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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We have been very pleased with the response from the community to our Submit Patches forum. In fact, I would say it has been a huge success. So many thanks to all of you who have contributed, and helped make MediaPortal even better.
However, some of our contributors in other areas have pointed out that the same attention was not being given to submissions for EPG Grabbers and Tuning Details, Localization files for MP and the Deploy Tool, or Movie Info Grabbers.
They were right! Those contributions were being submitted in the General Forum under Jobs and Tasks. As a result they were often overlooked by our Developers and did not follow the same procedures as our code/patch submissions.
We have taken immediate action to rectify this. The Jobs and Tasks forum has been removed from the General Forums. New sub-forums have been added to the Development forum as follows:
All new sub-forums will now use the same prefixes (Pending/Approved/etc.) as the submit patches forums. Thus, Developers, contributors and users can all easily see which submissions are still pending. You are free to ask questions and request guidance in the General Development sub-forum, but once you make a submission, it should be entered in one of the 'submit' sub-forums for our Developers to review and implement it.
The "Re-Design MyTV - get involved" sub-forum has also been removed from the General Forums as this project is now part of MP 2 development.
I wish to assure all contributors that we appreciate your efforts and will make every effort to implement your submissions as quickly as possible.
Non code changes are also very important. Translations and EPG Grabbers/Tuning Details are key for getting MediaPortal accepted in many more countries. So please keep up the great work you all have been doing. I hope our new process will encourage even more participation from our community!
Thank you all, especially MP user VELIS for bringing this to our attention.
If you would like to know more about our process for handling submissions, stay tuned for Dadeo's upcoming Blog Interview with me about our MP Team and how it works.
Access all Team Blog posts, via the Blogs link on the Main Menu
After my last Blog, several users posted comments (thank you all) asking about our Repository or Downloads page and how it could be improved. As many of you know, we have tried for almost two years to find a web developer to improve it. Although several offered, they all left us, with nothing usable. So, about a year ago Infinityloop posted in the user Forums asking for feedback: The future of MPI - we need your opinion! The idea was to develop an alternate, consistent method to install and update skins and plugins.
It was a very hot topic! The result was, that now, one of our genius developers, Dukus, has written a whole new Extensions Installer from scratch, incorporating the feedback which users and community developers provided. Dukus is already well known for his many excellent plugins like Youtube.fm, Radiotime, MTV MusicVideos and Yahoo MusicVideos (he likes music ). A lot of testing has already been done, as you can see in this forum post Extension Installer V2.
If you want to find out the new, easy way to install and auto update plugins and skins, read on! Yes, you heard me, I said 'auto update'. You can even choose only the plugins and skins that support your version of MediaPortal. Impressed? You should be!
Here is The Inside Scoop Vol 1-2 with Duka aka Dukus:
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keep track of all new downloads, both skins and plugins.
Our developer Dukus is currently reworking the MediaPortal
Extensions Installer (MPEI) for the upcoming MediaPortal 1.1.0 release.
The reason for this rework is simple. The MPEI (a fast and very easy way to install skins, plugins and other extensions) is simply not used by the majority of community skin designers and plugin developers.
Now
Dukus is recreating MPEI from scratch to make it more powerful and flexible. This will allow everyone
to create even "complex" installation packages with ease.
But to achieve that he needs your comments and feedback.
If you want to help, then please have a look the new thread in our forums which Dukus created.
We are working hard to finish the first Release Candidate of MediaPortal 1.1.0.
Sadly we were not able to make it for our target release date in October, because there are currently a few major issues left, which turned out to be much harder to solve than expected (see roadmaps for details).
As soon as these problems are resolved, we will release MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1.
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