What is MediaPortal?

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal 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.

As Open Source software licensed under the GNU/GPL agreement, you get MediaPortal for free. This means anyone can contribute to MediaPortal or customize for their own needs!

MediaPortal is built on the Microsoft .NET framework using C# and currently has a growing international community of over 60,000 users. 

History

MediaPortal's roots lie in the XBox Media Center (XBMC) project which goal was to build a media center application for the Microsoft XBox gaming console. Erwin Beckers (also known as Frodo) concluded early in the XBMC project that there were notable limitations to the xbox platform, mainly that it is unable to support TV cards. XBox Platform limitations like these would ultimately hinder the vision of a feature rich media center application.

In February 2004, Erwin left the Xbox Media Center project to start a new project, now known as MediaPortal that would run on the Microsoft Windows platform. Initially existing code was re-used from the XBMC project but after several releases and innumerable feature enhancements there has been almost a complete re-design.

Today, MediaPortal continues as an open source project, has a core team of  developers and a growing community of over 60,000 registered users.

In 2006 MediaPortal enters a new aera with the release of the TV server. For the first time users can now use multiple frontends for viewing & recording TV streamed from 1 or more TV servers.

Mission

The vision of the MediaPortal project is to create an open source media centre application.

In reaching this goal MediaPortal:

• Promotes open source - MediaPortal is based on the ideas of open source, licensed under the GPL and builds on and supports other open source projects.
• Promotes the sharing of knowledge and collaboration - Through the use of information sharing tools and practices MediaPortal is a collaborative environment.
• Understands that development is a team effort - Treating our users as co-developers is proven to be the most effective option for rapid development.
• Applies the Law of Diminishing Return - The majority of the effort should be invested in implementing features which have the most benefit and widest general usage by the community.

Team members 

Management 

infinityloop (Austria)	Project Coordinator, Test Team Leader and Forum Admin Read more

Administration 

high (Germany)	Project Administrator (Homepage, Forum, Wiki, SVN), Lord of the Scripts Read more

Development Team 

hwahrmann (Austria)	Developer Read more
DMAN_LFC (United Kingdom)	Developer Read more
Broceliande (France)	Developer Read more
rtv (Germany)	Developer Read more
Maschine (Germany)	Developer Read more
gemx (Germany)	Developer
chemelli (Italy)	Developer Read more
tourettes (Unknown)	Developer
Albert (Germany)	Developer Read more
chefkoch (Germany)	Developer Read more
ambass (France)	Developer
cpp2005 (Unknown)	Developer
flokel (Germany)	Developer
misterd (Germany)	Developer
morpheus_xx (Germany)	Developer read more
manfred (Finland)	Developer Read More
GhoSe (Germany)	Developer
gibman (Denmark)	Developer
arion_p (Greece)	Developer read more
mikeyko (Slovakia)	Developer
bavarian (Germany)	Developer
Dukus (Unknown)	Developer. Read more
mackey (Unknown)	Developer. Read more
Marvman (Germany)	Developer. Read more

Test Team

ronilse (Norway)	Most important member of the test team. Read more
gixxer (Spain)	MediaPortal Tester Read more
tontsa (Finland)	MediaPortal Tester and parttime developer Read more
seidelin (Denmark)	MediaPortal Tester and parttime developer Read more
Pretoriano (Romania)	MediaPortal Tester Read more
elliotmc (United Kingdom)	MediaPortal Tester Read more

Design Team 

Forum Moderators 

Retired Team members