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!
Features:
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:
o record Once
o record now
o Daily
o Weekly
o Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
o Every time this program appears on this Tv channel
o 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) !!!):
o ATI HDTV
o AVerTV DVB-T 771
o AverMedia 1500MCE
o Conexant DVB-T
o DNTV Live DVB-T
o Dvico Fusion HDTV
o Dvico Fusion HDTV WDM
o Dvico Fusion HDTV Lite
o Dvico Fusion HDTV USB2
o FireDTV (BDA DVB-T)
o FireDTV (BDA DVB-C)
o FireDTV (BDA DVB-S)
o FlyDVB-T DUO
o FlyDVB-T DUO Analog
o Hauppauge Nova-T
o Hauppauge Nova-S
o Hauppauge Nova-T 90002
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150MCE
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250MCE
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500MCE
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2
o Kona One TV
o Leadtek LR6650
o LifeView DVB-T
o Meedion SAA1734
o NVTV Dual Tuner
o Pinnacle Deluxe USB2
o Pinnacle 300i DVBT
o Pinnacle 300i Analog
o Snazzi III USB2
o Twinhan VisionDTV Ter
o Twinhan VisionDTV Sat
o Typhoon TV PVR (USB)
o VA2000
o VideoMate DVB-T 300
o V-Stream Xpert DTV
o Winfast PVR 2000
o General s/w card
o General MCE card
o General MPEG2 cardHauppauge PVR 150
o Hauppauge PVR 250
o Hauppauge PVR 350
o Hauppauge PVR 500
o Hauppauge PVR USB2
o ATI TV Wonder VE PCI
o ATI TV Wonder NTSC PCI
o ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
o 8606-40 MSI TV PCI
o Terratec TerraTV+
o Compro PVR(Gold and non-Gold)
o Terratec Cinergy 600
o 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:
o Satellite images
o Temperature images
o UV Index images
o Winds images
o Humidity images
o Precipitation images
Settings:
* Screen Calibration
* UI Calibration
* My Music options
* My Pictures options
My Programs:
* Launching external programs like:
o Games
o Emulators
o Email application
o Internet Browser
o 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:
o CPU temperature
o Motherboard Temperature
o Harddisk Temperature
o Used Memory
o Used Virtual Memory
o 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!
and more...
Latest Release: 0.1.1.1 - [RANK="mediaportal.sourceforge.net/changelog.html"]What's New?[/RANK]
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