[s3arch]

awesome...good job.....

You guys did it inside the bootloader.

Whenever I switch on my computer just for watching a movie or listen to music and nothing else... I feel it so unnecessary to boot up my fedora, load my cpu and ram with programs that has nothing to do with video player.... I was wondering if there is any stable minimal OS which is dedicated only for movies, songs, and nothing else.... I am aware of couple of media centers such as kodi, osmc and openelec.... But haven't found any minimalistic systems....

[fancy_pantser]

For existing audio hardware there are projects like http://www.rockbox.org that are minimalistic firmware replacements that you can hack on. On the video side I can't think of anything similar to DVD firmware that's open source but that sounds like what you're looking for. I've attempted a few slimmed down Linux distros for the Raspberry Pi and alternative OSes that can play back media. Things to check out would be: RISC OS, OpenElec, PiCore, PiPlay, Minibian...

[klibertp]

Try KolibriOS[1]. It does have a media player AFAIK.

Also, it comes on a single floppy.

[1] http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Main_Page

[TheTravCav]

geexbox is the closest thing i can think of. You can even use http://www.geexbox.org/iso-generator/ to put the movie and the os on disc/usb and boot to the movie basically.