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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To make this work you need to install SVN release 17664 or later of MediaPortal and TVServer / TVClient plugin.
The TVClient plugin comes with RadScorpion's AAC decoder as part of the install package.
All you have to do is setup the AAC codec via MediaPortal Configuration under Television.
Note: If you have the Monogram AAC decoder already installed I would suggest de-registering it.
Enjoy your TV experience for those users who can now receive the benefits.
MediaPortal TV Server offers some nice features for series handling. One of those features is called episode management.
This feature was dissabled for quite some time because a bug caused that users lost recorded shows. Now this issue has been fixed and the feature is enabled again.
It allows you to keep always the latest x episodes of a series you scheduled for recording on your hard disk (of course this feature does not work with recordings of type "once").
Example scenario: let's say you want to record "The Simpsons" which airs every weekday in the evening. You first set up an appropriate schedule (type "weekdays") and set the number of episodes to keep to "3". The first episode is recorded on Monday, the 2nd on Tuesday and the 3rd on Wednesday. This means you have 3 files on your hdd on Thursday morning. In the evening the 4th spisode airs and as you selected to keep 3 episodes, Monday's episode will get deleted before the recording starts. On Thursday evening you still have 3 files on your disk (Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's episodes).
This feature is very handy if you have a small hard disk and you don't want to keep all old episodes. Unfortunately it was activated by default and people not knowing about episode management lost recordings. With today's SVN episode management is fixed and will now only delete files if it is set up to do so.
Please notice:
recordings (series) that were scheduled with a TV Server
version from before 2008-01-03 might get deleted due to the old behavior. Read more to see how to prevent that by updating your schedules!
Some people wondered why we didnt use WPF for our skinengine. WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) , is a new technology from Microsoft for creating really cool GUIs
Although WPF is a wonderfull piece of technology, it also has some major drawbacks. One of those drawbacks is that there is no way to integrate WPF with DirectX and/or DirectShow. Although WPF contains its own internal video player that player is so limited and unusable for an application like MediaPortal. Some other drawbacks are the focus/input management and offcourse the fact that its closed source
That said, WPF still rocks. Skinners get really nice features like vector graphics, linear& radial gradient brushes, image brushes, panels, storyboards, triggers, animations etc etc etc
So I have started on a new mission:
For MP-II I'm creating my own opensource version of WPF
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The first public build of MediaPortal II (Codename: Infinity) is NOW available. We call this a "preview" because it is still in a very early stage. Both the GUI and the functionality is just a quick sample to make use of some features for testing purposes. Don't worry about its stability, look or usabilty at this point. However we want to give
everyone an early Christmas present and something to play with for the
holiday period - so here it is:
The download can be found on Sourceforge. For the full news providing further information click here.
The release of MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 and the announcement of MediaPortal 2 do not implicit that the "good old MediaPortal I" is abandoned. Our next goal is to create a stable MediaPortal - TV-Server solution, which means to work towards a MediaPortal 1.0 and TV-Server 1.0. For those who fear the chance: MediaPortal 1.0 will still contain the inbuild TV-Engine.
So the main focus for the 1.0 releases is on stability and useability. This means that you will not see many (if any) new features in these releases.
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