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MediaPortal 1.33 Release

We have just released MediaPortal 1.33 - Springtime / 20th Anniversary

Thanks to the great work of our new developer Pablik we are now able to present you a x64 version of MediaPortal (starting with MP Pre Release 1.32) and x64 version of TV Server (starting with MP Pre Release 1.33)! Pablik has done a really great and succesfull work to port all the necessary libraries of MP to work as x64 installation. Besides of that he also ported some plugins to be compatible with x64 - especially a new version of WorldWeather. Inspired from his work other plugin designers also ported their plugins to x64, so now we can offer a x64 version of MP with the most important plugins working flawlessly with this x64 version. In general it can be said that MP runs faster and smoother as never before under x64! So our great Thanks goes to Pablik and all contributors of the x64 version of MP Pre Release 1.33!

BTW: The thread from Pablik and other contributors including ZIPs and MPEIs for the reworked plugins can be found here

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5178] - MP Audioswitcher connection & switching issues
[MP1-5182] - Update DirectX checking in MP and Config
[MP1-5185] - MP/MPE Installation fixes/rework/enhancement
[MP1-5186] - Fix possible crash in selection of TV-Server in MediaPortal Configuration
[MP1-5188] - Fix AdaptRefreshRate for interlaced videos
[MP1-5191] - MPEMaker fails to save plugindependencies
[MP1-5192] - Skip error logging of bass_wadsp.dll in 64bit version
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5185] - MP/MPE Installation fixes/rework/enhancement
[MP1-5188] - Fix AdaptRefreshRate for interlaced videos
[MP1-5197] - Load screen calibration prior loading window plugins upon startup
[MP1-5198] - MP Audiorender: switch to default correction mode if bias is too high
[MP1-5199] - Fix volume OSD presentation on the screen
New:

[MP1-5183] - TVE x64 version
[MP1-5184] - Add x64 support to SoundGraph iMON display driver 8.01.0419
[MP1-5189] - Add MediaInfo caching system
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5183] - TVE x64 version
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5179] - MP AudioRenderer TimeStretching enhancement
[MP1-5180] - Add HEVC support for BDReader directshow filter
[MP1-5181] - Add platform compatibility information to MPE Installer/Maker
[MP1-5187] - Bump NSIS 3.08 to 3.09
[MP1-5190] - TVE: Add SymbolRate multiplier for DVB-C cards (Hauppauge WinTV)
[MP1-5193] - Add exclude list of non x64 compatible LCDHypeWrapper drivers in Minidisplay library
[MP1-5194] - Get video FPS from video decoder if MediaInfo is not available
[MP1-5195] - Set higher TLS security for .NET Framework 4
[MP1-5196] - Fix/Enhance UNC Root resolving (UNCTools)
Deploy tools - Fixed SQL database download filename (32/64bit base on OS)
Deploy tools - Remove MS SQL from Download only section
Deploy tools - French language update
French language update
DefaultWideHD, Titan skins update
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5196] - Fix/Enhance UNC Root resolving (UNCTools)
DefaultWideHD skin update
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.33 Pre-Release
https://mediaportal.atlassian.net/projects/MP1/versions/10052/tab/release-report-all-issues
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.33 Release
https://mediaportal.atlassian.net/projects/MP1/versions/10159/tab/release-report-all-issues


MediaPortal 2.5 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.5
MediaPortal 2.5 is a full-blown media center software that addresses most common user requirements out of the box. Aside from its support for live TV and radio, it offers a complete media server for music, movies, and series. Info is automatically downloaded from various sources to provide posters, fanart, album art, and various additional metadata, such as cast, staff, and more. MediaPortal 2.5 also provides access to online video sources. Integrated news, weather information, and management for your digital images complete this software package. User management for your family let you configure users (e.g. kids) and restrict age dependend content and settings.

Installer
MediaPortal 2.5 comes with a brand-new installer, which is offering a smooth and comfortable installation process and also brings a cool design making the installer look fresh and modern.
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New Features
In the installer you can choose between 3 TV engines (or non if TV functionality is not needed):
TVE3 (only in NET4.8 version of MediaPortal 2)
TVE3.5
TVMosaic
You have a clear view of which packages are already installed, which will be updated, will which be added or removed. The installer takes care that all needed packages (e.g. NET) are installed in the background.

Please check also the wiki for more details.

System
Many changes have happened in the backend of MediaPortal. The code was ported from NET4.8 to NET6, which provides a performance increase on most systems. However some features are not (yet) compatible with NET6 such as OnlineVideos and TVE3. Accordingly we decided to publish two installer and you need to decide which one covers your needs better.
NET6 installer (OV and TVE3 not included)
NET4.8 installer
Due to heavy development of MediaPortal 2, many new text strings have been added, but have been not localized yet. Everybody can support translating strings in our translation platform transifex. Every help to bring MediaPortal 2 forward is highly appreciated by our small development team.

Other Changes
Potential deadlock when disposing GENA event subscription
Separate Fullscreen/Windowed toggle from "Always On Top" behavior
Update Nuget.config to use https myget source
Update build process to use Transifex CLI instead of the now obsolete Transifex client
Workflow navigation to child screens does not respect some parent screen properties
Centralized MediaLogo and Certification images to Default skin to avoid redundant storage in multiple skins
Fix shortcut items not displayed on Weather and News home content
Fix Potential Infinite Loop In VirtualizingPanels
Extended age certification logos for Australia, Canada, Finland, Italy and Japan
Add MediaPortal 2 version infos to settings
Play/Pause OSD button restarts playback from beginning if pressed whilst seeking
Nfo SeriesFanArtHandler can throw a null reference exception if actors list is null
Opening the Diagnostics config page breaks server communication and other weird issues
Wrong exception is logged/displayed if there is an issue during startup
FanArtService can throw a NullReferenceException on shutdown
Update transifex build scripts to support VS 2022
TV
Dedicated Radio Tile
radio 6c2c5 So far radio was part of TV. In MediaPortal 2.5 we have added a dedicated radio tile.
In the main menu you have a radio tile with its own home content
Radio has its own EPG screens
Recordings and schedules are still shared between TV and Radio, but can be distingished by media type
TVMosaic
tvmosaic 192 dbabcThe current TV engine (TVE3) for Media Portal 1 and 2 was developed a long time ago, and is not state of the art any more.
Accordingly we decided to develop the TVMosaic plugin as an alternative TV provider. The TVMosaic Community Edition is freeware and can be configured by web browser. Because it is not bonded to windows it may run on many platforms. The client plugin can be selected in the installer now. Further improvements and bug fixes such as improved EPG loading time and inproper channel indexes were integrated since the previous version.

Check the wiki for further information.
TVE3.5
tve35 a9f16The current TV engine (TVE3) for Media Portal 1 and 2 was developed a long time ago and is not state of the art any more.
The TVE3.5 is a further development of the TVE3, with mainly better support for SAT>IP
The development was unfortunately stopped, so this plugin is just the latest, but stable state of unfinished work


Check the wiki for further information.
Other Changes
All EPG screens have clear focus texts explaining the function or behavior
Downloading of TV and Radio logos is improved
SlimTv ChannelContext is not thread safe
Remove hardcoded limit of 4 digits when channel zapping

Nereus Skin
Dialogs
A scale and fade animation was added when dialogs appear and disappear. The dialog appearance was significantly improved with a skin setting to configure glow effect, edge radius, and transparency
Fix the problem of the dialog closing if non-clickable element within dialog is clicked
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Dialog preview 4df7d
Configuration of Home Screen Header
The home screen header can be configured to show one or more of date, time, current weather condition and current temperature.
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Main Menu Tile Style
New option to switch main menu tile styles – square (default) or circle.
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Other Changes
FanArt visibility settings have a live preview now
Settings for scroll speed, scroll delay and loop scrolling were merged into one dialog
Better gradients and background images in settings
Better list index presentation for shares and input devices
New button style with rounded edges
Better textbox styles with icon
Improved message with icon in case no share is added with option to add a share directly
Added image for “local media” tile
Input Device Manager
InputDevices 418bdThe Input Device Manager was completely revised by our developer Brownard! Now it supports not only HID devices, but finally also allows mapping of all non-HID devices or devices that send simple key presses to an application.

Please check also the wiki for further details.
Plugins
This refers to all optional plugins, meaning they are not part of the installer, but need to be installed manually. You can find them in the download section.

Cinema
cinema 7b62eThe Cinema plugin was dead for longer time, because the used service google showtimes was abadoned. Our developer BigGranu completely rewrote the plugin using alternative services. There is a NET4.8 and NET6 version.
Features:
Add multiple cinemas e.g. close to your location by entering your country and postral code
See the play schedules for the movies in the selected cinema
Watch the trailers (in this new version also HD trailer playback is supported)
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Webradio
webradio 22031 The Webradio plugin is using NET6 besides NET4.8 now and several improvements have been integrated.
Updated streaming list
Updated player OSD (dome infos removed, some newly added)
New context menu entry to add/remove favorites
Filter dialog reworked
Emulators
Emulators a37f5The emulators plugin is using NET6 besides NET4.8 now and serveral improvements have been integrated.
Updates to support new HID input plugin
Several skin improvements
Full List of Changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at the change log: MediaPortal 2.5.
https://mediaportal.atlassian.net/projects/MP2/versions/10001/tab/release-report-all-issues


MediaPortal 1.32 Release
We have just released MediaPortal 1.32 Halloween

Thanks to the great work of our new developer Pablik we are now able to present you a x64 version of MediaPortal (starting with MP 1.32 Pre-Release)! Pablik has done a really great and succesfull work to port all the necessary libraries of MP to work as x64 installation. Besides of that he also ported some plugins to be compatible with x64 - especially a new version of WorldWeather. Inspired from his work other plugin designers also ported their plugins to x64, so now we can offer a x64 version of MP with the most important plugins working flawlessly with this x64 version. In general it can be said that MP runs faster and smoother as never before under x64! So our great Thanks goes to Pablik and all contributors of the x64 version of MP 1.32 Release and Pre-Release!

BTW: The thread from Pablik and other contributors including ZIPs and MPEIs for the reworked plugins can be found here

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5064] - Obsolete text in SetupTV.exe /configure-db dialog
[MP1-5130] - Stretched playback for videos with 1080x1920 resolution
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5170] - Fix VCRedist 2008 detection in DeployTools
[MP1-5172] - BASS: deadlock when accesing GetChannelData
[MP1-5173] - GUIMusic: wrong start of music item if gui list includes playlist item file
[MP1-5177] - MP Audiorenderer: video/audio sync issuse while seek/resume
New:

[MP1-5154] - Mediaportal switch to SharpDX and Make x64 version
[MP1-5167] - Add GUIFacadeControl to Home plugin
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5163] - Update Titan skin
[MP1-5164] - Update Gentle .Net in TV Server
[MP1-5168] - Add Host Detect Method settings
Update Default Wide HD skin
Swedish language file update
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5171] - Update to MPC-HC subtitle engine 2.0.0
[MP1-5174] - Add Windows 11, 2019, 2022 support to TV Server
[MP1-5175] - Rework swedish webepg grabbers
[MP1-5176] - TvSpielfilm broken
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13900


MediaPortal 1.32 Pre-Release

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Thanks to the great work of our new developer Pablik we are now able to present you a x64 version of MediaPortal (starting with this MP Pre Release 1.32)! Pablik has done a really great and succesfull work to port all the necessary libraries of MP to work as x64 installation. Besides of that he also ported some plugins to be compatible with x64 - especially a new version of WorldWeather. Inspired from his work other plugin designers also ported their plugins to x64, so now we can offer a x64 version of MP with the most important plugins working flawlessly with this x64 version. In general it can be said that MP runs faster and smoother as never before under x64! So our great Thanks goes to Pablik and all contributors of the x64 version of MP Pre Release 1.32!

BTW: The thread from Pablik and other contributors including ZIPs and MPEIs for the reworked plugins can be found here

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5064] - Obsolete text in SetupTV.exe /configure-db dialog
[MP1-5130] - Stretched playback for videos with 1080x1920 resolution
New:

[MP1-5154] - Mediaportal switch to SharpDX and Make x64 version
[MP1-5167] - Add GUIFacadeControl to Home plugin
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5163] - Update Titan skin
[MP1-5164] - Update Gentle .Net in TV Server
[MP1-5168] - Add Host Detect Method settings
Update Default Wide HD skin
Swedish language file update
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13801


MediaPortal 1.31

We have just released MediaPortal 1.31 Phoenix

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5115] - Fix for TMDB / TI_MDB grabbers
[MP1-5126] - Fix Volume setting for disable custom value when select Win10 method
[MP1-5127] - tvspeilfilm broken
[MP1-5128] - Playback randomly stops
[MP1-5130] - Stretched playback for videos with 1080x1920 resolution
[MP1-5139] - tvgids grabber stopped working
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5155] - Fix common vulnerability and coding errors
[MP1-5156] - Fix Internal and Video grabbers
[MP1-5157] - Fix IMDB support in Video.Database
New:

Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5112] - Cleanup NL and DE WebEPG grabbers
[MP1-5113] - Fix error in UK.Heathfield Tuningdetail
[MP1-5114] - Add Text2 Alignment to GUIListControl
[MP1-5119] - XMLTV - Uncheck tvguide.lst option out of box
[MP1-5140] - Remove unneeded delay at playback
[MP1-5141] - Tune InternalActorMoviesGrabber.csscript
[MP1-5147] - Update MediaInfo.Wrapper to 21.9.3
[MP1-5148] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.7.2
[MP1-5149] - Update SQLite to 3.41.2
[MP1-5150] - Update NFO for support new Kodi format
[MP1-5151] - Update IMDB ID detect regex
[MP1-5152] - Update Newtonsoft.Json.dll to 13.0.3, Nuget package
[MP1-5153] - Comskip Recording End settings by default
DVBS: 28.2°E Astra 2E,2F,2G Update
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5140] - Remove unneeded delay at playback
[MP1-5147] - Update MediaInfo.Wrapper to 21.9.3
[MP1-5151] - Update IMDB ID detect regex
[MP1-5158] - Bump NSIS 3.06.1 to 3.08
[MP1-5160] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.8.0
[MP1-5161] - Update HtmlAgilityPack to 1.11.46
[MP1-5162] - Update SharpLibHid to 1.5.1
German translation update
Titan Basic Home update
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
BREAKING CHANGES:

Ares skin: The skin is transferred to the MPE extension, if you use this skin, select it when installing, or install it manually from the download section. You can make a backup of the skin before installing Mediaportal.

Titan skin: If you're using the Titan skin without themes, you'll need to configure Basic Home after installation. Run the TitanEditor and select the necessary plug-ins to be displayed on Titan Basic Home.

Titan Extended: If you are using Titan Extended extension, we recommend that you make a full backup of the Titan skin before installing this version of Mediaportal, uninstall Titan Extended extension, and restore the Titan skin from the backup. This version of Mediaportal includes the updated Titan Extended extension which you can choose to install.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13802
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13800


MediaPortal 1.31 Pre-Release

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5115] - Fix for TMDB / TI_MDB grabbers
[MP1-5126] - Fix Volume setting for disable custom value when select Win10 method
[MP1-5127] - tvspeilfilm broken
[MP1-5128] - Playback randomly stops
[MP1-5130] - Stretched playback for videos with 1080x1920 resolution
[MP1-5139] - tvgids grabber stopped working
New:

Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5112] - Cleanup NL and DE WebEPG grabbers
[MP1-5113] - Fix error in UK.Heathfield Tuningdetail
[MP1-5114] - Add Text2 Alignment to GUIListControl
[MP1-5119] - XMLTV - Uncheck tvguide.lst option out of box
[MP1-5140] - Remove unneeded delay at playback
[MP1-5141] - Tune InternalActorMoviesGrabber.csscript
[MP1-5147] - Update MediaInfo.Wrapper to 21.9.3
[MP1-5148] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.7.2
[MP1-5149] - Update SQLite to 3.41.2
[MP1-5150] - Update NFO for support new Kodi format
[MP1-5151] - Update IMDB ID detect regex
[MP1-5152] - Update Newtonsoft.Json.dll to 13.0.3, Nuget package
[MP1-5153] - Comskip Recording End settings by default
DVBS: 28.2°E Astra 2E,2F,2G Update


MediaPortal 2.4.1 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.4.1
MediaPortal 2.4.1 is a full-blown media center software that addresses most common user requirements out of the box. Aside from its support for Live TV and Radio, it offers a complete media server for music, movies, and series. Info is automatically downloaded from various sources to provide posters, fanart, album art, and various additional metadata, such as cast, staff, and more. MediaPortal 2.4.1 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

Skins
Flexible Aspect Ratios
All skins support flexible aspect ratios, so it does not matter if you have a 4:3, 16:9 or even ultra wide screen. The aspect ratio is detected automatically, there is no need to adjust settings manually.
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International Language Support
MediaPortal 2 was lacking with the support of many languages yet, because some characters could not be displayed correctly. It was mainly related to a missing unicode font, that is licence free. With the Google Noto we have found a font, that can be used in open source projects.

Due to heavy development of MediaPortal 2 many new text strings were added last years, but are not localized yet. Everybody can support translating strings in our translation platform transifex. Every help to bring MediaPortal 2 forward is highly appreciated by our small development team.
Russian a05f2 Chinese WMC c6744
Touch Display Support
If touch display support is enabled in skin settings, menus won't slide in/out automatically any more, but only on press of the menu button. The support for touch display was extended further:
A first press on a menu tile selects the home content (instead of auto selection on focus)
A second press loads the corresponding media library
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Because the menu item selection behavior could be also interesting for mouse users the same behavior can be also achieved with a new skin setting "Whether to select a menu item manually instead of auto selection on focus"

Other
Fixed recording view not being compatible with new view mode settings
Missing button content margin in DialogButtonStyle, "Manage series schedule" button not focusable by mouse
TV: Missing gerne infos in EPG screens and recording details
Overworked CurrentlyPlaying and Info screens
TV: Visible information for schedule list items and details
Display IsRecording indicator in notification bar and recording start and end indicators correctly
Better virtual keyboard appearance
TV: LoopScrolling in FullEPG, if activated in NereusSkinSettings
Blank screen in screen-saver to avoid burn-ins for OLED screens
Nereus: Fallback label for channel logo tiles in home content
Nereus: ChannelLogos in program tiles and replacement of circular with linear progress bar
System
Don't lock WF Manager in VideoPlayerModel message handler as it can cause deadlock when the message handler is shutdown when exiting the model context
Potential deadlock in Plugin Manager if different threads try to activate the same plugin
Media
Fixed playback issues by using LAV Splitter Source directly
Plugins
TVMosaic
tvmosaic 192 dbabcThe current TV engine (TVE3) for Media Portal 1 and 2 was developed long time before and is not state of the art any more.
Accordingly we decided to develop the TVMosaic plugin as alternative TV provider. The TVMosaic Community Edition is freeware and can be configured by web browser. Because it is not bonded to windows it may run on many platforms.
Please note, that the plugin is currently in deelopment and some functionalities could not be implemented yet. The latest version can be found here. It is not part of the 2.4.1 release installer yet!
Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See the respective forum thread for further details.


Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at changelog: MediaPortal 2.4.1.
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=13605


MediaPortal 1.30 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released MediaPortal 1.30 Ukraine

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

New:

Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5092] - Update MediaInfo and MediaInfo.Wrapper to 21.9.2
[MP1-5104] - Create a numeric only keyboard
[MP1-5105] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.7.1
[MP1-5106] - Update SQLite to 3.36
[MP1-5107] - Improve tvgids.nl webepg grabber
[MP1-5108] - Fix deadlock error while importing EPG
[MP1-5109] - Update France.FreeBox_TV
[MP1-5110] - Add Set watched status in TV/Radio recorded
[MP1-5111] - Parallel DVB EPG
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5112] - Cleanup NL and DE WebEPG grabbers
DWHD update
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13613


MediaPortal 1.30 Pre-Release

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

New:

Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5092] - Update MediaInfo and MediaInfo.Wrapper to 21.9.2
[MP1-5104] - Create a numeric only keyboard
[MP1-5105] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.7.1
[MP1-5106] - Update SQLite to 3.36
[MP1-5107] - Improve tvgids.nl webepg grabber
[MP1-5108] - Fix deadlock error while importing EPG
[MP1-5109] - Update France.FreeBox_TV
[MP1-5110] - Add Set watched status in TV/Radio recorded
[MP1-5111] - Parallel DVB EPG

https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13612


MediaPortal 2.4 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.4
MediaPortal 2.4 is a full-blown media center software that addresses most common user requirements out of the box. Aside from its support for Live TV and Radio, it offers a complete media server for music, movies, and series. Info is automatically downloaded from various sources to provide posters, fanart, album art, and various additional metadata, such as cast, staff, and more. MediaPortal 2.4 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

Nereus
View Mode Settings
The view mode configuration was completely reworked and replaces many obsolete skin settings. Previously several options like watched flags could only be changed globally, everything can be set individually for every screen in a new intuitive view mode dialog now. Changes performed in the dialog are having immediate response in the background making it easy to observe the effect.
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If media details are hidden, the full screen is used for the arrangement of the media items and only very basic details are shown in bottom left of grid views as already known from home screen. In case of list views basic details are shown within the focus area, if details are hidden.
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Extended Menu Editor
The existing menu editor (menu key or right mouse on any menu item) offers already a comfortable way to arrange the menu. With version 2.4 we offer additional configuration options for the home content (just select the gear symbol in menu editor). You can arrange and hide content according to your preferrence.
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Color Scheme Customisation
Within the skin settings of Nereus skin you can find the new Color Scheme Customisation.
Besides the predefined torquoise color setting you can select other color schemes, all areas of the skin will be affected immediately.
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Touch Display Support
If touch display support is enabled in skin settings menus won't slide in/out automatically any more, but only on press of the menu button. This option can be also interesting for mouse users.
Touch support 988df
Other
Visual overwork of media share screens with list index indicators
Improved visual appearance of list buttons and dialogs
Better bachground image without diffraction patterns when scaled to other resolutions
Remember last main menu entry, when client is restarted
Setting for optimized touch display support
TV: Dynamic font scaling for EPG programs in relation to number of rows
Fixed invisible audio button in OSD of PrimaryPlayer, if audio state changed for SecondaryPlayer
TV: Re-added missing PiP functionality in MiniEPG and MainEPG
Allow wrapping for settings HeaderLabel in screens without tiles to not exceed the "black" area
Hide headers and icons for actor, directors, subtitles, audio tracks, if no content existing
System
MP2-Server crashes if FileSystemWatcher is used for exFAT drives
MP2-Client crashes while closing from power menu
Set OpenPlayerConfigInOsd by default to false
Deactivate IPv6 by default in settings, because causing mostly issues
Moved HID handling to skin engine so HID messages can be filtered before they overload the message queue
Changed updating of content list to only update if necessary. This will break content lists in plugins not part of the solution
Possibly incorrect target index used in refresh rate changer on duplicated displays
Wrong player key bindings included in Nereus and BlueVision DVD player screens
DynamicResourceExtension is not thread safe and can crash the main render loop
Fix race condition in plugin item creation and add test
Don't handle keyboard mappings if the focus is in a textbox
Don't set _lastMouseUsageTime on startup to avoid unnecessary mouse events when the home screen is first shown
Include OV2 feature to use ffmpeg for download of streams on x64 and support for x86
Media
Added year filter for series
Support new movie rating format
External subtitle resource index not updated correctly when merging with an existing media item
MediaItemListModel can be recreated when closing the client
Media lists not returning any/all possible results
Improved handling of refresh of metadata and changed movie name matching to better take into account titles containing a year
TV: Added option to disable automatic online update of channel logos
Plugins
Alexa
31tJzvThYL 7d1f3The new Alexa plugin for MediaPortal2 allows speech control for Live-TV and media playback. You can for examle change TV channels, play, pause, skip media items and change volume by just saying "Alexa .." and the corresponding speech commands.
It is not possible yet to navigate through menus nore to search for media items, additional features might be added later.

For further details please refer to the download section.
TVMosaic
tvmosaic 192 dbabcThe current TV engine (TVE3) for Media Portal 1 and 2 was developed long time before and is not state of the art any more.
Accordingly we decided to develop the TVMosaic plugin as alternative TV provider. The TVMosaic Community Edition is freeware and can be configured by web browser. Because it is not bonded to windows it may run on many platforms.
Please note, that the plugin is currently in beta state and many functionalities could not be implemented yet. The beta version can be found here.
Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See the respective forum thread for further details.


MediaPortal 1.29 Release

We have just released MediaPortal 1.29 The Phantom Menace

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5081] - WatchDog not switch Mediaportal log to Debug level
[MP1-5082] - Error when MP restart
[MP1-5086] - XMLTV Import error - An item with the same key has already been added.
Since Pre-Release :

[MP1-5089] - MpurlSourceSplitter is lost when updating tvservice
New:

[MP1-5070] - Handle large Music Playlists
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5083] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.6.0
[MP1-5084] - Update MediaInfo.Wrapper to 21.3.4
[MP1-5085] - Text controls changed to universal controls in TVZapOSD
DWHD OSD update
French language update
Since Pre-Release :

[MP1-5088] - Automatic installation of .Net packages
[MP1-5090] - Show OSD when displaying Pictures (with Settings)
[MP1-5091] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.7.0
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
You can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.29 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13610
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.29 Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13611


MediaPortal 1.29 Pre-Release

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:
[MP1-5081] - WatchDog not switch Mediaportal log to Debug level
[MP1-5082] - Error when MP restart
[MP1-5086] - XMLTV Import error - An item with the same key has already been added.

New:
[MP1-5070] - Handle large Music Playlists

Improvement / Rework:
[MP1-5083] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.6.0
[MP1-5084] - Update MediaInfo.Wrapper to 21.3.4
[MP1-5085] - Text controls changed to universal controls in TVZapOSD
DWHD OSD update
French language update

Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
You can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.29 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13610


MediaPortal 1.28 Release

We have just released MediaPortal 1.28 Summer Breeze

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5053] - TV framerate is not parsed from tsbuffer
[MP1-5058] - Infinity waiting in TVClient library
[MP1-5059] - Performance stats displayed incorrectly
[MP1-5061] - SQLite does not select all data when there is a lot of data
[MP1-5062] - Update urls in deploytool
[MP1-5071] - Improve XMLTV Plugin property parsing
Since Pre-Release :

[MP1-5073] - Error processing xml with dtd in it
[MP1-5075] - Fix Timeout trouble in TVServer
[MP1-5077] - Fix for CUE-Files not imported into database
[MP1-5078] - Sometimes no image rendered when playing video
[MP1-5079] - DiscID not populated in MusicTag
New:

Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-4242] - Watchdog improvement
[MP1-5049] - Add MusicBrainz fields in Music database
[MP1-5063] - Update code for windows server
[MP1-5068] - Update Mediainfo to 21.3.1
[MP1-5069] - Update libsamplerate to 0.1.9
[MP1-5072] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.5.0
Germany DVBC Tunigdetails Vodafone NRW and Hessen
Update Titan skin
The language files have been updated
Since Pre-Release :

[MP1-5076] - Update TagLibSharp to 2.3.1.0
[MP1-5080] - Fix WatchDog UAC prompt
Updated UK tuning parameters
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
You can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.28 Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13609


MediaPortal 1.28 Pre-Release

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5053] - TV framerate is not parsed from tsbuffer
[MP1-5058] - Infinity waiting in TVClient library
[MP1-5059] - Performance stats displayed incorrectly
[MP1-5061] - SQLite does not select all data when there is a lot of data
[MP1-5062] - Update urls in deploytool
[MP1-5071] - Improve XMLTV Plugin property parsing
New:

Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-4242] - Watchdog improvement
[MP1-5049] - Add MusicBrainz fields in Music database
[MP1-5063] - Update code for windows server
[MP1-5068] - Update Mediainfo to 21.3.1
[MP1-5069] - Update libsamplerate to 0.1.9
[MP1-5072] - Update MetadataExtractor to 2.5.0
Germany DVBC Tunigdetails Vodafone NRW and Hessen
Update Titan skin
The language files have been updated
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
You can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.28 Pre Release https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13602
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.28 Release https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13603


MediaPortal 1.27 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released MediaPortal 1.27

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5050] - GUIHome should not be copied next to the mediaportal executable
[MP1-5051] - Music Playback fails with ReplayGain enabled and no ReplayGain Information in song
[MP1-5053] - TV framerate is not parsed from tsbuffer
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5053] - TV framerate is not parsed from tsbuffer
[MP1-5055] - MediaInfo crash on old CPU
[MP1-5056] - Ability to quickly search in lists not only in English (Latin)
New:

Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5043] - Upgrade Solution to Visual Studio 2019
[MP1-5044] - Upgrade NSIS to actual Version
[MP1-5048] - Give the TimeShift delay information
[MP1-5049] - Add MusicBrainz fields in Music database
[MP1-5052] - Increase classic splash screen size
DVB-T2 Czech Republic tuning details update
Updated DTT frequencies for Ireland
Update DefaultWideHD skin
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-4908] - Fix for source directory with spaces
[MP1-5049] - Add MusicBrainz fields in Music database
Updated Salzburg AG tuning (20.Oct.2020)
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.27 Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13603


MediaPortal 2.3.2 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.3.2
MediaPortal 2.3.2 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Aside from its support for Live TV and Radio, it offers a complete media server for music, movies, and TV shows. Info is automatically downloaded from various sources to provide posters, fanart, album art, and various additional metadata, such as cast, staff, and more. MediaPortal 2.3.2 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

MediaPortal 2.3.2 is mainly a bugfix release. Please read the instructions under 'Upgrade' in the bottom of this news. The changes are:

Nereus
Settings Appearance
The setting appearance of MediaPortal 2 is significantly improved. All setting screens without content consist of tiles instead of lists now.
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Bug-Fixes
Only one media item shown, when superiour filter view (Season, CD) had only one item
DvbSubtitles crash application in 64 bit mode

Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See thee respective forum thread for further details.

Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at changelog: MediaPortal 2.3.2
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=13606


MediaPortal 2.3.1

MediaPortal 2.3.1 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Aside from its support for Live TV and Radio, it offers a complete media server for music, movies, and TV shows. Info is automatically downloaded from various sources to provide posters, fanart, album art, and various additional metadata, such as cast, staff, and more. MediaPortal 2.3.1 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

MediaPortal 2.3.1 is mainly a bugfix release. Please read the instructions under 'Upgrade' in the bottom of this news. There is a list of changes – you can find all details in the end of this news – major changes are:

Nereus
Setting Appearance
Nereus got an improved setting view with tiles instead of lists for all screens without setting contents. A label in the bottom left corner shows the current setting category for a better overview.
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Skin Settings
Background FanArt visibility setting to define the opacity of the overlayed content
Setting to activate loop scrolling in most menus and lists (gapless jump from last to first item and vice versa)
Setting to decide between manual scroll viewers and auto scrolling with opportunity to define scroll delay and speed

New Feature
Filter views as seasons, albums, disks, … are automatically skipped now, when they contain only one item, mean e.g. selecting a series with only one season brings you directly to the episode view.

Bug-Fixes
Fixes to installation packages (e.g. DX9 package not necessary anymore)
Issue with unordered and duplicated media items with deactivated user management
Fixed wrong focus setting for higher channel indexes when opening MiniEPG
Improved handling of getting default user which could deadlock the client during shutdown
Show only channel name in details of MiniEPG, if no logo existing
TV: Hide wrong program progress bar, if no program information are available
OSD Record menu empty, if no EPG data available
Nereus: Fix for Nereus not updating home content when returning to home
Nereus: Non-functional SMS style imput in media screen
Nereus: Scheduled recordings are not shown in extended schedule screen
Nereus: Program actions dialog not working properly in FullEPG


Extensions
MediaPortal 2.3's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

WebRadio
The Webradio plugin was overworked for 64 Bit compatibility and also supports HomeContent for Nereus skin now


Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See thee respective forum thread for further details.


Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at changelog: MediaPortal 2.3.1
For known issues please check out our Jira and our Bug Reports Forum.


Installation, Upgrade, Download and Feedback
Installation
Download the zip archive and check the "Allow access" box in the context menu. Then extract the archive and execute the MP2 Setup file.The installer will automatically download any missing components and install them.

Windows 10 K and KN editions: You need to manually download and install the additional Microsoft Media feature pack first. This will add the Windows Media Player and related technologies that are required by MediaPortal 2 to work.
Wiki: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal2/Installing+MediaPortal+2

Upgrade
We strongly recommend to first uninstall previous versions of MediaPortal 2 before installing MediaPortal 2.3.1, this is also the case when upgrading from MediaPortal 2.3 to MediaPortal 2.3.1.
We are working on an improved installer for future releases, that is more user friendly and working stable in all conditions.

N.B.: If you upgrade from an earlier version than MediaPortal 2.1 the database is incompatible and cannot be migrated. You will need to redo your server settings including the setup of media sources.



Feedback
Bugs
If you think you found a bug then please first check if it has not already been reported: the Bug Reports Forum contains all active user bug reports with their respective status. For new issues post a detailed report in our Bug Reports Forum. Make sure your report includes all the required information.

Appearance and functionality
We invite you to make suggestions for improvement with special focus on menu layout, menu content explanatory texts and translations. Please post your comments in a new thread in the General section.

Requests for missing/new features should be made in the Feature Request Forum. As for bugs we would appreciate if you first verified that your request has not already been raised before. Also if possible please make only one request per thread.


