MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get it for free and best of all it is open source.
Software License: Open Source
Operating Systems Support: Microsoft Windows
Download Link: MediaPortal 0.1.3.0
Homepage: MediaPortal
Version ChangeLog:
A faster MediaPortal start-up time
MediaPortal will now start-up at roughly 1/3 of the previous start-up time.
My TV: ATSC support.
(Note: This is for cards with BDA drivers only)
My TV: Recording Priorities
When scheduling a recording you will be able to set a priority of that recording so other scheduled programmes don't take precedence
Recording Qualities
Also when scheduling a recording you'll be able to set a recording quality type for that scheduled recording - This will work only with Hauppauge based PVR cards.
My TV: Recording conflict management
Now when recording shows and a scheduled or manual recording is present MediaPortal will now prompt you for which one to keep.
My TV: Episode retention policy
This allows you to specify in configuration the maximum number of episodes to keep
My TV: Automatic background EPG & MHW grabbing
MediaPortal will now grab the EPG data for the current transponder/multiplexers channels and automatically populate the TV Guide.
My TV: Video statistics
Press ! to receive video statistics while playing a movie or watching TV and it will show the average frame rate, av/sync, frames drawn, frames dropped and jitter
My Programs: Direct MAME Support
MyPrograms will query the internal MAME database to gather information about the ROMS that are installed on your system. With this info, MyPrograms will fill in the Manfucaturer, Year, Overview information and - find the correct official title of your ROM files.
My Programs: Improved Screens
MyPrograms List-View will display a screenshot / slideshow of the currently selected item on the left.
My TV: MP's own MPEG-2 sections & tables parser
Agree has done a fantastic job of making a MPEG-2 sections & tables parser.
My TV: Twinhan DVB CI support
The CI of twinhan cards is now supported
My TV: Notify me
Mediaportal can now give you a visual notification when a program is about to start
My TV: Compress
Compress your DVR-MS files to mpg, xvid or WMV
My Music: speedup
Browsing/playing mp3's has become a lot faster
My Music: All songs
New view showing all your songs
My Music: Itunes
Use iTunes as external media player
My Music: Reorganize
Completely reworked music re-organisation
My Videos
specify the default language for movie subtiles
My Videos
New view : unwatched movies. MP now keeps track which movies you have watched already
My Videos: IMDB actor info
When lookin up IMDB information the actor biography is now also available
General: Remote
added native support for FireDTV and Hauppauge remote controls
General: Screensaver
blanks the screen (optional) after 1 minute
Caller ID: ISDN
Caller id plugin now works with ISDN also
