Star Media Center (formerly known as AIW Player) is designed to be a fast and smart tool that enables you to do pretty much everything with your audio-video hardware. At the moment Star Media Center has 5 main functions:
A very low resource demanding video player with tons of features.
A DVD Player software (decoder required) with many features.
A TV viewing program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card with wdm drivers installed. It should work with every card out there as long as it's drivers are fully compatible with DirectX9.
A FM tuning program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card (or a specialized radio capture card) with wdm drivers installed.
A DVD player. Star Media Center is capable of DVD playback as long as you have proper decoder installed in your system.
A video broadcasting server. This means that you can use your TV-card to broadcast (share) your favorite TV programs with your LAN friends and even on the Internet. When in broadcasting mode Star Media Center becomes a chat server and users can connect to it with Star Remote Chat to chat about, get and set channels. Also, Star Media Center supports broadcasting from video files on your harddrive and directly from your desktop.
Star Media Center offers interconnected features - for example when watching a movie and you want to quickly tune to a news station for just a few minutes you may simply do that and when you're done you can quickly resume your movie with only one click - no more changing from software to software, overlay conflicts and so on...
