MediaPortal

Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.

MediaPortal gives you the possibility to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more

You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/noppes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!

Note: MediaPortal now has an updated database version - SQLite v3. If you're migrating from version 0.1.2.0 then please follow these instructions...

There is a small converter to migrate your database. Follow these steps:

1) Install MP 0.1.3.0 (Do not start MP or Configuration.exe)
2) Enter the database directory
3) Make sure there are no *.db3 files there for the database files you wish to convert (database files where a *.db3 version exists will be skipped).
4) Enter the databaseconvert directory
5) Start the "convertv2v3.cmd" script, this will convert your existing database-files to a *.db3 version.

Start MediaPortal's 'Setup' as you'll need to add your TV cards again also.

Here are some key features of "MediaPortal":

Flexible XML based skinning engine - Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins !

Extendable via plugins. Media Portal can easily extended with extra plugins. Plugins can be overlay windows, modules, tag readers, players,...

Time, Date

Dynamic keymapping. You decide which keys you want to use for which actions

Remote Controller support (using an external program like girder)

Switch between graphics & LiveTV as background when browsing the menus

Internal support for several remotes (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc)

Support for multiple tuners

Timeshifting, Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV

Video Recording

Advanced TV Guide based on XMLTV

Scheduler to manage all your recording schedules

Recorded TV section: Manage all your recorded tv programs. See what has been recorded, delete programs, check which programs you already watched and off course select and play a recorded program

Full support of DVB-S cards (BDA driver based cards)

Full support of DVB-C cards (BDA driver based cards)

Full support of DVB-T cards (BDA driver based cards)

Full support of Skystar2 cards

Support for Teletext

TV Guide: EPG grabber for ss2 & DVB-S/t/c which grabs the TV Guide directly from the signal!

TV Guide search

TV Channel grouping

Supports over > 1000 channels

Mapping TV channels to specific cards

Auto channel tuning

Overlay & VMR9 Renderless playback

Several advanced zooming/AR modes

Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv)

Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV)

Listen to your favorite radio stations

Auto tuning

Supply nice logo's for each radio station

Supply a friendly name for each radio station

Internet radio stations

Local radio stations using the FM tuner of your capture card

Support for external radio tuner applications

Auto start listening to your selected radio station when MediaPortal starts

All music gets stored in Media Portals music database

View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs

Sort your music in many ways like tracks,genre,filesize,artists,album,...

Use visualisations from Windows MediaPlayer 9

Load, create & save playlists (.m3u, .pls, .b4u)

Automaticlly gets album art & info for all your albums

Automaticlly gets artist art & info for all your artists

View by list, icons, and big icons

shuffle,repeat, FF,RW,pause,...

Music overlay : will show what song is playing together with visualisation,albumart, artist,title,album etc on every module in Media Portal

Music ratings

Favorites

Party shuffle mode

Search music for specific songs

Display all your favorite songs in one screen

Watch your pictures/photos

Slideshow support with nice transitions

Zoom in/out, rotate pictures (rotation is remembered next time

pause,previous/next picture

delete picture

background music, either songs from my music, or radio from my radio

Auto thumbnail generation

Sort in Name, Date, Size

View in List, Icon or Big Icon display

Ken burns effect slideshow

Filmstrip view

Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)

All your movies will be stored in Media Portals video database

View your movies by actors, genres, year, title,

Sort your movies by actors, genres, year, rating

Automatically retrieves video art & info from www.imdb.com

Stacking/Unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files

Internal DVD Player with Menus!

External Player (Zoomplayer/MPlayer/etc) option

On Screen Display(OSD) for : Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages...

Internal DVD player with menu's ( you can also use an external DVD player )

Internal movie player you can also use an external media player )

Filmstrip view

Resume from playback

Screen Calibration

UI Calibration

My Music options

My Pictures options