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MediaPortal turns your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center.



MediaPortal turns your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center. Our software allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations watch and store your videos and DVDs view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much, much more. MediaPortal is open source software. This means you can help develop MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovative plugins from our great community.MediaPortal FeaturesGeneral * Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins! * MediaPortal can easily be extended with extra plugins * You decide which keys you want to use for which actions * Internal support for several remote control (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc, hauppauge, FireDTV) * Windowed and fullscreen supportMy TV * Supports analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC * HDTV and AC3 support * Support for multiple tuners * Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV * Advanced recording scheduler: - Record once - Record now - Daily o Weekly - Weekdays (Mon-Fri) - Every time a program appears on this TV channel * Timeshifting,Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV * Advanced recording management: - Handle conflicts - Set recording priorities - Quality settings / recording - Transcode to WMD, XVID or MPG - Diskmanagement auto deletes old and/or watched recordings * TVGuide: - Grab DVB-EPG & MHW-EPG directly for DVB - Supports XMLTV - Colors for genres * TV Guide search * TV Channel grouping * Supports over > 10000 channels * Auto channel tuning * Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv) * Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV) * Support for Teletext * Standby control to put your HTPC sleeping. It will awake when there a recording needs to startMy Video / MyDVD * Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...) * All your movies will be stored in MediaPortal's video database * View your movies by actors, genres, year, title * Sort your movies by actors, genres, year, rating * Automatically retrieves video art & info from IMDB * Stacking/unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files * Internal DVD player with menu's (you can also use an external DVD player) * On Screen Display (OSD) for: Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages... * Resume from playback on next playMy Pictures * Watch your pictures/photos * Slideshow support with nice transitions * Zoom in/out, rotate pictures (rotation is remembered next time) * Pause, previous/next picture * Delete picture(s) * Background music, either songs from my music, or radio from my radio * Auto thumbnail generation * Sort in Name, Date, Size * View in List, Icon or Big Icon display * Ken Burns effect slideshow * Filmstrip viewMy Music * View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs * Sort your music in many ways like tracks, genre, filesize, artists, album,... * Use visualisations from Windows ?Media Player 10 * Load, create & save playlists (.m3u, .pls, .b4u) * Automaticlly gets album art & info for all your albums * Automaticlly gets artist art & info for all your artists * View by list, icons, and big icons * Shuffle, repeat, FF, RW, pause,... * Music ratings * Favorites * Party shuffle mode * Search music for specific songs * Display all your favorite songs in one screen * Utilize Winamp, Foobar or iTunes plugins for music playbackMy Radio * Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, DVB or internet stream) * Auto tuning (FM) * Logo's for each radio station (manual process) * Supply a friendly name for each radio station * Internet radio station streaming (ASX or Shoutcast) * Support for external radio tuner applications * Auto start listening to your selected radio station when MediaPortal starts My weather * Show the latest weather information * Support for multiple cities * Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast * Temperature (in degrees C/F) * UV Index, Humity (%), Wind (mph/kph), etc * Support for live images from internet, like: - Satellite images - Temperature images - UV Index images - Winds images - Humidity images - Precipitation imagesMore features!mediaportal-games * Launching external programs like: - Games - Emulators - Email application - Internet Browser - IRC client * Burner let's you burn all type of files and folders directly to CD-DVD from within the MediaPortal interface * Showing RSS news feeds * Read and send mail within MediaPortal * Monitor computer hardware: - CPU temperature - Motherboard Temperature - Hard disk Temperature - Used Memory - Used Virtual Memory * Allow the PC automatically go to standby/hibernation and wakes it when there is a scheduled recording! Just like a real VCR! * Has different alarm features * You can even play included games like Tetris or Sudoku!








What's New in This Release:
MediaPortal crashes on exit:· Under some circumstances it is possible that MediaPortal.exe crashes when you close it. Mainly systems running for a very long time are affected.· scanning for analog radio stations makes TV-Guide unusableunder special circumstances, TV-Service will crash on start up:· This occurs if the WMC plugin for the Hauppauge Colossus or HD-PVR is installed.update of satellite transponders inside TV-Server Configuration is not working:· We previously grabbed the transponder lists directly from the FastSatfinder.com website. Due to load issues this cause for FastSatfinder.com, this is no longer possible, and when you attempt to update them in 1.2.0 or ealier, all your transponder lists are deleted. The team from fastsatfinder has kindly agreed to continue support for us with updated transponder lists which we will host on our own web servers. So 1.2.1 will now download the transponder lists directly from our server. 1.2.1 has the latest Transponder ...