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Source: Sourceforge.net
Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.
It allows you 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!
General
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)
My TV
Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
Get programme information while watching live TV
Advanced recording scheduler:
record Once
record now
Daily
Weekly
Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
Every time this program appears on this Tv channel
Every time this program appears on any TV Channel
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
The following TV cards are supported: (Other cards CAN work, but there is no garanty (yet) !!!):
ATI HDTV
AVerTV DVB-T 771
AverMedia 1500MCE
Conexant DVB-T
DNTV Live DVB-T
Dvico Fusion HDTV
Dvico Fusion HDTV WDM
Dvico Fusion HDTV Lite
Dvico Fusion HDTV USB2
FireDTV (BDA DVB-T)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-C)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-S)
FlyDVB-T DUO
FlyDVB-T DUO Analog
Hauppauge Nova-T
Hauppauge Nova-S
Hauppauge Nova-T 90002
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2
Kona One TV
Leadtek LR6650
LifeView DVB-T
Meedion SAA1734
NVTV Dual Tuner
Pinnacle Deluxe USB2
Pinnacle 300i DVBT
Pinnacle 300i Analog
Snazzi III USB2
Twinhan VisionDTV Ter
Twinhan VisionDTV Sat
Typhoon TV PVR (USB)
VA2000
VideoMate DVB-T 300
V-Stream Xpert DTV
Winfast PVR 2000
General s/w card
General MCE card
General MPEG2 cardHauppauge PVR 150
Hauppauge PVR 250
Hauppauge PVR 350
Hauppauge PVR 500
Hauppauge PVR USB2
ATI TV Wonder VE PCI
ATI TV Wonder NTSC PCI
ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
8606-40 MSI TV PCI
Terratec TerraTV+
Compro PVR(Gold and non-Gold)
Terratec Cinergy 600
and lots and lots more!
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)
My Radio
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
My Music
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
My Pictures
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
My Videos
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
VMR9 Renderless playback (both videos as DVD!)
My Weather
Show the latest weather information
Support for multiple cities
Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast
Temperature (in C/F)
UV Index, Humity (%), Wind (mph/kph), etc
Support for live images from internet, like:
Satellite images
Temperature images
UV Index images
Winds images
Humidity images
Precipitation images
Settings
Screen Calibration
UI Calibration
My Music options
My Pictures options
My Programs
Launching external programs like:
Games
Emulators
Email application
Internet Browser
IRC client
Basically you can launch any program you like including parameters
Burner Plugin
Let's you burn all sort's of files and folders directly to CD/DVD from within the MediaPortal interface
MSN Plugin
Chatting through the MSN network with al your MSN buddies (even during watching TV!)
My News
Adding RSS news feeds
Showing RSS news feeds
My Recipies
Download recipies from the internet (there is a standard databse/file format for recipies) and import them in MP
Browsing and showing of recipies
My Explorer
Deleting, copying, moving any file(s) and folder(s) you want
My Mail
Allows you to read and send mail (through POP3)
My Tetris
Well...it let's you play Tetris!
My Alarm
You can set alarm time(s)
You can set a sleeptime (which can shut down the PC if neede)
My Status
It allows you to monitor:
CPU temperature
Motherboard Temperature
Harddisk Temperature
Used Memory
Used Virtual Memory
etc.
You can even set alarm intervals when certain conditions are met
Powerscheduler
Let's the PC automatically go to standby/hibernation and wakes it when there is a scheduled recording! Just like a real VCR!
Requirements
The requirements for Media Portal are:
Hardware:
CPU: 1.4 GHz or higher
Memory: 256 MB or more
HDD: ~200 MB for Media Portal and ~12 GB for Hardware Encoding based TV cards for timeshifting
VGA: DX9 compatible videocard: Cards which work:
ATI Radeon series
NVIDIA GeForce, GeForce FX and NForce series
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated i865G)
Matrox Parhelia
SiS Xabre series
3dlabs Wildcat VP
Cards which aren't DX9 compatible but may work: (they can be slower or have other issues!)
