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MediaPortal Manual

Chapter 1: Product introduction

• 1.1 About MediaPortal

• 1.2 Features

Chapter 2: Installation

• 2.1 Requirements

  • 2.1.1 Supported TV-Cards

  • 2.1.1 List of supported CAMs

• 2.2 Television

  • 2.2.1 Capabilities

  • 2.2.2 How it works

• 2.2 First time installation

• 2.3 Updating current MediaPortal installation

• 2.4 open Ports in Firewall (When using TV in Multiseat)

• 2.5 Manual Installation of Database Server for TV-Server (Installer can do that automatically)

  • 2.4.1 SQL server 2005

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

    • Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express (additional but recommended)

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

  • 2.4.2 MySQL 5

    • MySQL 5 installation

    • MySQL 5 GUI tools (additional but recommended)

    • ?Configuring MySQL 5

Chapter 3: Configuration

• 3.1 MediaPortal Configuration

  • 3.1.1 Project

  • 3.1.2 General

  • 3.1.3 DVD

  • 3.1.4 Videos

  • 3.1.5 Music

  • 3.1.6 Pictures

  • 3.1.7 Radio

  • 3.1.8 Television

  • 3.1.9 Remote

  • 3.1.10 Directshow Filters

  • 3.1.11 Weather

  • 3.1.12 Plugins

• 3.2 MediaPortal TV-Server

  • 3.2.1 TV-Server Configuration

  • 3.2.2 MediaPortal My TV - first start (Multiseat only)

  • 3.2.3 Using Hybrid TV Cards

• 3.3 TV and Radio Channel Logos

• 3.4 Electronic Program Guides

  • 3.4.1 WebEPG - WAS REMOVED FROM MP! There is no TV-Server version yet!

Chapter 4:Using MediaPortal

• 4.1 Basic Navigation

• 4.2 My TV

• 4.4 My Pictures

• 4.5 My Radio

• 4.6 My Music

• 4.7 My Videos

• 4.8 MyVideo Editor

• 4.9 My Weather

• 4.10 Play DVD

• 4.11 My last.fm Radio

• 4.12 Wikipedia

• 4.13 My Sudoku

• 4.14 Settings

• 4.15 My Plugins

Chapter 5: Plugin/Skins Installation

• 5.1 MediaPortal Extensions Installer (MPEI)

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting

• 6.1 MediaPortal 1

  • 6.1.1 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• 6.2 TV-Server

  • 6.2.1 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  • 6.2.1 Database

  • 6.2.2 Streaming-Multiseat

  • 6.2.3 Log files

  • 6.2.4 Testing streaming with VLC or mplayer

  • 6.2.5 DVBSub2.ax not registered

Chapter 7: Bugreporting

• 7.1 MediaPortal Log file Locations

• 7.2 MediaPortal Logs Collector (included in MediaPortal package)

• 7.3 Knowledge Base (List of known Windows, codecs, drivers, etc. Bugs which cause issues in MediaPortal.)

Chapter 8: Appendix

• 8.1 Keyboard Shortcuts

  • 8.1.1 General

  • 8.1.2 My TV

  • 8.1.3 My Music

  • 8.1.4 My Videos

  • 8.1.5 My Pictures

  • 8.1.6 Misc

• 8.2 Command line options

• 8.3 Description of Video Zoom Modes

• 8.4 General Glossary

• 8.5 Television Glossary

• 8.6 Customizing Windows and MediaPortal