MediaPortal 1.27 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5050] - GUIHome should not be copied next to the mediaportal executable
[MP1-5051] - Music Playback fails with ReplayGain enabled and no ReplayGain Information in song
[MP1-5053] - TV framerate is not parsed from tsbuffer
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5043] - Upgrade Solution to Visual Studio 2019
[MP1-5044] - Upgrade NSIS to actual Version
[MP1-5048] - Give the TimeShift delay information
[MP1-5049] - Add MusicBrainz fields in Music database
[MP1-5052] - Increase classic splash screen size
DVB-T2 Czech Republic tuning details update
Updated DTT frequencies for Ireland
Update DefaultWideHD skin
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Pre Release by using the link below:
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13602


MediaPortal 1.26 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released MediaPortal 1.26 - Winter is coming...

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5031] - Fix Invalid File Handle in Setup
[MP1-5032] - Wrong font scale in splashscreen on 4K
[MP1-5034] - Tiled images corrupted after video is played.
[MP1-5035] - ZoomPixels in a thumbnail list
[MP1-5036] - Configuration crashes when clicking Plugins
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5045] - Home window switch from Remote not work
New:

[MP1-5012] - Start current music track from the beginning in NowPlaying window
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5015] - Improving the MP1 installer (DeployTools), providing nicer GUI :)
[MP1-5023] - Update metadata-extractor, add Samsung lens support
[MP1-5030] - Add UHD Thumb size to TV Server
[MP1-5037] - Update IRTrans remote mapping file
[MP1-5038] - Update MediaInfo.Wrapper to 20.8.0 & MediaInfo to 20.8.1
[MP1-5039] - Update SharplibHID to 1.4.4 & SharpLibWin32 to 0.2.2
[MP1-5040] - Update NAudio to 1.10.0
[MP1-5041] - Update FFmpeg win32 to 4.1.1
[MP1-5042] - Update sqlite to 3.33
Update France.Leucate DVBT Tuning parameters
Update DefaultWideHD skin
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-4869] - Install ffmpeg 64 bit version on 64 bit OS
[MP1-5046] - Added logging when creating thumbs
[MP1-5047] - Update taglib sharp to 2.2.0.2 .Net 4.0
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13600
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13601


MediaPortal 2.3 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.3
MediaPortal 2.3 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Aside from its support for Live TV and Radio, it offers a complete media server for music, movies, and TV shows. Info is automatically downloaded from various sources to provide posters, fanart, album art, and various additional metadata, such as cast, staff, and more. MediaPortal 2.3 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

There is a long list of changes – you can find all details in the end of this news – major changes are:

Skins
Nereus
MediaPortal 2.3 comes with the completely new, fresh and modern skin Nereus supporting varible resolution aspect ratios, so it doesn't matter you are on a traditional 4:3 or on an ultra wide 21:9 screen.
Nereus is based on a vertical main menu, that can be configured to your needs by an easy integrated menu editor with a single button press ("i"/context).
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The skin combines elegant grey tones with some color traces. Nereus comes with two themes for the main menu design, cool image tiles (default) or long shadow tiles with symbols (simple).
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Home Content
While a main menu item gets focus, the home content slides in from the right and offers quick and comfortable access to media items, filters and further information in home screen. You be able to see instantly the latest added media items continue watching the latest watched movies, see your favourite music, which you were playing frequently. You can also directly select current running TV programs or favourite TV-channels directly from HomeScreen.
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If you are a fan of the simple library view also not a problem, just selecting the main menu entry navigates you to it as known from past skins.

Info Screens
New info screens reachable by context menu on focused media items were implemented. Here you see all important information and directly can play the media item.
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View Modes
For almost all libraries and plugins (news, online videos, emulators, app launcher, ...) view modes can be switched between list and grid view according to your visual preferrance.
Additionally you may change the grid mode appearance for series and movies in skin settings between posters, thumbnails and banners.


x64 Support
MediaPortal fully supports 64 bit for the client version now. It improves performance of UI and also video playback (especially with 4k videos).
You are still able to start it in 32 bit, there are two different shortcuts to start MediaPortal 2, the preferred type can be also selected by right click on "MP2-Client Launcher" in task bar.
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App Launcher integration
App Launcher was existing as optional plugin and is fully integrated into MediaPortal 2 now also offering Home Content.

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The functionality was extended to also allow customized menu tiles for the home menu.


System
Controls: Eject command for CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc media

GUI: Fixed font rendering engine causing random crashes

Audio: 'Artist' and 'Album Artist' filter display same artist multiple times

TV: Fix "Pause" image displayed when changing TV channels

Input: New Wifi remote plugin which can potentially be used with mobile apps as a remote control or with home automation in future

Player: Added optional setting to do instant skips in seconds (instead of relative percents)


Extensions
MediaPortal 2.3's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

WebRadio
The Webradio plugin was overworked for 64 Bit compatibility and also supports HomeContent fpr Nereus skin now

Subtitle downloader
Subtitle downloader is a plugin for downloading subtitles for movies or series episodes. Please be aware that subtitle downloading is illegal in some countries, so check the legal situation in your country before installing this plugin.

DLNA Server
DLNA server is a plugin for browsing/playing media from the media library from other devices like TV's, phones etc. that have a DLNA client. It is currently in testing phase.

Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See thee respective forum thread for further details.


Full list of changes

Bug
[MP2-807] - VideoScreen used for audio files when switching player in PiP mode
[MP2-813] - 'Artist' and 'Album Artist' filter display same artist multiple times
[MP2-822] - Recordings folder View is not displaying individual media elements
[MP2-828] - Fix "Pause" image displayed when changing TV channels
[MP2-833] - Memory leak during thumbnail creation
[MP2-837] - Focused item sometimes not saved and restored correctly if a dialog causes a screen change
[MP2-838] - Share restrictions not enforced in all screens
New Feature
[MP2-611] - Extend subtitle settings
[MP2-816] - Create home menu editor for Nereus
[MP2-817] - Implement NotifyOnSourceUpdated and NotifyOnTargetUpdated binding events
[MP2-820] - Eject command for CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc media
[MP2-824] - DLNA Server functionalities
[MP2-825] - WifiRemote integration
[MP2-826] - Subtitle downloader
[MP2-827] - New Skin Nereus
[MP2-829] - Add AppLauncher to MP2 core
[MP2-834] - Add 64 Bit support
[MP2-835] - Font rendering engine causes random crashes
Improvement/Rework
[MP2-387] - Remove EVRPresenter binary from git repo and use a NuGet package instead
[MP2-627] - Improve SlimTv features
[MP2-672] - Improve the MP2 Installer
[MP2-804] - Cell phone input does not have the ability to backspace/delete characters
[MP2-812] - Upgrade Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable to 2019
[MP2-821] - Upgrade MediaInfo.dll from 18.12.0.0 to 19.09.0.0
[MP2-823] - Update Open CV Library from 3.2.1 to 4.2.0
[MP2-830] - Upgrade TVE from 1.22pre to 1.24pre
[MP2-836] - Added full FanArt support for NFO importer


MediaPortal 1.26 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-5031] - Fix Invalid File Handle in Setup
[MP1-5032] - Wrong font scale in splashscreen on 4K
[MP1-5034] - Tiled images corrupted after video is played.
[MP1-5035] - ZoomPixels in a thumbnail list
[MP1-5036] - Configuration crashes when clicking Plugins
New:

[MP1-5012] - Start current music track from the beginning in NowPlaying window
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-5015] - Improving the MP1 installer (DeployTools), providing nicer GUI :)
[MP1-5023] - Update metadata-extractor, add Samsung lens support
[MP1-5030] - Add UHD Thumb size to TV Server
[MP1-5037] - Update IRTrans remote mapping file
[MP1-5038] - Update MediaInfo.Wrapper to 20.8.0 & MediaInfo to 20.8.1
[MP1-5039] - Update SharplibHID to 1.4.4 & SharpLibWin32 to 0.2.2
[MP1-5040] - Update NAudio to 1.10.0
[MP1-5041] - Update FFmpeg win32 to 4.1.1
[MP1-5042] - Update sqlite to 3.33
Update France.Leucate DVBT Tuning parameters
Update DefaultWideHD skin
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.26 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13600


MediaPortal 1.25 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released MediaPortal 1.25 Final - Summer 2020 Edition

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-4966] - Update Bass Nuget to 2.4.15
[MP1-4995] - Recorded-TV sort-by-duration not support sorting in the reverse direction
[MP1-5001] - YesNoDialog ignores the default control settings from the skin when the default button is not forced to Yes
[MP1-5005] - IRTrans - fix detection server status
[MP1-4781] - Adding madVR support - Bugfixes
[MP1-4841] - Duplicate filenames with different lettercasing
[MP1-5003] - Building TVPlugins - Improvement
[MP1-5008] - The problem with scrolling text in the "listcontrol" in 4K
[MP1-5010] - Add registry check for VS2008 Redistr installed or not in DeployTool
[MP1-5011] - No version string on FullScreen splash window (DefaultWide HD skin)
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-5016] - Titan skin fixes and updates (1.25)
[MP1-5024] - GUIDialogExif crash if GUIImage control not defined in skin ...
[MP1-5027] - Fix Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
New:

[MP1-4990] - Improve horizontal scrolling in the EPG
[MP1-4991] - XmlTV plugin : Rename xml file from zip file to match to tvguide.xml
Improvement / Rework:

[MP1-4986] - MyPictures Database rework with extended EXIF info. Wiki
[MP1-4988] - Add Control.IsVisible to skin function
[MP1-4992] - Allow other plugins reading the next PS wakeup time
[MP1-4994] - Automatically Change Channel on Program Reminder
[MP1-4996] - Recorded-radio sorting should be changed to be the same as recorded-TV sorting
[MP1-4998] - Update MediaInfo Wrapper
[MP1-4987] - Fix exceptions
[MP1-5002] - Code cleanup
[MP1-5004] - EPG Genre Map - SubSection moved as main Section
[MP1-5009] - Built-in skin variable not initialised
Language : English / Deutsch / French
Add some Tuning Parameters
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-4987] - Fix exceptions
[MP1-5011] - Add position, size, align, color (from skin) to Version, CVS labels and fix displaying version label in 4K. Wiki
[MP1-5013] - VSYASM 1.2.0 provided as nuget package
[MP1-5014] - Log refreshrate at Mediaportal start
[MP1-5015] - Improving the MP1 installer (DeployTools), providing nicer GUI :)
[MP1-5017] - Grabber searches for covers in the language of the system, then in English
[MP1-5018] - Fix configuration design.
[MP1-5020] - DirectX 9 SDK (June 2010) provided as nuget package
[MP1-5021] - Libbluray (Jar ( bdj) and binary) provided as Nuget Package
[MP1-5022] - Improving the MPE Installer, providing nicer GUI :)
[MP1-5028] - Add Exif properties to Slide window. Wiki
[MP1-5029] - Add the ability to choose the type of pause for designers in the slideshow. Wiki
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.25 Final Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13500


MediaPortal 1.25 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-4966] - Update Bass Nuget to 2.4.15
[MP1-4995] - Recorded-TV sort-by-duration not support sorting in the reverse direction
[MP1-5001] - YesNoDialog ignores the default control settings from the skin when the default button is not forced to Yes
[MP1-5005] - IRTrans - fix detection server status
[MP1-4781] - Adding madVR support - Bugfixes
[MP1-4841] - Duplicate filenames with different lettercasing
[MP1-5003] - Building TVPlugins - Improvement
[MP1-5008] - The problem with scrolling text in the "listcontrol" in 4K
[MP1-5010] - Add registry check for VS2008 Redistr installed or not in DeployTool
[MP1-5011] - No version string on FullScreen splash window (DefaultWide HD skin)
New:

[MP1-4990] - Improve horizontal scrolling in the EPG
[MP1-4991] - XmlTV plugin : Rename xml file from zip file to match to tvguide.xml
Improvement / Rework:

We improved this functions :

[MP1-4986] - MyPictures Database rework with extended EXIF info
[MP1-4988] - Add Control.IsVisible to skin function
[MP1-4992] - Allow other plugins reading the next PS wakeup time
[MP1-4994] - Automatically Change Channel on Program Reminder
[MP1-4996] - Recorded-radio sorting should be changed to be the same as recorded-TV sorting
[MP1-4998] - Update MediaInfo Wrapper
[MP1-4987] - Fix exceptions
[MP1-5002] - Code cleanup
[MP1-5004] - EPG Genre Map - SubSection moved as main Section
[MP1-5009] - Built-in skin variable not initialised
Language : English / Deutsch / French
Add some Tuning Parameters
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.25 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13203

Documentation of new features will be added to: Wiki - What's New
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Whats+New


MediaPortal 1.24 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released MediaPortal 1.24 Final

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-4969] - Fix typo in MyMusic DB Index.
[MP1-4972] - Update MediaInfo Wrapper.
[MP1-4908] - Fix for source directory with spaces.
[MP1-4975] - Fix restore nuget from myget as priority.
[MP1-4977] - MatroskaTagInfo uses the wrong casing for tags.
[MP1-4970] - Update Titan skin 1.23+.
[MP1-4981] - Wrong sort order in some MusicViews.
[MP1-4982] - Remove hard stop when Caching Graphics not found folders.
[MP1-4976] - Built-in skin variables for current date.
[MP1-4978] - Some expressions did not take into account the negative sign of the result.
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-4989] - Fix subtitle : read Lav splitter setting
New:

[MP1-4971] - Codec name instead FileType in Music GUI in MIME View.
[MP1-4983] - TsWriter not processing channel's extended name with more than one segment.
Improvement / Rework:

We improved this functions :

[MP1-4932] - dvr-ms and wtv file types are treated differently in myVideos.
[MP1-4968] - Log all exceptions.
[MP1-4979] - Remove Deprecated Kinopoisk grabber.
[MP1-4980] - Update MyVideo grabbers.
[MP1-4973] - Improve XMLTV EPG Grabber.
[MP1-4781] - Adding madVR support
Skin: Titan / DefaultWide (Logos for MediaInfo update).
Language : French / Swedish.
Since Pre-Release :
[MP1-4985] - Add FileType (flac, mp3, etc) as Default level in default Music Views (before Disc level)
[MP1-4993] - Updated tuning parameters
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.24 Final Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13202
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.24 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13201


MediaPortal 1.24 Pre-Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-4969] - Fix typo in MyMusic DB Index.
[MP1-4972] - Update MediaInfo Wrapper.
[MP1-4908] - Fix for source directory with spaces.
[MP1-4975] - Fix restore nuget from myget as priority.
[MP1-4977] - MatroskaTagInfo uses the wrong casing for tags.
[MP1-4970] - Update Titan skin 1.23+.
[MP1-4981] - Wrong sort order in some MusicViews.
[MP1-4982] - Remove hard stop when Caching Graphics not found folders.
[MP1-4976] - Built-in skin variables for current date.
[MP1-4978] - Some expressions did not take into account the negative sign of the result.
New:

[MP1-4971] - Codec name instead FileType in Music GUI in MIME View.
[MP1-4983] - TsWriter not processing channel's extended name with more than one segment.
Improvement / Rework:

We improved this functions :

[MP1-4932] - dvr-ms and wtv file types are treated differently in myVideos.
[MP1-4968] - Log all exceptions.
[MP1-4979] - Remove Deprecated Kinopoisk grabber.
[MP1-4980] - Update MyVideo grabbers.
[MP1-4973] - Improve XMLTV EPG Grabber.
[MP1-4781] - Adding madVR support
Skin: Titan / DefaultWide (Logos for MediaInfo update).
Language : French / Swedish.


MediaPortal 2.2.3 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.2.3
MediaPortal 2.2.3 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.2.3 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

This small update essentially addresses a problem in the TV area that was reported by some users. If you are happy with your experience there is no particular need to upgrade, although we also fixed a few minor bugs:

TV/Radio
Downgrade of TV Engine: MP 2.2.2 included an upgrade of the engine from the MP 1.22 to the 1.23 level. In rare cases this led to a stuttering playback and artifacts when playing LIve TV or recordings. MP 2.2.3 includes again the proven engine that was used in MP 2.2.1.


System
Subtitles: An issue that prevented the correct display of subtitles in MP windowed mode was fixed..

Series: The missing context menu at season level has been restored.

User Management: Logged-in users will be activated again upon resume if auto-login is selected


Extensions
MediaPortal 2.2.3's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Trakt
A new Trakt plugin has been developed with better sync and watched flags management, completely compatible with the new User Management system, allowing different trakt accounts for different users. The development of the plugin has been moved out from the standard Mediaportal 2 development. This will ease development and bug fixes.
For details or manual, please refer to the related Wiki section.

Webradio
Webradio allows you to play internet radio without having to leave your familiar MP2 user interface.The plugin comes with over 10000's online radio stations from all over the world. Create your own filter from Country, City and any more. Make your own favorites list.

Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See thee respective forum thread for further details.


Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at changelog: MediaPortal 2.2.3
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=13401


MediaPortal 2.2.2 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.2.2
MediaPortal 2.2.2 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.2.2 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

This update includes several bug fixes and a few new things. You can find a list of changes with all details at the end of this news – major changes are:

TV/Radio
One-click deletion of grouped recordings: Grouped recordings in the TV recording folder, e.g. series, can now be deleted with one single click instead having to go manually through each individual entry.

Radio recordings: You can now skip, pause and resume within a radio recording like in any TV recording

Manual schedules: Manually added schedules will now appear in the list of scheduled recordings


System
Client wake-up at 2:00: A bug that caused a client to wake up every night was fixed.

Party Music Player: The party player is now capable of handling large playlists with more than 1000 entries


Extensions
MediaPortal 2.2.2's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Trakt
A new Trakt plugin has been developed with better sync and watched flags management, completely compatible with the new User Management system, allowing different trakt accounts for different users. The development of the plugin has been moved out from the standard Mediaportal 2 development. This will ease development and bug fixes.
For details or manual, please refer to the related Wiki section.

Webradio
Webradio allows you to play internet radio without having to leave your familiar MP2 user interface.The plugin comes with over 10000's online radio stations from all over the world. Create your own filter from Country, City and any more. Make your own favorites list.

Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See thee respective forum thread for further details.


Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at changelog: MediaPortal 2.2.2
For known issues please check out our Jira and our Bug Reports Forum.


Installation, Upgrade, Download and Feedback
Installation
Download the zip archive and check the "Allow access" box in the context menu. Then extract the archive and execute the MP2 Setup file.The installer will automatically download any missing components and install them.

Windows 10 K and KN editions: You need to manually download and install the additional Microsoft Media feature pack first. This will add the Windows Media Player and related technologies that are required by MediaPortal 2 to work.
Wiki: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal2/Installing+MediaPortal+2

Upgrade
MediaPortal 2.2.2 has a new media database structure that is not compatible with versions prior to MediaPortal 2.2 Pre Release. The installer will recognize an existing incompatible database and migrate the content to the new version. Please be aware that this might take a while depending on the amount of your media items. The data base migration progress is shown by an indicator in the client.

N.B.: If you upgrade from an earlier version than MediaPortal 2.1 the database is incompatible and cannot be migrated. You will need to redo your server settings including the setup of media sources.


MediaPortal 1.23 Final Regeszter Edition
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

Today we want to commemorate one of our developers who has left us forever at the beginning of the year through his sudden death.


That's why we dedicate this MediaPortal release version to "regeszter" aka Attila, who spent a lot of time coding and with his innovative ideas made sure that you can enjoy a unique software - alone, with your family or with your friends.


Therefore we are pleased to announce the new version of MediaPortal named "MP 1.23 Final Release ". Thank you for your understanding.



Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-4967] - Increase timeout delay of AsyncDNSReverseLookup for fix the timeout problem.
New:

[MP1-4777] - Use MP-MediaInfo package
Improvement / Rework:

We improved this functions :

[MP1-4314] - Hardcoded labels in Titan
[MP1-4842] - Remove extra skin files from Titan
[MP1-4948] - Add Year thumb support to MyMusic
[MP1-4950] - Fetch Actor details and thumbs when Movie updated
[MP1-4951] - Add TMDB support to MP grabbers
[MP1-4953] - Add #Actor.Movies.Progress property to GUIVideoArtistInfo
[MP1-4955] - Add 3D and HDR mark to MyVideo
[MP1-4958] - Inconsistent date display format in TV Guide
[MP1-4959] - Enable user configuration of PowerScheduler active port monitoring
[MP1-4960] - Update Titan skin
[MP1-4962] - Update libbluray to 1.1.2 and freetype 2.10
[MP1-4963] - TV Zap OSD rework
[MP1-4964] - TVE3 - Implement recording file name/file path length checking
[MP1-4965] - Add MIME view level in music view
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Important Notes:

This Release will break all plugins who use MediaInfo, please report issues on dedicated thread, related to plugin.


MediaPortal 1.23 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released a Pre Release of MediaPortal 1.23. Happy testing!

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

[MP1-4967] - Increase timeout delay of AsyncDNSReverseLookup for fix the timeout problem.
New:

[MP1-4777] - Use MP-MediaInfo package
Improvement / Rework:

We improved this functions :

[MP1-4314] - Hardcoded labels in Titan
[MP1-4842] - Remove extra skin files from Titan
[MP1-4948] - Add Year thumb support to MyMusic
[MP1-4950] - Fetch Actor details and thumbs when Movie updated
[MP1-4951] - Add TMDB support to MP grabbers
[MP1-4953] - Add #Actor.Movies.Progress property to GUIVideoArtistInfo
[MP1-4955] - Add 3D and HDR mark to MyVideo
[MP1-4958] - Inconsistent date display format in TV Guide
[MP1-4959] - Enable user configuration of PowerScheduler active port monitoring
[MP1-4960] - Update Titan skin
[MP1-4962] - Update libbluray to 1.1.2 and freetype 2.10
[MP1-4963] - TV Zap OSD rework
[MP1-4964] - TVE3 - Implement recording file name/file path length checking
[MP1-4965] - Add MIME view level in music view
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Important Notes:

This Release will break all plugins who use MediaInfo, please report issues on dedicated thread, related to plugin.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.23 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13002

Documentation of new features will be added to: Wiki - What's New
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Whats+New


MediaPortal 1.22 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released MediaPortal 1.22 Final

Highlights of this release (relative to 1.21 Final release):
Bugfixes:

We fixed an issue with Intel HDMI audio
We fixed an issue with sound volume control and OSD on Windows 7
We fixed an issue with errors in displayed file timestamps
We fixed an issue with the Windows Update date checking
We fixed an installer issue with Visual C++ 2008 SP1 version checking
Since 1.22 Pre-release:
We fixed an issue with scrolling text across the TV recording 'red button' icon in the Default Wide HD skin
We removed the Windows Update date checking
We fixed some problems with the IMDB grabber
New and Improved:

We added new and improved functions in the following areas:

Merged HD-PVR support patches into TV Server
Merged TBS tuner support patches into TV Server
Merged DigitalDevices Dynamic PMT patch into TV Server
Merged DisEqC motor delay support patches into TV Server
TV Server tuner allocation updated to improve handling of per-tuner CAM availability
TV Server record start/stop control synchronised to the system clock to improve accuracy
Default Wide HD skin updates
Remove warnings for supported Windows Server OS
Add support for HTTPS (SSL/TLS) web downloads in MP Extension Manager and other places
Increased the number of supported fonts in the skin engine.
Add string.replace function to skin engine
Add otherwise to include condition to skin engine
Add #TV.Record.Active (RedDot) property for skin use
Since 1.22 Pre-release:
We updated some TV tuning and EPG grabber data
We added https:// URL capability in some places
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, Java 8 must be installed. We recommend the version Java 8u151 in x86 version.
Download-Link : Oracle Download Website

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.22 Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13004


MediaPortal 2.2.1 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.2.1
After the release of MediaPortal 2.2 Final the team focussed on improving usability and extending functionalities besides fixing bugs.

MediaPortal 2.2 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.2 also provides access to online video sources such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

As usual there is a long list of changes – you can find all details at the end of this news – major changes are:

TV
Extended subtitle support: All kinds of subtitles (DVB, Closed Captions, Teletext) can now be displayed. Individual settings allow users to customize which kind of subtitles they wish MediaPortal to support.
N.B.: When in window-mode, a remaining problem may lead to 'Teletext' subtitles being cut-off at the left and right side of the window.

Recording skin functionality: All recording functons in the different menus have been stream-lined. Recordings can now be scheduled from more places using the record button. Recording options have been expanded.

Previous programm: pressing "0" on the remote or keyboard will now switch back to the previously watched channel.

EPG:
'Single Channel' will now display the complete available guide.
Improved one-button navigation allows to quickly move 12 hrs (Next/Prev) or 24 hrs (Fwd/Rew).
Start and end of the MiniEPG channel list can now quickly be reached with either Home/End on a keyboard or Prev/Next on a remote.
Typing a channel number will highlight the respective channel in the EPG.

Extended TV card support:
TBS cards CI/CAM
DiSeqC motor delay
Digital Devices dynamic PMT
HD-PVR 2

HID Input Device Management
MediaPortal is now processing HID input. This allows the use of any Microsoft-compatible input device, be it remote, keyboard or gamepad. Generic Windows functions (including the standard MyTV, MyVideos, MyMusic, MyPictures) are pre-mapped to MediaPortal functions, therefore all devices should in principle work out of the box.

The plugin now not only allows to map any button or key on your input device to a MediaPortal function but you can also assign a MediaPortal or Configuration screen. This way you can for example assign special shortcuts to switch from one screen directly to another (e.g. to directly jump to TV from anywhere within MediaPortal).

System
Importer: Out-of-memory issues during large imports have been fixed.

Restart: A new option in the shutdown menu now allows an easy restart of MediaPortal
(needs to be enabled in settings first)

List navigation: Navigating in long lists has become easier. The following functionalities are now in place:
Up/Down Move focus by one element. Scroll down/up if top/bottom list element has focus
Pg Up/Down Display the previous/next screenful of list elements ('Channel Up/Down' on remote)
Home/End The first/last element of a list gets the focus ('Prev/Next' on remote)
Mouse control: The sensitivity of the mouse has been reduced so that minor movements will not immediately take the focus away.

Settings section: The system response upon entering the settings section has been significanly improved. The new busy cursor gives a more modern touch to your skin.

Special key handling: All keys and combinations are now treated as such. So Ctrl-F7 is now a different key than Shft-F7 or F7 itself. Note that Shift-F10 is hard-coded to the MS Windows context menu function.

Extensions
MediaPortal 2.2.1's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Trakt
A new Trakt plugin has been developed with better sync and watched flags management, completely compatible with the new User Management system, allowing different trakt accounts for different users. The development of the plugin has been moved out from the standard Mediaportal 2 development. This will ease development and bug fixes.
For details or manual, please refer to the related WIKI section.

Flag Mover
Flag mover is a new plugin developed for MediaPortal 2.2 and newer versions. You'll be able to backup user specific watched flags (JSON format) and to restore/transfer them into a new clean installation.

Moving from MP1 to MP2
Procedures to install MP2 in parallel to MP1 are described in the Wiki

For all those who would like to move from MP1 to MP2 and preserve their current media organisation, our forum member raffe has created a small tool that will extract information from your MP-TvSeries and MovingPictures databases and picture folders, The tool will leave all your original data untouched, create .nfo files for all your media and copy existing pictures from your MovingPictures and MP-TvSeries to your new MediaPortal 2 media folders. The .nfo files and pictures then allow a smooth and quick import of all your media info into MediaPortal 2. See thee respective forum thread for further details.

Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at changelog: MediaPortal 2.2.1
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=13200


MediaPortal 1.22 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released a Pre Release of MediaPortal 1.22. Happy testing!

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

We fixed an issue with Intel HDMI audio
We fixed an issue with sound volume control and OSD on Windows 7
We fixed an issue with errors in displayed file timestamps
We fixed an issue with the Windows Update date checking
We fixed an installer issue with Visual C++ 2008 SP1 version checking
New:

We added new functions in the following areas:

Merged HD-PVR support patches into TV Server
Merged TBS tuner support patches into TV Server
Merged DigitalDevices Dynamic PMT patch into TV Server
Merged DisEqC motor delay support patches into TV Server
TV Server tuner allocation updated to improve handling of per-tuner CAM availability
TV Server record start/stop control synchronised to the system clock to improve accuracy
Default Wide HD skin updates
Remove warnings for supported Windows Server OS
Add support for HTTPS (SSL/TLS) web downloads in MP Extension Manager and other places
Increased the number of supported fonts in the skin engine.
Add string.replace function to skin engine
Add otherwise to include condition to skin engine
Add #TV.Record.Active (RedDot) property for skin use
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.


MediaPortal 1.21 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released MediaPortal 1.21 Final

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with MadVR
We fixed an issue with Dynamic Refresh Rate and the MediaInfo wrapper
We fixed an issue where the end time was incorrect when TV recordings were imported
We fixed/reworked the Audio Mixer control for Windows 7 & 10
We fixed a crash on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
Audio Visualizer for SharpLibDisplay MiniDisplay updated
We fixed a bug in the Video codec settings section of the 'Ares' and 'Default Wide HD skins'
New:

We added new functions in the following areas:

Added support for AAC 'Parametric Stereo' audio streams to TV player
Added 'watched recording' status to TV section of Titan skin**
Added audio delay adjustment capability using LAV Audio
TV recording now uses a 'CPU thread per recording' method to minimise interaction between recordings and/or timeshifting
TV off-air DVB EPG data processing re-worked to fix some long-standing issues with incorrect character set handling
Live555 library updated to 2018-10-17 release version
** With this new function you get a display of watched status/watched percentage in TV/Radio recordings (similiar as in MyVideos).

Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, Java 8 must be installed. We recommend the version Java 8u151 in x86 version.
Download-Link : Oracle Download Website

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.21 Pre Release here and for MP 1.21 Final here
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13003

Documentation of new features will be added to: Wiki - What's New
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Whats+New


MediaPortal 2.2 Release

We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.2 Final
Since the recent release of MediaPortal 2.2pre, we fixed some minor things. We now proudly present the final version of our next major release of MediaPortal 2 in version 2.2.

MediaPortal 2.2 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.2 also provides access to online video sources such as Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

There is a long list of changes – you can find all details in the end of this news – major changes are:

User Management
Thanks to user management you'll be able to create different profiles with different settings, different privileges, and different skins. Each profile will maintain its own set of watched status. The user management is a server side feature, meaning all the profiles are saved on the server portion of Media Portal 2 and then distributed through all the clients where the User Management Feature is enabled.

thumb User login Settings2 14337 thumb User login Settings d577b

You can set a password and limit TV-groups, age rated content, access to media sources etc. by user. There are pre-defined user templates (Administrator, teenager, kids), which can be later further restricted or relaxed. User can upload their own profile pictures to customize their account. As a result, you can make your kids see only feasible content making Media Portal 2 the perfect family HTPC solution.

thumb User login TE f7736 User login WMC 9fbe2 User login BV 9af0c User login Win10 e53f7

For details or manual, please refer to the related WIKI section.

Importer
An overworked Data Base structure was introduced offering many improvements and features. It offers content group support for audio, stub support, user support, some new indexes for speed improvements, faster searching and correct ordering of artists, actors etc.

By adding an async task handling we could also avoid the second importer run known from MP2.1 and improve the resource usage in idle or during import resulting in a better performance.

The new DB structure is imcompatible with previous versions, but when upgrading Media Portal from a previous version the server will recognize old DB's from MP2.1.x and upgrade them automatically on first start. You will not loose any of your media items, watched status etc. An indicator in client informs you about the upgrade progress.

With Media Re-import it is finally possible to correct or adjust wrongly imported media items manually comfortably from within client. You can select the best result from auto matcher or manually search by media name or identification number (IMBD, TvDB, …). You can simply access the re-import feature from context menu of a focused media item.

thumb Reimport menu BV 53251 thumb Reimport dialoge WMC 91a64


Input Management
The previous Input Device Manager plugin has been completely rewritten, allowing now to control not only Key Management, but also Screen Management. You can now assign special shortcuts to switch from one screen to the other directly. (i.e. assign a special shortcut to jump to TV, or TV Guide)

The GUI for the Input Management is now much more intuitive and allows you to first chose the action and then the key combination to map to that action. It's now possible to see, remove or modify existing key mappings already assigned to a specific action quickly and more reliably.

For details or manual, please refer to the related WIKI section.

Genre Management
Genres are managed differently now. During import genres are mapped to defined genre ID's, which can be localized with in client. There are VideoGenres for movies and series, AudioGenres and TVGenres. Unknown genres are also supported, they will be added additionally and are handled by their name during import.

As a result you may filter comfortably media items by genre ID and you are also able to see newly introduced genre poster as an eye catcher.

thumb Genre Coverview BV 80098 Genre Gridview WMC 83b4b

The TV part also shows genres now in case your EPG provider supports it. You can optionally activate EPG genre colors in TV settings and assign predefined colors to TV genres in all skins. The settings also allow you to map colors to genres to customize the EPG according your needs.

Genre EPG settings WMC ba0cb Genre EPG BV ff144 Genre EPG WMC bdfd7 Gnere EPG TE 72938

Stub Support
We implemented stub support for movies, series and albums. When a disc is inserted the matching stub will be found. A prompt will be shown to insert the media if disc is not found. Series discs that contain multiple episodes will be created as a multi part episodes. When using NFO files together with the stub files, the <fileinfo> part will be read from the NFO file to generate media details.

Album stub file extensions: "cd.disc"
Movie and series stub file extensions: "dvd.disc", "bluray.disc", "brrip.disc", "bd25.disc", "bd50.disc", "hddvd.disc", "hdtv.disc", "pdtv.disc", "dsr.disc", "vhs.disc"
Focus Handling
We have improved the focus handling in MP2.2. So far lists always start withed the focus on first item.