ATI Rage 128, 128 Pro
Intel Extreme Graphics (integrated i845G)
Matrox G400, G450, G550
NVIDIA RIVA TNT, TNT2, TNT2 m64
PowerVR Kyro II
S3 Savage4, S3 ProSavage, Integrated solutions based on S3 cores
SiS 315 series
Cards that do not work
3dfx Voodoo, Voodoo2, Voodoo3, Voodoo Rush
3Dlabs Permedia, Permedia2
ATI RAGE II/II+/IIc, RAGE PRO, Rage Fury Maxx
Cirrus Logic Laguna3D (CL5465)
Intel i740, i810 integrated, i815 integrated
Matrox Millennium II, Mystique, G200
NVIDIA RIVA 128/128ZX
PowerVR Neon 250i
S3 Savage 2000, Savage3D, Trio64 3D, Virge/DX/GX/VX
Rendition Verite V1000/V2200
Some older integrated / laptop display adapters (Neomagic, Trident)
The following TV cards are supported: (Other cards CAN work, but there is no garanty (yet) !!!):
ATI HDTV
AverMedia 1500MCE
Conexant DVB-T
DNTV Live DVB-T
Dvico Fusion HDTV
Dvico Fusion HDTV WDM
Dvico Fusion HDTV Lite
Dvico Fusion HDTV USB2
FireDTV (BDA DVB-T)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-C)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-S)
FlyDVB-T DUO
FlyDVB-T DUO Analog
Hauppauge Nova-T
Hauppauge Nova-S
Hauppauge Nova-T 90002
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2
Kona One TV
Leadtek LR6650
LifeView DVB-T
Medion SAA1734
NVTV Dual Tuner
Pinnacle Deluxe USB2
Pinnacle 300i DVBT
Pinnacle 300i Analog
Snazzi III USB2
Twinhan VisionDTV Ter
Twinhan VisionDTV Sat
Typhoon TV PVR (USB)
VA2000
VideoMate DVB-T 300
V-Stream Xpert DTV
Winfast PVR 2000
General s/w card
General MCE card
General MPEG2 cardHauppauge PVR 150
Hauppauge PVR 250
Hauppauge PVR 350
Hauppauge PVR 500
Hauppauge PVR USB2
ATI TV Wonder VE PCI
ATI TV Wonder NTSC PCI
ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
8606-40 MSI TV PCI
Terratec TerraTV+
Compro PVR(Gold and non-Gold)
Terratec Cinergy 600
and lots and lots more!
Software:
Windows XP with SP1 or SP2
Microsoft .NET Framework with or without SP1
DirectX 9.0c
Windows Media Player 9 or 10
PowerDVD 6 or WinDVD 6 for playing DVD (recommended)
ffdshow (recommended because of the very good codec's it can support)
Latest drivers for your video and audio card (recommended)
More Info HERE
Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.
It allows you 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!
General
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)
My TV
Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
Get programme information while watching live TV
Advanced recording scheduler:
record Once
record now
Daily
Weekly
Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
Every time this program appears on this Tv channel
Every time this program appears on any TV Channel
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
The following TV cards are supported: (Other cards CAN work, but there is no garanty (yet) !!!):
ATI HDTV
AVerTV DVB-T 771
AverMedia 1500MCE
Conexant DVB-T
DNTV Live DVB-T
Dvico Fusion HDTV
Dvico Fusion HDTV WDM
Dvico Fusion HDTV Lite
Dvico Fusion HDTV USB2
FireDTV (BDA DVB-T)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-C)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-S)
FlyDVB-T DUO
FlyDVB-T DUO Analog
Hauppauge Nova-T
Hauppauge Nova-S
Hauppauge Nova-T 90002
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2
Kona One TV
Leadtek LR6650
LifeView DVB-T
Meedion SAA1734
NVTV Dual Tuner
Pinnacle Deluxe USB2
Pinnacle 300i DVBT
Pinnacle 300i Analog
Snazzi III USB2
Twinhan VisionDTV Ter
Twinhan VisionDTV Sat
Typhoon TV PVR (USB)
VA2000
VideoMate DVB-T 300
V-Stream Xpert DTV
Winfast PVR 2000
General s/w card
General MCE card
General MPEG2 cardHauppauge PVR 150
Hauppauge PVR 250
Hauppauge PVR 350
Hauppauge PVR 500
Hauppauge PVR USB2
ATI TV Wonder VE PCI
ATI TV Wonder NTSC PCI
ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
8606-40 MSI TV PCI
Terratec TerraTV+
Compro PVR(Gold and non-Gold)
Terratec Cinergy 600
and lots and lots more!
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)
My Radio
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
My Music
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
My Pictures
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
My Videos
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
VMR9 Renderless playback (both videos as DVD!)
My Weather
Show the latest weather information
Support for multiple cities
Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast
Temperature (in C/F)
UV Index, Humity (%), Wind (mph/kph), etc
Support for live images from internet, like:
Satellite images
Temperature images
UV Index images
Winds images
Humidity images
Precipitation images
Settings
Screen Calibration
UI Calibration
My Music options
My Pictures options
My Programs
Launching external programs like:
Games
Emulators
Email application
Internet Browser
IRC client
Basically you can launch any program you like including parameters
Burner Plugin
Let's you burn all sort's of files and folders directly to CD/DVD from within the MediaPortal interface
MSN Plugin
Chatting through the MSN network with al your MSN buddies (even during watching TV!)
