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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A lot has happened since MediaPortal 1.0.2 had been released. The team has agreed that MediaPortal 1.1 will be the last major release of MediaPortal and will then focus on MediaPortal 2.
As this will be the last major release we want it to be the best ever. Therefore we need your help again!
Major changes in this ALPHA:
old, unsupported TV-Engine (TVE2) was removed (together with all related plugins - WepEPG is currently ported to TV-Server, which will be available in 1.1.0 RC1)
first steps to support Windows 7 and Vista+TV-Pack
UAC compatibillty enhancements:
following folders are now also located in %ProgramData%\TeamMediaPortal\MediaPortal
Tuningdetails
Languages
Skins
IP-TV support has been added to TV-Server
access CI-menu from inside MyTV and TV-Server configuration
integration of MPC-HC subtitles engine
(no need for any 3rd party filters any more to get subtitles to work)
updated installer to use MySQL 5.1 64bit on 64bit OS'es
MySQL 5.1 is now the default SQL-Server on a fresh installation. (you can still use your already present SQL-Server as this effects only systems where no SQL-Server is present) Benefits compared to MS SQL-Server:
works nicely on Windows 7 RC1 32 and 64 bit
uses less system resources than MS SQL Server
much easier to deploy (automatic download/install of MS SQL 2008 is not possible on Windows 7)
Note: If you want to use MS SQL 2008 Express SP1, then you have to install it manually.
Skinchanges:
brand new OSD for MyTV, MyVideos and DVD (still work in progress (Zap OSD still missing) and only available for Blue3wide at the moment) You can show the osd by using "i" button on your remote or "y" button on your keyboard.
VU-Meter in MyMusic (off per default, has to be enabled in MP Configuration - only available in Blue3wide at the moment)
a present MediaPortal 1.0.x installation can not be upgraded
a present MediaPortal 1.0.x installation will be uninstalled
(No data will be lost, you will find MediaPortal_backup and TV-Server_backup folders which contain the plugins,skins and userfiles of the 1.0.x installations)
a present TV-Server database will be upgraded and can be reused
do not reuse any skins, plugins, databases or configuration files from MediaPortal 1.0.x with this alpha!
During the last year a lot has happened behind the scenes of MediaPortal.
Consequentely it was time for a news entry informing you about the current and future plans for MediaPortal 1 and MediaPortal 2.
The future of MediaPortal 1
Thanks to our team member Albert, MediaPortal 2 has reached a state of development where the rest of the team can start to jump on it. This means the time has come to reduce the efforts we spend on MediaPortal 1.
For quite some time we are working on MediaPortal 1.1.0 and if you take a look at our roadmaps, then you will see that we have already achieved a lot for this big release.
But there are still a lot of open tasks which we want to have included in the 1.1.0 release.
Unfortunately, we do not have the required manpower to get all of them done in time.
This is why we want to ask the developers among our community for help.
As you might already know, we now have a dedicated sub-forum for submitting patches.
This makes the whole process a lot easier, because in contrast to the patch section on SourceForge, this allows us to directly communicate with the developer who submitted the patch.
Over the years MediaPortal grew and grew, and so did our forums.
Now we have reached a point where it started to become quite confusing to read and post.
This is why we decided to completelly restructure the forums.
Grouping by Tabs
We are now using Tabs to group our forums.
So if you are only interested in "Development" related discussions, you just have to press the "Development" Tab.
You will then see only the Development forums.
By using tabs we ensure that you only see the forums you are interested in. This makes the forum-index a lot shorter and much more readable...
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