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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In February 2004 Erwin Beckers (aka. Frodo) left the X-Box Media Center project to start a new project, now known as MediaPortal, that would run on the Microsoft Windows platform and not suffer from the limitations of the X-Box hardware. Initially, existing code was reused from the XBMC-project but after several releases and innumerable feature enhancements there has been almost a complete redesign.
So, after a 5 year journey the Team MediaPortal is more than proud to announce the release of MediaPortal 1.0!
Today we are proud to announce the release of MediaPortal 1.0 RC4.
So what's the current development progress ?
The development of MediaPortal 1.0 is going extremely well and the latest svn revision is working very nicely.
The wide version of our new default skin named Blue3 is nearly finished and only needs some final polishing to which everyone
can contribute by testing it.
As a result this release candidate will closely represent the final version of MediaPortal 1.0.
It's been a while since we posted the latest news. So what has been happening since then?
MediaPortal Skin-Survey
We have been discussing a few things inside the team and need to make some decisions. In order to involve the community into this process we have created a survey to gather the required information.
We would like to encourage all community members to participate. Your input will help shape the future of MP. The survey will run until Friday the 26th September.
MediaPortal 1
MediaPortal 1.0 is progressing nicely and we are approaching RC3 with big steps. We have eliminated a lot of bugs since the release of RC2 as you can see in the roadmaps of MediaPortal and the TV-Server .
MediaPortal 2
MediaPortal II is also still in development. Developers have done some massive refactoring of the core, the plugin system and our open source MPF graphics engine. MPF is compatible with Microsofts WPF in many areas and has some additional features.
All these efforts are done to ensure that MediaPortal 2 is flexible, stable and easy to use. It will still take some more time until we will be able to release new test builds. We have decided to temporarily disable the MediaPortal 2 forums, until we reach the point. In the mean time, you can follow the development process via the MediaPortal 2 Roadmap.
Nearly 3 months after the release of MediaPortal 1.0 RC1 we are pleased to announce that MediaPortal RC2 is available for download.
This Release:
We have put our main efforts into bug fixing for stability and usability again. According to our roadmap every RC1 specifc bug could be fixed.
Unfortunately we had to remove the "MyTrailers" and "MyMusicVideos" plugins from
the installation package because both plugins are broken and
unmaintained. Their original developers are not active anymore and
trying to get
the code working again would delay the complete product for another few weeks.
We want to thank everyone who took the time to created proper reports and to those who submitted patches.
You pushed MediaPortal forward.
A detailed list of changes is available on the following pages.
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