Abstracts Computer Science

Home media center

by Juan Miguel Valverde Martinez

One of the most popular indoor entertainment systems nowadays is related to playing multimedia files, not only at home but also in public events such as watching movies in cinemas or playing music in nightclubs or pubs. Developers are responsible for making this easier and innovating in the development of these systems in different ways. This project's goal was to develop a home media center which allows the user to play multimedia files easily. In addition, the development was intended to be structured aiming to create a system where modules can be easily added and, therefore, easy to update. The user should be also able to deal with many different settings, such as managing users who will be allowed to use the system, wireless networks which can be used to connect the system, forecast, as well as advanced settings such as the IPs the system gives and shared folders. This project was successfully developed using incremental development strategies. Almost all planned functions were implemented to the system except for some features related to the Internet, such as the use of social networks and streaming of online content. This was intentionally left for further development in the future. The significance of this thesis project lies in the fact that there are not so many home media centers available to download for free, so for those people who want to have a home media center, these home media center users will have another choice. Additionally, since the project is fully functioning and it will be released in teh Internet for free, it can be downloaded by developers and inspire them to develop, add, and change some parts in order to improve the whole system.