Mediabox dist?

[Travis Roy]

I was messing with a cool project called Geexbox (www.geexbox.org). 
It's basically a mini-linux dist. that lets you play stuff on your TV. 
I was having issues with Geexbox (it let me play audio CDs. If I tried 
mpegs, DVDs, or MP3s it would just freeze) so I was wondering if 
anybody knew of any other projects like this? I also looked at Movix 
and Movix2 but they didn't seem as nice a Geexbox. Freevo is way to 
intensive for my little mini-itx board and I don't need recording, 
mostly playback.