In long lists the focus is put directly on the selected item now and you do not need to scroll any longer through the list to find it
The focus behaviour for series media view is more intelligent and places the focus on the first partly or unwatched media item, allowing you to directly continue with the next unwatched episode/season
Weather
No more blocked weather data! You can now use your own private key for the weather provider OpenWeatherMap.

Skins
WMC Skin
We improved and expanded WMC skin features refreshing its style to look more modern.

Home Content
Home Content is offering quick and comfortable access to media items and further information in home screen, if activated in skin settings. You be able to see instantly the latest added media items continue watching the latest watched movies, see your favourite music, which you were playing frequently. You can also directly select current running TV programs or favourite TV-channels directly from HomeScreen. You can comfortably switch between HomeMenu and HomeContent with “Info” (remote) or “I” (keyboard). It’s definitely a feature you don’t want to miss again.

thumb HomeContent EPG 04fce thumb HomeContent Movies 82e03 HomeContent TV 3e955 HomeContent Series fdfc5

New Thumbnail View
You are now able to switch between banners, posters and thumbnails for movies and series in skin settings.

WMC Thumbnail view 5f027

Other WMC skin changes

Higher resolution for menu images
Improved HomeMenu navigation with mouse (vertical navigation buttons)
Now the clock appears on the top right corner of the screen when the OSD is shown on Movies and TV Series playback
When playing a live video, it now shows as background in the home screen
Player controls for DVD's added in "WMC design"
Added disc# to AudioListViews
Removed animated Aurora Background, also remove it in skin settings
A specially designed WMC skin addresses the needs of former Windows Media Center users. This skin with its two themes Default and Dark offers the same experience that you were used to while providing additional features that make it even better than Windows Media Center.

WMC Dark Weather d3818 WMC Dark Weather d3818 WMC Dark Weather d3818 WMC Dark Weather d3818

The revamped BlueVision skin and its themes Default, Win10, Titanium Extended and Grey offer additional display options that allow adjusting the look of MediaPortal 2.1 to your personal preferences:
Win10
Win10 VideoHub 1 5fdc4 Win10 Movie 1 7d817 win10 Audio Fullscreen dc605 Win10 Audio 2 38559

Titanium Extended

TE Menu TV 7c1ea TE CP screen 101c8 TE Emulators grid 998ad TE recordings 427a1



Extensions
MediaPortal 2.2's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Trakt
A new Trakt plugin has been developed with better sync and watched flags management, completely compatible with the new User Management system, allowing different trakt accounts for different users. The development of the plugin has been moved out from the standard Mediaportal 2 development. This will ease development and bug fixes.
For details or manual, please refer to the related WIKI section.

Flag Mover
Flag mover is a new plugin developed for MediaPortal 2.2 and newer versions. You'll be able to backup user specific watched flags (JSON format) and to restore/transfer them into a new clean installation.

Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at the different changelogs: MediaPortal 2.2 Final https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=13100 and MediaPortal 2.2 Pre https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12801&styleName=&projectId=10503&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG_17a5efa1896aa8bf6d654bd9eef2fcca403f4abb_lout


MediaPortal 1.21 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have just released a Pre Release of MediaPortal 1.21. Happy testing!

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with MadVR
We fixed an issue with Dynamic Refresh Rate and the MediaInfo wrapper
We fixed an issue where the end time was incorrect when TV recordings were imported
We fixed/reworked the Audio Mixer control for Windows 7 & 10
We fixed a crash on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
New:

We added new functions in the following areas:

Added support for AAC 'Parametric Stereo' audio streams to TV player
Added 'watched recording' status to TV section of Titan skin**
Added audio delay adjustment capability using LAV Audio
TV recording now uses a 'CPU thread per recording' method to minimise interaction between recordings and/or timeshifting
TV off-air DVB EPG data processing re-worked to fix some long-standing issues with incorrect character set handling
** With this new function you get a display of watched status/watched percentage in TV/Radio recordings (similiar as in MyVideos).

Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, Java 8 must be installed. We recommend the version Java 8u151 in x86 version.
Download-Link : Oracle Download Website

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.21 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.21 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=13000

Documentation of new features will be added to: Wiki - What's New
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Whats+New


We are proud to present MediaPortal 2.2 Pre-Release

It has been some time since last release, but we were intensively working on the implementation of new features and some fundamental changes in the core of MediaPortal 2. As a result, we proudly present the next major release of MediaPortal 2 in version 2.2.

MediaPortal 2.2 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.2 also provides access to online video sources such as Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

There is a long list of changes – you can find all details in the end of this news – but the major changes in the following.

User Management
Thanks to user management you'll be able to create different profiles with different settings, different privileges, and different skins. Each profile will maintain its own set of watched status. The user management is a server side feature, meaning all the profiles are saved on the server portion of Media Portal 2 and then distributed through all the clients where the User Management Feature is enabled.

thumb User login Settings2 14337 thumb User login Settings d577b

You can set a password and limit TV-groups, age rated content, access to media sources etc. by user. There are pre-defined user templates (Administrator, teenager, kids), which can be later further restricted or relaxed. User can upload their own profile pictures to customize their account. As a result, you can make your kids see only feasible content making Media Portal 2 the perfect family HTPC solution.

thumb User login TE f7736 User login WMC 9fbe2 User login BV 9af0c User login Win10 e53f7

For details or manual, please refer to the related WIKI section.

Importer
An overworked Data Base structure was introduced offering many improvements and features. It offers content group support for audio, stub support, user support, some new indexes for speed improvements, faster searching and correct ordering of artists, actors etc.

By adding an async task handling we could also avoid the second importer run known from MP2.1 and improve the resource usage in idle or during import resulting in a better performance.

The new DB structure is imcompatible with previous versions, but when upgrading Media Portal from a previous version the server will recognize old DB's from MP2.1.x and upgrade them automatically on first start. You will not loose any of your media items, watched status etc. An indicator in client informs you about the upgrade progress.

With Media Re-import it is finally possible to correct or adjust wrongly imported media items manually comfortably from within client. You can select the best result from auto matcher or manually search by media name or identification number (IMBD, TvDB, …). You can simply access the re-import feature from context menu of a focused media item.

thumb Reimport menu BV 53251 thumb Reimport dialoge WMC 91a64


Input Management
The previous Input Device Manager plugin has been completely rewritten, allowing now to control not only Key Management, but also Screen Management. You can now assign special shortcuts to switch from one screen to the other directly. (i.e. assign a special shortcut to jump to TV, or TV Guide)

The GUI for the Input Management is now much more intuitive and allows you to first chose the action and then the key combination to map to that action. It's now possible to see, remove or modify existing key mappings already assigned to a specific action quickly and more reliably.

For details or manual, please refer to the related WIKI section.

Genre Management
Genres are managed differently now. During import genres are mapped to defined genre ID's, which can be localized with in client. There are VideoGenres for movies and series, AudioGenres and TVGenres. Unknown genres are also supported, they will be added additionally and are handled by their name during import.

As a result you may filter comfortably media items by genre ID and you are also able to see newly introduced genre poster as an eye catcher.

thumb Genre Coverview BV 80098 Genre Gridview WMC 83b4b

The TV part also shows genres now in case your EPG provider supports it. You can optionally activate EPG genre colors in TV settings and assign predefined colors to TV genres in all skins. The settings also allow you to map colors to genres to customize the EPG according your needs.

Genre EPG settings WMC ba0cb Genre EPG BV ff144 Genre EPG WMC bdfd7 Gnere EPG TE 72938

Stub Support
We implemented stub support for movies, series and albums. When a disc is inserted the matching stub will be found. A prompt will be shown to insert the media if disc is not found. Series discs that contain multiple episodes will be created as a multi part episodes. When using NFO files together with the stub files, the <fileinfo> part will be read from the NFO file to generate media details.

Album stub file extensions: "cd.disc"
Movie and series stub file extensions: "dvd.disc", "bluray.disc", "brrip.disc", "bd25.disc", "bd50.disc", "hddvd.disc", "hdtv.disc", "pdtv.disc", "dsr.disc", "vhs.disc"
Focus Handling
We have improved the focus handling in MP2.2. So far lists always start withed the focus on first item.

In long lists the focus is put directly on the selected item now and you do not need to scroll any longer through the list to find it
The focus behaviour for series media view is more intelligent and places the focus on the first partly- or unwatched media item allowing you to directly continue with the episode/season you new to continue
Skins
WMC Skin
We improved and expanded WMC skin features refreshing its style to look more modern.

Home Content
Home Content is offering quick and comfortable access to media items and further information in home screen, if activated in skin settings. You be able to see instantly the latest added media items continue watching the latest watched movies, see your favourite music, which you were playing frequently. You can also directly select current running TV programs or favourite TV-channels directly from HomeScreen. You can comfortably switch between HomeMenu and HomeContent with “info” (remote) or “I” (keyboard). It’s definitely a feature you don’t want to miss again.

thumb HomeContent EPG 04fce thumb HomeContent Movies 82e03 HomeContent TV 3e955 HomeContent Series fdfc5

New Thumbnail View
You are now able to switch between banners, posters and thumbnails for movies and series in skin settings.

WMC Thumbnail view 5f027

Other WMC skin changes

Higher resolution for menu images
Improved HomeMenu navigation with mouse (vertical navigation buttons)
Now the clock appears on the top right corner of the screen when the OSD is shown on Movies and TV Series playback
When playing a live video, it now shows as background in the home screen
Player controls for DVD's added in "WMC design"
Added disc# to AudioListViews
Removed animated Aurora Background, also remove it in skin settings
A specially designed WMC skin addresses the needs of former Windows Media Center users. This skin with its two themes Default and Dark offers the same experience that you were used to while providing additional features that make it even better than Windows Media Center.

WMC Dark Weather d3818 WMC Dark Weather d3818 WMC Dark Weather d3818 WMC Dark Weather d3818

The revamped BlueVision skin and its themes Default, Win10, Titanium Extended and Grey offer additional display options that allow adjusting the look of MediaPortal 2.1 to your personal preferences:
Win10
Win10 VideoHub 1 5fdc4 Win10 Movie 1 7d817 win10 Audio Fullscreen dc605 Win10 Audio 2 38559

Titanium Extended

TE Menu TV 7c1ea TE CP screen 101c8 TE Emulators grid 998ad TE recordings 427a1



Extensions
MediaPortal 2.2's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Trakt
A new Trakt plugin has been developed with better sync and watched flags management, completely compatible with the new User Management system, allowing different trakt accounts for different users. The development of the plugin has been moved out from the standard Mediaportal 2 development. This will ease development and bug fixes.
For details or manual, please refer to the related WIKI section.

Flag Mover
Flag mover is a new plugin developed for MediaPortal 2.2 and newer versions. You'll be able to backup user specific watched flags (JSON format) and to restore/transfer them into a new clean installation.

Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at the different changelogs: MediaPortal 2.2 Pre

https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12801&styleName=&projectId=10503&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG_17a5efa1896aa8bf6d654bd9eef2fcca403f4abb_lout


MediaPortal 1.20 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

We have released MediaPortal 1.20 Final.

Highlights of this release

Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with MadVR
We fixed the issue where folder.jpg doesn't work properly with multiple subfolders
We fixed the bug that crept into the MediaPortal 1.20 pre-release which led to running radio streams could not be stopped.
New:

We added new functions in the following areas:

MediaInfoWrapper - Remove VideoResolution skin dependence
MyVideo Update UserGruops with rule after movie watched status changed
MyVideo - Database View - Add the ability to delete video files from GUI
Add #iswatched property to recorded TV **
PIN protection for channel handling inside TV client
Rework watched status of recordings **
Rework MyVideo reset watched status **
** With these new functions you get a display of watched status/watched percentage in TV/Radio recordings (similiar as in MyVideos). Additionally, you may even reset the watched count to 0 (zero) if wanted. The skin DefaultWideHD already contains the necessary skin changes.

Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Note:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, Java 8 must be installed. We recommend the version Java 8u151 in x86 version.

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.20 Final by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.20 Final
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12304&styleName=Html&projectId=10506

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.20 Final
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.18.x


MediaPortal 1.20 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

To celebrate the ongoing World Cup 2018 we have just released a Pre Release of MediaPortal 1.20. Happy testing!

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with MadVR
We fixed the issue where folder.jpg doesn't work properly with multiple subfolders
New:

We added new functions in the following areas:

MediaInfoWrapper - Remove VideoResolution skin dependence
MyVideo Update UserGruops with rule after movie watched status changed
MyVideo - Database View - Add the ability to delete video files from GUI
Add #iswatched property to recorded TV **
PIN protection for channel handling inside TV client
Rework watched status of recordings **
Rework MyVideo reset watched status **
** With these new functions you get a display of watched status/watched percentage in TV/Radio recordings (similiar as in MyVideos). Additionally, you may even reset the watched count to 0 (zero) if wanted. The skin DefaultWideHD already contains the necessary skin changes.

Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Note:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, Java 8 must be installed. We recommend the version Java 8u151 in x86 version.


MediaPortal 1.19.0 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal.

Attached to this news you will find the download for MediaPortal 1.19.0 Final

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with MadVR
We fixed an issue where MP was not able to manage audio volume correctly
We updated SQLite to version 3.21. This reduces CPU load and add bugfixes
We fixed TSreader crashing with MPEG2 stream
We fixed some issues on MediaPortal Configuration
New:

We added some skin functions
We provide a libbluray library based on our own fork.and updated to 1.0.2 (read information below)
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Note:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, Java 8 must be installed. We recommend the x86 version.
Wiki-Link : Java for Bluray BD-J support

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.19.0 Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.19.0 Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=12305

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.19.0 Release
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.18.x


MediaPortal 1.19.0 Pre Release

We from Team-MediaPortal wish everyone a safe and happy 2018!
To celebrate the new year we have just released a Pre Release of MediaPortal 1.19.0. Happy testing!

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release
Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with MadVR
We fixed an issue where MP was not able to manage audio volume correctly
We updated SQLite to version 3.21. This reduces CPU load and add bugfixes
We fixed TSreader crashing with MPEG2 stream
We fixed some issues on MediaPortal Configuration
New:

We added some skin functions
We provide a libbluray library based on our own fork.and updated to 1.0.2 (read information below)
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Note:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, Java 8 must be installed. We recommend the version Java 8u151 in x86 version.
Download-Link : Oracle Download Website

Full list of changes
gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.19.0 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.19.0 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12304&styleName=Html&projectId=10505

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.19.0 Pre Release
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.18.x


MediaPortal 2.1.3

The MP2 team is proud to present the release of MediaPortal 2.1.3
MediaPortal 2.1.3 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.1 also provides access to online video sources such as Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

The modern client/server architecture in combination with the central database greatly simplifies the use and management of the system. New clients can easily be added to the environment and connected to the MediaPortal 2 Server for immediate use.

This service upgrade fixes several bugs and introduces some new features:
TV
It is now possible to delete active recordings. A security dialogue will prompt for confirmation that you really want to terminate the active recording and delete the file.
New TsReader and CloseCaption parser versions increase the stability of TV playback.
TV FullGuide display can be switched to a single channel view by selecting the channel name. This is useful if for example you would like to record a particular show on this channel.
thumb 299087 thumb ShowMiniEPG2 27591

Extensions
MediaPortal 2.1.3's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Have a look at what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Full list of changes
You can review all changes by taking a look at the changelog: MediaPortal 2.1.3.
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=12900


The MP2 team is proud to present the release of MediaPortal 2.1.2
Tuesday, 21 November 2017

MediaPortal 2.1.2 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.1 also provides access to online video sources such as Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

The modern client/server architecture in combination with the central database greatly simplifies the use and management of the system. New clients can easily be added to the environment and connected to the MediaPortal 2 Server for immediate use.

This service upgrade fixes several bugs and introduces some new features:

WakeOnLan

We added a WOL-manager to allow the automatic wake-up of the server PC when a client is switched on.
TV

We added automatic logo management: channel logos are now automatically refreshed every other week so that changes in the logo repository will be automatically available on your system.
We also fixed a bug that caused radio logos to not be downloaded.
A configurable pop-up window now signals that a scheduled recording is starting or has ended.
Player-OSD and Player configuration display

We added a setting option to allow the optional display of the player configuration dialog.
We changed the way the OSD is displayed. The first press of 'Info' will invoke the OSD, a second will either switch it off or display the player configuration, which will then close again when pressing 'Info' one more time.
Removable media

We greatly increased the speed when browsing files on removable media (e.g. pictures on a SD card).
Weather

We fixed a bug that caused temperatures to always be displayed in °C,
Skin

We added a new WMC theme 'Turquoise"
The WMC Home menu has been overworked for a better user experience
DiscArt was added to the Audio player.

Windows Media Center theme 'Turquoise" for MediaPortal 2

Extensions

MediaPortal 2.1.2's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Have a look at what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.
Full list of changes

You can review all changes by taking a look at the changelog: MediaPortal 2.1.2
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=12800


MediaPortal 1.18.0 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 09 October 2017.

Highlights of this release

Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with TSReader where RTSP timeouts were too short in some situations as well as seeking in recordings could trigger end-of-file if extra buffering delay is enabled in registry.
We fixed an issue where MP was not able to find the correct Audio Renderer Device.
We fixed an issue where TV channels were removed when selecting "Edit Recording" in EPG.
We added PowerOff events to the InputHandler mapping.
We added the possibility of bulk deletion in TV Recordings.
We fixed an issue in MyVideos where file deletion failed when the file was playing.
We significantly reduced the CPU load on BasicHome for skins using a lot of skin expressions (from BasicHome Editors) and therefore optimized the rendering times.
New:

We added support for the spectrum analyzer plugin (to be seen in e.g. MusicNowPlaying).
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.18.0 Final by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.18.0 Final
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12302&styleName=Html&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7C9d56a79bf6a595122b363af6da81cb2d9c914ef4%7Clin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.18.0 Final
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.17.x


MediaPortal 1.18.0 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 01 September 2017.

Attached to this news you will find the download for MediaPortal 1.18.0 Pre Release

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release

Bugfixes:

We fixed some issues with TSReader where RTSP timeouts were too short in some situations as well as seeking in recordings could trigger end-of-file if extra buffering delay is enabled in registry.
We fixed an issue where MP was not able to find the correct Audio Renderer Device.
We fixed an issue where TV channels were removed when selecting "Edit Recording" in EPG.
We added PowerOff events to the InputHandler mapping.
We added the possibility of bulk deletion in TV Recordings.
We fixed an issue in MyVideos where file deletion failed when the file was playing.
We significantly reduced the CPU load on BasicHome for skins using a lot of skin expressions (from BasicHome Editors) and therefore optimized the rendering times.
New:

We added support for the spectrum analyzer plugin (to be seen in e.g. MusicNowPlaying).
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.



Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.18.0 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.18.0 Pre Release
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12302&styleName=Html&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7C9d56a79bf6a595122b363af6da81cb2d9c914ef4%7Clin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.18.0 Pre Release
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.17.x


MediaPortal 2.1.1 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 29 July 2017.

This service upgrade fixes several bugs and introduces some new features:

Media Importer
We increased the speed and improved the stability of the importer process. We also removed OMDB from the list of online sources to choose from, as it is no longer free to use. A visual indicator has been added to each skin and theme to inform the user that an importer process is ongoing.
TV
We added the possibility to manually schedule recordings: schedules can now be defined for any channel by simply setting start and end times/dates.
The recording indicator that is displayed on each menu screen while the system is recording a show is now visible in all skins and themes.
A new setup option now allows users to change the logo style of TV/Radio channels. Besides a new channel group button to swich groups, we also added configuration options to define if name, logo and number of each TV channel should be displayed in the EPG
Video playback
A visual indicator will be shown when the playback is paused.
Fast forward/rewind now displays the speed of playback.
Weather
We replaced the weather provider WorldWeatherOnline by OpenWeatherMap. The Weather screen now displays a full seven days of weather forecast instead five.
Settings menu
The settings menu section has been overworked and now displays its entries in a more logical order and structure.


Extensions

MediaPortal 2.1.1's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Full list of changes

You can review all changes by taking a look at the changelog: MediaPortal 2.1.1
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=12400


MediaPortal 1.17.0 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 02 July 2017.

Highlights of this release

MyVideos
We fixed some bugs with video views, especially collections, user groups and libraries. We also added new properties to display icons of movie awards, extended MPAA text and movie awards text. Skinners now have the possibility to add badges for collections, user groups, new and actualized movies, watched/unwatched movies etc. as overlays in nearly all layouts like thumbnailpanel, filmstrip and coverflow. DefaultWideHD already shows some of the new functions.
MyTV
The lists in TV Recordings now show the year of the recording, e.g. 12-03 2016 instead of only 12-03. We also added the functionality of moving or deleting channels from/to channel groups inside the GUI via context menu in TV EPG. We also fixed an issue that recording files were left open by the Streaming Server
MediaPortal General
We fixed the problem of scaling issues when using MP in windowed mode or other resolutions than the standard resolution of 1920x1080.
We fixed a proplem with Watchdog crashing on failure when trying to copy TV Server gentle.config as well as Watchdog not grabbing all TV Server configuration files.
We fixed an issue with MiniDisplay not showing the correct labels for the actual highlighted button or selected items in a dialog list.
MediaInfo
We updated the MediaInfo.dll to version 0.7.95.
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.



Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.17.0 Final by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.17 Final
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12302&styleName=&projectId=10505

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.17.0 Final
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.17.x


MediaPortal 1.17.0 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 27 May 2017.

Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release

MyVideos
We fixed some bugs with video views, especially collections, user groups and libraries. We also added new properties to display icons of movie awards, extended MPAA text and movie awards text. Skinners now have the possibility to add badges for collections, user groups, new and actualized movies, watched/unwatched movies etc. as overlays in nearly all layouts like thumbnailpanel, filmstrip and coverflow. DefaultWideHD already shows some of the new functions.
MyTV
The lists in TV Recordings now show the year of the recording, e.g. 12-03 2016 instead of only 12-03. We also added the functionality of moving or deleting channels from/to channel groups inside the GUI via context menu in TV EPG. We also fixed an issue that recording files were left open by the Streaming Server
MediaPortal General
We fixed the problem of scaling issues when using MP in windowed mode or other resolutions than the standard resolution of 1920x1080.
We fixed a proplem with Watchdog crashing on failure when trying to copy TV Server gentle.config as well as Watchdog not grabbing all TV Server configuration files.
We fixed an issue with MiniDisplay not showing the correct labels for the actual highlighted button or selected items in a dialog list.
MediaInfo
We updated the MediaInfo.dll to version 0.7.95.
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.


Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.17.0 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.17.0 Pre Release & 1.17 Final
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12202&styleName=&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7Cc3f5ac68e2f13370f91d1f94183c0239fd24612b%7Clin
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12203&styleName=&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7C5ce95866323eba89474a4f327ef009d9d54c5eb5%7Clout

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.17.0 Pre Release
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.16.x


MediaPortal 2.1 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 03 May 2017.

The MP2 team is proud to present the final release version of MediaPortal 2.1

MediaPortal 2.1 is a full-blown media center software that addresses the most common user requirements out of the box. Besides its TV and Radio services it is also offering a complete media management for movies, series and music, including posters, album and fan art as well as additional metadata (e.g. actor, director and much more) that are automatically downloaded from the internet. MediaPortal 2.1 also provides access to online video sources such as Amazon Prime. Integrated news, weather information and management for your digital images complete this software package.

The modern client/server architecture in combination with the central database greatly simplifies the use and management of the system. New clients can easily be added to the environment and connected to the MediaPortal 2 Server for immediate use.

Skins

A series of different skins allows customization of MediaPortal 2.1's look & feel to your individual likes. The choices of skins and their respective themes is continuously expanded:

A specially designed WMC skin addresses the needs of former Windows Media Center users. This skin with its two themes Default and Dark offers the same experience that you were used to while providing additional features that make it even better than Windows Media Center.
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The revamped BlueVision skin and its themes Default, Win10, Titanium Extended and Grey offer additional display options that allow adjusting the look of MediaPortal 2.1 to your personal preferences:
Win10
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Titanium Extended
TE Menu TV 7c1ea TE CP screen 101c8 TE Emulators grid 998ad TE recordings 427a1
Grey
Grey Movies 2 bbcf2 Grey Movies 3 db7d7 Grey TV Home 344c6 Grey Music 1 c1877

TV

MediaPortal can handle TV channels from satellite, cable, as well as DVB-T/T2 and IP streams. It includes an electronic program guide (EPG), recording scheduling and recording management. Logos for your TV channels are automatically retrieved and added to your TV database.
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Media Management

All kind of media (movie, series, audio, videos, etc.) are automatically scraped. Respective online information (descriptions, covers, posters, fanart, artists, etc.) is downloaded and added to the central database. Users can define which online sources to use and what kind of data to download.
Local fanarts and descriptions from NFO files are also supported. Data can later be enriched with online information if desired.

Filter and Sorting settings that are available in all screens allow the definition of individual views for every kind of media. Different views can be set for each hierarchical level (e.g. Series/Season/Episode).

Localized language information will be used to retrieve Movie and Series data from Online sources. However, the original language will be used If files don't contain any local language audio stream. For example a movie that holds only French language streams will be displayed with its French title and summary even if the local language is English.

Music
Information is either read from tagged file data and/or downloaded from online sources. The integrated player displays album and track information together with fanart in combination with a dynamic equalizer visualization.
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Movies
Movie information is imported including title, summary and other data such as director, character and actor.
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Series
TV series data (including actors and characters) are automatically retrieved from TheTvDb.
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Video Streaming Services

MediaPortal 2.1 supports online video replay through its inbuilt OnlineVideo services. A big number of online sources is predefined, among which YouTube and Amazon Prime.
WMC OV sites 1c70e

Extensions

MediaPortal 2.1's functionality can be further extended through the installation of additional plugins. The choice of extensions, while currently limited, is steadily growing. Discover what else is available in our Featured Plugins section.

Full list of changes

You can review all changes by taking a look at the different changelogs: MediaPortal 2.1 Final https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=12100 , MediaPortal 2.1 Pre2 https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=12600 and MediaPortal 2.1 Pre https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=12500 .


MediaPortal 1.16.0 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 17 April 2017.

Highlights of this release

MediaPortal now supports BD-J
Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) allows bonus content on Blu-ray discs to be far more sophisticated than bonus content provided by standard DVD. This includes network access, picture-in-picture and access to expanded local storage. You need to install Java to use this feature.
madVR (requires manual installation)
madVR is a high quality DirectShow video renderer, designed as a no-compromise approach, which tries to achieve the best possible video playback quality.
Wiki link: MadVR Video Renderer
Ares (skin)
An amazing new skin from the designer of Apollo giving you 25 home buttons to configure exactly how you like.
Rename labels, change images, swap out plugins and configure hyperlink parameters all within the home screen.
Support and a button image template can be found in one of the following threads:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/forums/ares-skin-feedback.716/

TV engine now supports broadcasts with HEVC/H.265 video e.g. DVB-T2 HD in Germany
For remote TV clients, a major update of the underlying RTSP client/server code to improve the speed of live TV channel changes, live & recorded seeking (skip steps) performance and IPTV reliability.
Live TV playback performs smooth matching of broadcast and PC stream rates, to reduce playback 'pauses' in some circumstances.
Better TV audio support (more AAC formats supported and other reliabilty improvements)
Separate settings for DVD and BD external players
Improved Wake On LAN support.
HID remote handler now supports multiple profiles
This makes it easier for users to customize their remote control experience.
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.16 Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.16 Pre
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12202&styleName=&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7Cc3f5ac68e2f13370f91d1f94183c0239fd24612b%7Clin

Changelog: MediaPortal 1.16 Final
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12203&styleName=&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7C5ce95866323eba89474a4f327ef009d9d54c5eb5%7Clout

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.16.0 Release
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/1.16.x


MediaPortal 2.1 Pre2 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 11 February 2017.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre2 Release version of MediaPortal 2.1.

Since we published the MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release in late December, we fixed many issues and further improved the product to provide the best possible experience to the users.

While MediaPortal 2 is now a fully stable product, some of the issues that the community reported require further work. Because of this the MP2 team decided to publish another Pre release version to allow the community to benefit from all the bug fixes and improvements that we added since the beginning of the year.

Highlights of this release

Besides numerous bug fixes, we have included the following major improvements:

New WMC skin
Coming from WMC, because not able to use it anymore with Windows 10, but looking for the same lean usability? The new WMC skin will offer the full look and feel, that you are used to and offer a lot of additional opportunities making it even better.

Default theme
WMC 01 9bf5b WMC 02 3c1f1 WMC 03 f8ee1 WMC 04 02817

Dark theme
WMC Dark 1 bc86b WMC Dark 2 f7224 WMC Dark 3 51449 WMC Dark 4 a1b88

New BlueVision skin themes
The BlueVision skin has been revamped and new themes have been added: Windows10, Titanium Extended and Grey allow to adjust the look of MediaPortal to your personal preference.

Windows10
thumb Win10 1 6fb19 thumb Win10 2 28ad7 thumb Win10 3 bc42f thumb Win10 4 4c778

Titanium Extended
thumb TitanExt 1 710eb thumb TitanExt 2 ac591 thumb TitanExt 3 7d947 thumb TitanExt 4 65d79

Grey
thumb Grey 2 c8257 thumb Grey 1 9d886 Grey 3 3a2aa Grey 4 2bf08

Completely reworked media management
All kind of media (movie, series, audio, videos, etc.) will now be automatically scraped. Respective online information (descriptions, covers, posters, fanart, artists, etc.) is downloaded and added to the central database. Users can define which online sources to use and what kind of data to download. Local fanarts and descriptions are also supported.

Enhanced movie and series management
Movies can now be shown filtered by collections (aka movie sets)
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Now there is also an indicator for the watched percentage of movies and their collections as well as for series and seasons.
Several new features have been added. You can now enjoy season FanArt and benefit from a broad variety of metadata to filter and sort on.
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TV
Cascaded CAM support

Online Videos
Added support for DRM-protected content like Amazon Prime

Skin
All: Configurable Fanart transparency/visibility level
WMC: Added age certification logos
Settings
Individual share watcher settings for each media source
Configurable Splitter settings
Logging level change now acting on both client and server
Full list of changes

The complete list of changes since the release of Spring '16 last year is very long and we will only list changes since MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release here. Please also refer to the Pre Release changelog for a complete overview of what has changed since Spring '16.
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/uncategorised/mediaportal-2-1-pre-release-changelog

Changelog since MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release: Have a look at the details
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-2/mediaportal-2-1-pre2-release-changelog


MediaPortal 2.1 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 28 December 2016.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 2.1.

The MP2 team has done a great job in fixing virtually hundreds of bugs and, most importantly, finishing the long-expected MIA Rework! We have now added all those functionalities that you had been asking for since ages.

This Pre Release is provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the new things we have added since the release of Spring '16. We are particularly interested in your feedback regarding functionality and design as well as menu layout and its content. Your feedback will be a valuable source for bug fixing and general improvement, which we plan to apply to the the final release!

Highlights of this release

Besides numerous bug fixes, we have included the following major improvements:

New WMC skin
Coming from WMC, because not able to use it anymore with Windows 10, but looking for the same lean usability? The new WMC skin will offer the full look and feel, that you are used to and offer a lot of additional opportunities making it even better.

WMC 01 9bf5b WMC 02 3c1f1 WMC 03 f8ee1 WMC 04 02817

New BlueVision skin themes
The BlueVision skin has been revamped and new themes have been added: Windows10, Titanium Extended and Grey allow to adjust the look of MediaPortal to your personal preference.

Windows10
thumb Win10 1 6fb19 thumb Win10 2 28ad7 thumb Win10 3 bc42f thumb Win10 4 4c778

Titanium Extended
thumb TitanExt 1 710eb thumb TitanExt 2 ac591 thumb TitanExt 3 7d947 thumb TitanExt 4 65d79

Grey
thumb Grey 2 c8257 thumb Grey 1 9d886 Grey 3 3a2aa Grey 4 2bf08

Completely reworked media management
All kind of media (movie, series, audio, videos, etc.) will now be automatically scraped. Respective online information (descriptions, covers, posters, fanart, artists, etc.) is downloaded and added to the central database. Users can define which online sources to use and what kind of data to download. Local fanarts and descriptions are also supported.

Enhanced movie and series management
Movies can now be shown filtered by collections (aka movie sets)
thumb MovieSeries 1 b1467 thumb MovieSeries 2 cfa1e MoviesMgt 3 14a52 MoviesMgt 4 9da0b

Now there is also an indicator for the watched percentage of movies and their collections as well as for series and seasons.
Several new features have been added. You can now enjoy season FanArt and benefit from a broad variety of metadata to filter and sort on.
SeriesMgt 1 ce6ea SeriesMgt 2 9adb8 SeriesMgt 3 9f79f SeriesMgt 4 52c16

TV
TV engine now supports broadcasts with HEVC/H.265 video e.g. DVB-T2 HD in Germany
Better TV audio support (more AAC formats supported and other reliabilty improvements

Online Videos
Added support for DRM-protected content like Amazon Prime

Resource drive S: removed: Media resources are now mounted as folders instead of drives. No strange drive letters showing up in Explorer anymore.
Full list of changes

We have literally fixed hundreds of things. Have a look at the details

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/uncategorised/mediaportal-2-1-pre-release-changelog


MediaPortal 1.16.0 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 23 December 2016.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.16.0.
Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we will only fix bugs, after which comes the final release!

