ShowShifter

ShowShifter, now obsolete, was a proprietary, commercial digital video recorder (DVR) and home theater PC (HTPC) software for Windows.ShowShifter is widely regarded as the original home theater PC software application but is no longer commercially available.It was created by Edinburgh-based developer Home Media Networks Ltd. ShowShifter initially supported analogue cards compressing to AVI and WMV formats in software but version 3 (now called ShowShifter DVB) added support for DVB and Hauppauge WinTV-PVR cards.Shortly afterwards SkyNet ran into financial difficulties, changed corporate direction and decided to wind up Home Media Networks as it was no longer fitted into their core strategy.They are now providing custom software development services for DirectShow, VLC and GStreamer as well as licensing out components from the ShowShifter IP portfolio.
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