MediaPortal 1.1.1 Alpha / 1.0.2

MediaPortal 1.1.1 Alpha / 1.0.2  is actually beneficial to  turn your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center.

This 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.

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Major Features:

1. General
   • Mediaportal-Homescreen
   • 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 support
2. My 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
     • Disk management 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 start
3. My 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 play
4. My 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 view
5. My 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 visualisation from Windows ?Media Player 10
   • Load, create & save playlists (.m3u, .pls, .b4u)
   • Automatically gets album art & info for all your albums
   • Automatically 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 playback
   • 1 My 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
6. 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 images
7. More features!
   • 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!

Enhancements:

• [general] MediainfoWrapper: 720p/1080p/1080i and embedded subs are not correctly identified (chemelli) - closed.
  
• [Configuration] Shortcut for MP Extension installer needs to be manually launched with admin rights (chemelli) - closed.
  
• [My TV / Recorded TV] RecordedTv needs a cleanup (rtv) - closed.
  
• [general] MakeDirectoryPath() is not always cleaning the path (chemelli) - closed.
  
• [Video Editor] Video Editor crashes and incorrectly patch continuity counter (Ambass) - closed.
  
• [My Videos] Insert notification is triggered too often (Tourettes) - closed.
  [general] MiniDisplayLibrary: Matrix Orbital GX nee dupdated 3rd party dll (chemelli) - closed.
  
• [Skin Engine] reduce horizontal and vertical text scroll-speeds (rtv) - closed.
  
• [general] log4net neds to be updated to .NET Framework 2.0 version (chemelli) - closed.
  
• [My TV / Home] Timeshifting is broken (misterd) - closed.