Highlights of this release

MediaPortal now supports BD-J
Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) allows bonus content on Blu-ray discs to be far more sophisticated than bonus content provided by standard DVD. This includes network access, picture-in-picture and access to expanded local storage. You need to install Java to use this feature.
madVR (requires manual installation)
madVR is a high quality DirectShow video renderer, designed as a no-compromise approach, which tries to achieve the best possible video playback quality.
Wiki link: http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.g.x/Adding_support_for_madVR_as_high_quality_video_renderer
Ares (skin)
An amazing new skin from the designer of Apollo giving you 25 home buttons to configure exactly how you like.
Rename labels, change images, swap out plugins and configure hyperlink parameters all within the home screen.
Support and a button image template can be found in one of the following threads:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/forums/ares-skin-feedback.716/

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TV engine now supports broadcasts with HEVC/H.265 video e.g. DVB-T2 HD in Germany
For remote TV clients, a major update of the underlying RTSP client/server code to improve the speed of live TV channel changes, live & recorded seeking (skip steps) performance and IPTV reliability.
Live TV playback performs smooth matching of broadcast and PC stream rates, to reduce playback 'pauses' in some circumstances.
Better TV audio support (more AAC formats supported and other reliabilty improvements)
Separate settings for DVD and BD external players
Improved Wake On LAN support.
HID remote handler now supports multiple profiles
This makes it easier for users to customize their remote control experience.
Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.


Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.16 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12202&styleName=&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7Cc3f5ac68e2f13370f91d1f94183c0239fd24612b%7Clin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.16.0 Pre Release
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.g.x



MediaPortal 1.15.0 Release
Written by Team MediaPortal on 28 June 2016.


Highlights of this release

Along with the various bug fixes, we have included the following improvements:

Separate settings for DVD and BD external players.
Improved Wake On LAN support.
Option to hide the windows volume OSD
HID remote handler now supports multiple profiles to make it easier for users to customize their remote control experience.
Added progress bars to TV miniguide and MyVideos listviews (already implemented in Titan and DefaultWideHD).

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.15 Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal Pre & Final
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12000&styleName=Text&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7C624f291b7e1819a457519940bf0cf3b7c8218e97%7Clin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.15.0 Release
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.f.x


MediaPortal 1.15.0 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 21 May 2016.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.15.0.
Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes, and then comes the final release!

Highlights of this release


Along with the following items we kept consolidating our software:

Separate settings for DVD and BD external players.
Improved Wake On LAN support.
HID remote handler now supports multiple profiles to make it easier for users to customize their remote control experience.
Added progress bars to TV miniguide and MyVideos listviews (already implemented in Titan and DefaultWideHD).
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Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.15 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal

http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12000&styleName=Text&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7C624f291b7e1819a457519940bf0cf3b7c8218e97%7Clin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.15.0 Pre Release
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.e.x


MediaPortal 1.14.0 Release
Written by Team MediaPortal on 18 April 2016.

Attached to this news you will find the final version of MediaPortal 1.14. With this release we offer a number of bug fixes and made some improvements.

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

Where the focus was on

The focus for this release was on bug fixing. We notably kept consolidating our remote control HID handler. We fixed potential slow startup issues with offline share. We added a couple of features like the display of Radio EPG in the NowPlaying screen (when available) and the GUI auto-update in Videos, Music and Pictures sections when files and folders are created, renamed or changed. For a full list, see below.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.14 Pre Release by using the link below:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11807&styleName=Html&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG|8e62a917ed15286a0e3f913f4da437e56d1f0e39|lin

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.14 Final Release by using the link below:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11806&styleName=Html&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG|87159012585f7333e3f2ec23b1d25d11439dca30|lin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.e.x
MediaPortal 2 "Spring of '16" Release


MediaPortal 2 "Spring of '16" Release

Summary of changes

Compared to the Summer'15 Update 1 Release, this release brings a lot of fixes and features:gear-icon

Skin engine:
New window mode, toggle between them by "ALT-Enter":
Windowed always on top
Windowed (normal)
Fullscreen
Windowed modes keep aspect ratio of Skin and position/size will be restored after restart
Fixed wrong MP2 window size after sleep/resume cycle due to resolution changes
Added feature to prevent focus stealing during startup phase
Updated freetype library to fix occasional crashes
Switched texture loading back to GDI (with fallback to FreeImage) to improve decoding performance
Added new feature to specify Texture alignment in images sources
Extended IScreenControl to allow temporary disabling "TopMost" behavior of MP2 main form (used for OnlineVideos)
Fixed logging of shader load errors
Video playback:
Updated TsReader for smoother playback of TV and recordings
Refresh Rate Changer got extended configuration options to allow custom refresh rate mappings (i.e. 25 fps -> 50 Hz, or 23 fps -> 24 Hz)
Added support for external subtitles by xy-VSfilter
Added new shortcuts to video fullscreen: "Yellow" to toggle subs, "Blue" to toggle audio streams
Media Library:
Major improvements to Image Player: player starts in "still" mode, allows skipping forward/backward through images. "Play" starts the known slide show. Automatically create playlist to play all audio or image items from current view.
New filter for audio "Album Artist"
Extended support for IMDB-id detection of non-xml .nfo files
Extended online lookup support at TheMovieDb by using tmdb ids
Hide "playlists" action from non-media screens
Extended SeriesMetadataExtractor to support user defined regular expressions and pre- and post-match text replacements (to clean up filenames)
Fixed possible NRE in MKV tag handling
Fixed potential crash for imports of UNC locations when checking for IsVirtualSource
Improved memory caching logic to avoid "out of memory" for large imports
Fixed Resource Server that could return wrong url in some cases (fixes loading of fanart / channel logos)
Changed streaming parameters for remote resource bridge (trying to fix interruption of media playback in multiseat)
Updates and fixes for SlimTV / TVE 3:
Updated core to MP1.14 version
Added option to hide "All Channels" group
Added new feature to show episode information in TV guide and recording planning
Improved schedules management: added scheduled programs list / series view
Extended recordings screen to show more details (channel, recording times),
Fixed occasional synchronisation issue of channels when switching groups
Fixed page up/down, home/end navigation inside EPG view
Fixed tuning details filenames due to wrong zip encoding
Internal changes to use ILocalFsResourceAccessor for files, while rtsp streams still use INetworkResourceAccessor
Reworked group / channel / zap handling to use correct group and channel indexes
Changes to UPnP system (removed IP affiinity in some calls to improve device detection, sending UPnP "update configuration" after resume from standby to improve reconnection)
Fixed user priorities (solves conflicts with EPG grabber and tuning requests)
Fixed recording/canceling of programs of series schedules
Disabled redundant TV Thumbnail creation (done by MP2)
Fixed endless loop in recording management if folder is missing
Fixed storing/reading of some settings due to case-sensitive DB storage.
BlueVision skin:
Implemented animated page transitions and seamless navigation between home pages
Fixed help label overlapping
Fixed flickering of "currently playing" group button and changed the icon
More fine tuning in all themes
Using new ImageSourceWrapper for smooth transitions of fanart images
Moved player controls into new "currently playing" screen (right button in top group menu), so they don't overlap footer contents
Added help texts for menu items to make features clearer to new users
New "Windows 10" theme
OnlineVideos 2
Added BrowserPlayer support for MP2, sites like Amazon Prime and Netflix should be working fine
Added support for placing BrowserPlayer above the MP2 GUI
New plugins:
Added UPnP renderer plugin
Emulators plugin available for download
Installer:
Fixed detection of x86 VC redistributables on x64 systems.
Removed license link from initial dialog
MCE remote support:
Fixed duplicated "next" / "previous" key handling
Reduced logging to log unmapped keys only once
Improved compatibility with some remotes by handling "Windows" keys properly


MediaPortal 1.14.0 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 22 February 2016.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.14.0.
Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes, and then comes the final release!

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

Where the focus was on

The focus for this release will be / is bugfixes. A whole bunch of them were done which mostly had affect on the handling and control of the interface, for example remote control (HID improvements), potential 'slow' startup(s) with an offline share, etc. Also a couple new options / features are added, like the display of the Radio EPG in the NowPlaying screen (when available) and the 'auto-update' of the GUI (for Videos/Music/Pictures sections) when a file/folder is created/renamed/changed. For a full list, see below.

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.14 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11807&styleName=Html&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG|8e62a917ed15286a0e3f913f4da437e56d1f0e39|lin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.14.0 Pre Release
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.e.x


MediaPortal 1.13.0 Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 24 December 2015.

Here it is, our MediaPortal 2015 Winter release!
Attached to this news you will find the final version of MediaPortal 1.13. With this release we offer a number of bug fixes and made some improvements.

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release


Remove Default skin and replace DefaultWide with DefaultWideHD

It wasn´t an easy decision, but finally we decided to drop the 4:3 Skin "Default" from the installer. For users who need a 4:3 skin, there is a nice replacement called "Four2Three" with the same functionality as the new DefaultWideHD.

We also replaced the skin "DefaultWide" with "DefaultWideHD" with the full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080. A lot of users may already know that skin as "DefaultWide HD", from our skin repository.

"DefaultWideHD" offers an easy-to-use BasicHome-Editor inside the GUI to let you configure MediaPortal to your personnel needs.

More information and a description of how to use the new BasicHome Editor can be found under this link: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/support-for-new-defaultwidehd.132552/

Screenshots DefaultWideHD

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PIN protection for delete recordings in TvPlugin

The accidental deletion of TV recordings may now be protected by a PIN.


Native ISO support on Windows 8 or later

MediaPortal now supports the direct playing of ISO files on HTPCs with Windows 8 or higher.
Please be aware that this new feature is still experimental, so do not remove DT or VCD before trying!


Remove Microsoft MCE Input Handler

We removed the Microsoft MCE Input Handler and replaced it with the HID Input Handler, so you should not experience any problems when using Microsoft MCE input devices


Restore last position and size of MP when used in windowed mode.

If you are using MediaPortal in windowed mode, your settings regarding position and size are now stored when you close Mediportal.



Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.13 Final Release since 1.13 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11805&styleName=&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG|f2e05d8ac1a1e88783cd9e440454954e0dab0af5|lin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.13.0
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.d.x


MediaPortal 1.13.0 Pre Release
Written by high on 03 November 2015.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.13.0.
Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes, and then comes the final release!

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

Remove Default skin and replace DefaultWide with DefaultWideHD

It wasn´t an easy decision, but finally we decided to drop the 4:3 Skin "Default" from the installer. For users who need a 4:3 skin, there will be a nice replacement called "Four2Three" with the same functionality as the new DefaultWideHD.

We also replaced the skin "DefaultWide" with "DefaultWideHD" with the full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080. A lot of users may already know that skin as "DefaultWide HD", from our skin repository.

"DefaultWideHD" offers an easy-to-use BasicHome-Editor inside the GUI to let you configure MediaPortal to your personnel needs.

More information and a description of how to use the new BasicHome Editor can be found under this link: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/support-for-new-defaultwidehd.132552/


PIN protection for delete recordings in TvPlugin

The accidental deletion of TV recordings may now be protected by a PIN.

Native ISO support on Windows 8 or later

MediaPortal now supports the direct playing of ISOfiles on HTPCs with Windows 8 or higher.

Please be aware that this new feature is still experimental, so you better do not remove DT or VCD before try!


Remove Microsoft MCE Input Handler

We removed the Microsoft MCE Input Handler.

Restore last position and size of MP when used in windowed mode.

If you are using MediaPortal in windowed mode, your settings regarding position and size are now stored when you close Mediportal.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.13 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11804&styleName=&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG|5c119978fbf929cf5d1b4fc7136e6c8796940468|lin

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.13.0
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.d.x


MediaPortal 2 - Summer '15 Update 1 Release
Written by Team MediaPortal on 07 September 2015.

After the release of the Summer'15 version we unfortunately noticed problems which needed to be addressed quickly. We improved our installation routines, have fixed the TV related and other issues and as result we now provide the "Summer'15 Update 1 Release". This release is mainly a bug fix release, but there are also interesting new features to discover! The Update 1 is generally recommended to install for MediaPortal 2 users.

Summary of changes

Compared to the Summer'15 Release this release brings following fixes and features:gear-icon

Fixes for TV feature:
IPTV was broken, loading of plugins fixed, ini-file in correct location now
Fixed missing registration of MPEG muxer filter for analog/ATSC
Updated core to MP1.12 version
Radio groups are now visible in SlimTV client (same as TV groups)
Other fixes:
Metadata: improved video metadata
TaskScheduler: fixed removing of tasks
Skin: fixed animations when leaving screen
New features:
Installer: our new installer simplifies intallation process: all dependencies are now directly installed
TV: automatically create media sources for recording folders to simplify configuration
TV: allow "auto tune last channel" when entering TV
TV: added program search feature
Skin: New BlueVision "Windows 10" theme
Skin: New BlueVision "Large fonts" theme
Skin: Added option to disable skin sounds
Skin: BlueVision skin improved, new menu button for easy access of hidden menu
Helpers: New Log Collector allows easy collection of log files for creating bug reports
Weather: thanks to WorldWeatherOnline we are now able to provide weather data to the increasing count of users
The full change log is available here: MediaPortal 2 Summer '15 Update 1 Release change log
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=11900


MediaPortal 2 - Summer '15 Release
Written by Team MediaPortal on 10 July 2015.

MediaPortal 2 - Summer '15 Release

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We are proud to release the "Summer '15 Release", providing users a new, vastly improved version of the next generation of MediaPortal. There are many new features and performance improvements in this release. MediaPortal 2 will continue to improve and evolve, but in the mean time install this version to see the impressive current features and support.

Be sure to read the instructions at the end of this article regarding installation, upgrade and extension compatibility.

Summary of changes

Compared to the 10th Anniversary Edition Update 1 (10thAE U1) this release brings a lot of new features, usability improvements and some bug fixes. And of course, MediaPortal 2 runs perfectly on Windows 10.

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New features and plugins:
Bringing the best of MP1 and MP2: The cutting edge technologies of MediaPortal 2 now makes use of the matured and stable TV Engine 3 of MediaPortal 1. This makes MP2 a complete solution for daily use, no longer depending on additional TV components installed!
Added support for showing "Latest Media"
Added filter for watched / unwatched MediaItems
Added extended metadata and fanart support
Added support for high quality audio formats (DSD)
Added support for local movie and series metadata (.nfo files) to importer
Improved video playback quality by automatic video shader selection depending on video resolution (defaults to "Sharpen Complex" for SD video)
Improved support for multi-episode files of series
New "BlueVision" skin including grey theme
Various minor improvements to existing skins
Introduction of advanced plugin compatibility management
Updated external components like Sqlite, ffmpeg
Fixes:
Bugfixes in RefreshRateChanger plugin (error in calculation)
Updated externals (like MediaInfo)
TV Support:
TV support has been extended. Now we support both the known stable TV engine from MP 1 (aka TVE3) and its upcoming successor TVE 3.5 (which is currently at alpha stage).
Added support for MediaCenter recordings, they can be imported into recording section and are available like MP native ones. This includes .wtv and .dvr-ms files.
More updated plugins and tools are available! (via our MP2 Plugins Downloads section on the website and forum):
Atmolight plugin
WebRadio plugin to play your favourite web radio streams inside MP2!
Cinema plugin to show all running movies in your favourite cinemas including playback of trailers
Application Launcher plugin
WiFi configuration plugin (included)
CEC remote plugin allows controlling MP2
The full change log is available here: MediaPortal 2 Summer Release '15 change log
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=10900


MediaPortal 1.12.0 Final Released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 06 July 2015.

Here it is, our MediaPortal 2015 Summer release!
Attached to this news you will find the final version of MediaPortal 1.12.0. With this release we offer a number of bug fixes and made some improvements.

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

Enhanced TV experience

MediaPortal IconFor users of Closed Caption subtitling, MP 1.12 can now decode and display Closed Captions from TV channels using H.264/AVC video compression (in addition to the existing MPEG2 capability).



Gamepads support

Now supporting a wide range of gamepads out-of-the-box through our improved HID input device option. Usage for common gamepads is illustrated here. Note that MCE remote and keyboard support is now covered by MP's HID input device management.

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.12.0 Release by using the links below:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11803

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.c.x


MediaPortal 1.11.0 Final Released
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 31 March 2015.

MediaPortal 1.11.0 Final Release

Here it is, our April Fools' Day gift to you!
Attached to this news you will find the final version of MediaPortal 1.11.0. With this release we offer a number of Bug fixes and made some Improvements.

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

Enhanced TV experience

MediaPortal IconWith MP 1.11.0 Release it is possible to display LiveTV media informations like video resolutions (HD, SD), video bitrate, audio channel count and much more in your TV OSD. This feature is already available in our default skin. Skin designers can have a quick look at our Wiki how to add this enhancement to their skins.



Improved remote control support

Now supporting a wider range of remote control and input devices out of the box. Check out our new Generic HID remote option.

Removal of music visualisations

MediaPortal IconUnfortunately we had to drop support for music visualisations with MP 1.11.0 because we are not allowed to use the 3rd party library anymore.

We are working on bringing back this feature as plugin.

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for MP 1.11 Release by using the links below:
Release Notes for MediaPortal 1.11
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11801&styleName=&projectId=10505

Release Notes for MediaPortal 1.11 Pre Release
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11800&styleName=Text&projectId=10505

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.b.x
What's new for MediaPortal 1.11.0


MediaPortal 1.10.0 Released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 26 December 2014.

MediaPortal 1.10.0 Released

Here it is, our Christmas gift to you!
Attached to this news you will find the final version of MediaPortal 1.10.0.

With this release we offer a number of Bug fixes and made some Improvements. To name a few: We added a Volume Overlay that can be seen in all screens and the MiniDisply plugin was updated with the SharpDisplayManager driver.

Highlights of this release

Improvements

Windows-10You'll notice that after installing a dedicated TV Server, you now have the MediaPortal Extension Manager available to install the Server plugins.

For the Client part we added the possibility to update MediaInfo in a selected folder, the option to re-create all/missing thumbs (including subfolders) in MyPictures, an SQLite Database integrity check and to improve troubleshooting, we've added our WatchDog shortcut to your desktop.
The music section has had a rework to improve thumbnail handling and last but not least: This release can be installed on the Windows 10 Technical Preview.
Note: This only applies to the Preview builds with kernel 6 (for now)!

Bugs

We also fixed a handful of Bugs like the warning for an incompatible skin, DVD resume, the Border selected program in the Radio EPG and we properly remove cancelled schedules from the TV database.
Because a lot of users reported issues with the MySQL upgrade path, we made some changes to this part. Existing installs still get the upgrade offered, but the database engine will remain as is (MyISAM). New installations will get the InnoDB database engine, since this is the default as of MySQL 5.6.

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for the 1.10.0 Release by using the links below:
Release Notes for MediaPortal 1.10 Pre Release
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11502
Release Notes for MediaPortal 1.10
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11503
Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
What's new for MediaPortal 1.10.0
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.a.x


MediaPortal 1.10.0 Pre Release
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 11 November 2014.

MediaPortal 1.10.0 Pre Release

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.10.0. Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes, and then comes the final release!

With this Pre Release we offer a number of Improvements and New Features. To name a few: We added a Volume Overlay that can be seen in all screens and the MiniDisply plugin was updated with the SharpDisplayManager driver.

Highlights of this release

Improvements

Windows-10You'll notice that after installing a dedicated TV Server, you now have the MediaPortal Extension Manager available to install the Server plugins. For the Client part we added the possibility to update MediaInfo in a selected folder, the option to re-create all/missing thumbs (including subfolders) in MyPictures, an SQLite Database integrity check and last but not least: This Pre Release can be installed on the Windows 10 Technical Preview!

Bugs

We also fixed a handful of Bugs like the warning for an incompatible skin, DVD resume, the Border selected program in the Radio EPG and we properly remove cancelled schedules from the TV database.
Because a lot of users reported issues with the MySQL upgrade path, we made some changes to this part. Existing installs still get the upgrade offered, but the database engine will remain as is (MyISAM). New installations will get the InnoDB database engine, since this is the default as of MySQL 5.6.

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for the 1.10.0 Pre Release by using the link below:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11502
Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.a.x


MediaPortal 1.9.0 Released
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 30 September 2014.

MediaPortal 1.9.0 Released

Attached to this news you will find the final version of MediaPortal 1.9.0.

For this release we've put our focus once more on Bug fixing and improved stability. However, there are a couple of new features. Skin designers will like the new <oninfo> and <onESC> functions. There are enhancements to the video resolution logos that will give you more information about the video you are watching. There is a new sort method in My Videos called Name with Duration. There are several improvements to logging, and a significant number of bug fixes.

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

UNC Streaming for Live TV

The default protocol for LiveTV streaming on a multi-seat setup is RTSP. MediaPortal has an option to change this to UNC for those that experience problems with RTSP. In the last release, we fixed some long-standing issues with UNC paths. Therefore, this option (which was previously hidden) is now present in configuration.

Thumbnails

Thumbnails are a really important way for you to get feedback about video files, and these have been improved in several ways in this release. Individual plugins can now use their own default thumbs. Issues with large thumbnail creation are fixed.

Content Protection

We found a number of issues with content protection. It wasn't working properly in date view in 'Pictures'. Also, the PIN code was shown unencrypted in the configuration files. This is all now fixed, and the PIN code now supports letters as well as numbers. However, you will need to reset all your PIN codes for this release.

Titan Extended

The Titan team have decide to stop development on Titan Extended. Therefore it has been removed from the installer. If you already have Titan Extended, this won't affect you. For clean installs you will need to download Titan Extended manually from the plugins repository in order to find skin files for plugins. For 1.9.0, plugin developers will need to provide the Titan skin files as part of their own installers.
Titan TNC will be the new skin name of the Titan Extended theme, and this will be released as a stand-alone skin, probably at the same time as the 1.9 Final release.

Full list of changes

gear-iconThis build incorporates changes since 1.8.0. You can review the complete change log for 1.9.0 Release by using the link below:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11500
Further changes in 1.9.0 can be seen at:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11501

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.9.x


MediaPortal 1.9.0 Pre Released
Written by Team-MediaPortal on 11 August 2014.

MediaPortal 1.9.0 Pre Release

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.9.0. Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing with your help.

For this Pre Release we've put our focus once more on Bug fixing and improved stability. However, there are a couple of new features. Skin designers will like the new <oninfo> and <onESC> functions. There are enhancements to the video resolution logos that will give you more information about the video you are watching. There is a new sort method in My Videos called Name with Duration. There are several improvements to logging, and a significant number of bug fixes.

Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

UNC Streaming for Live TV

The default protocol for LiveTV streaming on a multi-seat setup is RTSP. MediaPortal has an option to change this to UNC for those that experience problems with RTSP. In the last release, we fixed some long-standing issues with UNC paths. Therefore, this option (which was previously hidden) is now present in configuration.

Thumbnails

Thumbnails are a really important way for you to get feedback about video files, and these have been improved in several ways in this release. Individual plugins can now use their own default thumbs. Issues with large thumbnail creation are fixed.

Content Protection

We found a number of issues with content protection. It wasn't working properly in date view in 'Pictures'. Also, the PIN code was shown unencrypted in the configuration files. This is all now fixed, and the PIN code now supports letters as well as numbers. However, you will need to reset all your PIN codes for this release.

Titan Extended

The Titan team have decide to stop development on Titan Extended. Therefore it has been removed from the installer. If you already have Titan Extended, this won't affect you. For clean installs you will need to download Titan Extended manually from the plugins repository in order to find skin files for plugins. For 1.9.0, plugin developers will need to provide the Titan skin files as part of their own installers.

Full list of changes
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11500

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for 1.9.0 Pre Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.9.x


MediaPortal 1.8.0 FINAL released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 01 July 2014.

MediaPortal 1.8.0

Attached to this news you will find the final release of MediaPortal 1.8.0.

For this release, we've put our focus on bug fixing and improved stability. To name a few: We've reduced the CPU usage for the AutoDJ function. Fixed UNC paths for LiveTV streaming, memory-leak(s), flickering visualisations, incorrect audio-channel mappings, (Spanish) forced subtitles, etc.

New features like creating a folder thumb from inside the UI, a Ping Monitor function in the PowerScheduler++ plugin and the option to allow different standby hours in weekends can also be found in this release.
Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

Enhanced TV experience

MediaPortal IconThe default protocol for LiveTV streaming on a multi-seat setup is RTSP. MediaPortal has an option to change this to UNC for those that experience problems with RTSP, but we've had a long long lasting issue with UNC paths, because of a Microsoft problem with the SMB2/3 cache.
After a lot of work on the TsReader filter from our developer Owlsroost, we can now say that this 'known issue' is solved, and the issues related to UNC paths should be fixed!

A while ago, we updated the default MySQL install to 5.6, which uses InnoDB as its default database engine. However, the database was not updated to use InnoDB for update installs. It is updated in this release. A few other SQL related bugs have also been fixed.

Music improvements

MediaPortal IconA number of things have been fixed in the Music section since our last release. We've reduced the CPU load coming from the AutoDJ function, fixed incorrect channel mappings for 3.0 and 4.0 music files, possible flickering visualisations and a sound loop when you have music playing in the background of a pictures slideshow.


Unfortunately Last.fm has now completely removed their Radio function (more info about this on the last.fm forum).
Because of this change, the team has removed this function completely.

Full list of changes

gear-iconYou can review the complete change log for 1.8.0 by using the link below:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11302

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.8.x


MediaPortal 1.8.0 Pre Release released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 27 May 2014.

MediaPortal 1.8.0 Pre Release

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.8.0. Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes... and then comes the final release!

For this Pre Release we've put our focus on Bug fixing and improved stability. To name a few: We've reduced the CPU usage for the AutoDJ function. Fixed UNC paths for LiveTV streaming, memory-leak(s), flickering visualisations, incorrect audio-channel mappings, (Spanish) forced subtitles, etc.

New features like creating a folder thumb from inside the UI, a Ping Monitor function in the PowerScheduler++ plugin, the option to allow different standby hours in weekends and an upgraded MediaInfo library can also be found in this release.
Scroll down to the 'Full list of changes' to read up on all of them!

Highlights of this release

Enhanced TV experience

MediaPortal IconThe default protocol for LiveTV streaming on a multi-seat setup is RTSP. MediaPortal has an option to change this to UNC for those that experience problems with RTSP, but we've had a long long lasting issue with UNC paths, because of a Microsoft problem with the SMB2/3 cache.
After a lot of work on the TsReader filter from our developer Owlsroost, we can now say that this 'known issue' is now solved, and the issues related to UNC paths should be fixed now!

Music improvements

MediaPortal IconA number of things have been fixed in the Music section since our last release. We've reduced the CPU load coming from the AutoDJ function, fixed incorrect channel mappings for 3.0 and 4.0 music files, possible flickering visualisations and a sound loop when you have music playing in the background of a pictures slideshow.


Unfortunately Last.fm has now completely removed their Radio function (more info about this on the last.fm forum).
Because of this change, this function no longer works in the 1.8 Pre Release and the team is working on removing this function completely.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for 1.8.0 Pre Release by using the link below:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11301

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.8.x


MediaPortal 1.7.1 HotFix released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 26 April 2014.

MediaPortal 1.7.1 HotFix

Today we present to you the MediaPortal 1.7.1 HotFix. HotFixThis release supersedes the 1.7 Final release and includes a few bug fixes. Please report any problems in the bug reporting section of the forum.

Highlights of this release

We discovered a few issues with our 1.7 Final release which we addressed in this replacement, the 1.7.1 HotFix release. The most important change comes from a SubsystemVersion bump (MP.Externals.BASS to be specific).

Attention Plugin developers! If your plugin references to the MP.Externals.BASS SubsystemVersion, your plugin will show up as incompatible as of the 1.7.1 HotFix release, and an updated version is needed.

Besides the SubsystemVersion bump, we updated the Bass ASIO binary and fixed a possible crash if you ONLY installed the BassBox visualisations. There has also been some work done on the WMP visualisations.
And last but not least, we fixed some potential freezes which were caused by using an obsolete Album View (Music) setting in Shares View.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.7.1 by using the link below:

Changelog: http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11701


MediaPortal 2 - 10th Anniversary Edition released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 18 April 2014.

We are celebrating our 10th MediaPortal anniversary and are happy to offer you another release of MediaPortal 2!

01 10th A E

This release is a "pre-beta" version which means all existing features should work without any problem. We will be making further improvements and adding new features but this release is definitely worth a try!

Be sure to read the instructions at the end of this news regarding installation, upgrade and extension compatibility.

Summary of changes

Compared to Alpha 4 this release brings new features, usability improvements and of course some bug fixes.

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Improved user experience:
Reworked the configuration of Media Sources (aka "shares" in previous releases) so that configuration for new users should be more intuitive
New themes
Added a brand new "10th Anniversary" theme for Titanium skin
Added themes for Titanium that use larger font sizes, bringing better readability on smaller screens
New features and plugins
Added "Refreshrate Changer" (aka DRC in MP1). It switches your display into a mode that matches your currently playing video rate
Added initial support for Trakt.tv (scrobbling, sync MP2 library to Trakt). More developments will follow in future releases
Added WASAPI support for BassPlayer. This enables high quality audio output for your HTPC
Fixes
Browsing network shares could fail under certain cases
Fixes in the MediaPortal UPnP library, added an option to limit binding to specific IP addresses
Improvements to Series and Movies detection
Updated plugins
OnlineVideos plugin is included in this release
SlimTV plugin (both NativeTV and MPExtended) has been significantly improved since Alpha 4 release
More plugins are available! (via our MP2 Plugins Downloads section on the website and forum)
WebRadio plugin to play your favourite web radio streams inside MP2!
New Cinema plugin to show all running movies in your favourite cinemas including playback of trailers
New Application Launcher plugin
WiFi configuration plugin (included)
CEC remote plugin allows controlling MP2

The full change log is available here: MediaPortal 2 Anniversary Edition change log

http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10503&version=10901


MediaPortal 1.7.0 Final

We are very happy to present you the final version of MediaPortal 1.7.0 today. This release includes a number of new features and bug fixes. Please report any problems in the bug reporting sections of the forum.

Highlights of this release

Many of the changes in this release are things that you might not notice at first, but they are designed to improve the stability of MediaPortal moving forwards for the next few releases.

Using SkinSettings/Expressions

Skin Settings and Expressions are really powerful. Skin designers are going to be doing some amazing things with them in the near future. We have already been testing a home screen editor entirely within the MediaPortal GUI. Look for this in Area 51 very soon.

Separate the WindowsPlugins to individual files

This is one for the developers. Since MediaPortal started, the core plugins (My Videos, My Music, My Pictures, etc.) have been stored in a single file called WindowsPlugins.dll. This means that a lot of code has been loaded that isn't always needed. Also, making a change to one plugin often resulted in another plugin developing a new bug. We can't carry on like that, so the plugins are now in their own self-contained files. This will make things more stable and easier to fix/improve in future.
Attention: This change made us 'bump' the plugin subsystems, so there is a chance you need an updated plugin to be compatible with the 1.7.0 Release. 1.7 Pre Release compatible plugins will still work fine with this release.

Enhancements to the TV and Video OSDs

TV recording thumbs and comskip markers were not properly shown in the TV and Video Info OSDs. This is fixed.

Improvements to the Installer

You probably have the LAV Filters package installed to get the best quality playback of most video files, and TitanExtended installed to provide skin files for your plugins. The installer correctly detects the installed version, and only offers to install these if a newer version is available.

Wake On LAN

MediaPortal can now wake your server if it is in sleep mode and you want to access your files.

Add MediaInfo For Files in the Background

We use a code library called MediaInfo to obtain certain information about video files when you play them. This information can be displayed by MediaPortal. Up to now, it has only been possible to obtain this information when you actually play a file. With this release, we have added a setting to allow all files to be scanned in the background. This is turned off by default, so check out the documentation for changes to see where this setting is and how to enable it. We also updated the library to v0.7.67.

Full list of changes

http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11001&styleName=Text&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7C94edab744b87daf848ced38db07b7c0b39b3c382%7Clout

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.7.0 by using the link below:

Changelog: MediaPortal
Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.7.x


MediaPortal 1.7.0 Pre Release released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 18 February 2014.

MediaPortal 1.7.0 Pre Release

We are very happy to present you the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.7.0 today. This release includes a number of new features and bug fixes. These new features need a lot of testing to make sure everything works fine. Please report any problems in the bug reporting sections of the forum. Oh, and enjoy it! We are calling this a pre release, but it is very stable.


Highlights of this release

Many of the changes in this release are things that you might not notice at first, but they are designed to improve the stability of MediaPortal moving forwards for the next few releases.

Using SkinSettings/Expressions

Skin Settings and Expressions are really powerful. Skin designers are going to be doing some amazing things with them in the near future. We have already been testing a home screen editor entirely within the MediaPortal GUI. Look for this in Area 51 very soon.

Separate the WindowsPlugins to individual files

This is one for the developers. Since MediaPortal started, the core plugins (My Videos, My Music, My Pictures, etc.) have been stored in a single file called WindowsPlugins.dll. This means that a lot of code has been loaded that isn't always needed. Also, making a change to one plugin often resulted in another plugin developing a new bug. We can't carry on like that, so the plugins are now in their own self-contained files. This will make things more stable and easier to fix/improve in future.

Enhancements to the TV and Video OSDs

TV recording thumbs and comskip markers were not properly shown in the TV and Video OSDs. This is fixed.

Improvements to the Installer

You probably have the LAV Filters package installed to get the best quality playback of most video files, and TitanExtended installed to provide skin files for your plugins. The installer correctly detects the installed version, and only offers to install these if a newer version is available.

Wake On LAN

MediaPortal can now wake your server if it is in sleep mode and you want to access your files.

