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It looks like two groups of open source media center developers are thinking about merging their products. Media Portal is a completely open-source Windows Media Center replacement, while MeediOS is a project to continue development of Meedio, which was purchased by Yahoo and pretty much scrapped in favor of Yahoo Go TV.

It looks like both teams are working toward an open source media center with multiple user interfaces for use on Windows, via the Web, and on a PDA. Most features of the media center would be plugin-based, letting you for example add music, video, and picture functions to create your own personal media center program. It looks like both teams have pretty much the same goals in mind, and given that each has made a lot of progress over the last few years, I'll be curious to see what they come up with if they join forces.
A complete transcript of a recent developer chat is available at the MeediOS forums, and it includes some interesting goals, for example, the ability to use mesh WiFi to grab a cable TV signal from one of your neighbors while recording a signal from another neighbor's satellite. I don't exactly see either of those things happening any time soon, but it's nice to dream.

[via Missing Remote]