MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1 RELEASED!
We are very pleased to announce the release of Mediaportal 1.1.0 RC1.
Since the release of 1.1.0 Beta 1 we have done some major changes to increase the stability of MediaPortal 1.1.0, the compatibility between our TsReader filter and 3rd party videocodecs etc.
We also dramatically increased the responsiveness of the user interface in many areas (most noticeable inside MyTV).
Major changes between 1.1.0 Beta 1 and RC1 are:
- New official MediaPortal Logo, Icons and DeployTool graphics created by Joost !
- Added NALU support to TsReader
Now MediaPortal also supports:- Windows 7 DTV DVD codecs
- divx h.264
- MPC-HC VideoCodec (h.264) (current version of this codec contains a deadlock bug - MPC.HC Team working on a fix!)
- Added support for Apple AIFF Musc Format
- Added support for MIDI (*.mid, *.kar) file format
- Added VUMeter Support for skins
- Faster shares browsing
- Integrated MPTray
- Better overall usability
- Integrated CI menu in MyTV
- Support of ISO/IEC 10646-1(UTF-16) text encoding in DVB
- Added DVB-S2 modulation and DiseqC support for ProfRed cards
- Added DiseqC support for TeVii cards
- Added support for Freesat DVB EPG
- Added support for Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3)
- Added support for GenPix DVB-S devices
The team would like to thank everyone who sent us patches!
Complete list of changes:
There were a lot of smaller changes done as well.
Installation notes:
- install the 32 bit version (even if your OS is 64 bit!) of the Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (vcredist_x32.exe) before you install 1.1.0 RC 1 !
- a present MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA/BETA installation can not be upgraded
- a present MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA/BETA 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) - refer to the upgrade guide if you are moving from an existing MediaPortal installation
- 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 or 1.1.0 ALPHA/BETA with this Release Candidate!
Testing and bug reporting:
The changes we made require a lot of testing to ensure that MediaPortal 1.1 will be shipped as bug-free as possible.
Please take your time to test this Beta release carefully and report bugs you found in our related bugreport forums.
Please do not post results of 1.1.0 RC 1 testing anywhere else.
Please follow the Bugreport guideline when reporting issues. If you don't, then the bugreport will not help our developers and it will be removed to keep the forums clean.
Help with Development:
If you are a developer, then you can help us to make MediaPortal 1.1 a great release. You can post your bug fixes directly in the dedicated ::submit patches forum:: . Our developers will review and add them to SVN once approved.
Please be aware that we do not accept new feature patches for 1.1.0 because we are in a Featurefreeze.
SVN-Testbuilds
After the release of MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1, we will start to release SVN-Testbuilds again, which require 1.1.0 RC1 to be installed.
The road to 1.1.0 final
As you can see in our roadmaps, there are some changes pending which we would like to see resolved in the 1.1.0 release.
Depending on how well the development goes, and which feedback we receive from 1.1.0 RC1 testing, there might be more release candidates.
Our release target for 1.1 final is Summer 2010.
But depending on the amount of help from the community, an earlier release might be possible as well.
The time after MediaPortal 1.1.0
More and more team members are allready shifting their attention towards MediaPortal 2. We will show you some of the recent progress in a separate news.
But this does not mean that MediaPortal 1 is completely dead.
There are plans to release at least one MediaPortal 1.x.x version. But this might just be a "feature release" without official support since the team will focus on MediaPortal 2.
Finally the installer
A short notice before installing: Please do not use this RC1 on a productive system. It is pretty stable but might still contain some glitches. ;)
:: Download MediaPortal 1.1 RC 1 ::