Add MediaInfo For Files in the Background

We use a code library called MediaInfo to obtain certain information about video files when you play them. This information can be displayed by MediaPortal. Up to now, it has only been possible to obtain this information when you actually play a file. With this release, we have added a setting to allow all files to be scanned in the background. This is turned off by default, so check out the documentation for changes to see where this setting is and how to enable it.

You can review the complete change log for 1.7.0 Pre Release by using the link below:

http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10505&version=11200

Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What%27s_New/1.7.x


MediaPortal 1.6.0 FINAL released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 31 December 2013.

MediaPortal 1.6.0 Final

We are very happy to present you the final version of MediaPortal 1.6.0 today. No new features were added between the Pre Release and the Final Release but a lot of bugs encountered by Team internal testing or because of our community who reported them in our bugforum have been fixed. Enjoy it!

Highlights of this release

Update to MySQL 5.6 to increase stability

Due to performance and stability improvements we decided to switch from MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.6 which comes with InnoDB as default database engine. It is more reliable than MyISAM which was the default database engine in MySQL 5.1 and the cause of many TV database crashes.

MySQL 5.6 gets only installed if you do a clean installation. If you perform an update, MySQL 5.1 will be kept. This is because users might still want to use MySQL 5.1 for other purposes than just MediaPortal.

Enhanced TV experience

MediaPortal Icon

There were quite some improvements like fix stuttering/dropped frame problems with H.264 video streams which use mixed field/frame (interlaced/progressive) encoding e.g. UK Freeview HDTV channels as well as handle some NZ Freeview channels which were causing problems. Recognition of DolbyDigital+ streams was added and a deadlock was fixed which leads to TV Server crashes or can cause a BSOD quite frequently on some setups.

Music improvements

MediaPortal Icon

A lot of things have been fixed and worked on in the Music section since our last release. Below you find the most important enhancements. Hopefully you will enjoy them!

Last.FM rework
Because Last.FM changed their API, the Last.fm Radio & scrobbling functions (Last.fm account needed for both!) are rewritten. As a bonus an awesome new AutoDJ function is added, which will attempt to play music forever, and you don't even need a Last.fm account for it!

Music Visualisations
Music Visualisations got fixed and are now correctly listening to the beat. Furthermore while on the NowPlaying screen, you can now switch to (fullscreen) visualisations by pressing X on your keyboard. PageUp/PageDown are used to cycle through the available visualisations. To make the visualisations work you need to download and install them first. It is highly recommended to only use the visualisations provided by our visualisation package.
Allmusic.com scraper update
As you might have noticed, the Album/Artist scraping was broken in MediaPortal 1.5 because allmusic.com changed their layout. For your convenience, this has been fixed now.
Gapless playback
Gapless playback is working now and can be enabled through MediaPortal configuration.
MyVideos scraper rework for better maintainability

Not only Album/Artist scraping was broken in MediaPortal 1.5 but also Fanart/Poster scraping in MyVideos because of the TMDB API change. This has been completely fixed and was improved in a way that the MyVideos scraper can now be updated outside the MediaPortal release cycle which means we are more flexible when it comes to fix scraper issues.

Other small improvements

Besides the switch to .NET4 we also modified our core to support plugins like the amazing Auto3D plugin or the great Atmolight plugin. Furthermore we fixed a DPI scaling issue for Win 8.1 users and RefreshRate changing on multi monitor setups was fixed too.

Full list of changes

http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11000&styleName=Text&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG%7Ce1ea511ddbbf49ba65b48392849afa5b582d7e74%7Clin

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.6.x


MediaPortal 1.6.0 Pre Release ready!
Written by Team MediaPortal on 19 November 2013.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.6.0. Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes... and then comes the final release!

Highlights of this release

Update to MySQL 5.6 to increase stability

Due to performance and stability improvements we decided to switch from MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.6 which comes with InnoDB as default database engine. It is more reliable than MyISAM which was the default database engine in MySQL 5.1 and the cause of many TV database crashes.

MySQL 5.6 gets only installed if you do a clean installation. If you perform an update, MySQL 5.1 will be kept. This is because users might still want to use MySQL 5.1 for other purposes than just MediaPortal.

Enhanced TV experience

MediaPortal Icon

There were quite some improvements like fix stuttering/dropped frame problems with H.264 video streams which use mixed field/frame (interlaced/progressive) encoding e.g. UK Freeview HDTV channels aswell as handle some NZ Freeview channels which were causing problems. Recognition of DolbyDigital+ streams was added and a deadlock was fixed which leads to TV Server crashes or can cause a BSOD quite frequently on some setups.

Music improvements

A lot of things have been fixed and worked on in the Music section since our last release. Below you find the most important enhancements. Hopefully you will enjoy them!

Last.FM rework
Because Last.FM changed their API, the Last.fm Radio & scrobbling functions (last.fm account needed for both!) are rewritten. As a bonus an awesome new AutoDJ function is added, which will attempt to play music forever, and you don't even need a Last.fm account for it!

Music Visualisations
Music Visualisations got fixed and are now correctly listening to the beat. Furthermore while on the NowPlaying screen, you can now switch to (fullscreen) visualisations by pressing X on your keyboard. PageUp/PageDown are used to cycle through the available visualisations.
Allmusic.com scraper update
As you might have noticed, the Album/Artist scraping was broken in MediaPortal 1.5 because allmusic.com changed their layout. For your convenience, this has been fixed now.
Gapless playback
Gapless playback is working now and can be enabled through MediaPortal configuration.
MyVideos scraper rework for better maintainability

Not only Album/Artist scraping was broken in MediaPortal 1.5 but also Fanart/Poster scraping in MyVideos because of the TMDB API change. This has been completely fixed and was improved in a way that the MyVideos scraper can now be updated outside the MediaPortal release cycle which means we are more flexible when it comes to fix scraper issues.

Other small improvements

Besides the switch to .NET4 we also modified our core to support plugins like the amazing Auto3D plugin or the great Atmolight plugin. Furthermore we fixed a DPI scaling issue for Win 8.1 users and RefreshRate changing on multi monitor setups was fixed too.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for 1.6.0 Pre Release by using the link below:

Changelog: MediaPortal
Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:
http://issues.team-mediaportal.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11003&styleName=Text&projectId=10505&Create=Create&atl_token=B4EP-HW6A-0D29-NTZG|591e0b369df39d72f0e6ffb776efa76e13f18f33|lin

What's new for MediaPortal 1.6.0
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.6.x


MediaPortal 1.5.0 FINAL Released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 01 October 2013.

MediaPortal 1.5.0 Released

We are proud to announce the release of the Final version of MediaPortal 1.5.0. The download link is at the bottom of this news item. Thanks to our great community for a lot of testing during the last four weeks. Because of this we were able to provide many bugfixes in all areas and hopefully make this release the best one ever!

New features

PowerScheduler++ Integrated

In previous releases PowerScheduler was installed during the MediaPortal installation and PowerScheduler++ could be installed as an extension. With MediaPortal 1.5 we've integrated the PowerScheduler++ functionality into MediaPortal. This change should make configuration easier (Plug&Play) and provides lots of new features like scheduled system reboot, configurable away mode and more options for remote clients.

Improved IPTV Support

Today most of us receive our TV via terrestrial, cable or satellite transmissions. However, the global increase in stability and speed of the internet over the past few years is making it possible for more and more internet service providers to offer television services which you can receive via your internet connection.

MediaPortal has been able to receive so-called IPTV for about 4 years. In order to keep up-to-date with the newest IPTV transmission techniques, we've overhauled our IPTV support to ensure MediaPortal 1.5 is capable of meeting your IPTV needs now and well into the future.

CableCARD™ Tuner Support

If you live in America, are passionate about HTPCs, and haven't heard about CableCARD... chances are you've been living under a rock for the past few years!

For those of us living in other parts of the world who have no idea what a CableCARD is: maybe you're familiar with using CAMs and CI slots to receive encrypted channels from your TV provider? Well, a CableCARD is similar to a CAM.
Up until a couple of years ago if you wanted to use an HTPC to receive encrypted cable TV in America the only option was a complicated and sometimes temperamental IR blaster setup. CableCARD has finally given Americans (and some Canadians) the ability to easily use their HTPC to receive encrypted cable TV.

With MediaPortal 1.5 we've added support for CableCARD tuners... with one caveat.

Some channels or programs may not be receivable due to digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on the content. Exactly which channels are available varies between cable providers. Generally speaking, premium and "subscription" channels such as HBO, Showtime, PPV and XXX will not be receivable... but other channels like TBS, FX, TNT, USA, ESPN, NFL, MLB, Fox Sports are usually no problem. For people who are savvy with technical jargon, that means you'll be able to receive "copy freely" content.

ViewModeSwitcher Plugin Enhancements

A major update of this plugin to fix some long-standing problems, improve the performance and add continuous Black-Bar detection/removal capability.

ViewModeSwitcher enables automatic changing of the zoom mode/aspect ratio selection and can optionally perform continuous or one-shot 'Black Bar' removal, for both TV and video playback. It provides similar functionality to the Intelligent Frame Correction plugin.

Improved Video & TV Recording Thumbnails

With MediaPortal 1.5 we've added an option to change the time offset for thumbnails. Furthermore, if you use composite thumbnails (e.g. 2x2 tiles) the time between the thumbnail parts will be calculated automatically from the video duration. This means no more useless thumbnails!

Full list of changes

Aside from the main features listed above there are also many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes in this release. A big thanks goes out to all our developers who have carried on working on MediaPortal even in the European summer when there are so many other things they could do with their time.

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.5.0 at the following link:

Changelog: MediaPortal
Documentation of new features can be found at the following link:

What's new for MP 1.5.0

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.5.x


MediaPortal 1.5.0 Pre-Release ready for testing!
Written by Team MediaPortal on 20 August 2013.

MediaPortal 1.5.0 Pre-Release

Attached to this news you will find the pre-release version of MediaPortal 1.5.0. Pre-releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for pre-release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes... and then comes the final release!

So what's in store?

PowerScheduler++ Integrated

In previous releases PowerScheduler was installed during the MediaPortal installation and PowerScheduler++ could be installed as an extension. With MediaPortal 1.5 we've integrated the PowerScheduler++ functionality into MediaPortal. This change should make configuration easier (Plug&Play) and provides lots of new features like scheduled system reboot, configurable away mode and more options for remote clients.

Improved IPTV Support

Today most of us receive our TV via terrestrial, cable or satellite transmissions. However, the global increase in stability and speed of the internet over the past few years is making it possible for more and more internet service providers to offer television services which you can receive via your internet connection.

MediaPortal has been able to receive so-called IPTV for about 4 years. In order to keep up-to-date with the newest IPTV transmission techniques, we've overhauled our IPTV support to ensure MediaPortal 1.5 is capable of meeting your IPTV needs now and well into the future.

CableCARD™ Tuner Support

If you live in America, are passionate about HTPCs, and haven't heard about CableCARD... chances are you've been living under a rock for the past few years!

For those of us living in other parts of the world who have no idea what a CableCARD is: maybe you're familiar with using CAMs and CI slots to receive encrypted channels from your TV provider? Well, a CableCARD is similar to a CAM.
Up until a couple of years ago if you wanted to use an HTPC to receive encrypted cable TV in America the only option was a complicated and sometimes temperamental IR blaster setup. CableCARD has finally given Americans (and some Canadians) the ability to easily use their HTPC to receive encrypted cable TV.

With MediaPortal 1.5 we've added support for CableCARD tuners... with one caveat.

Some channels or programs may not be receivable due to digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on the content. Exactly which channels are available varies between cable providers. Generally speaking, premium and "subsciption" channels such as HBO, Showtime, PPV and XXX will not be receivable... but other channels like TBS, FX, TNT, USA, ESPN, NFL, MLB, Fox Sports are usually no problem. For people who are savvy with technical jargon, that means you'll be able to receive "copy freely" content.

ViewModeSwitcher Plugin Enhancements

A major update of this plugin to fix some long-standing problems, improve the performance and add continuous Black-Bar detection/removal capability.

ViewModeSwitcher enables automatic changing of the zoom mode/aspect ratio selection and can optionally perform continuous or one-shot 'Black Bar' removal, for both TV and video playback. It provides similar functionality to the Intelligent Frame Correction plugin.

Improved Video & TV Recording Thumbnails

With MediaPortal 1.5 we've added an option to change the time offset for thumbnails. Furthermore, if you use composite thumbnails (e.g. 2x2 tiles) the time between the thumbnail parts will be calculated automatically from the video duration. This means no more useless thumbnails!

Full list of changes

Aside from the main features listed above there are also many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes in this release. A big thanks goes out to all our developers who have carried on working on MediaPortal even in the European summer when there are so many other things they could do with their time.

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.5.0 pre-release at the following link:

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/0_What's_New/1.5.x

http://www.uploadarea.de/files/2dho218ojfrzwfggbqhgpcppe.pdf


MediaPortal 1.4.0 FINAL Released
Written by Team MediaPortal on 17 June 2013.

MediaPortal 1.4.0 Released

After a few weeks of testing and fixing issues found with the 1.4.0 Pre Release, we are proud to announce the release today of MediaPortal 1.4.0.

This is the first release according to our new train model, which will allow us to get new stuff in your hands a lot quicker. Have a look here if you want to know more.

So what's in store?

You might think that because of the short development timeframe, the 1.4.0 release will be just a few small tweaks here and there. But thanks to the fantastic help from the community in Area 51, we think you'll be surprised!

HDMI half/fullscreen fix:
HDMI is THE connection these days. In 1.4.0 we have finally managed to fix the issue that plagued so many people in our community. MediaPortal no longer resizes into a small window when you use HDMI to connect your HTPC with a TV or AV receiver!

MediaPortal starts faster:
MediaPortal can take a fair amount of time to start. This release introduces a few changes which should reduce that startup time a bit.

Standby (S3) hibernation (S4) handling reworked:
MediaPortal's compatibility with Windows power saving features has been improved. Hopefully this will allow you to save some money from your power bill.

Compensate for Windows DPI settings different than 100%
Windows has a feature that enables you to increase the size of text (to make it easier to read). This version of MediaPortal works better than previous versions when that feature is enabled.

Video and TV-recordings thumbnails creation
Our thumbnail creator for video files has been worked on to make it more reliable.
We are also now able to create thumbnails for TV recordings on multiseat systems!

Picture thumbnail creation
MediaPortal 1.4.0 creates picture thumbnails more than 10x faster than MediaPortal 1.3.0.

Music playback
The music player implementation has been given an overhaul. WASAPI support has been added and the existing ASIO support has been cleaned up.

MediaPortal Audio Renderer
Based on your feedback, the MPAR which was first introduced in MediaPortal 1.3.0 has been refined and improved even further.

Blu-Ray Playback
We know you love the native Blu-Ray support that was introduced in MediaPortal 1.3.0. We've made further improvements in this release.

TV-Server enhancements
The TV-Server has received numerous small fixes and enhancements such as the option to also import and export your tuner settings.

New logging framework
The new log4net logging has elements that can be configured, specifically the log file size and log rotation.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for 1.4.0 by using the following links:

http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/changelog_page.php?version_id=148
http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/changelog_page.php?version_id=151
http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/changelog_page.php?version_id=149


MediaPortal 1.4.0 pre-release ready for testing!
Written by infinite.loop on 17 May 2013.

1.4.0 already?

Yes, you read right. Attached to this news you will find the pre-release test version for MediaPortal 1.4.0. From the pre-release test version to the final version we are only doing bug-fixes. This means that in only about 2 months we will release 1.4.0 final!
You will be able to upgrade from the MP 1.4.0 pre-release test version to the MP 1.4.0 final version easily!

But how is this possible? No more annual (Christmas) final Releases?

The team has successfully transitioned to a new release process. We're calling the process a "train model".

The idea is to enable us to deliver the features you want faster by working to a more fixed schedule. That means no need to wait for our traditional Christmas releases. "Christmas" will come more often from now on!

Have a look here if you want to know more.

So what's in store?

You might think that because of the short development timeframe, the 1.4.0 release will be just a few small tweaks here and there. But thanks to the fantastic help from the community in Area 51, we think you'll be surprised!

HDMI half/fullscreen fix:
HDMI is THE connection these days. In 1.4.0 we have finally managed to fix the issue that plagued so many people in our community. MediaPortal no longer resizes into a small window when you use HDMI to connect your HTPC with a TV or AV receiver!

MediaPortal starts faster:
MediaPortal can take a fair amount of time to start. This release introduces a few changes which should reduce that startup time a bit.

Standby (S3) hibernation (S4) handling reworked:
MediaPortal's compatibility with Windows power saving features has been improved. Hopefully this will allow you to save some money from your power bill.

Compensate for Windows DPI settings different than 100%
Windows has a feature that enables you to increase the size of text (to make it easier to read). This version of MediaPortal works better than previous versions when that feature is enabled.

Video and TV-recordings thumbnails creation
Our thumbnail creator for videofiles has been worked on to make it more reliable.
We are also now able to create thumbnails for TV recordings on multiseat systems!

Picture thumbnail creation
MediaPortal 1.4.0 pre-release creates picture thumbnails more than 10x faster than MediaPortal 1.3.0.

Music playback
The music player implementation has also been given an overhaul. WASAPI support has been added and the existing ASIO support has been cleaned up.

MediaPortal Audio Renderer
Based on your feedback, the MPAR which was first introduced in MediaPortal 1.3.0 has been refined and improved even further.

Blu-Ray Playback
We know you love the native Blu-Ray support that was introduced in MediaPortal 1.3.0. We've made further improvements in this release.

TV-Server enhancements
The TV-Server has received numerous small fixes and enhancements such as the option to also import and export your tuner settings.

New logging framework
The new log4net logging has elements that can be configured, specifically the log file size and log rotation.


MediaPortal 1.3.0 FINAL Released
Written by infinite.loop on 13 March 2013.

It's been a long journey that came to an end now. We are very happy to present you the final version of MediaPortal 1.3.0 today which includes an incredible amount of great new features, the stunning Titan skin, the completely revamped default Skins, bugfixes and usability enhancements.

In fact, the amount of changes is so large that we can't cover them here. So we only picked a few highlights of what is new in 1.3.0 compared to 1.2.0.

Highlights of this release

New Skins - Better than ever!

The most obvious change for the 1.3.0 release is the new Titan skin, designed for users with a 16:9 display and a native resolution of 1080p. This skin has been refined during the beta and release candidate phases to provide an amazing out-of-the-box experience with MediaPortal. More information can be found in the Titan News Item. Team Titan did not stop at producing a new skin for MediaPortal. In addition to the new skin selection option, the installer also offers you the choice to install 'Titan Extended'. This is a MediaPortal Extension which adds support for many community plugins, as well as a 'Titan Skin Updater' plugin. Titan Skin Updater enables us to easily provide you with updates to the Titan skin - including bug fixes and support for new plugins - over the coming weeks and months.

Titan is great, but for those who like the old default skins, these have also been enhanced. DefaultWide is designed for users with 16:9 display and a native resolution of 720p. Default is a non-widescreen skin for users with a 4:3 display and various native resolutions.

Enhancements to the skin engine and more skin features

The following significant skin engine enhancements have been made to improve the usability and extensibility of the MediaPortal user interface:

Skin themes - Skin designers may offer themes for their skins. By convention, a skin theme should be selectable from the Settings -> General window where the skin selection is also made. Skin themes provide the ability of the skin designer to offer such features as colour changes, font changes, layout changes or any combination of these or other special skin appearance or function related changes.
New menubutton control - A new versatile button control for displaying a list of selectable items.
Skin settings - Skin settings provide skins with user-definable (by the skin designer) property settings that can be leveraged for many purposes including making logical decisions about when or how controls are displayed and what the controls display. Skin settings add the capability to have significant design control over GUI customization.
TV guide genre/custom colouring - Provides the ability to highlight programs in the TV guide using colours. Based on your feedback, 1.3.0 now allows you to configure genre names in TV-Server setup so they work for all clients too! You may still configure genre colors in TV Client setup differently for each client. You may even enable or disable the colored buttons or borders and the the display of the genre map in the new TV Settings within MediaPortal.
We have a lot to look forward to when skins start implementing these new features. In fact, some of these features are already being used in our new Default and Titan skins!

Native Blu-ray Support

MediaPortal can now play your unencrypted Blu-ray discs, including the menus, extras, etc! Development will still be ongoing because BD-J (Blu-ray Java discs) aren't supported (yet) but for now you can enjoy the best video & audio quality right within MediaPortal, without the need of an external video player (like PowerDVD or TotalMedia Theatre) or a separate Blu-ray player. Besides the playback of encrypted Blu-ray discs there are a few other limitations at the moment about which you can read more in our Wiki.

Attentention -- Encrypted Blu-Ray discs require a 3rd party "on-the-fly" decoder. most commercial BD software comes with one that you can use for MediaPortal's native player. The wiki (above) holds more information.

Perfectly Smooth Video Playback with MediaPortal Audio Renderer

Nothing is more annoying than having your favorite actor (or actress) 'stuttering' on the screen because several frames are dropped or repeated to keep the video and audio in sync. Smooth video playback is one of the key requirements of all movie enthusiasts; but even if you have the right hardware, it is still a big challenge to achieve it.

So, our developers set out to create a solution for MediaPortal. It is called the "MediaPortal Audio Renderer (MPAR)". With MPAR you are not only able to get perfectly smooth video playback but in addition you get also the chance to speed up your video stream on the fly e.g. from 23,976 fps to 25 fps which gives you no more dropped frames if your TV only supports a refreshrate of 50 Hz.

Enhanced out of the box experience and improvements to codec configuration

Some of you may experienced 'codec hell' or you maybe just don't know exactly which codecs need to be installed to play all kind of your video and audio files. There is no need to worry about all this anymore because with MediaPortal 1.3 we will give you the option to install the LAV Filters. LAV Filters allow you to play most audio and video formats 'out of the box'. No need to install codec packs or separate codecs and filters! Supported video acceleration types are DXVA, NVIDIA CUDA and Intel QuickSync, so you choose the best one for your HTPC hardware.

In addition to that it’s now possible to configure all codec and/or filter properties from within MediaPortal Configuration. Simply click on the screwdriver icon right next to the specific codec/filter to set your preferred options. To give you even more control, we've also added a few new Codec sections like VC-1 & DivX.

"Settings" inside MediaPortal

Configuring MediaPortal is a lot easier in 1.3.0

Now you can configure almost all MediaPortal settings without leaving MediaPortal. Deda has dramatically enhanced the "Settings" section inside MediaPortal as you can see in our latest news: 'While you are waiting for 1.3.0 beta...

Big rework of My Videos

Many new features and enhancements are included. Some highlights:

Folders view screen
Database view screen
Movie info screen
Actor info screen (new screen works only if movie info have IMDBid, otherwise old screen will be visible)
Configuration + Scan
Fanart support rework for database movies


Text file support in Videos

For scraping accuracy every video file can be accompanied by a simple text file which contains only the IMDbid number (e.g. tt1234567). If a scraper, such as IMDb, supports search by IMDb's ID number, MediaPortal will use the ID number for accurate scraping.

Windows 8 Support

Windows 8 is now officially supported by MediaPortal. Of course, supporting a new operating system is not trivial, and there might still be issues that we don't know about. If you find a problem that seems to be specific to Windows 8, please open a bug report in the forum.


MediaPortal 1.3.0 RC Released
Written by infinite.loop on 05 February 2013.

We are happy to announce that the Release Candidate of our new major release MediaPortal 1.3.0 is now available for download!

A lot has changed since the release of MediaPortal 1.2.3. Too much to fit everything into one news. So we will focus on what has changed since the 1.3.0 Beta release. If you want to find out what was added in the 1.3.0 Alpha and 1.3.0 Beta version, then please have a look at their release news, or view all the changes in our wiki: What's New > 1.3.x

This Release Candidate is the last stop before the final version of 1.3.0. The focus since the release of 1.3.0 beta was on bug fixes and polishing. We want to thank everyone in the community for their help with finding the bugs!

Please be aware that even though this version is very close to the final product, it can still contain issues. This means that we advise against using it on production systems. Make sure that you read the instructions at the end of this news regarding installation, upgrade and extension compatibility.

Now let's get to the changes!

Highlights of this release:

Titan: many fixes and adjustments
Titan Extended: added support for more community plugins as well as bugfixes and tweaks
MediaPortal Audio Renderer: fixed a issue with AC3 encoding that could cause a memory leak
Themes: fixed a bug that could crash MediaPortal when changing themes several times
Videos inside Pictures section: a lot of problems have been fixed that where present when users tried to play their holiday videos along with viewing their holiday pictures
Thumbnailer: fixed a bug which caused the creation of a thumb to fail for files which have a semicolon in their name
Volume Control: A bug was fixed which caused that you could not increase the volume on a fresh install on Windows 7
TV-Server Database connection: fixed an issue in the upgrade procedure which could change the hostname in gentle.config to "localhost"


MediaPortal 1.3.0 Beta Released
Written by infinite.loop on 14 December 2012.

Just in time for the holidays, we release the Beta Version of our new major release, MediaPortal 1.3.0!

A lot has changed since the release of MediaPortal 1.2.3. Too much to fit everything into one news. So we will focus on what has changed since the 1.3.0 Alpha release. If you want to find out what was added in the 1.3.0 Alpha release, head over to it's release news, or view all the changes in our wiki: What's New > 1.3.x

This Beta release adds several great new features as well as bug fixes tested by the community. The purpose is to allow you to test them so we can identify and fix any remaining problems before the final release of 1.3.0.

Please be aware that this is Beta Software - so expect it to have some problems and quirks. Make sure that you read the instructions at the end of this news regarding installation, upgrade and extension compatibility.

Now let's get to the changes!

Highlights of this release:

MediaPortal 1.3.0 Beta comes preloaded with three different skins to offer all users the perfect skin for their hardware:

Titan - a new, enhanced skin designed for users with a 16:9 display and a native resolution of 1080p
DefaultWide - a clean, beautiful skin designed for users with 16:9 display and a native resolution of 720p
Default - a mirror of our DefaultWide skin for users with a 4:3 display and various native resolutions.
Our Default/Wide skins are designed for good performance even on sytems that meet only the minimal hardware requirements.

TITAN

As you can read in 'The Titan is coming' news, the highly anticipated "Titan" HD skin becomes the new face of MediaPortal! It is our first preinstalled skin supporting native 1080p resolution! We wish to thank Joostzilla and ncoH for their stunning work with this skin and their generosity in allowing us to provide it as part of MediaPortal.

Titan Extended

ncoH did not stop there! In addition to the new skin selection option, the installer also offers you the choice to install 'Titan Extended'. This is a MediaPortal Extension which adds support for many community plugins, as well as a 'Titan Skin Updater' plugin.

Titan Skin Updater enables us to easily provide you with updates to the Titan skin - including bug fixes and support for new plugins - over the coming weeks and months.

Plugin Support

Currently Titan Extended supports the following plugins:

OnlineVideos, MovingPictures, MP-TvSeries, My Films, Fanart Handler, Latest Media Handler,Trakt, InfoService (for news feeds on Basic Home) and the Extensions plugin (to install, update and even configure plugins within MediaPortal).
These plugins can be installed via our MediaPortal Extensions Manager, the Extensions plugin within MediaPortal, or from the Downloads Repository on our website

There are a LOT of plugins available for MediaPortal (183 listed our Downloads Repository), many of which already support 1.3.0. So we are asking for your help to add support for these in Titan. You can use the new Titan Skin forum we created to collect feedback to share your skin files, or ask for help to get your plugin supported.

"Default" skins

Long before Joostzilla and ncoH approached us to offer the Titan skin, catavolt, tgx and our Design Group, set out to dramatically enhance the "Default" (4x3) and "DefaultWide" (720p) skins based on your feedback. You may continue to choose and use our Default skins, and enjoy the many new features and awesome new design, while Titan reaches maturity.


If you find problems or have suggestions for further enhancements then please share these with us in the "Default skin feedback" forum.

Note: the new Default (4x3) skin requires changes for most plugins. Please be patient and wait for a new release if you use the 4x3 skin.

"Settings" inside MediaPortal

Configuring MediaPortal is a lot easier in 1.3.0 Beta!

Now you can configure almost all MediaPortal settings without leaving MediaPortal. Deda has dramatically enhanced the "Settings" section inside MediaPortal as you can see in our latest news: 'While you are waiting for 1.3.0 beta...'

Windows 8 Support

1.3.0 Beta adds preliminary support for Microsoft's new Windows 8 Operating System. When installing MediaPortal, you will receive a notification that your Operating System is not officially supported, but you can continue with the installation and use MediaPortal as well as the TV-Server. If you encounter issues, please create a bug report.

Our goal is to officially support Windows 8 in 1.3.0 final.

Note: There is no special support for the "Modern UI". If you are using Windows 7 there is no need to upgrade to Windows 8 just for MediaPortal.

Text file support in Videos

In addition to the amazing improvements to Videos in 1.3.0 Alpha, Deda has added support for text files in 1.3.0 Beta.

For scraping accuracy every video file can be accompanied by a simple text file which contains only the IMDBId number (e.g. tt1234567). If a scraper, such as IMDB, supports search by IMDBid, MediaPortal will use the IMDBId for accurate scraping.

More Skin Features

In addition to the Skin Themes and many other new skin features added in 1.3.0 Alpha, ajp8164 has provided support for even more features in 1.3.0 Beta. One example is Skin Functions, which allow skinners to provide even more custom options for you. We have a lot to look forward to when skins start implementing these new features. In fact, some of these features are already being used in our new Default and Titan skins!

TV Guide Genres and Colors

Based on your feedback, 1.3.0 Beta now allows you to configure genre names in TV-Server setup so they work for all clients too! You may still configure genre colors in TV Client setup differently for each client. You may even enable or disable the colored buttons or borders and the the display of the genre map in the new TV Settings within MediaPortal.

Last.fm

Sadly Last.fm has discontinued free access to their API, and as a result the Last.fm plugin is not available in 1.3.0 Beta. If possible we will re-enable it for 1.3.0 final, but it will be accessible to Last.fm subscribers only.

The AudioScrobbler plugin - to scrobble related tracks, from Last.fm, or or Love/Ban them - is still working.

Find out More

To learn more about the new features (for both 1.3.0 Alpha and Beta) and how to use them, see the What's New > 1.3.x section in our Wiki.

Bug Fixes

Lots and lots of bugs fixed as you can see in our Changelogs listed below


MediaPortal 1.3.0 Alpha Released
Written by infinite.loop | 10 July 2012

We are very proud to announce that the first Alpha Version of our new major release, MediaPortal 1.3.0 is now available for download!

In this new version we again introduce many exciting new features which will enrich your Home Theatre experience.

Adding new features and fixing bugs means that we had to do significant changes to MediaPortal's source code. So the purpose of this Alpha release is to get all those great new features and bug fixes tested by the community, and fix the remaining problems, to work towards the final release version.

Please be aware that this is Alpha Software - so expect it to have some problems and quirks. Make sure that you read the instructions at the end of this article regarding installation, upgrade and extension compatibility.

Now let's get to the changes we did.

Highlights of this release:
Enhancements to the skin engine and default skin
The following significant skin engine enhancements have been made to improve the usability and extensibility of the MediaPortal user interface:

Skin themes - Skin designers may offer themes for their skins. By convention, a skin theme should be selectable from the Settings -> General window where the skin selection is also made. Skin themes provide the ability of the skin designer to offer such features as colour changes, font changes, layout changes or any combination of these or other special skin appearance or function related changes.
New menubutton control - A new versatile button control for displaying a list of selectable items.
TV guide genre/custom colouring - Provides the ability to highlight programs in the TV guide using colours.
Skin settings - Skin settings provide skins with user-definable (by the skin designer) property settings that can be leveraged for many purposes including making logical decisions about when or how controls are displayed and what the controls display. Skin settings add the capability to have significant design control over GUI customization.
Skinners should carefully review all changes related to the skin engine; see Skin Related Changes in 1.3.0.

Note: As a result of these changes, plugin developers will need to make a few minor changes to their skin files. Of course, skinners will need to make the same changes for all plugins to support their skin.

The default skin has been updated to use these new control, and many graphical enhancements have been made so that it looks much nicer!

Coloured EPG (program guide) including customisable colours and colouring of programs by genre

The EPG is now heavily customisable. Programs can be coloured by genre if this data is provided in your EPG, and the various colours can be mapped to different genres.

IMPORTANT: In this first version, EPG genres cannot be configured on multiseat network clients. This is because the configuration application cannot connect to the TV database over the network. The best way to configure a multiseat setup is to make the changes on the TV server, open the MediaPortal.xml configuration file and copy the sections that look like this

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<section name="genremap">
<entry name="0">arts/culture (without music, general){education/science/factual topics (general){social/political issues/economics (general)</entry>
<entry name="1">childrens's/youth program (general)</entry>
<entry name="2">movie/drama (general)</entry>
<entry name="3">music/ballet/dance (general)</entry>
<entry name="4">news/current affairs (general)</entry>
<entry name="5">leisure hobbies (general){show/game show (general)</entry>
<entry name="6">sports (general)</entry>
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<section name="genreoptions">
<entry name="specifympaaratedasmovie">yes</entry>
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into the same file on the client. This assumes that you have MediaPortal installed on your TV server. If you do not, you will have to edit the MediaPortal.xml file manually to assign genres. This will be fixed.

