If you have a particular need for a function and you cant find it, then have a look here: MEDIAPORTAL - Plugins or ask on the extremely active MP community forum: MediaPortal Forum.īefore installing MP it is worth knowing a little bit about the software, since this knowledge will help understand why the software is the way it is. Use of a remote control to interface with your HTPC.A skin-able Graphical User Interface (GUI) which will allow you to change the look and layout of your HTPC to suit your needs and personal taste: MEDIAPORTAL - MediaPortal Skins Gallery.BBC iPlayer and Youtube), control home automation, display media fan-art, control your system using an Android or Apple mobile phone, display weather and RSS feeds Run plugins that do a whole host of functions, such as (but in no way limited to) watch online videos (e.g.Play removable media (CDs, DVDs, Bluerays (Note: encrypted Blueray discs require an on-the-fly decoder to be installed to play)).Catalogue and display ALL your video media, music, videos and computer games pretty much whatever the format (including HD Audio formats such as DTS-HD).This means that in the UK, you only need to install a single DVB-T2 tuner in your HTPC to simultaneously record ALL the UK High Definition channels (you would need 4 DVB-T2 tuners for WMC to achieve the same) Maximize the use of TV tuner resource by being able to access the whole mux (frequency) and not just a single channel on a mux like Windows Media Center (WMC).Share TV tuner resource across a network and can function with a large number of TV tuners, limited only by the number of PCI, PCI-e and USB connections in your HTPC(Windows Media Center (WMC) is limited to 4 unless you purchase an additional piece of software).Watch/timeshift/record Live TV using BDA compatible TV tuners (DVB-S/S2 (satellite), DVB-T/T2 (terrestrial) and DVB-C (cable)), including working as a PVR and waking up from standby/hibernate to make a scheduled recording.

MP will run on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 and allows the user to do a whole host of things, but its main functions include: MediaPortal (MP) is a very powerful and configurable Home Theatre Personal Computer (HTPC) package which is free to download and Open Source architecture. Robbo100s MediaPortal 1.14.X Installation Guideįor Index of topics, please see post number 11.

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