Media Centre for the aged/incapacitated

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I have been looking for a media centre which will play movies and videos continually to a television with minimal input from user. My mother is old and cannot seem to memorise selection menus which most media players require. I would like to install a system which continually plays movies and videos in a list. The media centre must be able to be set up to play in a loop from boot up.
Will I be able to achieve this with Xbian as I am new to this and have average programming skills.

Thamk you