Big rework of My Videos
Many new features and enhancements are included. Some highlights:

Folders view screen:

Watched time in percentage for videos,
Watched count,
Media info icons,
View video-info first on click (configurable) - override with play button for instant play,
Scan new movies without need to position on folder(s) to add them into video database (MP will scan for new videos only shares checked for scanning in the Video Database Configuration),
Handling and scanning Blu-ray folder rips or ISOs like it handles/scan DVD images and folders now.
Default Grabber selecting and Grabbers update
Fanart support on movie folders
Added #hideinfo (true/false) skin parameter which can be added in skin control visibility condition to hide info labels and values for videos not in the database
Database view screen:

Media info icons,
View video-info first on click (configurable) - override with play button for instant play,
Scan new movies to add them into video database (MP will scan for new videos only shares checked for scanning in the Video Database Configuration),
Rename movie Title,
Watched time in percentage,
Watched count,
Search movie by name,
Search actor by name.
Default Grabber selecting and Grabber update
Fanart support on movie groups (Year, genres, actors...) - randomly selected fanart for movie inside group following rule for movies
restricted by PIN
Repaired last selected item positioning in list
Split actors view in Actors and directors,
Many new views added (Indexed views -> actors, titles, directors, recently added/watched...)
Movie info screen:

Media info icons,
Watched counter,
Cast list rework, can be browsed with actors Picture,
Refresh menu command has 2 functions, 2nd function is triggered if you are in cast list and it refreshes actors for movie and update their roles for the movie (this will not download their info or pictures) (only if Movie have IMDBid),
Click on actor/actress will update his/her info and Picture (if available) if actor was not queried before and will open actor/actress info screen (only if movie have IMDBid),
Rename movie title.,
Actors internally uses actorIMDBid to prevent possible mistake to fetch wrong info, roles and movies.
Added writers and studios fields
Added Fanart refresh in context menu (MP will download randomly new FA)
Actor info screen (new screen works only if movie info have IMDBid, otherwise old screen will be visible):

Full fanart support ( fanart varies on place from where you enter this screen),
Actor thumb file names are unique (no more overwriting actors pictures with the same name),
Full rework of that screen, list of actor movies with covers and short movie info,
Play trailers for selected movie in movies actor list (needs online videos),
Auto update of missing info (in background),
Manual update of entire actor/actress movie list (refresh all movies and info in case you want to have latest changes on IMDB),
Visible mark for movie you have in video database (can be played from here),
All info and covers are saved and will not be fetched next time, even if we are on different actor and he/she participate in already fetched movie.
Configuration + Scan:

Actors info fetch while scan movies is discarded and replaced with new function in Movie Info screen,
Actors and roles for movie will be fetched internally if scanned movie info have IMDBid,
New views: Date Added (database view for easy find and play recently added videos with configurable number of days to limit how many days to look back), and Date Watched (database view for easy find last watched videos with configurable number of days to limit how many days to look back),
User groups and rules added
Fanart support rework for database movies

Changed fanart handling so that fanart will be unique per movie (uses Mp video database movieId for fanart file name),
Movies with the same name will not have any more problems with overwriting fanart for previous movie with the same name (case when you have movies with the same title but different versions or years),
One fanart covers both share and database views (less space needed),
Shared folders which contains database movies in share view will show fa for one of those movies inside that folder on select folder,
Database group views (Year, Genre, Actors) will show fanart for one of the movies inside the selected group,
Full support for protected content (no fanart visible for locked movies) from any view,
Users who not use video database do not need to worry for their custom fanart, they still will be visible.....
Development diary with screenshots

Wiki links:

GUI

Config

Skin changes



Blu-ray support
However, the biggest enhancement is Blu-ray support. MediaPortal can now play most (not all, see notes below) of your Blu-ray discs, including the menus, extras, etc! Development will still be ongoing because BD-J (Blu-ray Java discs) aren't supported (yet...) but for now you can enjoy the best video & audio quality right within MediaPortal, without the need of an external player.

Notes:

BD-J based menus aren't supported - all BD-J based Blu-ray disks need to be played in title based mode.
Text based subtitles aren't supported - only a small minority of Blu-ray disks seems to use text based subtitles.
MediaPortal now fully supports playing unencrypted Blu-ray discs (with the exception of BD-J discs using Java menus - for which MediaPortal will display a list of titles for the user to access instead of displaying the Java menus), if the user wishes to play a commercial disc, then they will need to use a 3rd party on-the-fly decrypter such as AnyDVD HD or DVDFab HD Decrypter.
Enhanced out of the box experience (LAV Filters)
Starting with MediaPortal 1.3.0 Alpha, we will give our users the option to install the LAV Filters. This is a very powerful actively developed open source set of a video, audio and splitter filter for direct show based on ffmpeg.

Since we use our MediaPortal Extension Installer to distribute the package, you will be notified when updates are available. No more searching for the latest version on the internet - it's a one click install!

The LAV Filters will enable playback of most media types. No more codec hell, just choose your preferred form of video acceleration inside the LAVF configuration depending on which GPU you have.

Supported video acceleration types are DXVA, NVIDIA CUDA and Intel QuickSync, so you choose the best one for your HTPC hardware.

Big improvements to codec configuration
We all know how hard it can be to set up the right codecs and/or filters for the specific files in use on your MediaPortal system. To make that part easier, it’s now possible to configure all codec and/or filter properties from within MediaPortal Configuration. Simply click on the screwdriver icon right next to the specific codec/filter to set your preferred options. To give you even more control, we've also added a few new Codec sections like VC-1 & DivX.

Improvements on Video stream switching for MKV
MediaPortal now has the ability to switch between Video streams inside an .mkv (Matroska) file. Imagine you have a movie with both the 2D & 3D Video stream inside, then you can now switch between those 2 streams from the Context Menu, or by pressing the ‘V’ key on your keyboard. You can also map the ‘V’ key to a button on your remote, so switching streams has never been easier before!

Perfectly Smooth Video Playback with MediaPortal Audio Renderer
We all know the situation - no matter if you use a HTPC or not, movies and TV shows are only enjoyable if the video playback is nice and smooth.

Nothing is more annoying than having your favorite actor (or actress) 'stuttering' on the screen because several frames are dropped or repeated to keep the video and audio in sync.

Smooth video playback is one of the key requirements of all movie enthusiasts; but even if you have the right hardware, it is still a big challenge to achieve it.

So, our developers set out to create a solution for MediaPortal. It is called the "MediaPortal Audio Renderer". But wait a minute. We are talking about smooth video playback here, so how is an audio renderer supposed to help?

This topic is very interesting but also a bit lengthy. If you want perfectly smooth video playback that is in sync with the audio, then you should head over to our wiki, and find out all the details about the MediaPortal Audio Renderer.


MediaPortal 1.2.3 RELEASED!

We are very happy to present you this new release which is focused on increasing the stability of MediaPortal 1.2.

Some significant improvements include:

Updated versions of MediaInfo and sqlite. This should give increased stability.
Updates to TsReader.ax, which should give smoother TV playback.
Updates to TsWriter.ax which allow decoding of EPG data for DVB-T HD channels.
Full Changelog:
0003738: [MediaPortal 1] Operand size mismatch in the 'PresentImage' callback parameters from dshowhelper to MP
0003737: [MediaPortal 1] Video frame size change on TV channel change fails with some decode filters
0003769: [general] Building MediaPortal in x64 environment fails
0003804: [TV / Full Screen] Under certain circumstances the wrong teletext subtitles are shown
0003828: [Videos] Update sqlite to latest version
0003827: [Videos] Update MediaInfo to 0.7.54
0003733: [Music] Next track skin properties are not updated if playlist is changed
0003830: [Music] Wrong skin properties can be shown when using BASS player
0003739: [MPEI] MPEI randomly hangs when installing fonts
0003770: [general] Debug build script for MediaPortal fails to build
0003791: [Music] Music label 2 is not validated
0003792: [Videos] TMDB images search fail (changes in TMDB returned xml)
0003809: [Videos] Media description file (*.mds) cause double entry on movie scan
0003810: [Music] Cover art grab does not work for music albums
0003719: [Music] Album view does not drill down
0002914: [Streaming] When using RTSP, audio/video format change may cause video playback to hang in a loop
0003806: [TsReader] Black screen on TV start or channel change
0003780: [TsWriter] TsWriter passes incomplete PMT to managed TV Server code
0003782: [TsWriter] PID PMT descriptor size too large for TsWriter
0003829: [TvServer] Prevent "IndexOutOfRangeExceptionin" PatchPMT_AstonCrypt2 code
0003717: [TsWriter] EPG grabbing from DVB stream does not work for Freeview HD (UK) channels
0003831: [TvServer] Update tuning details for 1.2.3
0003732: [TvServer] Digital Everywhere can cause locked CAM
0003811: [TvServer] Building TvServer in x64 environment fails
You can review the complete change log for 1.2.3 by using the following links:

Changelog: MediaPortal
Changelog: TV-Server
Changelog: Installer - DeployTool


MediaPortal 1.2.2 RELEASED!
Written by infinite.loop | 23 December 2011

1.2.2 is the first MediaPortal release which was developed using GIT. The learning curve is very steep, but the benefits are great!

We are very happy to present you this new release which focus is to increase the stability of MediaPortal 1.2.

Partial Changelog:
3772 - Weather plugin unable to get data
Sadly the Weather Channel disabled the free access to their API. This means that MediaPortal (among many other free applications) is no longer able to get data. Unfortunately the is no quick fix for this problem which we could add into an 1.2.x hotfix. A complete rework of the weather plugin is planned for 1.3.0.
In the meantime, there are other weather plugins available in our Repository. World Weather and BBC Weather seem to be good choices.
3746 - DaemonTools won't unmount an iso file and crash MediaPortal
3760 - Playback of Multi File Cue Sheets starts at wrong position
3740 - #play.next.duration in wrong format
3775 - WindowPluginBase incorrectly sets GuiProperties when it is not the ActiveWindow
3752 - Cyberlink PDVD (DXVA/HAM/SW) codec version 10/11 are not available in codec configuration
3711 - Watchdog does not restore taskbar after a crash of MediaPortal
3684 - Fixed logging which would write the users database connection login details into the error.log in case of an unavailable SQL-Server
3713 - TV-Server tries to tune a channel, even if it knows that it is unavailable
3372 - it is not possible to resume playback of recorded radio
3683 - TV Guide does not always display correctly if there are multiple channel groups


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MediaPortal 1.2.1 RELEASED!

Written by infinite.loop | 26 September 2011

Last week we released 1.2.0 final which has been a huge success already! The Team could have taken a break after the hard work on 1.2.0, and relax a bit, but we did not. Smile

During the last week we have been working on a 1.2.1 hot fix, that will address a few issues in 1.2.0. The focus of this release is on major issues. The hot fixes to come later will contain more fixes and also address some minor issues.
Changelog:

3715 - MediaPortal crashes on exit
Under some circumstances it is possible that MediaPortal.exe crashes when you close it. Mainly systems running for a very long time are affected.
3688 - scanning for analog radio stations makes TV-Guide unusable
3718 - under special circumstances, TV-Service will crash on start up
This occurs if the WMC plugin for the Hauppauge Colossus or HD-PVR is installed.
3720 - update of satellite transponders inside TV-Server Configuration is not working
We previously grabbed the transponder lists directly from the FastSatfinder.com website. Due to load issues this cause for FastSatfinder.com, this is no longer possible, and when you attempt to update them in 1.2.0 or ealier, all your transponder lists are deleted.
The team from fastsatfinder has kindly agreed to continue support for us with updated transponder lists which we will host on our own web servers. So 1.2.1 will now download the transponder lists directly from our server.
1.2.1 has the latest Transponder lists integrated.
3723 - default graph behaviour for TV-Cards entering idle state is "pause" instead of "stop"
In 1.2.0 we introduced a new feature that can decrease the time required to tune/change channels by not destroying the graph when the card enters idle state. The related "Advanced Tuning" options are "pause" (keep the graph) and "stop" (destroy the graph). Sadly, during a clean installation of 1.2.0, the default option was set to "pause". Although the "pause" option does give you the speed improvement, it is not supported by many TV-cards (drivers issue). Thus, in 1.2.1 the safer "stop" option is now set as the default. If you did a clean installation of 1.2.0 and now upgrade to 1.2.1, the current setting will change to "stop" for all your TV-Cards. This should ensure maximum stability for all users. If you want to use "pause" instead of "stop", then you have to reset that option in TV-Server Configuration.


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MediaPortal 1.2.0 final RELEASED!

Written by infinite.loop | 19 September 2011

With more than 650 changes, MediaPortal 1.2.0 is one of the biggest and exciting releases we have ever done!

Due to the huge amount of bug fixes, new features, tweaks and enhancements I can only highlight a few in this news.
New Design

With MediaPortal 1.2.0 we introduce a brand new look, that replaces Blue3 and Blue3wide which served us well during the last few years. We have made the Blue3/wide skin files available to the community, in case someone wishes to make it available, and maintain it, as an extension. The Team certainly hopes that this will happen.

Besides the new look, we also introduced a couple of new controls for our awesome skinners in the community, plus a brand new layout called "Coverflow" which you can see in action in the teaser video of 1.2.0.

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Usability Improvements
Plugin Version Check

The biggest change in usability is our new version check for plugins. From 1.2.0 on, users will never again face the problem of having a plugin enabled which is incompatible with the installed version of MP. The issues such caused could reach from a small glitch, to random crashes of MediaPortal.

Note: If you are upgrading from 1.1.3 or earlier to 1.2.0, then none of your installed Extensions (skins & plugins) will be compatible with 1.2.0 and therefore get deactivated. To keep your downtime as short as possible we recommend to download the 1.2.0 compatible versions of the Extensions you use before you do the update. You can find updated versions of the extensions in our websites repository. If you already upgraded to 1.2.0, then you can simply launch the "MediaPortal Extensions Installer" to find, download, install and update extensions (only works if the extensions is submitted as MPE - if you want an extension to support this, then please contact the author of the extension).
Improved Interaction between Skins and Plugins

Skin designers now have many more options to integrate dynamic functionality of MediaPortal core functionality and external plugins. The skins can now dynamically apply skin expressions to react to different situation and open plugins with specific parameters. Our highly talented skinning community has already started to use this new functionality to great effect:

Replacing dedicated streaming plugins (e.g. trailers) with the equivalent OnlineVideos site (e.g. iTunes Trailers, IMDb trailers).
Submenus for different Moving Pictures/MP-TvSeries categories.
Showing a trailer from a button in movie details with OnlineVideos plugin.
Backgrounds depending on the time of day.

Music and Video View Definition Changes

Setting up and changing views for music and video was previously complicated and confusing. We have now updated the interface to make setup far more logical and allow views to be easily re-ordered.

Attention!

Because of this change any user defined views you had setup will be lost when upgrading. Hopefully we have mitigated this by replacing the default music views more in-line with those in Kiwijunglist's guide to setting up music. To learn how to use the new features, see our Wiki: Music Views 1.2.

Music Changes

The music section of MediaPortal has been given a thorough health check with lots of changes behind the scenes as well as lots of bug fixes and changes to make things more logical and consistent. There are also some new features:

Better handling of multi-disc albums.
A playlist mode.
Last.fm Love / Ban functions on music Now Playing screen.

More details can be found in an earlier blog. To learn more about the changes, see Play Music 1.2 in our Wiki.
Videos Enhancements:

Deda has taken our Videos feature to a whole new level. He has added several new features, as well as speedups and bug fixes.

These changes will upgrade your videos database. After the upgrade, the database will no longer work with older MediaPortal versions.

These changes are already fully documented on the Video Database 1.2.0 page in the Configuration section of the new wiki.

Note: Users of the FanArt Handler Extension have to wait for a new, 1.2.0 compatible version.
DVD Playback - added Closed Captioning support

Closed_captioningWe have added supported for Closed Captioning (CC) to the DVD playback.

You can learn about it's configuration and usage in our Wiki.
SMS-Style input

You now have the option to use SMS style input with your remote control, just like you know from your cell-phone.
If you want to use the standard keyboard, then you can switch the input style back to it by pressing the related button on the virtual keyboard.
Play all videos inside a folder

This is a feature many users requested for a long time. In this release we introduce the option to play all videos inside a folder with one option.
MediaPortal Configuration restructured

We have reworked the structure of MediaPortal Configuration in order to group the options more logically.
Obsolete plugins removed

We removed the following obsolete/no longer maintained plugins in 1.2.0.

Video Editor
Burner
MAME
Foobar2000

Performance
Speedup:

We made several significant changes which improve the overall responsiveness of MediaPortal. In some cases you will see response times reduced by over 50%. See if you can spot them!
Smooth Video Playback:

Owlsroost has spent the last few months on enhancing the video playback of MediaPortal. The result of his work is now part of 1.2.0. Check it out!
TV - Fast Forward

Fast Forward inside TV should now work smoothly with up to 4x playback speed, which is the maximum for Windows 7 (Note: Windows XP supports only 2x, due to it's audio renderer ). Fast Reverse will still work in a skip-step like fashion.
TV - improved Live TV in multiseat setups

1.2.0 vastly lowers the workload placed on the hard drive by live TV. This virtually eliminates the stuttering and picture corruption that was sometimes seen before on client systems while watching live TV.
TV - increased performance of channel selector

Opening and browsing through the channel selector inside TV was very slow for some users. So we increased its performance!
Image Caching option for skins

While this does not sound like much, it will dramatically decrease the loading time required to switch between various screens or sections of MediaPortal, especially for HD skins which use high resolution background images.

Skinners should take a look at this new Image Caching skin feature when updating their work for 1.2.0 compatibility.
Hauppauge Colossus TV Card Support

thumb_colossusWith this new release we introduce full support of Hauppauge's new Colossus TV card.

We want to thank our community member WileECoyote for his support, which enabled us to add this to 1.2.0.


MediaPortal 1.2.0 RC RELEASED!

Written by infinite.loop | 29 August 2011

With the release of 1.2.0 RC we have almost reached the end of the 1.2.0 development cycle. After the release of 1.2.0 Beta, we entered a 'feature freeze'. This means that in 1.2.0 RC you will find mainly bug fixes.
Notable changes since 1.2.0 Beta

With more than 150 bug fixes since the release of 1.2.0 Beta, it would be too much to list all changes here. So the following list focuses on a few highlights which we have done since the release of 1.2.0 Beta.

Find out about the changes introduced in 1.2.0 Alpha, and 1.2.0 Beta in the related news.

MediaPortal Extensions Installer (MPEI)

We have added version compatibility, as well as many other fixes, to MPEI. Now you can easily identify the extensions compatible with your installed version of MediaPortal and avoid issues due to incompatible versions.

Due to this required change, unfortunately we could not avoid that MPEI files for 1.2.0 Beta will not work with 1.2.0 RC and vice versa. This means you must wait for extension authors to provide new installers for 1.2.0 RC. Luckily it is very easy to update them. We have developed the new version of MPEI so that extension authors only need to install 1.2.0 RC, open their MPEI project file, and save it again. It will automatically update to the new version and add the required compatibility information. This new file can then be posted to install extensions for 1.2.0 RC.

If any of your favorite extensions do not yet have an installer compatible with 1.2.0 RC, you may wish to update your extensions before updating to 1.2.0 RC.

If you are running MediaPortal 1.2.0 Beta, then all your installed extensions (plugins and skins) will continue to work in 1.2.0 RC! You only need the new installer for upgrades/new releases of an extension.

Navigation fix in icon view

For ages there was a issue when navigating in (big) icons layout from one row to another row with fewer items.
In some cases, MP would jump back to the first row, and thus would not display the items of the last row. This issue has been fixed.

Width of volume bar could not be skinned

We have fixed the width of the volume bar element inside the skin which was not working. If you see the volume bar inside your skin appear in a wrong size after the update, then please contact the author of your skin for an update.

Reworked Default Skins regarding comments of users

Removed analog clock in Home Screens.
Activated topbar in video and tv fullscreen.
Darkened all backgrounds and overlays by 35%.
Added current time display to pause screens.
Added show titles in all icon views.
Reduced text shadows to 1 px (formerly 4 px).

Weak signals could crash TV-service

There was a problem in the TV-Server where weak signals could crash the entire TV-Service. This has been fixed.

Reduced CPU usage of TV-Service and MediaPortal (when inside TV)

We managed to slightly reduce the CPU load of the TV-Service and MediaPortal (when inside the TV section).

Some users could not install 1.2.0 Beta

Due to a problem when registering the MPAudioSwitcher filter, the installation of 1.2.0 Beta could fail for a very limited number of users.

ffdshow DXVA video decoder could crash MediaPortal

Due to a bug inside the ffdshow DXVA video decoder, MediaPortal could crash during graph rebuilding. We took precautions in code to work around that issue inside ffdshow.

Audio and video in TV not in sync when using ffdshow video decoder

There was an issue where audio and video inside television were not in sync when using the ffdshow video decoder. This issue was fixed.

Digital Everywhere tuners could not tune some dvb-s2 transponders

Tuners from Digital Everywhere had issues when tuning dvb-s2 transponders that used high data rates.

Hauppauge Colossus HDMI inputs not usable

It was not possible to use the HDMI inputs of the Hauppauge Colossus in 1.2.0 Beta. This is now working in 1.2.0 RC.


MediaPortal 1.2.0 Beta RELEASED!

Written by infinite.loop | 29 April 2011
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The release of 1.2.0 beta is a big milestone in the MP 1.2.0 development cycle. During its development we had to make a few tough decisions, which ultimately resulted in a lot of work and delays, yet also brought MP1 to a completely new level of usability.
Notable Changes since 1.2.0 alpha

It would be too much to list all changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0. So the following list will focus on what happened since the release of 1.2.0 Alpha.

Find out about the changes introduced in 1.2.0 Alpha in this separate news.
Usability Changes
Plugin Version Check

The biggest change in usability is our new version check for plugins. From 1.2.0 beta on, users will never again face the problem of having a plugin enabled which is incompatible with the installed version of MP.

Attention!

Because of this change, none of your currently installed plugins will work with 1.2.0 beta. They will all get disabled and appear in a new section in the Configuration Tool: Incompatible Plugins. Please refer to the developers of the plugins you use for compatible versions.
The MediaPortal Extenstion Installer (MPEI) will be updated in beta2/RC1 of 1.2.0 to automatically incorporate the version information into the .mpe2 file. So plugin developers just have to re-save their MPEI package (if the plugin is already compatible).

Music and Video View Definition Changes

Setting up and changing views for music and video was previously complicated and confusing. We have now updated the interface to make setup far more logical and allow views to be easily re-ordered.

Attention!

Because of this change any user defined views you had setup will be lost when upgrading. Hopefully we have mitigated this by replacing the default music views more in-line with those in Kiwijunglist's guide to setting up music. To learn how to use the new features, see our Wiki: Music Views 1.2.

Music Changes

The music section of MediaPortal has been given a thorough health check with lots of changes behind the scenes as well as lots of bug fixes and changes to make things more logical and consistent. There are also some new features

Better handling of multi-disc albums
A playlist mode
Last.fm Love / Ban functions on music Now Playing screen

More details can be found in an earlier blog. To learn about the changes see Play Music 1.2 in our Wiki.
TV - Fast Forward

Fast Forward inside TV should now work smoothly with up to 4x playback speed, which is the maximum for Windows 7 (Note: Windows XP supports only 2x, due to it's audio renderer ). Fast Reverse will still work in a skip-step like fashion.
TV - improved LiveTv in multiseat setups

1.2.0 beta vastly lowers the workload placed on the hard drive by live TV. This virtually eliminates the stuttering and picture corruption that was sometimes seen before on client systems while watching live TV.
TV - increased performance of channel selector

Opening and browsing through the channel selector inside TV was very slow for some users. So we increased its performance!
DVD Playback - added Closed Captioning support

Closed_captioningWe have added supported for Closed Captioning (CC) to the DVD playback.

You can learn about it's configuration and usage in our Wiki.
SMS-Style input

You now have the option to use SMS style input with your remote control, just like you know from your cell-phone.
If you want to use the standard keyboard, then you can switch the input style back to it by pressing the related button inside the virtual keyboard.
Play all videos inside a folder

This is a feature many users requested for a long time. In this release we introduce the option to play all videos inside a folder with one option.
MediaPortal Configuration restructured

We have reworked the sturcture of MediaPortal Configuration in order to group the options more logically.
New Features
New Design

With MediaPortal 1.2.0 beta we introduce a brand new look, that replaces Blue3 and Blue3wide which served us well during the last years. We have made the Blue3/wide skin files available to the community, in case someone wishes to make it available, and maintain it, as an extension. The Team certainly hopes that this will happen.

Besides the new look, we also introduced a couple of new controls for our awesome skinners in the community, plus a brand new layout called "Coverflow" which you can see in action in the teaser video of 1.2.0 beta.

basichome1 music1 videos1
Hauppauge Colossus TV Card Support

thumb_colossusWith this new release we introduce full support of Hauppauge's new Colossus TV card.

We want to thank our community member WileECoyote for his support, which enabled us to add this to 1.2.0 beta.




Image Caching option for skins

While this does not sound like much, it will dramatically decrease the loading time required to switch between various screens or sections of MediaPortal, especially for HD skins which use high resolution background images.

Skinners should take a look at this new Image Caching skin feature when updating their work for 1.2.0 beta compatibility.
Cleanup
Obsolete plugins removed

We removed the following obsolete/no longer maintained plugins in 1.2.0 beta.

Video Editor
Burner
MAME
Foobar2000


MediaPortal 1.1.3 hotfix for W7 SP1 released

Written by infinite.loop | 23 February 2011
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This week Microsoft released the Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 32bit and 64bit.

Besides many security fixes, and changes which are provided by Windows Update allready, it also includes many fixes which were not available through Windows Update, such as an fix for a issue with audiodevices connected by HDMI.

Team MediaPortal recommends the installation of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 on your HTPC.

For MediaPortal 1 this means that we have to release a very small hotfix, because with MediaPortal 1.1.2 and earlier versions, you will encounter a warning that you run MediaPortal on an not supported Operating System, as soon as you install the Service Pack 1 for Windows 7.

If you are not using Windows 7, then an upgrade to MediaPortal 1.1.3 is not required.


MediaPortal 1.1.2 released!

Written by infinite.loop | 29 November 2010
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While the development of MediaPortal 1.2.0 progresses better than expected, we continue to maintain MediaPortal 1.1.x with this new 1.1.2 hot fix release.

This release fixes a memory leak which was present in the 1.1.1 version, along with a few other issues.

We hope that you enjoy this new release.· We would be grateful if you could support us with a small donation...
Please recommend us on Sourceforge!

List of changes:

* 0003196: [Skin Engine] Memory Leak in Texture Manager
* 0003065: [TvServer] Spawned processes pop-up hidden "Run as..." dialog
* 0002926: [TvPlugin] No instant switch to prev/next channel after resuming a paused live TV


MediaPortal 1.2.0 Alpha RELEASED!

Written by infinite.loop | 01 November 2010
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With MediaPortal 1.2.0 we have a new exiting major release in the works.

With this first Alpha release you can take a glimpse at what is to come in 1.2.0.

While we hope that as many users as possible test this new version, we wish to stress that due to the massive changes, using this version on a production system is not recommended.
New Skin Engine Features:

We added some very nice new features to the skin engine. However, some of these changes do require that skins are updated to work properly with 1.2.0.

The list of skin related changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0 can be found on the related wiki pages in our new wiki. Although the new wiki is not quite ready for public beta testing, we wanted to provide our skin designers and testers advanced access to the updated documentation for the 1.2.0 alpha release.

There is no need to register or login to browse our new wiki since it is only available for browsing at present.· We will be issuing a news release about the wiki once it is ready for public beta test.

Skin designers should keep track of the new wiki pages regarding any additions we make as we are still in the process of documenting the many new skin features.
Videos Enhancements:

Deda has taken our Videos feature to a whole new level. He has added several new features, as well as speedups and bug fixes.

These changes will upgrade your videos database. After the upgrade, the database will no longer work with older MediaPortal versions. This is an important consideration when testing 1.2.0 Alpha.

These changes are already fully documented on the Video Database 1.2.0 page in the Configuration section of the new wiki.

Note: Users of the FanArt Handler Extension have to wait for a new, 1.2.0 compatible version.
Smooth Video Playback:

Owlsroost has spent the last few months on enhancing the video playback of MediaPortal. The result of his work is now part of 1.2.0 alpha. Check it out!
Speedup:

We made several significant changes which improve the overall responsiveness of MediaPortal.· In some cases you will see response times reduced by over 50%. See if you can spot them!
Other changes:

* [Feature] #2977 we now support TV-Cards from Digital Devices
* [Fixed]#2926 No instant switch to prev/next channel after resuming a paused live TV
* [Fixed] #2975 Setup fails to replace files during upgrade
* [Workaround] #2926 - MediaPortal can now work without MediaInfo.dll
This workaround will help users to play files which cause a freeze of MediaPortal on playback start due to a bug in MediaInfo
* [Fixed] #3089 My Music: Retrieving Artist Info / Album Info is no longer working
* [Feature] #3016 Closed Captions support for DVD
* [Fixed] #2600 when deleting an item, focus jumps to beginning of the list
* [Updated] #3102 updated MediaInfo.dll to latest build - old version could crash MediaPortal with some *.ts files


MediaPortal 1.1.1 released!
Written by infinite.loop, on 01-10-2010

The release of MediaPortal 1.1.0 was a big success. Now, it is already time to release version 1.1.1, as planned.

This release fixes some small, but very annoying problems in the 1.1.0 version.

The alpha release of version 1.2.0 is already well underway. We created a separate branch for the 1.1.1 bug fix release, to allow us to continue with the development of 1.2.0 at the same time.

We hope that you enjoy this new release.We would be grateful if you could support us with a small donation .


Partial list of changes:

* 0003047: [general] GUITextureManager deadlock
* 0002983: [TV-Server] Case sensitive SQL installations fail with an exception
* 0003040: [My Videos] very slow browsing speed in shared folders which contain many files
* 0002989: [Radio Guide] when scrolling down in "channeldetail view", the day does not change
* 0003003: [My Music] Improved speed of Music Database Scan
* 0002973: [My Weather] in Blue3Wide, weather text overlaps the weather icon
* 0002991: MPTray.exe locks the MPTray.log file
* 0002994: [WatchDog] Unable to browse to set folder with watchdog due to invalid characters in filename
* 0002992: [general] MediaInfo: delay on AVI with AC3 codec introduced after v0.7.26
* 0002969: [general] MiniDisplay: MatrixOrbital driver locks DVD/CD tray
* 0002981: [general] Memory left indication is wrong when PC has more than 2GB RAM
* 0002980: [Installer] Sometimes font installation fails
* 0002984: [Installer] Crash with filenames containing special characters (ascii code > 127)


MediaPortal 1.1.0 Final RELEASED!
Written by infinite.loop, on 23-07-2010

The development of MediaPortal was a long and bumpy road, but the destination was well worth it. Thanks to our great community, who submitted many bug reports and code patches to fix bugs, we now are able to present you MediaPortal 1.1.0 - the best release in our six year history.

MediaPortal- 1.1.0(Released 2010-07-23) [ View Issues ]
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- 0002952: [general] Change logverbosity to "info" for the 1.1.0 final version (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002949: [Skin Engine] Reinstate the skin version check for MP 1.1.0 and increase the skinversion in references.xml (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002967: [general] Update MediaInfo to 0.7.34 (chemelli) - closed.
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MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC6 RELEASED!
Written by infinite.loop, on 01-07-2010

RC5 was planned to be the last Release Candidate for MediaPortal 1.1.0 final.

However, the fix of a major issue related to the detection of a timeshift buffer file being video or radio makes us believe that a big field test is required to ensure that 1.1.0 final will be the most stable release in MediaPortal´s six year history.

If all goes according to plan, then this "slide-in" RC6 release will not delay the final version of 1.1.0, which is planned for release around the 16th of July.

We need the help of our great community to ensure the fix does not cause any unwanted side effects.

RC6 is as close to the final release as it can get.

Changes since 1.1.0 RC5:

* 0002953: [fixed] Some TS files are wrongly detected as video/radio
* 0002883: [fixed] Pulse and Loop animations do not work because conditional animations do not work
* 0002950: [fixed] Video thumbnails are not being generated and do not display in RC5
* 0002802: [fixed] B3 skin does not show recorded TV thumbs in list views

We also want to remind Skin Designers to review the list of Skin Changes since 1.0.1 - while Plugin Developers should take a look at the newly created Code Changes page.

There were some changes done since the last stable release which require Extensions (Skins and Plugins) to be updated so they get fully compatible with 1.1.0 RC6.


MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC5 RELEASED!
Written by infinityloop, on 23-06-2010

Here it is, the last Release Candidate for 1.1.0!

RC5 focuses on the last remaining, showstopper issues. If no new showstoppers are found in this release, then MediaPortal 1.1.0 final will follow in a few weeks.

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC4:

* [fixed] 0002936: MPC-HC subtitle engine is not working with MPC splitters
* [fixed] 0002919: Timeshift repeating on channel change
* [fixed] 0002940: Starting/stopping a current program recording gives an exception
* [fixed] 0002920: Scheduled recording could be inerrupted by epggrabber
* [fixed] 0002948: bug in MediaInfo.dll causes playback of ATSC recordings to fail

Skin Designers should review the list of Skin Changes since 1.0.1 - while Plugin Developers should take a look at the newly created Code Changes page.
There were some changes done since the last stable release which require Extensions (Skins and Plugins) to update, to be fully 1.1.0 RC5 compatible.

The team would like to thank everyone who submitted patches and great bug reports!


MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC4 RELEASED!
Written by infinityloop, on 27-05-2010

We decided to release 1.1.0 RC4 earlier than planned, to give us more time to test a few changes we have done.