My News
Adding RSS news feeds
Showing RSS news feeds
My Recipies
Download recipies from the internet (there is a standard databse/file format for recipies) and import them in MP
Browsing and showing of recipies
My Explorer
Deleting, copying, moving any file(s) and folder(s) you want
My Mail
Allows you to read and send mail (through POP3)
My Tetris
Well...it let's you play Tetris!
My Alarm
You can set alarm time(s)
You can set a sleeptime (which can shut down the PC if neede)
My Status
It allows you to monitor:
CPU temperature
Motherboard Temperature
Harddisk Temperature
Used Memory
Used Virtual Memory
etc.
You can even set alarm intervals when certain conditions are met
Powerscheduler
Let's the PC automatically go to standby/hibernation and wakes it when there is a scheduled recording! Just like a real VCR!
Requirements
The requirements for Media Portal are:
Hardware:
CPU: 1.4 GHz or higher
Memory: 256 MB or more
HDD: ~200 MB for Media Portal and ~12 GB for Hardware Encoding based TV cards for timeshifting
VGA: DX9 compatible videocard: Cards which work:
ATI Radeon series
NVIDIA GeForce, GeForce FX and NForce series
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated i865G)
Matrox Parhelia
SiS Xabre series
3dlabs Wildcat VP
Cards which aren't DX9 compatible but may work: (they can be slower or have other issues!)
ATI Rage 128, 128 Pro
Intel Extreme Graphics (integrated i845G)
Matrox G400, G450, G550
NVIDIA RIVA TNT, TNT2, TNT2 m64
PowerVR Kyro II
S3 Savage4, S3 ProSavage, Integrated solutions based on S3 cores
SiS 315 series
Cards that do not work
3dfx Voodoo, Voodoo2, Voodoo3, Voodoo Rush
3Dlabs Permedia, Permedia2
ATI RAGE II/II+/IIc, RAGE PRO, Rage Fury Maxx
Cirrus Logic Laguna3D (CL5465)
Intel i740, i810 integrated, i815 integrated
Matrox Millennium II, Mystique, G200
NVIDIA RIVA 128/128ZX
PowerVR Neon 250i
S3 Savage 2000, Savage3D, Trio64 3D, Virge/DX/GX/VX
Rendition Verite V1000/V2200
Some older integrated / laptop display adapters (Neomagic, Trident)
The following TV cards are supported: (Other cards CAN work, but there is no garanty (yet) !!!):
ATI HDTV
AverMedia 1500MCE
Conexant DVB-T
DNTV Live DVB-T
Dvico Fusion HDTV
Dvico Fusion HDTV WDM
Dvico Fusion HDTV Lite
Dvico Fusion HDTV USB2
FireDTV (BDA DVB-T)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-C)
FireDTV (BDA DVB-S)
FlyDVB-T DUO
FlyDVB-T DUO Analog
Hauppauge Nova-T
Hauppauge Nova-S
Hauppauge Nova-T 90002
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500MCE
Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2
Kona One TV
Leadtek LR6650
LifeView DVB-T
Medion SAA1734
NVTV Dual Tuner
Pinnacle Deluxe USB2
Pinnacle 300i DVBT
Pinnacle 300i Analog
Snazzi III USB2
Twinhan VisionDTV Ter
Twinhan VisionDTV Sat
Typhoon TV PVR (USB)
VA2000
VideoMate DVB-T 300
V-Stream Xpert DTV
Winfast PVR 2000
General s/w card
General MCE card
General MPEG2 cardHauppauge PVR 150
Hauppauge PVR 250
Hauppauge PVR 350
Hauppauge PVR 500
Hauppauge PVR USB2
ATI TV Wonder VE PCI
ATI TV Wonder NTSC PCI
ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
8606-40 MSI TV PCI
Terratec TerraTV+
Compro PVR(Gold and non-Gold)
Terratec Cinergy 600
and lots and lots more!
Software:
Windows XP with SP1 or SP2
Microsoft .NET Framework with or without SP1
DirectX 9.0c
Windows Media Player 9 or 10
PowerDVD 6 or WinDVD 6 for playing DVD (recommended)
ffdshow (recommended because of the very good codec's it can support)
Latest drivers for your video and audio card (recommended)
More Info HERE
