Overview

This page described the user interface of TV in MediPortal 2. The initial TV-setup is discribed in setup guides. Settings are described in TV settings.

User Interface

Home Content

In home screen hown information when TV tile is focused.

Quick access buttons:

Content:

• Latest Played: Latest played channels
• Favorites: Most played channels
• Current Programs: Currently running programs for most played channels. Bar shows the progress until program end.
• Current Schedules: Schedules with near reacording times

Electronic Program Guides (EPG)

MediaPortal2 contains several EPG views for different needs and puposes. In the following the different EPG's are presented with more details.

Be aware, that you need to receive EPG data from other sources as from TV-Provider via TV-signal or xml files. → TV Guide Setup - EPG

MultiChannel-EPG

Vertically are following elements (from top to bottom)

• List of channels within a channel group
• Description details for focused program

Horizontally are following elements (from left to right)

• Channel group: If selected, the channel group can be changed
• Channel infos: Can be configured in TV-settings: Name, Number, Logo
• Programs on time-line: Select to start playback (is running) to schedule recording (future program). The visible time duration can be configured in TV settings.

It is reachable with the "EPG" button on your remote or the "TV-Guide" button in Home Screen.

SingleChannel-EPG

Vertically are following elements (from top to bottom)

• Selected Channel
• Description details for focused program

Horizontally are following elements (from left to right)

• Channel group: If selected, the channel group can be changed
• Channel infos: Can be configured in TV-settings: Name, Number, Logo
• Programs
  
• Start time of program

It is reachable by selecting a Channel in MultiChannel-EPG

Main-EPG

Vertically are following elements (from top to bottom)

• List of channels within a channel group
• Description details for focused program

Horizontally are following elements (from left to right)

• Channel group: If selected, the channel group can be changed
• Channel infos: Can be configured in TV-settings: Name, Number, Logo
• Program infos for current and next program

It is reachable by selecting Live-TV in Home Screen

Remark: Has button to toggle PiP functionality (Watch 2 TV channels at once). The button is only visible, if Live-TV is playing.

Mini-EPG

Configuration as Main-EPG, but smaller and as overlay on top of Live-TV

It is reachable with "OK"/"Enter" in Live-TV screen

Remark: Has button to toggle PiP functionality (Watch 2 TV channels at once). The button is only visible, if Live-TV is playing.

PiP functionality

PiP (Picture in Picture) works with basically all media types. This means, that you can watch / listen to two media sources (audio, video, TV) at once, while one is shown in full screen (primary player) and the other is shown in a small PiP window (secondary player). In case of TV this means, that you can watch 2 channels at once (e.g. so as not to miss when a program restarts after advertisement).

When does PiP for TV work?

• PiP mode needs to be activated with the small PiP button first, otherwise starting a second channel will stop playing the current channel
• The PiP mode button is only existing in some EPG's (see previous chapter) and is only visible, if one TV channel is already playing
• PiP for TV only works, if you have multiple tuners, IPTV sources etc. Generally 1 tuner can play only 1 channel at once!

PiP Button (off / on)

TV PiP examples with controls

You can switch between the players by selecting the focusable PiP window (remote/mouse/keyboard) or just the the "Red" button (or the button mapped to it) on your remote. To watch the primary player, while listening to the audio of the secondary player, enable (unmute) audio with the mute button on the secondry, audio from the primary player will be automatically muted.

Live-TV

View when playing Live-TV.

The OSD in the bottom of the screen slides in/out when pressing

• Keyboard: Menu
• Mouse: Right click
• Remote: Info

The OSD shows the information of the current TV program known from EPG. Addtionally it offers player controls:

• Player buttons as play, pause, stop, forward ...
• Progress bar with start/end time and current time
• EPG button & navigation button for program up/down
• Menu button
• Audio button to select track & volume up/down buttons
• Navigate to previous page
• Close MediaPortal 2

Schedules

Here you can see the existing schedules created from EPG and create new manual schedules.

Single Schedules

Shows a view with all schedules

• Single schedules
• Schedules as element of a series schedule

Series Schedules

View with series schedules (contain several single schedules):

New Manual Schedule

Create a new manual schedule.

Recordings

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