The most important fix is about the issue some users experienced where the installer was not able to stop the TV Service properly.
This resulted in the problem that the new version could not be installed and the TV-Server failed.

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC3:

* [fixed] IMDB grabber script was broken - use the "update grabber scripts" button in MediaPortal Configuration if you upgrade from a previous version of MP!
* [fixed] installation of TV-Server failed in a few cases because TV-Service could not be stopped
* [fixed] RSS plugin did not work
* [fixed] installation of an MediaPortal Extension might fail
* [fixed] Various tuning problems with DVB-T cards

Skin Designers should review the list of Skin Changes since 1.0.1 - while Plugin Developers should take a look at the newly created Code Changes page.
There were some changes done since the last stable release which require Extensions (Skins and Plugins) to update, to be fully 1.1.0 RC4 compatible.


MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC3 RELEASED!
Written by infinityloop, on 14-05-2010

Here it is, MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC3.

In this release we again managed to fix several nasty issues, such as memory leaks. These fixes have increased the stability of the entire application even more.

We also made a small change which will make reporting bugs or posting support request threads a LOT easier for our great community.

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC2:

* [reworked] reporting bugs is now a lot easier
* [fixed] upgrade of Tv-Server can result in a crash
* [fixed]several issues which could prevent an upgrade or a clean installation
* [fixed] Stopping video playback can cause crash to desktop
* [fixed] several memory leaks
* [fixed] Animations using conditional visibility
* [fixed] MyVideos reloads the contents of a folder when stoping playback (which could cause that MP does not respond for quite a time)
* [fixed] last.fm lookup creates a lot of temp files which are not deleted
* [fixed] Some H264 recordings do not play
* [fixed] Pulse and Loop animations do not work
* [fixed] tvservice would sometimes hard crash when writing dx error to log
* [fixed] TeVii issues with graph building and very long tuning using diseqc
* [fixed] RTSP streaming doesn't work after sleep, when re-init TVService is enabled
* [fixed] Unable to tune same ATSC channel/subchannel consecutively
* [fixed] stream interuptions/stuttering
* [fixed] Weekly schedules appear 1 (or more) day off in EPG when using SQLServer with certain regional settings

Skin Designers should review the list of Skin Changes since 1.0.1 - while Plugin Developers should take a look at the newly created Code Changes page.
There were some changes done which require Extensions (Skins and Plugins) to update, to be fully 1.1.0 RC3 compatible.


MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC2 RELEASED!
Written by infinityloop, on 14-04-2010

With the release of Mediaportal 1.1.0 RC2 we are one step closer to the final release.

The changelog will become smaller and smaller with every RC release, because the number of issues will decrease as well.

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC1:

* [fixed] Random crashes when starting / stopping playback
* [fixed] several memory leaks
* [fixed] several issues in the TvGuide which caused that scheduled recordings were not displayed correctly
* [fixed] Channel Linkage Scanner did not work anymore since Premiere change its name to Sky Germany
* [fixed] Issue with Technotrend where CI MEnu could trigger a crash
* [fixed] Stuttering on tv channels from the ProSieben/Sat.1 Mediagroup
* [fixed] removed blacklisting of FFDShow in TsReader - now it can be used again for the TV-feature and playback of ts files - make sure you use the latest version of ffdshow!
* [fixed] several issues with tv channels which are using dual-mono audiotracks.
* [fixed] various issues with the MTN - video thumbnail creator
* [fixed] Playback of recorded radio is not working
* [fixed] Changing audio language to AC3 does not work


MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1 RELEASED!
Written by infinityloop, on 20-02-2010

We are very pleased to announce the release of Mediaportal 1.1.0 RC1.

Since the release of 1.1.0 Beta 1 we have done some major changes to increase the stability of MediaPortal 1.1.0, the compatibillity between our TsReader filter and 3rd party videocodecs etc.

We also dramatically increased the responsiveness of the user interface in many areas (most noticeable inside MyTV).

Major changes between 1.1.0 Beta 1 and RC1 are:

* New official MediaPortal Logo, Icons and DeployTool graphics created by Joost !
* Added NALU support to TsReader
Now MediaPortal also supports:
o Windows 7 DTV DVD codecs
o divx h.264
o MPC-HC VideoCodec (h.264) (current version of this codec contains a deadlock bug - MPC.HC Team working on a fix!)
* Added support for Apple AIFF Musc Format
* Added support for MIDI (*.mid, *.kar) file format
* Added VUMeter Support for skins
* Faster shares browsing
* Integrated MPTray
* Better overall usability
* Integrated CI menu in MyTV
* Support of ISO/IEC 10646-1(UTF-16) text encoding in DVB
* Added DVB-S2 modulation and DiseqC support for ProfRed cards
* Added DiseqC support for TeVii cards
* Added support for Freesat DVB EPG
* Added support for Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3)
* Added support for GenPix DVB-S devices


MediaPortal 1.1.0 BETA 1 - Released!
Written by team-mediaportal, on 29-08-2009

As you might know our original plan was to release the RC1 of MediaPortal 1.1.0. next. Due to the deep changes we did during the last few weeks, and the yet unresolved tasks, we decided that it would be wise to release a BETA 1 today instead of the RC1.

We do that with the ulterior motive to ensure that MediaPortal 1.1.0 will be the most stable and feature complete release in our long history.

Major changes in this BETA are:

* WebEPG is now included as a plugin for TV-Server
* RTSP Streaming IP can be changed in TV-Server configuration
(This is useful if the default port is in use by any other application.)
* New OSD's have been slightly reworked and finished
* TV-Server configuration has been reworked in some areas to enhance the usability, like new tuningformats and simplified scan dialog
* Options have been added to TV-Server and MediaPortal Configuration to allow to disable and enable Microsoft MediaCenter Services
(This is required for TV-Server and Microsoft MCE Remote to work properly.)
* Various memory leaks have been fixed in MediaPortal
* Various fixes for the Topbar in MediaPortal
* Improved Windows 7 compatibillity
* Solved problems caused by IPv6 in TV-Server (only IPv4 is supported!)
* Added dvb-s2 support for ProfRed Cards
* Added CI menu support for Twinhan/Terratec cards
* Improved TV error handling for better user experience
* CI menu and messages are automatically enabled now
* A few more features have been added to the SkinEngine
* Audio seek with different speeds for BASS player
* E-AC3 / DD+ audio stream type support for TV


MediaPortal - 1.1.0
===================
- 0002299: [My Music] WMP Visualisations were not working (hwahrmann) - resolved.
- 0002235: [general] MiniDisplay: code cleanup for iMON driver (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002294: [general] language folder is moved to config dir (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002293: [general] skin folder is moved to config dir (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002290: [Skin Engine] GUIPlayListButtonControl creates own images and save to skin media folder (morpheus_xx) - resolved.
- 0002289: [My Alarm] Remove MyAlarm plugin (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002284: [My TV / Home] Record icon sometimes shows in OSD when no recording is taking place (arion_p) - resolved.
- 0002286: [Audio player] MediaPortal fails to submit scrobbled tracks (rtv) - resolved.
- 0002156: [My Videos] MP prevents autoplay of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD images due to a workaround for a bug (-Manfred-) - resolved.
- 0002110: [general] fontEngine.dll crashes when logging folder is not accessible (Tourettes) - resolved.
- 0002152: [general] Allow MP to run "on top" in window mode, hide menu control, reduce min window size (morpheus_xx) - resolved.
- 0002150: [general] Image file stacking support (-Manfred-) - resolved.
- 0002118: [DVD Player] Daemon tools is asked to unmout the image when stopping playback from a physical disk (-Manfred-) - resolved.
- 0002098: [My Weather] Weather for any city from GUI (-Manfred-) - resolved.
- 0002291: [Powerscheduler plugin] since the removal of TVE2 MediaPortal has no powerscheduler in installations without TV-Server (rtv) - closed.
- 0002287: [Configuration] Skin and language settings are not saved on fresh install (rtv) - closed.
- 0002070: [Skin Engine] EVR renderer doesn't provide fps information (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002165: [Skin Engine] fontEngine crashes upon MP exit (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002137: [Configuration] Section Music/Video Views: Fast delete raises unhandled exception. (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002164: [Skin Engine] Introduce a limit for texture's size that are added to packed textures (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002204: [Movie Player] Black screen after movie played (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002195: [My Videos] Immediate time steps (arrow up / down) are not configurable (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0002210: [general] Screen saver also for paused video (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002211: [general] If MP and TVPlugin versions does not match splashscreen stays on (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0001958: [general] Non-linear stretch (aka Smart Zoom) of 4:3 content gives vertically stretched image on 16:10 screens (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0002213: [Home] Videowall doesn't work with screen calibration (misterd) - closed.
- 0002214: [My Videos] Auto create Video thumbs (misterd) - closed.
- 0002215: [Configuration] Watchdog isn't stopped by Configuration when stopping Mediaportal (misterd) - closed.
- 0002161: [TV OSD] Title of upcoming TV show overlaps rec icon (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002224: [Configuration] SerialUIR: Exception in Configuration (misterd) - closed.
- 0002173: [general] Make SharpZipLib compatible with winzip/winrar/7zip.... (misterd) - closed.
- 0002230: [Skin Engine] MP should have a possibility to remember the last focused item in a window (misterd) - closed.
- 0002229: [DVD Player] AnyDVD and S3/S4 combination causes incorrect behavior with autoplay (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002231: [DVD Player] Thumbnails are tried to create for DVDs (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002233: [Skin Engine] Texture manager is not removing event handler before disposing the cached texture (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002236: [general] Autoplay ExamineVolume() and ExamineCD() mixed media detection (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002237: [general] Replace DVD player shortcut with more general one (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002178: [My TV / TVGuide] Getting IMDB data for a show in TVGuide creates entry in My Videos (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002219: [general] OS screen saver can trigger on Vista and onwards during playing (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002243: [general] Map both "=" and "+" to volume up (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0002252: [My Videos] MediainfoWrapper: "isFLAC" and "VideoDuration" properties are missing (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002232: [general] VCD play start has 5 min delay because of mediainfo (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002255: [My Music] When you press "Shuffle" to randomize tracks the player should always start from the first item in the playlist (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002262: [general] "back" goes to fullscreen when no video is playing (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002263: [Setup] ServerBlaster is lacking Hauppauge support (misterd) - closed.
- 0002266: [Skin Engine] String comparison logic for the visible property of skin elements (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002270: [general] MiniDisplay configuration editor changes always get overwritten with defaults (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002273: [My Pictures] Picture rotation might be wrong (rtv) - closed.
- 0002274: [My Pictures] No thumbnail is showing anymore after rotating Pictures (rtv) - closed.
- 0002275: [general] MediaInfoWrapper needs a rework to be more flexible (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002276: [general] update logging to identify Windows 7 (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002281: [Audio player] Last.fm plugin doesn't advance to next song if you leave the plugin screen (rtv) - closed.
- 0002278: [general] Win7 - Microsoft MCE remote is not working (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002271: [My Music] Album with same name from different artists not shown in Album View (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002272: [My Music] Add support for MIDI (*.mid, *.kar) file format (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002260: [My News] Set #selecteditem in News plugin (misterd) - closed.
- 0002259: [Configuration] Add more USBUIRT driver infromation to Configuration (misterd) - closed.
- 0002257: [My Pictures] Create Thumbnails for Pictures via Configuration (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002148: [general] topbar is not visible when playing media (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002140: [Configuration] add keyboard shortcut for next/previous bookmark in MyVideos (misterd) - closed.
- 0002190: [general] remove inbuilt TVE2 (misterd) - closed.
- 0002142: [Configuration] VideoDB - coverart will not update if you enter a new URL (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002141: [Configuration] crash when pressing "Search for Images" button for video which got deleted (gemx) - closed.
- 0002247: [My Videos] Coverart in MyVideos dissapears while grabing moviedata for an new movie (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002202: [My Music] Select first FreeDB entry when AutoPlay = Yes and multiple hits returned (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002169: [My Music] Songs with empty Artist / albumArtist never show up (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002180: [My Music] Exception trying to receive Cover Art for Internet Streams (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002175: [My Music] Internet streams in Playlist always handled as Video (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002256: [My Music] Raise Event on Music Rating Update (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002167: [My Music] Add More fields to Music Database (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002198: [My Music] Upgrade of BASS.Net (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002154: [My Music] VUMeter Support for skins (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002155: [My Videos] Integration of MPC-HC subtitle's engine (cpp2005) - closed.
- 0002132: [general] DirectX need to be updated to latest redist (March2009) (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002131: [general] Verify if WindowsUpdate was done (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001932: [My Videos] Missing view for unseen media (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002171: [general] Cleanup: all cpp stuff need a folder and bins need to come from there (misterd) - closed.
- 0001930: [general] Secondary screen not available = splashscreen problem (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002217: [WatchDog] Clearing log directory should delete subdirs, too (flokel) - closed.
- 0002146: [My Videos] Some .srt subtitles not showing with .mkv's (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0002194: [general] Unsupported OS are hard to recognize in the log (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002174: [My Music] Exception while scannng Music Shares may corrupt database (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002176: [My Music] Search in Music should invoke the "Search music" plugin, if enabled (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002102: [general] Switch from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 (misterd) - closed.
- 0002114: [My Music] Support for Apple AIFF Musc Format (hwahrmann) - closed.



TV-Server - 1.1.0
=================
- 0002298: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Allow to save transponder list after manual scan (DVB-C) (morpheus_xx) - resolved.
- 0002296: [TvPlugin] Recorded TV and Scheduler screen use different time formats (rtv) - resolved.
- 0002295: [TvPlugin] Feature: schedule new episodes from recorded tv (rtv) - resolved.
- 0002292: [TvServer] Move TuningParameters to ProgramData dir (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002107: [TvPlugin] Group button (text) misplaced in TV Guide when UI Calibration is used (arion_p) - resolved.
- 0002207: [TvServer] DE cards: sometimes CAM is not able to descramble a channel (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002282: [TvServer] tvservice startup type remains on "manual" (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002277: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] silent configure database details on installation/update (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002288: [TvServer] Database sometimes logs slow queries (rtv) - resolved.
- 0002031: [MediaPortal integration] During TS playback FF/REW aren't updating screen fast enough (Tourettes) - resolved.
- 0002136: [TvPlugin] Scrolling behavour in TV guide is not consistent (morpheus_xx) - resolved.
- 0002149: [TVServer Power Scheduler] XmlTvImportWakeupHandler.GetNextWakeupTime fails with an exception. (gibman) - resolved.
- 0001899: [TvPlugin] Some strings do not fit inside Timeline (Harley) - closed.
- 0001895: [My TV / TVGuide] Recording dots missplaced (Harley) - closed.
- 0002163: [TsReader] TsReader logging is using system API extensively (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002158: [TvPlugin] Cleanup of duplicated languages in Audio / Subtitle section of TV plugin in MP Config (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001483: [TvPlugin] Time frame in TV Guide confuses users. (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002186: [TvServer] SetupTv creates empty tvgroups after channel scan (morpheus_xx) - closed.
- 0002187: [TvServer] rework tvserver/tvplugin for references to "All Channels" (morpheus_xx) - closed.
- 0002170: [TvServer] DVB cards perform always a tune even if it is the same transponder (misterd) - closed.
- 0002179: [TvPlugin] Remove "All channels" group creation (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002166: [TvServer] Add EpisodeName and EpisodePart to program db table (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002209: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] After deleting groupped scrambled Radio channels, you cannot access manual and group session anymore (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002212: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Analog channels are always groupped as "Analog". This should be optional. (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001367: [TvServer] Wrong LCN value in channel scan (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002227: [TvServer] TvServer doesn't handle countries with different working days (misterd) - closed.
- 0002228: [TvServer] Testing for Generic Network Provider logs useless exceptions (morpheus_xx) - closed.
- 0002151: [TvServer] Integrate CI menu feature, port Technotrend and KNC1 handling to C# (morpheus_xx) - closed.
- 0002216: [TvServer] Extend CI menu support for FireDTV cards (morpheus_xx) - closed.
- 0002183: [TvServer] Technotrend cards sometimes fail to work after resume from standby (morpheus_xx) - closed.
- 0002234: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Exporting TV channels only and not radio channels works reversed (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0002238: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Assigning Recording and timeshifting folders for multiple cards is too difficult (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0002245: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Information and Control visibility is not updated correctly on ManualControl section (chefkoch) - closed.
- 0002250: [TvPlugin] TVGuide: change TvNotify icon for better readability (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002254: [TvPlugin] Incorrect display of Danish characters in teletext (arion_p) - closed.
- 0002251: [TvPlugin] TeleText subtitles wrongly coded ( Italian and French at least ) (arion_p) - closed.
- 0002269: [TvServer] cleaning up the ManualResetEvents usage. (gibman) - closed.
- 0002280: [TsReader] TsReader won't work with DivX as H.264 decoder (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002283: [TvPlugin] TvCropSettings causes exceptions when using page up/down (morpheus_xx) - closed.
- 0002246: [TvServer] Integrate IP-TV support for TvServer (mikeyko) - closed.
- 0002261: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] SetupTV needs a button to check all channels for scrambled (misterd) - closed.
- 0002258: [TvPlugin] Navigation Bug in Tv Plugin when playing a recording (misterd) - closed.
- 0002199: [TvServer] DE cards: PMT should be sent to CAM only if CAM is available (misterd) - closed.
- 0002201: [TvServer] DE cards: improve logging for isCamReady() (misterd) - closed.
- 0002200: [TvServer] DE cards: DiseqC cmd should be sent to CAM only if needed (misterd) - closed.
- 0002206: [TvServer] DE cards: code need to be more readble (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002182: [TvServer] GetFirmwareVersion for DE card is disabled (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002192: [TvPlugin] recordings will not start immediately (gemx) - closed.
- 0001947: [TvPlugin] Recording notification displays wrong end-time (misterd) - closed.
- 0002177: [TvPlugin] Search feature inside MyTV->Search does not return any results (gemx) - closed.
- 0002122: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] create a proper import/export section in setuptv (Maschine) - closed.
- 0001989: [TvServer] series back2back recordings on the same channel with the same name are not placed in subfolders (Broceliande) - closed.

Installers - 1.1.0
==================
- 0002268: [DeployTool] DeployTool should be able to pass database parameters to Tv-Server (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002222: [DeployTool] Install MS-SQL 2008 express SP1 (32/64bit) instead of the 2005 version (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002248: [TV-Server Installer] add new files from teh IP-TV support plugin to installer (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002223: [DeployTool] Install MySQL 64 bit version on 64bit OS (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002226: [DeployTool] DeployTool should install latest DirectX Redist (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002220: [DeployTool] Remove TVE2 related options (flokel) - resolved.
- 0002197: [MediaPortal Installer] Make backup of Thumbs Folder optional (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002203: [NSIS base] File association is not working (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002159: [DeployTool] Access to x64 registry keys need to be normalized (chemelli) - closed.


Release Name: MediaPortal 1.0.2

Notes:
http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/roadmap_page.php

Changes:
Installers - 1.0.2
==================
- 0002120: [DeployTool] DeployTool should be able to update both 1.0 and 1.0.1 (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002103: [MediaPortal Installer] Update .NET check to .NET 3.5 SP1 (chefkoch) - resolved.
- 0002096: [MediaPortal Installer] If existing, the folder %temp%MediaPortal installation should be deleted on startup (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002112: [DeployTool] Update mode not offered for TV Server only installation (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002111: [DeployTool] DeployTool checks for old VC2008 redist (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0001894: [DeployTool] Backup folder created in clean install (chefkoch) - resolved.


MediaPortal - 1.0.2
===================
- 0002144: [general] MediainfoWrapper: 720p/1080p/1080i and embedded subs are not correctly identified (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002153: [Configuration] Shortcut for MP Extension installer needs to be manually launched with admin rights (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002106: [general] MakeDirectoryPath() is not always cleaning the path (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002114: [My Music] Support for Apple AIFF Musc Format (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002116: [Video Editor] Video Editor crashes and incorrectly patch continuity counter (Ambass) - closed.
- 0002100: [My Videos] Insert notification is triggered too often (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002108: [Skin Engine] Skinning Engine loses textures sometimes (rtv) - closed.
- 0002102: [general] Switch from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 (misterd) - closed.
- 0002139: [general] MiniDisplayLibrary: Matrix Orbital GX nee dupdated 3rd party dll (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002135: [Skin Engine] reduce horizontal and vertical text scroll-speeds (rtv) - closed.
- 0002121: [general] log4net neds to be updated to .NET Framework 2.0 version (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002119: [My TV / Home] Timeshifting is broken (misterd) - closed.


TV-Server - 1.0.2
=================
- 0001814: [TsReader] TsReader (with dynamic pins) sometimes refuse to connect pins. (Ambass) - resolved.
- 0002158: [TvPlugin] Cleanup of duplicated languages in Audio / Subtitle section of TV plugin in MP Config (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002157: [TvPlugin] Language mismatch with .net iso specs & language specs in stream in some contries (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002145: [TvServer] Recordings fail when path contains trailing spaces (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002133: [TvServer] Custom filenames/paths: %tag% not always working as expected (chemelli) - resolved.
- 0002138: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] impossible to configure TVGroups (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001989: [TvServer] series back2back recordings on the same channel with the same name are not placed in subfolders (Broceliande) - closed.
- 0002115: [TsReader] MP Client memory leak on playing Analog Radio and Analog TV (Ambass) - closed.
- 0002113: [TvServer] TvExceptionNoSignal on tuning causes ghost channel (misterd) - closed.
- 0002101: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Desktop shortcut for TV Server configuration needs to be manually launched with admin rights (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002117: [TvPlugin] MediaPortal is throwing a NULLreference exception instead of "Unable to start timeshift - No Signal "warning in MyTV (misterd) - closed.
- 0002095: [TvServer] On a fresh install with empty database & multiple analog cards, TV-Service can't start. (misterd) - closed.


Release Name: MediaPortal 1.0.1

Changes:
- 0002086: [Skin Engine] After pausing video playback OSD is shown after 5 seconds (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002089: [My TV / Scheduled] New recording ->Search screens are misaligned (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002088: [My Videos] Not possible to time advance to END when watching video (misterd) - closed.
- 0002071: [My TV / Recorded TV] MediaPortal freezes when going from LiveTV to Recorded TV (TV-Server-multiseat) (gibman) - closed.
- 0001936: [general] MP solution need a cleanup (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002057: [My Music] Last.fm plugin does not allow to switch the account user (rtv) - closed.
- 0002063: [My Music] No Vis was shown, if either Sonique or Winamp Vis is not present (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002064: [My Music] Implement CUE support (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002014: [Setup] Up / Down buttons should be remove from Channel tab in setup (MrHipp) - closed.
- 0001969: [general] Default skin has huge performance issue with 128MB GPUs (rtv) - closed.
- 0002080: [general] MediaPortal was started too early on resume from standby, causing WatchDog errors (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002067: [Skin Engine] Animations of default skin do not provide a smooth experience (rtv) - closed.
- 0002081: [Skin Engine] Scrolling texts are not smooth (rtv) - closed.
- 0001956: [Skin Engine] MediaPortal crashes when going to plugin and back to basic homescreen (misterd) - closed.
- 0002066: [Skin Engine] When Spincontrol in (Big)Icon view is selected than the list isn't reachable anymore (misterd) - closed.
- 0001994: [Skin Engine] folder.jpg is displaced broader then the actual button in (big)icon view (misterd) - closed.
- 0001993: [Skin Engine] when focusing the spincontrols by remote in (big)icon view then last item shows focused and unfocused gfx (misterd) - closed.
- 0001972: [Setup] Under USBUIRT "Learn MediaPortal Command" is available to click on and shouldn't be (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0001998: [Skin Engine] Threading issue with texture cache (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002032: [DVD Player] DVD playback stop crash due to MiniDisplay plugin (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002033: [My Videos] ShouldStack() / RemoveStackEndings() need a small rework (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002035: [general] MiniDisplay: kill iMON Manager under Vista leave systray icon in place (chemelli) - closed.
- 0002037: [My Music] Upgrade of BassVis (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001917: [My Videos] Allow default audio language for video files (DMAN) - closed.
- 0002039: [My Videos] Default subtitle language is not always working (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0001934: [Skin Engine] music vis displayed during picture slideshow (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002041: [My Music] Music Tagreadershould handle WMP Ratings (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002043: [general] MP fails at various places when the internet connections needs a proxy with authentication (rtv) - closed.
- 0002011: [My Videos] xml files inside subfolders cause extremelly slow navigation speed (misterd) - closed.
- 0002045: [Configuration] PDVD sections need a cleanup (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001988: [Skin Engine] last.fm radio displays blackbox in place of current radio station (rtv) - closed.
- 0002046: [general] Skip GC.Collect() calls when MP switches tracks and an external player is active (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002050: [general] Null reference error resulting from mantis 0002046 (Symphy) - closed.
- 0002051: [My Music] MusicShareWatcher and Music DB Reorg should only scan checked shares (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002053: [general] Debug info with '!' shows VMR9 when EVR renderer is used (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002054: [DVD Player] DVD audio language selection doesn't show stream details (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002055: [Skin Engine] Restore from minimized broken in Vista (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0002068: [Skin Engine] '!' reports wrong FPS for video (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0001964: [My Videos] resume date for movies are not always set when using database on network. (gibman) - closed.
- 0001967: [general] dynamic refreshrate could cause playback to stop. (gibman) - closed.
- 0001971: [Skin Engine] Radio Guide lacks consistency with latest TV Guide improvements (rtv) - closed.
- 0001976: [Setup] Filter settings of the default MPC-HC codecs should be handled in one place (flokel) - closed.
- 0001666: [Skin Engine] center of zoom animations is not in the center of the screen (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001975: [Configuration] Default aspect ratios for TV and Video changed when cycling through ratios in MediaPortal (misterd) - closed.
- 0001946: [Configuration] Do not allow multiple instances of Configuration.exe (rtv) - closed.
- 0001979: [general] Vista's GPU recovery feature causes hang (misterd) - closed.
- 0001999: [DVD Player] DXVA on/off option is ignored if decoder is CyberLink PowerDVD (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001997: [My Videos] Image file mounting improvement (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0002010: [general] SMS style keyboard doesn't work (misterd) - closed.
- 0002018: [My TV / Recorded TV] Seeking in ts files is sometimes a bit random (Ambass) - closed.
- 0002019: [My TV / Recorded TV] FRW/FFW not accurate on ts files. (Ambass) - closed.
- 0002021: [My TV / Recorded TV] Timeshift buffer start doesn't wait audio&video to start. (Ambass) - closed.
- 0002020: [My TV / Recorded TV] Jumping to end of timeshift during live Tv jumps a bit behind. (Ambass) - closed.
- 0001965: [My Music] Tagreader should handle ratings fund in APE tags (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0002016: [My Videos] Using external player causes "unable to play" message (-Manfred-) - closed.
- 0001981: [My Videos] In some cases MP doesn't use preferred codecs set in MP config for mkv's (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0001938: [general] Freeze on resume from standby (rtv) - closed.
- 0001990: [Configuration] Configuration doesn't start on top (misterd) - closed.
- 0001924: [My Music] Upgrading BASS (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001849: [general] Remove unused code/resources files (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001953: [Configuration] Aspect ratio descriptions/list is not the same on all sections (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001961: [WebEPG] Removal of multiple items raises an exception (misterd) - closed.
- 0001884: [Configuration] Configuration should remember the removal of optical disk drives (flokel) - closed.
- 0001910: [general] MP does not show more than 20 shares (rtv) - closed.
- 0001896: [My Weather] No city selected in my weather, incorrect behaivour (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001900: [My Videos] When using filmstrip, navigation blocked when returning from movie info (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001920: [My Settings] Skin selection is clumsy (rtv) - closed.
- 0001921: [general] Input actions may be delayed (rtv) - closed.
- 0001138: [general] localization problem (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001925: [My Pictures] Picture plugin might become unresponsive during DB additions (rtv) - closed.
- 0001928: [general] Handling of network shares is not optimal (rtv) - closed.
- 0001906: [general] Restart bug with restart.vb script on some vista computers (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001945: [My Pictures] Freeze when you delete the last picture running a slideshow (rtv) - closed.
- 0001882: [My Videos] Update included MPC codecs to latest version (flokel) - closed.
- 0001871: [My Videos] Black screen after stopping video_ts playback (flokel) - closed.
- 0001949: [Configuration] Allow useage of PowerDVD's DVD Navigator filter (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001950: [My Settings] Skin change is broken inside MySettings (rtv) - closed.
- 0001948: [general] Removal drive should be detected (misterd) - closed.
- 0001944: [general] User should be informed if a file cannot be played (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001954: [Configuration] Timeshifting on/off function should be hidden when TvPlugin is installed (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001939: [general] Make List of supported extensions for Daemon Tool configureable (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001941: [My Music] Handle "AC/DC" correctly in Tagreader (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001423: [general] MP should check if TVE is at the same SVN level to avoid odd behaviour (gemx) - closed.
- 0001902: [general] MiniDisplay: Some drivers are missing compared to ExternalDisplay (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001931: [general] Update the VirtualKeyboard for SMS style text insertion (misterd) - closed.
- 0001915: [general] Check if correct version of Managed DirectX dll are installed (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001850: [general] Update Managed DirectX dll (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001852: [general] Core have some leftover (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001885: [My Music] Switching to Fullscreen Music with no Visualisation set, should switch to Now Playing instead of showing a black screen (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001922: [My Videos] mkv's with languages inside container, shows only blank selections in GUI (DMAN) - closed.
- 0001889: [My Videos] AVI files with subtitles dont work with EVR (DMAN) - closed.
- 0001919: [My Settings] Allow My Video audio language to be adjusted in the GUI (DMAN) - closed.
- 0001918: [My Settings] Enable subtitles to be enabled / disabled from the gui. (DMAN) - closed.
- 0001897: [My Videos] Video views set in MP Configuration not used in GUI. (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001808: [general] Volume bar with "Vista" preset and controlling "Wave" has balancing issues (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001847: [general] Extend autoplay to support Blu-Ray and HD DVD disks (Tourettes) - closed.
- 0001904: [My Videos] MKV embedded subtitles not using configuration language (DMAN) - closed.
- 0001888: [Configuration] Some mainboards do not handle waking from standby properly (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0001898: [WatchDog] When using MP Logs Collector, DX logs are not collected (flokel) - closed.
- 0001890: [My Videos] Emedded subtitles show with MKV files although subtitles are disabled (DMAN) - closed.
- 0001892: [My Videos] MKV videos with AAC audio may not play with sound using the internal player. (DMAN) - closed.
- 0001887: [WebEPG] WebEPG-Conf uses gentle.config from wrong folder (misterd) - closed.


Release Name:MediaPortal 1.0

Changes:
Installers - 1.0 final
======================
- 0001834: [DeployTool] .NET unhandled exception during previous version uninstall: "uninstall-mp.exe already exists".... (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001886: [MediaPortal Installer] After uninstalling MediaPortal, an empty folder "MediaPortal" is left over, in StartMenuPrograms (chefkoch) - closed.

MediaPortal - 1.0 final
=======================
- 0001857: [Skin Engine] #selecteditem isn't cleared on init (misterd) - closed.
- 0001837: [general] Screen is blanked while in EPG view (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001772: [My Videos] Bug when searching imdb while playing music (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001872: [WatchDog] Rework on MP Log Collector (flokel) - closed.
- 0001854: [general] Autocrop not handled properly for aspect ratio "Zoom" (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0001878: [My Music] Downloaded artist images have a very low resolution (rtv) - closed.
- 0001880: [Configuration] Rename "Movie" section to "Video" (flokel) - closed.
- 0001838: [general] MiniDisplay: incorrect progress bars values info (iMON LCD) (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001851: [general] Update Assembly versions (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001859: [general] Gentle.config is created in the wrong location (misterd) - closed.
- 0001867: [My Music] Scheduled Music reorganization over several days, makes it adding shares multiple times (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001877: [My Music] Music Visualisation overlays Video Window (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001869: [My Music] Target Invocation Error when setting Visualisation Window (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001856: [My Music] Some cover art embedded into MP3 files won't be extracted (rtv) - closed.
- 0001835: [Configuration] Configuration splashscreen hides sometimes the hint dialog (misterd) - closed.
- 0001853: [general] MiniDisplay: Custom Characters are lost (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001840: [My Music] Exception in Tagreader reading an untagged file (hwahrmann) - closed.
- 0001836: [My Music] Remote Cntrol stops working under certain conditions (hwahrmann) - closed.


TV-Server - 1.0 final
=====================
- 0001870: [TvServer] subchannels handling is buggy. (gibman) - closed.
- 0001839: [MediaPortal integration] Watching a recording you get wrong TV icon (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001855: [TvServer] No subtitles on DVB-S2 with FireDTV (Ambass) - closed.
- 0001860: [TvServer] skystar2 WDM drivers tuner lock randomly failing. (gibman) - closed.
- 0001864: [TvPlugin] Teletext module misses the font height feature (misterd) - closed.
- 0001865: [TvServer] Adding analog teletext filter could fail (misterd) - closed.
- 0001866: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Combination section misses Nofity dialog (misterd) - closed.
- 0001868: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] setuptv - adding one or more channels from one group to another. (gibman) - closed.
- 0001792: [TvPlugin] Timeline is not working correctly when LiveTV is paused (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001842: [TvPlugin] Pre&post record time can't be set to default on some circumstances (misterd) - closed.
- 0001828: [TVServer Power Scheduler] Powerscheduler bails out when tvservice is unavailable / crashes (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001875: [TvPlugin] "View this channel" dialog pops up when it shouldn't (misterd) - closed.
- 0001879: [TvPlugin] Red color not always applied to EveryTimeOnEveryChannel recordings in TVguide (Seidelin) - closed.
- 0001841: [TvServer] Some HD channels are not working. (Ambass) - closed.
- 0001873: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Analog cards: CAM should not be available in edit form (chemelli) - closed.
- 0001858: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] WinTV-CI: config file (WinTV-CI.xml) is created under ProgramFiles (misterd) - closed.
- 0001874: [My TV / TVGuide] TV doesn't start when from other playing media to TVGuide & select program (Bavarian) - closed.
- 0001825: [TV-Server Config (SetupTv.exe)] Status labels aren't updated correctly when scanning analog channels (misterd) - closed.


