Overview

The purpose of this section is to make information available for developers of the MediaPortal project and MediaPortal plugins. If you want to contribute code, see this page: Submit Patches

Development

The following resources will assist you in learning about developing for MediaPortal.

Coding Guides

• Coding Standards - Guidelines on the development process, and code layout.
• Avoiding Statics
• Patch Policy - How patches should look and be submitted.

Roadmaps and Development Progress

• MediaPortal 1
• TV-Server
• DeployTool and NSIS

GitHub (Git)

MediaPortal 1 source code is located at GitHub (https://github.com/).

• How to get the MediaPortal 1 source code from GitHub - Cloning GIT repository
• Follow commits from GitHub - Commit history in GitHub
• Fork MediaPortal 1 repository and participate in the development -

MediaPortal

If you would like to learn more about how MediaPortal  works, see the following:

Architecture

• Skin Architecture

Compiling and Debugging

• Compiling MediaPortal - Instructions on how to compile the MediaPortal source code.
• Debugging MediaPortal - Instructions on how to run a debug build of MediaPortal.

Plugin Developer and Skin Designer Guides (How To)

Please ensure you fully understand the above mentioned topics before developing your own Plugin/Skin. Following the above Standards will make it easier for others to understand what you are trying to do within your code if support is required.

• Plugin Developers Guide
• Skin Designer Guide

TV-Server

Documentation

1. TV Card Algorithm
2. Sources
3. Remote control documentation
4. Tv Library documentation
5. Writing TV-Server plugins
6. Using TV-Server events in your plugin

Examples

1. Example 1: Connect to the tv server and list the status of all cards
2. Example 2: Timeshifting

Debugging

1. Creating Dumps of RAW Transport Stream
2. Memory Dumps

3rd Party Plugins Compatibility

Changes between MediaPortal releases which require update of all plugins

• MP Development
  • Avoiding Statics
  • Building MediaPortal from source
  • Class Library
  • Coding Standards
  • Debugging
  • DeployTool and NSIS
  • Documentation Standards
  • Mantis Bug Tracker
  • Patch Policy
  • Road Maps
  • Subversion (SVN)
  • TV-Server Development

DeployTool and NSIS

TV-Server

• TV-Server installation system (NSIS)