Category: Audio Players
Producer: _Frodo_
Size: 22.02 MB
OS: Windows
License:
Freeware
Description:
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
