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MediaPortal Features
General
- Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins!
- MediaPortal can easily be extended with extra plugins
- You decide which keys you want to use for which actions
- Internal support for several remote control (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc, hauppauge, FireDTV)
- Windowed and fullscreen support
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My TV
- Supports analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC
- HDTV and AC3 support
- Support for multiple tuners
- Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
- Advanced recording scheduler:
- Record once
- Record now
- Daily o Weekly
- Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
- Every time a program appears on this TV channel
- Timeshifting,Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV
- Advanced recording management:
- Handle conflicts
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Set recording priorities
- Quality settings / recording
- Transcode to WMD, XVID or MPG
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Diskmanagement auto deletes old and/or watched recordings
- TVGuide:
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Grab DVB-EPG & MHW-EPG directly for DVB
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Supports XMLTV
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Colors for genres
- TV Guide search
- TV Channel grouping
- Supports over > 10000 channels
- Auto channel tuning
- Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv)
- Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV)
- Support for Teletext
- Standby control to put your HTPC sleeping.
It will awake when there a recording needs to start
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My Video / MyDVD
- Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)
- All your movies will be stored in MediaPortal's video database
- View your movies by actors, genres, year, title
- Sort your movies by actors, genres, year, rating
- Automatically retrieves video art & info from IMDB
- Stacking/unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files
- Internal DVD player with menu's (you can also use an external DVD player)
- On Screen Display (OSD) for: Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages...
- Resume from playback on next play
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My Pictures
- Watch your pictures/photos
- Slideshow support with nice transitions
- Zoom in/out, rotate pictures (rotation is remembered next time)
- Pause, previous/next picture
- Delete picture(s)
- Background music, either songs from my music, or radio from my radio
- Auto thumbnail generation
- Sort in Name, Date, Size
- View in List, Icon or Big Icon display
- Ken Burns effect slideshow
- Filmstrip view
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My Music
- View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs
- Sort your music in many ways like tracks, genre, filesize, artists, album,...
- Use visualisations from Windows ?Media Player 10
- Load, create & save playlists (.m3u, .pls, .b4u)
- Automaticlly gets album art & info for all your albums
- Automaticlly gets artist art & info for all your artists
- View by list, icons, and big icons
- Shuffle, repeat, FF, RW, pause,...
- Music ratings
- Favorites
- Party shuffle mode
- Search music for specific songs
- Display all your favorite songs in one screen
- Utilize Winamp, Foobar or iTunes plugins for music playback
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My Radio
- Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, DVB or internet stream)
- Auto tuning (FM)
- Logo's for each radio station (manual process)
- Supply a friendly name for each radio station
- Internet radio station streaming (ASX or Shoutcast)
- Support for external radio tuner applications
- Auto start listening to your selected radio station when MediaPortal starts
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My weather
- Show the latest weather information
- Support for multiple cities
- Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast
- Temperature (in degrees C/F)
- UV Index, Humity (%), Wind (mph/kph), etc
- Support for live images from internet, like:
- Satellite images
- Temperature images
- UV Index images
- Winds images
- Humidity images
- Precipitation images
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More features!
- Launching external programs like:
- Games
- Emulators
- Email application
- Internet Browser
- IRC client
- Burner let's you burn all type of files and folders directly to CD-DVD from within the MediaPortal interface
- Showing RSS news feeds
- Read and send mail within MediaPortal
- Monitor computer hardware:
- CPU temperature
- Motherboard Temperature
- Hard disk Temperature
- Used Memory
- Used Virtual Memory
- Allow the PC automatically go to standby/hibernation and wakes it when there is a scheduled recording! Just like a real VCR!
- Has different alarm features
- You can even play included games like Tetris or Sudoku!
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This only a small list of plugins & features that MediaPortal offers.
You can also view a complete list of plugins.
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MediaPortal supports tv-cards from
- Digital Everywhere
- Hauppauge
- AVerMedia
- Pinnacle
- Technotrend
- Twinhan
- KNC One
- Technisat
- Dvico
- FlyTV
- and many more
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