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MEDIA CENTER PC NEWSNovember 26th 2004 Media Portal Reaches Its First 0.* Release
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 and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs! It's still a very unstable release and not something to be installed unless you really know what you are doing. Even here at MediaCenterPCWorld we gave up eventually - but comments on the forums suggest that if you have the knowledge, perservering is worth it. Current features listed: 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 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 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 offcourse select and play a recorded program * Support confirmed so far: Hauppage PVR 250, PVR 350, 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. More to come hopefully ! Let us know if your card works...post here on the forums ! 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 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 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 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 ) 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 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 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 Check out http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net for more information / downloads. |
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