Make had a link to this article by Ryan Faas about how to Build a Mac Home Media Center (Part 1)
Software mentioned includes:
- VisualHub (limited to 2 minutes of conversion until purchased).
- MediaCentral
- The (Open Source) CenterStage Project
- The (Open Source) iTheater Project
- XviD,DivX,3ivX support
- DisplayConfigX (for all those other resolutions you can’t normally access)
- FrontRow Enabler (for all those other Macs that don’t support Front Row by default)
- Flip4Mac WMV QuickTime Plugins