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.
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The MediaPortal 2 core code is getting more and more stable and we are about to move our development power to the MediaPortal 2 standard plugins.
In a few weeks, we will start a MediaPortal 2 skinning contest where we will publish an exercise to create a skin which follows certain requirements. Everyone can participate. The best ideas will be used in MediaPortal 2 - maybe you can obtain a place in our skinning team?
The development of MediaPortal was a long and bumpy road, but the destination was well worth it. Thanks to our great community, who submitted many bug reports and code patches to fix bugs, we now are able to present you MediaPortal 1.1.0 - the best release in our six year history.
Complete list of changes:
Please have a look at our changelogs for a complete list of changes.
Since joining the Team a few months back, I have been fascinated to learn how things work, and how to get fixes or improvements into MediaPortal. I did not realize that would be a nice side benefit of joining the Team. I now realize that I could have done much of this without being a Team member, so I thought I would share what I have learned with everyone. Here is theInside Scoopon:How You Can Improve MediaPortal
RC5 was planned to be the last Release Candidate for MediaPortal 1.1.0 final.
However, the fix of a major issue related to the detection of a timeshift buffer file being video or radio makes us believe that a big field test is required to ensure that 1.1.0 final will be the most stable release in MediaPortal´s six year history.
If all goes according to plan, then this "slide-in" RC6 release will not delay the final version of 1.1.0, which is planned for release around the 16th of July.
We need the help of our great community to ensure the fix does not cause any unwanted side effects.
RC6 is as close to the final release as it can get.
Changes since 1.1.0 RC5:
0002953: [fixed] Some TS files are wrongly
detected as video/radio
0002883: [fixed] Pulse and Loop animations do not work because conditional
animations do not work
0002950: [fixed] Video
thumbnails are not being generated and do not display in RC5
0002802: [fixed] B3
skin does not show recorded TV thumbs in list views
We also want to remind Skin Designers to review the list of Skin Changes
since
1.0.1 - while Plugin Developers should take a look at the newly
created Code Changes page.
There were some changes done since the last stable release which require
Extensions (Skins and
Plugins) to be updated so they get fully compatible with 1.1.0 RC6.
As announced earlier, the skin version will be increased for 1.1.0 final. This means that all skins need to be updated in order not to display the "outdated skin" warning. Skins should at least implement the required changes (as outlined on the Skin Changes page) to be compatible, otherwise errors will result.
MediaPortal 1.1.0 final is scheduled to be released July 16th.
As you know, we disabled the skin version check for beta/RC releases. However, we will be reinstating it for MP 1.1.0.
We want to inform all Skin Designers in advance that the skin version (references.xml) will be increased from 1.0.1.0 to 1.1.0.0 in the final version.
We would appreciate it if new, MP 1.1.0 compatible Skin versions could be released around the 16th. We would like to avoid users getting the error message regarding incompatible skins, even though the skin is fully compatible with MP 1.1.0.
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