Top Alternatives to Windows Media Center

Kodi is a free media player that is designed to look great on your big screen TV.

Plex is a client-server media player system and software suite.

Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP media server. It originated as a fork of PS3 Media Server.

Emby (formerly Media Browser)Media Browser for Windows 8.1 gets rebranded as Emby with new features is a media server designed to organize, play, and stream audio and video to a variety of devices.Introducing Emby Emby is open-source, and uses a client-server model.

MythTV is a Free Open Source digital video recorder project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP media server.

OSMC is a free and open source media center built for the people, by the people.

OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a Linux distribution designed for home theater PCs and based on the Kodi (XBMC) media player.

MediaPortal is an open-source media center (HTPC) software project.

Serviio is a freeware media server designed to let users stream music, video or image files to DLNA compliant televisions, game consoles, Blu-ray players, games console and Android or Windows Mobile devices on a home network.

ReadyMedia (formerly known as MiniDLNA) is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.

JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.

Infuse is a beautiful way to watch videos.

Moovida (formerly Elisa) is an open source cross-platform Media Center featuring an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel.

Squire is a player for movie and TV show.

Playon is a service to record and watch video content offline from services such as Netflix Hulu, etc.