mediaportal

• Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins!
• MediaPortal can easily be extended with extra plugins
  
• You decide which keys you want to use for which actions
  
• Internal support for several remote control (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc, hauppauge, FireDTV)
  
• Windowed and fullscreen support
  
  

• Supports analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC
• HDTV and AC3 support
• Support for multiple tuners
• Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
• Advanced recording scheduler:
  - Record once
  - Record now
  - Daily o Weekly
  - Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
  - Every time a program appears on this TV channel
  
• Timeshifting,Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV
• Advanced recording management:
  - Handle conflicts
  - Set recording priorities
  - Quality settings / recording
  - Transcode to WMD, XVID or MPG
  - Diskmanagement auto deletes old and/or watched recordings
• TVGuide:
  - Grab DVB-EPG & MHW-EPG directly for DVB
  - Supports XMLTV
  - Colors for genres
• TV Guide search
• TV Channel grouping
• Supports over > 10000 channels
• Auto channel tuning
• Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv)
• Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV)
• Support for Teletext
• Standby control to put your HTPC sleeping. It will awake when there a recording needs to start
  
  

• Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)
• All your movies will be stored in MediaPortal's video database
  
• View your movies by actors, genres, year, title
  
• Sort your movies by actors, genres, year, rating
• Automatically retrieves video art & info from IMDB
  
• Stacking/unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files
  
• Internal DVD player with menu's (you can also use an external DVD player)
• On Screen Display (OSD) for: Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages...
  
• Resume from playback on next play
  
  

• 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(s)
  
• 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
  
  

• 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 ?Media Player 10
• 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 ratings
  
• Favorites
  
• Party shuffle mode
  
• Search music for specific songs
  
• Display all your favorite songs in one screen
  
• Utilize Winamp, Foobar or iTunes plugins for music playback
  
  

• Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, DVB or internet stream)
  
• Auto tuning (FM)
  
• Logo's for each radio station (manual process)
  
• Supply a friendly name for each radio station
  
• Internet radio station streaming (ASX or Shoutcast)
  
• Support for external radio tuner applications
• Auto start listening to your selected radio station when MediaPortal starts
  

• Show the latest weather information
  
• Support for multiple cities
  
• Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast
  
• Temperature (in degrees 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
  
  

• Launching external programs like:
  - Games
  - Emulators
  - Email application
  - Internet Browser
  - IRC client
• Burner let's you burn all type of files and folders directly to CD/DVD from within the MediaPortal interface
• Showing RSS news feeds
• Read and send mail within MediaPortal
  
• Monitor computer hardware:
  - CPU temperature
  - Motherboard Temperature
  - Hard disk Temperature
  - Used Memory
  - Used Virtual Memory
  - etc
  
• Allow the PC automatically go to standby/hibernation and wakes it when there is a scheduled recording! Just like a real VCR!
  
• Has different alarm features
  
• You can even play included games like Tetris or Sudoku!