MediaPortal

MediaPortal: everything else is just a Media Center

MediaPortal turns your HTPC into a very advanced media center, or Home Theater PC (HTPC)

* Listen to music and radio
* Play videos, movies and DVDs
* View pictures or create a slideshow
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Publisher:	_Frodo_	License:	Freeware
Version:	1. 2. 2001	Date Added:	07 January, 2012 00:00
File Size:	24.0 MB	Downloads:	3
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Systems:	Windows 7 x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows7, WinXP

MediaPortal: everything else is just a Media Center

MediaPortal turns your HTPC into a very advanced media center, or Home Theater PC (HTPC)

* Listen to music and radio
* Play videos, movies and DVDs
* View pictures or create a slideshow
* Watch, schedule and record live TV - like a TiVo, but more, and for free!
* Stream media, radio and TV to any HTPC / PC connected to your network
* Use a remote to control your HTPC from your couch
* Check weather, news, or information on the web, even play games!

All in the comfort of your living room, on your big screen LCD or Plasma TV or projector.

New Design

With MediaPortal 1.2.0 we introduce a brand new look, that replaces Blue3 and Blue3wide which served us well during the last few years. We have made the Blue3/wide skin files available to the community, in case someone wishes to make it available, and maintain it, as an extension. The Team certainly hopes that this will happen.

Usability Improvements

Plugin Version Check

The biggest change in usability is our new version check for plugins. From 1.2.0 on, users will never again face the problem of having a plugin enabled which is incompatible with the installed version of MP. The issues such caused could reach from a small glitch, to random crashes of MediaPortal.

mproved Interaction between Skins and Plugins

Skin designers now have many more options to integrate dynamic functionality of MediaPortal core functionality and external plugins. The skins can now dynamically apply skin expressions to react to different situation and open plugins with specific parameters. Our highly talented skinning community has already started to use this new functionality to great effect:

* Replacing dedicated streaming plugins (e.g. trailers) with the equivalent OnlineVideos site (e.g. iTunes Trailers, IMDb trailers).
* Submenus for different Moving Pictures/MP-TvSeries categories.
* Showing a trailer from a button in movie details with OnlineVideos plugin.
* Backgrounds depending on the time of day.

Music and Video View Definition Changes

Setting up and changing views for music and video was previously complicated and confusing. We have now updated the interface to make setup far more logical and allow views to be easily re-ordered.

Attention!

* Because of this change any user defined views you had setup will be lost when upgrading. Hopefully we have mitigated this by replacing the default music views more in-line with those in Kiwijunglist's guide to setting up music. To learn how to use the new features, see our Wiki: Music Views 1.2.

Music Changes

The music section of MediaPortal has been given a thorough health check with lots of changes behind the scenes as well as lots of bug fixes and changes to make things more logical and consistent. There are also some new features:

* Better handling of multi-disc albums.
* A playlist mode.
* Last.fm Love / Ban functions on music Now Playing screen.

More details can be found in an earlier blog. To learn more about the changes, see Play Music 1.2 in our Wiki.
Videos Enhancements:

Deda has taken our Videos feature to a whole new level. He has added several new features, as well as speedups and bug fixes.

These changes will upgrade your videos database. After the upgrade, the database will no longer work with older MediaPortal versions.

These changes are already fully documented on the Video Database 1.2.0 page in the Configuration section of the new wiki.

Note: Users of the FanArt Handler Extension have to wait for a new, 1.2.0 compatible version.

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