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