MediaPortal is an advanced Media Center application that pretty much integrates all the tools you need in order to listen to your favorite music, watch online TV shows, play DVDs and many others. This program proves to be a great entertaining solution when it comes to pleasing your guests.
You will get to choose from two types of installation: the Advanced mode that allows you to install Client/Server setups, choose a destination folder for the application and configure settings, and the Once Click Installation which installs the application in a default location. It is important that you have an Internet connection for the installation process to run smoothly. Once you finish installing the program, you will be redirected to the homepage of the developer where you can learn how to setup and manage the program.
Before launching the program, it is recommended that you adjust the application's settings according to your needs by running the MediaPortal Configuration tool. You will be able to configure the startup and resume options (run in fullscreen, use screen selector, minimize to tray on startup, etc.), adjust the quality settings, choose the videos, pictures and music folders, select the proper remote control, manage plugins and many other.
Its interface is simple and intuitive, so any user will easily manage it. This program allows you to watch your favorite TV shows (configure TV-Server first), listen to playlists located on your PC or online radio, check your pictures, play your DVDs while getting the same sensation you get at the cinema, etc. This feature-rich application will help you entertain your guests by simply making a few clicks and deliver high-quality rendering.
The program supports a large number of remote controls that will help you easily manage the application; all you need to do is to configure the remote's settings and you can start enjoying your favorite multimedia files while sitting comfortably on your couch.
Therefore, it's worth trying MediaPortal, a handy Media Center program that gives you free access to a wide variety of entertaining tools.
v1.3 [Oct 25, 2012]
[Music] Add music is playing condition to remote mapping (jameson_uk) - resolved.
[Music] There is no way to sort by times played in music views (jameson_uk) - resolved.
[Blu-ray] Implement Blu-ray playback support (tourettes) - resolved.
[general] Include MediaPortal Audio Renderer (tourettes) - resolved.
[TV / Full Screen] Graphbuilding TV Side (Post Process Fix / Close Caption / adding correct filter in graph) (sebastiii) - closed.
[Movie Player] Fix/Add Codec VC-1 and VC-1i/Splitter choice and graphbuilding for now VIDEO Section. (sebastiii) - closed.
[Movie Player] Ability to Change Video Stream in MediaPortal (sebastiii) - closed.
[Plugins] Views button label mismatch with current view (deda) - closed.
[Music] View button always shows "shares" when music section is first opened (deda) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] SQLite Client can cause locked database on write (DieBagger) - closed.
[Skin Engine] themes must use 1.2.0.0 in references.xml for 1.3.0 Alpha (ajp8164) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Bump SkinVersion in CompatibilityManager for 1.3.0Alpha (arion_p) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] Images do not mount with daemon tools pro (riksmith) - closed.
[general] Bump subsystem versions of MP.DB.Videos and MP.Plugins.Videos (arion_p) - closed.
[Videos] My Videos 2nd big rework (deda) - closed.
[Videos] Skin property #hideinfo is not always updated (database index views) MP occasional crash on selected item (deda) - closed.
[Videos] Watched percentage in My Videos rework (deda) - closed.
[Blu-ray] BluRay support within My Videos - New feature (deda) - resolved.
[TV OSD] TV OSD didn't take FFDShow Post-Processing / AudioDelay (sebastiii) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] FlipX does not work (sebastiii) - closed.
[TV OSD] Zapping to a multi-digit channel only shows first digit on screen (sebastiii) - closed.
[TV / Teletext] Teletext: corrupt/encrypted/unsynched teletext packets from TsReader can trigger an MP crash (mm1352000) - closed.
[Configuration] MP configuration can crash on startup if codecs are not registered properly in the system registry. (mm1352000) - closed.
[Skin Engine] AutoPlacing of controls for Group/StackLayout takes wrong width/height (elliottmc) - closed.
[Configuration] Change description of PDVD Codec name from 10/11 to 10 (sebastiii) - closed.
[general] Create IDialogBox2 to avoid bumping version of MP.SkinEngine.Dialogs (arion_p) - closed.
[Plugins] New OnMessage method in WindowPluginBase with SelectCurrentItem() call can cause problems in internal plugins (deda) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Add spinCanFocus to filmstrip control (offbyone) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Fix scaling issues in GUITVProgressControl (offbyone) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Add thumbZoom and image-alignment to Filmstrip control (offbyone) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] GUIslidercontrol is not scaled to screen resolution (offbyone) - closed.
[MPEI] MPE Installer does not always respect "Force to uninstall on update" (offbyone) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] Update revision numbers for 1.3.0alpha (arion_p) - closed.
[Configuration] Configuration.exe reports compatible plugins as incompatible in logging (arion_p) - closed.
[Skin Engine] colordiffuse does not work on listcontrol (Migue) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] Skin engine enhancements (themes, tv guide colors, weather, more..) (ajp8164) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] Implement GUIMenuButtons in place of GUIButtonControl (ajp8164) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Enable camera positioning and implement on coverflow and group controls (ajp8164) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Implement new skin settings conditionals (ajp8164) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Add support for skin themes (ajp8164) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Add GUIMenuButton control (ajp8164) - closed.
[Default Skin] Update default skins to work with ajp8164_13 changes. (ajp8164) - closed.
[Skin Engine] Add support to position button text without label "margins" (ajp8164) - closed.
[MediaPortal 1] Update user-contributed strings for 1.3.0alpha (elliottmc) - closed.
[general] Bump subsystem versions of MP.SkinEngine and MP.SkinEngine.Dialogs (elliottmc) - closed.
[Configuration] Tweaks needed to configuration of coloured EPG (ajp8164) - closed.
[Configuration] Include LAV Filters. (offbyone) - closed.
[Default Skin] Rework of DefaultWide/4x3 skins (catavolt) - closed.
[Default Skin] background.png was removed from default skin (catavolt) - closed.
[general] Build Mediaportal with GIT fails with batch files script (arion_p) - closed.
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