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 released this version to celebrate our 2nd anniversary, to help test some recent setup changes and to also provide a nice shiny setup release for some people who are looking for an alternative media center application. Not much has changed from RC3 apart from some bugs being squashed, a few more tv-cards being supported - oh, not to forget mofux' marvellous new MiniEPG and mPod's excellent MCE remote custom configuration option.
Registered: 2004-04-18 22:08
Thats the date and time we registered MediaPortal on Sourceforge...
Frodo had the great idea to make a media center on a pc-based system but he really wanted a digital video recorder. As he had written the larger part of the xbmc code @ that time he started by porting that code. It was a lot of fun.
The first forumtopic on XBMC forums is still alive :) I would suggest reading that as it is a fun read. Mediaportals first steps are in there!
Today the team moved to Subversion (SVN) for source code version control. This means from now on there are no updates to CVS anymore. One big advantage for everyone is that there is no difference between anonymous and developer access anymore, the sources are always up to date and accessible for everyone!
So everybody is encouraged to download a SVN client (we recommend TortoiseSVN) to get the sources and help in future development of MediaPortal. Of course, you still need Visual Studio 2005 or Visual C# 2005 Express to compile the sources.
We would like to thank TechnoTrend for their support in making this possible.
TechnoTrend provided us with some cards & CI Modules, their BDA SDK plus some of their development teams time to answer some of our questions and make their cards more flexible for your HTPC systems.
I must say the CI module has fantastic CAM compatibility and works really well.
Hopefully this relationship between both parties will continue in the future to bring enhanced functionality to the HTPC community using MediaPortal.
Unfortunately there are numerous people out there making profit from MediaPortal by selling it on e-bay.
The unfortunate reality is that we cannot stop them. Under the GNU General Public Licence anyone can sell MediaPortal for whatever fee they wish.
General practice in this area is to usually charge enough to cover the cost and or some profit to donate to the source project to help development.
What is dissapointing is that these people selling MediaPortal never seem to 'donate' any funds or for that matter ask us if they can sell the product.
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