easiest setup

[yanksno1]

Hi all, about to build my new HTPC this weekend and have a few questions about a setup for a front end for it. I've been playing around with Meedio but don't like that you have to configure it so much. I'm a complete newbie at the HTPC game and want the easiest setup. So I've been looking at the Sage front end (I bought 2.0 for PVR'ing) and had a few questions about it.

I was looking at the customization part of the forums and was looking at the different modules. I'm assuming from a complete fresh clean install of Sage, MalDude v1.0 would be the way to go. What do you guys suggest?

I was also wondering if Sage had a winamp plugin available for the music portion of the software. I would also like to be able to use TheaterTek to view DVDs and was hoping a plugin would be available for that. Can someone point me into the right directions for that? I was looking at the mame plugin thread and was wondering if it was possible to launch regular PC games from that.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[kny3twalker]

you can use mlbdude2 to launch TheaterTek
the music player in SageTV sees only mp3s and they must be constant bit rate mp3s or the timing is for the music

I think you are going to have to use meedio or wait until sageTV studio is released to launch games
but I am sure someone will make that available I know I would enjoy that as well

not sure that maldude can launch theatertek but I am guessing it does