What software do people often use for a media center of HTPC? I am looking to run one via an external hard drive and either a virtual OS or possibly a raspberry pi or laptop down the road. Any suggestions of how to start?
XMBC is pretty versatile.
+1. XMBC is probably the best and you can run it on the raspberry pi.
I am debating what I want to run it off of. I have a few extra hard drives lying around and would like to interface those. Is there any guide on raspberry pi media servers?