The main idea of this program was to make an easy to use interface to select movies from a large collection. It can interface directly with lirc, which allows you to use your infrared remote control for browsing. It is intended to be ran on a tv-out, acting much like a pvr. It requires glut and an opengl accellerated videocard (and drivers ofcourse).
Several auxilary utilities are used to generate thumbnails from avi files, and to gather imdb information for movies. When a movie is selected, the application exits and returns the selected movie name to a script that starts mplayer, which is used for all the playback. When mplayer exits the script takes over again and relaunches the selector in the same state where it was terminated.
A small preview of the program in action can be found here