MediaPortal 0.2.2.0

Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.
MediaPortal gives you the possibility to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV and much more
You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/noppes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!
Note: MediaPortal now has an updated database version - SQLite v3. If youre migrating from version 0.1.2.0 then please follow these instructions...
There is a small converter to migrate your database. Follow these steps:
1) Install MP 0.1.3.0 (Do not start MP or Configuration.exe)
2) Enter the database directory
3) Make sure there are no *.db3 files there for the database files you wish to convert (database files where a *.db3 version exists will be skipped).
4) Enter the databaseconvert directory
5) Start the "convertv2v3.cmd" script, this will convert your existing database-files to a *.db3 version.
Start MediaPortals Setup as youll need to add your TV cards again also.
Main features:
- Flexible XML based skinning engine - Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins !
- Extendable via plugins. Media Portal can easily extended with extra plugins. Plugins can be overlay windows, modules, tag readers, players,...
- Time, Date
- Dynamic keymapping. You decide which keys you want to use for which actions
- Remote Controller support (using an external program like girder)
- Switch between graphics & LiveTV as background when browsing the menus
- Internal support for several remotes (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc)
- Support for multiple tuners
- Timeshifting, Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV
- Video Recording
- Advanced TV Guide based on XMLTV
- Scheduler to manage all your recording schedules
- Recorded TV section: Manage all your recorded tv programs. See what has been recorded, delete programs, check which programs you already watched and off course select and play a recorded program
- Full support of DVB-S cards (BDA driver based cards)
- Full support of DVB-C cards (BDA driver based cards)
- Full support of DVB-T cards (BDA driver based cards)
- Full support of Skystar2 cards
- Support for Teletext
- TV Guide: EPG grabber for ss2 & DVB-S/t/c which grabs the TV Guide directly from the signal!
- TV Guide search
- TV Channel grouping
- Supports over > 1000 channels
- Mapping TV channels to specific cards
- Auto channel tuning
- Overlay & VMR9 Renderless playback
- Several advanced zooming/AR modes
- Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv)
- Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV)
- Listen to your favorite radio stations
- Auto tuning
- Supply nice logos for each radio station
- Supply a friendly name for each radio station
- Internet radio stations
- Local radio stations using the FM tuner of your capture card
- Support for external radio tuner applications
- Auto start listening to your selected radio station when MediaPortal starts
- All music gets stored in Media Portals music database
- 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 MediaPlayer 9
- 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 overlay : will show what song is playing together with visualisation,albumart, artist,title,album etc on every module in Media Portal
- Music ratings
- Favorites
- Party shuffle mode
- Search music for specific songs
- Display all your favorite songs in one screen
- 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
- 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 view
- Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)
- All your movies will be stored in Media Portals video database
- View your movies by actors, genres, year, title,
- Sort your movies by actors, genres, year, rating
- Automatically retrieves video art & info from www.imdb.com
- Stacking/Unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files
- Internal DVD Player with Menus!
- External Player (Zoomplayer/MPlayer/etc) option
- On Screen Display(OSD) for : Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages...
- Internal DVD player with menus ( you can also use an external DVD player )
- Internal movie player you can also use an external media player )
- Filmstrip view
- Resume from playback
- Screen Calibration
- UI Calibration
- My Music options
- My Pictures options