in Python, so that extending would be quite easy.

I'll mainly use it to have tv channel schedule (XML-TV), listen music
(ResPyre_), and handle video content. The machine won't be able to
handle PVR-like usage, but it's not critical since i'm not TV-addicted
:-)

So, first off, i looked at the widespread MythTV_, and it's really a
pain in the ass to setup, then it's easy to understand the success of
KnoppMyth_ (a full blown linux distro including the Myth out of the
box). Anyway the main killer feature of MythTV is TV time-shifting, in this
particular field it rocks, but i don't need that feature, i'm not
inclined to install KnoppMyth, so i forget MythTV.

Next, i had a look at the Python powered Freevo_. The website seems
dead, Freevo's 1.5 code is a mess, but hey, there's a rewrite taking
good shape! In fact `Freevo 2`_ will be a good candidate for me,
architectured around Kaa_ which is an amazing Python multimedia (GUI,
EPG, ...) framework using a bunch of good bricks like Evas and Imlib2,
allowing full-blown effects in Freevo. Well i tried it, and it looks
good, even still in heavy development. The configuration is quite
simple, it's my best candidate for now, and guess what ? Plugins seem
really a piece of pie to implement :-)

Any other HTPC challenger ? (please no MS Media Center, my box runs linux :)

**update**: for a more in-deep view of MythTV gaz usine, check http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/ 

.. _tiny computer: http://base-art.net/Articles/24/
.. _MythTV: http://mythtv.org/
.. _KnoppMyth: http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html 
.. _ResPyre: http://respyre.org/
.. _Freevo: http://freevo.sf.net/
.. _Freevo 2: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freevo-2.0/
.. _Kaa: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freevo-2.0/Kaa