MediaPortal 1.0 RC4 RELEASED

Today we are proud to announce the release of MediaPortal 1.0 RC4.

So what's the current development progress ?

The development of MediaPortal 1.0 is going extremely well and the latest svn revision is working very nicely.

The wide version of our new default skin named Blue3 is nearly finished and only needs some final polishing to which everyone
can contribute by testing it.

As a result this release candidate will closely represent the final version of MediaPortal 1.0.

When will MediaPortal 1.0 final be released?

This is the most exciting part of the news...

We will follow our "tradition" and release MediaPortal 1.0 final before Christmas 2008!


MediaPortal 1.0 RC3 RELEASED

As promised in the previous news, we are releasing MediaPortal 1.0 RC3 today.
Before you scroll down to the end of the page to get your hands on the download, we would like you to read the following lines as they contain some important information regarding this release!

Bugfixes

Since the last release our team was able to eliminate a lot of bugs in MediaPortal, TV-Server, Deploytool and the NSIS-installers.

Again, the great support from the community made this possible.
Special thanks to the users that took some time to test issues and create proper bug reports by following the Support and Bugreport guideline.

During the last testing period minor and major issues were reported. Sadly we have a few bugs in our current applications which we can not fix for the 1.0 release, because the potential fix would be so risky that it could cause a lot of other bugs.
This is one of the downsides of the current architecture, which we will get rid of in MediaPortal 2.
If you are interested in the list of currently known issues and for which version the fix is targeted, please take a look at the roadmaps of MediaPortal, TV-Server and the Deploytool.


A new Style!

We are very happy to announce that with MediaPortal 1.0 RC3 we release the first version of the new default skin named Blue3.
It's a completely redesigned skin which features some new and very cool animations, which were added to the SkinEngine recently.
In MediaPortal 1.0 RC3 "only" the 4:3 version of Blue3 is included. But we've already started with the "wide" (16:9) version which will be part of the untested weekly svn builds soon.

In MediaPortal 1.0 RC3 the "old" skins Blue2 and Blue2wide are still included, but they will be fully replaced by Blue3 and Blue3wide when finished.


MediaPortal 1.0.0.0 RC2
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/content/view/326/60/


Release Name: MediaPortal 0.2.3.0

Changes:
# MediaPortal music
14/11/2007 [13:20:40] rtv added: fixed: folder thumbs were neither cached nor created in database views

# MediaPortal configuration
14/11/2007 [02:46:12] rtv added: improved music database scanning speed, folder thumb generation can also use album art of other players like WMP now.

# MediaPortal configuration
14/11/2007 [02:44:25] rtv added: fixed: creation of artist and genre thumbs did not trigger the progress event therefore the form did not update.

# MediaPortal MediaPortal
13/11/2007 [23:00:38] gemx added: Fixed an error in the HtmlParser when there is a "href=" that has no delimeter after "=". (this happend while using webepg with tvinfo.de)

# MediaPortal audioscrobbler
12/11/2007 [22:24:28] rtv added: fixed: minimum artist match percentage did not take randomness level into account -" fewer results for rare tracks

# MediaPortal tagreader
12/11/2007 [22:22:46] rtv added: fixed cover art creation with wrong filenames when ID3-Tags contained apostrophes

# MediaPortal General
12/11/2007 [12:07:24] rtv added: fixed: preview thumbs did not use the thumbnail quality settings

# MediaPortal Music
12/11/2007 [12:07:13] rtv added: fixed: preview thumbs for artists and genres could use the same image path serveral times

# MediaPortal Music
09/11/2007 [13:22:09] hwahrmann added: Database Reorg skipped all directories after a specific directory which couldn't be read, because of no read access

# MediaPortal MediaPortal
09/11/2007 [10:53:02] dman_LFC added: fixed iMon Remote control not working when using v5 or later of SG_VFD.dll.

# MediaPortal Music
09/11/2007 [09:59:19] hwahrmann added: Made WMP Viz to run with better respomse. Thans to Symphy for the code

# MediaPortal music
08/11/2007 [16:06:48] rtv added: fixed: build folder thumb cache automatically after lookup without rescanning the database

# MediaPortal music
08/11/2007 [16:06:30] rtv added: fixed: explicitly overwrite the thumb cache with a user selected thumb

# MediaPortal music
08/11/2007 [16:06:15] rtv added: fixed: create low and high resolution thumbs of Amazon album-cover-lookup

# MediaPortal tv
08/11/2007 [01:54:32] rtv added: fixed slow xmltvimport while MP is running.

# MediaPortal music
08/11/2007 [01:30:55] rtv added: changed playlist skin files to only display audioscrobbler options if the plugin is active

# MediaPortal audioscrobbler
08/11/2007 [01:30:21] rtv added: hide option to change the active last.fm user account if only one user is configured

# MediaPortal General
07/11/2007 [23:45:28] rtv added: added sf.net patch #1827841 (Improved RTL Support) - thx leo212

# MediaPortal TVCapture
07/11/2007 [23:15:46] Broceliande added: (TVE2) should fix : Everytime on every channel schedules don't start

# MediaPortal MediaPortal
07/11/2007 [13:57:46] gemx added: Fixed mantis issue 0001155: on a clean installation of RC3 Movies-" Movie Player -" MPEG2-Video Decoder Setting is empty

# MediaPortal Tagreader
07/11/2007 [10:10:14] hwahrmann added: Writing WMA Tags corrupted the file

# MediaPortal Music
06/11/2007 [20:17:55] Koudijs added: Fixed: Number of objects/songs was not displayed after changing the sort mode within MP

# MediaPortal DVDPlayer
06/11/2007 [18:17:57] Eabin added: fixed lag when skipping to previous/next chapter.

# MediaPortal MediaPortal
06/11/2007 [09:57:35] dman_LFC added: fixed Teletext graph for Vista users.

# MediaPortal Music
05/11/2007 [13:15:48] hwahrmann added: Some Database queries were failing, because of an Apostrophe in the query string

# MediaPortal Tagreader
04/11/2007 [15:11:43] hwahrmann added: Added WriteLyrics Method

# MediaPortal Music
04/11/2007 [13:48:34] hwahrmann added: Code Cleanup. Added method to UpdateLyrics and Get number of Total songs in DB

# MediaPortal Music
02/11/2007 [22:50:51] hwahrmann added: Added CurrentAudioStream Property to Bass Audio Engine. Needed by iMon Plugin

# MediaPortal MyBurner
01/11/2007 [00:02:07] rtv added: fixed some issues that prevent MP from successful DVD burning.

# MediaPortal Music
31/10/2007 [21:32:21] Koudijs added: Fixed: At the album level of a db view the artist of the last song was displayed instead of the albumartist

# MediaPortal MediaPortal
31/10/2007 [13:42:43] gemx added: Fixed mantis issue 0001130: Radio channel stops playing on Radio Guide entering

# MediaPortal MyBurner
31/10/2007 [02:05:21] rtv added: added sources for burner component, fixed some bugs, Audio-CD creation shouldn't crash MP anymore, Data-CD creation (e.g. MP3) is working again.

# MediaPortal ExternalDisplay
30/10/2007 [22:56:56] JoeDalton added: Fixed iMon VFD not working with SoundGraph iMON Integrated USB VFD/LCD Driver

# MediaPortal Music
30/10/2007 [00:41:51] rtv added: fixed possible index-out-of-range exception when loading shuffled playlists, use better random generator to increase speed while loading large playlists

# MediaPortal Music
25/10/2007 [22:39:39] Koudijs added: Fixed: Song duration was displayed in seconds when a database view was sorted by artist or by album

# MediaPortal General
25/10/2007 [17:35:41] Eabin added: TSReader: Don't always do a full rebuild of the Directshow graph. This can speed up channel changes a lot when using TSReader in some cases.

# MediaPortal Audioscrobbler
25/10/2007 [03:13:44] rtv added: fixed: Suggestion slider was useless because minimum similarity had been disabled. Now "Similar" lookups are more exact again.

# MediaPortal Audioscrobbler
25/10/2007 [03:11:34] rtv added: fixed: Match column sorting did only work for some countries, artist lookups weren't parsed correct

# MediaPortal Music
25/10/2007 [00:04:16] rtv added: fixed null-ref-exception on scanning when mp3 tags contain invalid cover art

# MediaPortal Music
24/10/2007 [21:49:54] hwahrmann added: Visualisation was minimised on song change, while in fullscreen

# MediaPortal Pictures
24/10/2007 [09:50:05] hwahrmann added: Autoshuffle for Music Playlists was not working

# MediaPortal Music
23/10/2007 [10:56:46] hwahrmann added: Exception in Tagreader, when an OGG File contains an invalid comment

# MediaPortal MediaPortal
23/10/2007 [00:53:43] dman_LFC added: fixed AC3Filter post processor not being used with WMV Video files.

# MediaPortal Music
23/10/2007 [00:09:49] hwahrmann added: Fixed an exception in tagreader, when a VBR file contained a wrong header

# MediaPortal General
22/10/2007 [17:26:48] rtv added: added sf.net patch #1816925 (Support Pack for the Israelly users) - thx leo212! (EPG script writers: use OffsetStart="1" if the week in your country starts with sunday)

# MediaPortal Guilib
22/10/2007 [17:18:51] rtv added: added sf.net #1817922 (Bug fix for GUIThumbnailPanel) - thx patrick_sf!

# MediaPortal Music
22/10/2007 [17:08:52] rtv added: added audioscrobbler / internet lookup support for stripped artist prefixes

# MediaPortal Music
22/10/2007 [00:16:56] hwahrmann added: Added support for sorting by Date and Duration to Music Views

# MediaPortal Music
21/10/2007 [23:23:33] hwahrmann added: Re-added display of multiple disks, which was removed by error

# MediaPortal Music
21/10/2007 [17:12:37] hwahrmann added: Selecting songs with multiple Artists didn't work. Attention: Rescan of Music DB needed

# MediaPortal myTV
21/10/2007 [11:19:44] Bavarian added: Fixing myTV-Search - description not always displayed

# MediaPortal Main
20/10/2007 [10:43:04] Bavarian added: fixing black screen on resume when on suspend a Dialog was open

# MediaPortal Music
20/10/2007 [10:37:38] rtv added: fixed: possible null-reference exception for album views

# MediaPortal Music
20/10/2007 [00:35:37] rtv added: fixed: case sensitive and non-exact matching SQL statements by MusicViewHandler

# MediaPortal Thumbnails
19/10/2007 [22:06:15] rtv added: changed four-item-preview thumbs to use enlarged single images if only one subitem exists

# MediaPortal Music
19/10/2007 [19:31:39] rtv added: made creation of genre thumbs more efficient and using previews of four album art images

# MediaPortal Configuration
19/10/2007 [19:31:19] rtv added: cleaned up music database config section

# MediaPortal Music
19/10/2007 [16:23:26] hwahrmann added: Corrected Visualisationwindow flickering top left when a song was changing

# MediaPortal Alarm
19/10/2007 [14:03:46] hwahrmann added: Music initiated by Alarm was stopping after 1 second

# MediaPortal Music
19/10/2007 [11:24:39] hwahrmann added: ArtistName Prefixes can be now set via Configuration

# MediaPortal General
19/10/2007 [10:52:39] rtv added: made thumbnail creation more robust and trying to use the imageformat of the source file

# MediaPortal Music
19/10/2007 [10:51:05] rtv added: fixed building of genre thumbs from first coverart

# MediaPortal Music
19/10/2007 [10:49:04] hwahrmann added: Artists, which were residing on Various Artists only, were listed as AlbumArtists by mistake

# MediaPortal Music
19/10/2007 [10:48:52] hwahrmann added: Striping of Artist / AlbumArtist Prefix also works now for songs with multiple artists

# MediaPortal Music
19/10/2007 [10:48:41] hwahrmann added: Songs with no Album or Genre were not listed / found in the Album / Genre view

# MediaPortal MyAlarm
18/10/2007 [18:15:29] rtv added: fixed null reference exception when Alarm could not be fired in time

# MediaPortal Music
18/10/2007 [16:33:17] hwahrmann added: Changes to the Settings for Music DB scan were not honored immediately. Restarting Config was necessary.

# MediaPortal Music
18/10/2007 [15:34:05] hwahrmann added: Scanning for Various Artists didn't work

# MediaPortal Music
18/10/2007 [14:03:50] hwahrmann added: Artists and AlbumArtists were added Case Sensitive, which caused thenm to appear multiple times

# MediaPortal Tagreader
18/10/2007 [12:06:28] hwahrmann added: Added support for Fraunhofer VBR Header to Tagreader


MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC3 released!
Written by infinityloop, on 16-10-2007 15:12

Here it is! The (hopefully) last Release Candidate on our road to your ultimative HTPC experience - grab MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC3 while it is hot! Recently some bigger code changes were needed to get rid of limititations we couldn't bear any longer.Therefore we decided to throw out another Pre-Release.

One of the fundamental changes is our switch to NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). NSIS gives us more flexibility creating advanced installers which will allow a lot of customisation. With the RC3 release we mainly want to make sure that this new installer is working nicely.

Further changes have been done mainly to the music section which database is almost a complete rewrite. Inspired by MeediOS we simplified the database layout but also improved its performance. And when you're done with scanning your music shares you might enjoy the new grabber for artist images and album covers which has been added to the audioscrobbler plugin.

We are already curious about your experience. If your feedback is mostly positive then the MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 final version will be released quite soon.


MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC2 released!
Written by infinityloop, on 03-09-2007 14:25

We are proud to announce the release of MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC2.

Our main focus has been on stability and bugfixing. But we've also added some nice "presents" for you in this release.

Please click at the 'read full article' link.

The list of changes since the RC1 release is very long. Below you find a short list of the "most important" changes.
What is new:



MediaPortal TestTool

We all know that testing and bug reporting is a time consuming task. However your bug reports are the the only way for us to find and fix issues in the current code. We now tried to make the bug reporting easier for the enduser by integrating the MPTestTool. The TestTool acts as a log collector and exporter. So you no longer have to "search" for your log files. They get exported into one zip file with one mouse click. ::read more::



MediaPortal Installer (MPI)

With the MPI installing new skins or plugins is really easy. In the final version you will be able to simply browse through a list of available community skins and plugins, and then dowload and install them with one mouse click. Currently you have to manually download the mpi files from the repository . You can find out more about MPI ::here:: and ::here::

Tag Reader

Since we had quite some issues with the "old" tag reader, we replaced it with a new one. Pre-testing has shown that it works way better then the old one. If you encounter issues please start a bug report.

Start MediaPortal on the secondary screen

A long awaited feature by the MP community was to start MP on the secondary screen so that you can continue your work on the first screen. Thanks to piba it is now very simple to use MP this way. Check out the new options in the configuration program. More info can be found here.


Release Name:MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC1

Notes:
Changes:
23/12/2006 [19:10:54] rtv MyVideos sf.net patch #1620675 (Sorting of movies by rating doesn't work in My Movies) - thx DalaNorth!
24/12/2006 [11:23:54] Bavarian home fixing view problems with overscan settings
27/12/2006 [18:23:44] mPod MyNumberPlace added filtering (* plus digit) / candidate highlighting (# plus digit) - NEEDS BlueTwo or other updated skin
28/12/2006 [14:42:15] _Frodo_ tvserver added support for multiple channels with same name but different provider
28/12/2006 [14:42:23] _Frodo_ tvserver added support for dvb-s2 channels
28/12/2006 [14:42:37] _Frodo_ tvserver several gui enhancements to setup
28/12/2006 [14:43:01] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed 'channel is scrambled' problem which sometimes occured
28/12/2006 [14:43:33] _Frodo_ tvserver zapping in a multi-seat environment failed if video or audio stream format changed
28/12/2006 [14:45:11] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed DVB radio did not work in multi-seat environment
28/12/2006 [19:47:43] _Frodo_ tvserver added radio channels sorting
28/12/2006 [19:47:58] _Frodo_ tvserver added button 'delete scrambled channels' to setuptv
28/12/2006 [19:52:02] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed LNB2 settings used when scanning LNB4
28/12/2006 [20:49:53] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed bufferoverflow in rtspsource.ax
29/12/2006 [11:07:00] Bavarian StandBy fixing MP does not deny hibernation/standby requests on multi tuner systems if one card is recording
29/12/2006 [11:18:34] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed audio/video locked to scr in system header of .mpg recordings
29/12/2006 [11:18:46] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed audio/video std buffer size in system header of .mpg recordings
29/12/2006 [11:19:00] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed pcr/pts/dts now start at 0 in .mpg recordings
29/12/2006 [11:20:09] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed .mpg recordings now start with an video i-frame
29/12/2006 [13:41:17] rtv core skin option to disable the zooming of currently focused items (inspired by zombiepig)
29/12/2006 [14:21:40] rtv MyTV added channel name to program / episodes screen
29/12/2006 [15:22:38] MrHipp General Fixed OnResume hanging forever, if no display device (e.g. screen saver holding device)
29/12/2006 [16:17:53] MrHipp Thumbs Added 15 sec timeout on GrabBitmaps
29/12/2006 [22:48:05] Bavarian Main changing to a common date format (thx to chefkoch)
30/12/2006 [08:25:31] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed pause/continue didnt resume from correct point in multi-seat setup
30/12/2006 [13:05:45] _Frodo_ tvserver option to record in .mpg or .ts format
30/12/2006 [13:06:00] _Frodo_ tvserver option to specify where timeshift folders should be stored
30/12/2006 [14:21:41] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed delete scrambled channels didnt work
30/12/2006 [15:10:23] rtv MyMusic Playing now screen didn't return to previous screen OnSongEnded with some BASS configurations, ACTION_SHOW_INFO re-fetches tagged tracks info
30/12/2006 [16:18:36] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed 'channel is scrambled' issue
30/12/2006 [19:11:12] _Frodo_ tvserver extended scanning channels now finds a max of 5 audio streams per channel (was 3)
31/12/2006 [11:15:13] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed mytv search didnt work
31/12/2006 [11:43:58] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed notify me didnt work
31/12/2006 [12:17:39] _Frodo_ tvserver added diseqc motor support for ss2 card
31/12/2006 [13:17:08] _Frodo_ mediaportal fixed no audio when playing back .ts files with mpeg-1 audio
31/12/2006 [16:36:29] Bavarian PowerScheduler fixing wakeupInterval calculation
31/12/2006 [17:53:12] Bavarian myAlaram fixing myAlaram returned wrong value or GetNextAlarmDateTime (dont forget to turn wakeable flag on)
31/12/2006 [17:55:00] Bavarian Powerscheduler WakeUpCheck is called now on every TimerCall
01/01/2007 [15:12:25] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed gui for bluetwo wide
01/01/2007 [15:12:39] _Frodo_ tvplugin redesigned tv scheduler so it looks a bit more like vista
01/01/2007 [17:26:05] _Frodo_ tvplugin during zapping seek to livepoint when current position is more then 10 secs from livepoint
01/01/2007 [20:33:48] _Frodo_ fixed tvplugin play recording from livepoint and beginning
01/01/2007 [22:08:17] Bavarian Powerscheduler - fixing ShutDownTime incorrect after a Recording change
02/01/2007 [10:44:06] rtv MyVideos added sf.net patch #1620032 (MPAA Information read from wrong movie) - thx DalaNorth!
02/01/2007 [13:01:14] Bavarian PowerScheduler fixing WakeUpTime not updated when no standby mode was in between two recordings
02/01/2007 [14:54:55] _Frodo_ tvplugin : added search tvguide for genre,title,keyword when adding a new tv schedule
02/01/2007 [16:21:41] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed analog channels where shown as encrypted instead of freetoair after scanning
03/01/2007 [14:33:40] rtv MyVideos fixed one threading issue in imdb lookup
03/01/2007 [14:33:47] rtv MyVideos added sf.net patch #1626146 (Director not shown in My Movies) - thx DalaNorth!
03/01/2007 [15:10:31] rtv MyMusic fixed wrong "Playing next" info when not using ID3 tags
03/01/2007 [18:59:55] mPod TVMovie added new option to import scheduled recordings from ClickFinder
03/01/2007 [21:28:24] MrHipp MyTv Fixed teletext subtitles. Thx Sigurdur & DalaNorth.
03/01/2007 [22:51:04] hwahrmann Music Free BASS resources when playing non-audio content to avoid problems with Digital Audio
04/01/2007 [09:37:52] _Frodo_ core use tsfilesource for .mpg playback. Fixed the no audio issue when trying to playback .mpg files with mpeg-1 audio
04/01/2007 [11:36:14] mPod General introduced Russian language file (SF1627022)
04/01/2007 [12:49:04] hwahrmann Music Free BASS resources when playback of DVD starts.
04/01/2007 [16:45:45] rtv MyVideos re-create high-quality folder thumb when choosing another IMDB lookup picture
05/01/2007 [09:20:23] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed analog audio pin sometimes not connected when streaming analog tv
05/01/2007 [09:20:38] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed mute audio when streaming mpeg1 audio
05/01/2007 [09:20:51] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed graph not running when streaming live tv
05/01/2007 [09:49:55] _Frodo_ setuptv fixed 0000945: radio channels show number instead of name
06/01/2007 [11:41:35] _Frodo_ setuptv fixed radio epg settings where not saved
06/01/2007 [14:09:23] _James WebEPG - Fixed multiple grabber site problem
06/01/2007 [14:09:46] _James WebEPG - Fixed Vista problem
06/01/2007 [15:09:08] rtv MyVideos added sf.net patch #1628644 (DVD's aren't recognized properly if not in right drive) - thx DalaNorth
06/01/2007 [15:57:10] rtv MyMusicVideos added option to use 512 Kbit streams for music clips
06/01/2007 [20:08:52] _Frodo_ tvplugin when zapping only seek to end when we are more then 10 secs away from livepoint
06/01/2007 [20:43:40] _James WebEPG Fixed DE grabber tvtoday
07/01/2007 [09:43:36] _Frodo_ added radio channels can now be sorted by name in setuptv
07/01/2007 [13:20:22] rtv MyMusic re-arranged SortBy items for music, added artist (useful for album view) - thx Wilco! added grouping to album view - backup your views if customized!
07/01/2007 [18:13:49] JoeDalton ExternalDisplay Added font selection combobox in setup form (thanks CHli)
07/01/2007 [18:16:21] JoeDalton ExternalDisplay plugin now ues the Config class to get an absolute path to the config file. (thanks CHli)
07/01/2007 [20:40:37] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed svn didnt build
07/01/2007 [20:41:41] _Frodo_ tvplugin now has better error handling
08/01/2007 [11:27:01] hwahrmann Music New Bass.Net.dll with Vista Support
08/01/2007 [13:32:52] hwahrmann Music Fixed various exceptions while playing Internet Streams.
08/01/2007 [14:15:13] hwahrmann Music Playback of previous Internet Stream didn't stop when starting a new stream
08/01/2007 [18:46:24] rtv MyTV new general config option to disable background generation of thumbs from RecordedTV shows.
08/01/2007 [20:46:21] rtv MyDVD new feature: select DVD Drive / Image when "Play DVD" is selected and there is more than one disc present. Mostly sf.net patch #1628548 by dalanorth
08/01/2007 [23:14:45] hwahrmann Video Free BASS on playback of dvd files from disk
09/01/2007 [18:49:18] ziphnor TV/Video Zoom mode 'Normal' is now aspect correct also when cropped
10/01/2007 [00:31:12] rtv TVEngine3 brought back MP's changes of the mini-epg to tve3, added option to avoid thumb building, added config provider to fix issues with visualizations.
10/01/2007 [15:48:03] _Frodo_ setuptv country was wrong when importing analog channels
10/01/2007 [15:48:43] _Frodo_ tvserver you can now group 2 or more cards into 1 virtual card which is needed for hybrid cards where only 1 tuner can be used concurrently
10/01/2007 [16:01:30] rtv TVplugin ported search for episodes when clicking the current channel in tvguide from MP to TVE3
10/01/2007 [16:03:50] rtv TVplugin added localization for error notifications
11/01/2007 [12:01:28] _Frodo_ tvserver now supports hybrid tv cards
11/01/2007 [13:44:26] _Frodo_ tvserver added new event for conflict manager
11/01/2007 [22:56:47] rtv Audioscrobbler fixed: restarted tracks did not get submitted again, code cleanups
12/01/2007 [21:56:45] Bavarian Powerscheduler fixing Powerscheduler is shutting down too early
12/01/2007 [23:24:01] Maschine Configuration Fixing "Autostart MP when windows starts" - THANKS rtv!
13/01/2007 [01:07:32] Bavarian PowerScheduler PowerScheduler will recover from a critical ShutDown
13/01/2007 [12:46:19] rtv MyVideos added sf.net patch #1634599 (fixing ofdb lookup) - thx FlipGer!
13/01/2007 [19:21:05] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed streaming, was broken
14/01/2007 [20:05:02] _Frodo_ added some test code to tvserver to see if storing pmts on local disk improves zapping
14/01/2007 [21:00:31] Bavarian MyTV Adding Conflict Warning Dialog to Recording and Advanced Recording
14/01/2007 [21:43:50] Bavarian myTV added sf.net patch #1625286 - Additional context menu entries for TVGuide - thx to cheezey
15/01/2007 [09:50:06] _Frodo_ fixed problem in tvserver with integer overflow on DVB service ids when scannling channels. End result was the famous no audio/video detected if you tried watching the channel
15/01/2007 [10:07:31] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed pre/post recording times
16/01/2007 [20:28:40] _Frodo_ tvserver checked and fixed some diseqc stuff
16/01/2007 [22:44:50] Bavarian myTV Adding Keep Conflict- Button to Conflict Dialog
17/01/2007 [08:09:30] _Frodo_ tvserver new tsfilesource with better seeking
17/01/2007 [09:34:56] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed problem in .mpg recordings where 1st audio packet didnt contain a pts timestamp
17/01/2007 [13:10:19] _Frodo_ tvserver added support for analog s/w encoding cards
18/01/2007 [19:43:25] _Frodo_ added new tsfilesource to fix seeking
18/01/2007 [21:02:22] hwahrmann Music Playback of songs stopped randomly while in Now Playing due to wrong Crossfading
18/01/2007 [21:02:34] hwahrmann Music Added Mixer Support allowing an Upmix from Stereo to 5.1 / 7.1
19/01/2007 [07:50:57] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed zapping was broken for dvb in latest svns
19/01/2007 [10:30:42] _Frodo_ tvserver set framesize to 720x576 or 6480x80 for analog s/w cards
19/01/2007 [10:30:52] _Frodo_ tvserver set framerate to 25fps for analog s/w cards
19/01/2007 [15:59:44] hwahrmann Music Added BASS player ASIO support
19/01/2007 [22:27:43] Bavarian myTv adding multi TVcard support to Conflict Window
21/01/2007 [10:47:39] hwahrmann Music last.fm streams where not played with 5.1/7.1 Upmixing active
21/01/2007 [11:51:47] hwahrmann Music Use BASS, if enabled, for Audio CD Playback
22/01/2007 [12:12:19] Frodo tvserver added support for mysql 5
22/01/2007 [15:28:31] _Frodo_ mediaportal fixed mpg playback for non-confirmant mpg files
22/01/2007 [18:20:25] dman_LFC TVEngine Silicondust HDHomeRun ATSC support
22/01/2007 [18:26:26] dman_LFC TVEngine Pinnacle DVB-T PCI 250i support
22/01/2007 [19:02:25] dman_LFC TVEngine Buffalo PC-MV5L/PCI support
22/01/2007 [19:44:18] dman_LFC TVEngine Terratec Cinergy HT PCMCIA support
23/01/2007 [10:58:56] hwahrmann Music Visualisations were not working with ASIO
23/01/2007 [15:42:32] hwahrmann Configuration Default Remote Mapping File was not found, due to wrong path information
23/01/2007 [16:03:02] hwahrmann Music Pressing the key G or the MCE Remote Blue button, while in Music Fullscreen toggles between Normal -> Gapless -> Crossfading
23/01/2007 [18:12:45] _Frodo_ new tsfilesource which fixes seeking issues near end of file
24/01/2007 [00:18:39] rtv General fixed double loading of screen calibration on MP start up, added more logging
24/01/2007 [07:44:24] _Frodo_ added zap2it plugin to tvserver
24/01/2007 [07:44:43] _Frodo_ bandtype was not exported when exporting channels from setuptv
24/01/2007 [11:24:20] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed: upcoming epsiodes did not show correct description
24/01/2007 [11:24:31] _Frodo_ tvplugin tvplugin fixed: show channel name if no tv logo is present
24/01/2007 [11:26:27] _Frodo_ fixed: tvguide did not show any programs in tvplugin when using mysql
24/01/2007 [22:16:08] hwahrmann General Added Configuration option for controlling the speed of a CD/DVD drive when playing a DVD or Audio CD.
25/01/2007 [10:14:15] DalaNorth SkipSteps Added advanced skip step configuration
25/01/2007 [10:17:53] DalaNorth Configuration Added possibility to have local coverart images and enter disc label, when adding movies using setup program.
25/01/2007 [12:24:46] DalaNorth MediaPortal Rewrote code for Play DVD handling.
25/01/2007 [15:15:06] DalaNorth GUI Fixed Mantis issue 949: ListView shows not maximum items
25/01/2007 [16:34:03] DalaNorth VideoPlayer Fixed Mantis issue 896: info bar is not displayed after pause. Also fixed various other problems with texts overlapping during pause
25/01/2007 [17:57:31] _Frodo_ fixed rtsp playback in mediaportal
25/01/2007 [17:57:42] _Frodo_ fixed, ss2 was broken in latest tvserver version
26/01/2007 [10:35:20] hwahrmann General Usage of CD-Speed needs to be enabled in Configuration now, due to some DVD playback issues.
26/01/2007 [11:05:19] hwahrmann Music Playback of Audio CDs via BASS needs to be activated in Music -> Misc.
26/01/2007 [16:13:44] DalaNorth MediaPortal Fixed problem with info visible in home when pressing H
26/01/2007 [16:43:56] DalaNorth MediaPortal Fixed "It is not possible to navigate after resetting db and changing view "
26/01/2007 [16:47:21] hwahrmann Music Changed some ASIO setings to prevent playback in double speed
26/01/2007 [20:01:33] _Frodo_ fixed gentle.net exceptions when using non-eu settings on sql server
27/01/2007 [21:02:13] DalaNorth Videos Fixed skipping while fast-forwarding or reversing
28/01/2007 [09:50:10] _James WebEPG - New ES sites supported estdt & programacion-tdt - thanks pegial
30/01/2007 [00:30:09] rtv MyLastFM added discovery mode (subscriber only - streams will only play tracks you have not heard yet)
31/01/2007 [10:09:39] DalaNorth MediaPortal Removed hardcoding of "Play DVD" hover image (and copied "hover_my videos.png" to "hover_play dvd.png")
31/01/2007 [10:43:27] _Frodo_ tvserver added support for watching/recording multiple tv channels on 1 (dvb) card
31/01/2007 [11:43:25] _Frodo_ tvserver now sets analog hauppauge PVR cards to DVD quality
31/01/2007 [20:15:35] _James WebEPG - 2 new SE grabbers, thanks Funky
01/02/2007 [08:54:52] mPod ISDN fixed unknown caller crashed MP
01/02/2007 [08:55:16] mPod ISDN fixed picture directory was not adjusted after the provider change
01/02/2007 [10:14:56] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed transponder scanning order for epg grabber
01/02/2007 [10:16:09] _Frodo_ tvserver added option to configure epg timeout settings
01/02/2007 [13:57:13] DalaNorth MyVideos Fixed skipping by clicking on time bar with mouse. Added "forbidden" icon when trying to skip during paused DVD.
01/02/2007 [20:42:20] _Frodo_ tvserver improved client zapping speed
01/02/2007 [21:19:19] _Frodo_ fixed tvserver didnt always release the card when recording was finished
01/02/2007 [22:43:03] rtv guilib fixed: listcontrol in dialogmenu didn't receive focus
02/02/2007 [08:34:59] _Frodo_ tvserver, scheduler did not lock card when doing a record now action
02/02/2007 [11:16:27] DalaNorth MediaPortal Disabled skipping by entering timecode during paused DVD.
02/02/2007 [11:35:49] _Frodo_ tvplugin. show mini epg in tv home when pressing channel button
02/02/2007 [14:56:16] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed record now/stop record
02/02/2007 [15:51:23] DalaNorth MediaPortal Reverted changes for focusing listcontrols. Bugs caused by empty lists will be solved some other way...
02/02/2007 [23:32:33] rtv tvserver fixed some DB issues of the clickfinder plugin
03/02/2007 [14:06:28] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed scheduled recordings didnt work for analog cards
03/02/2007 [18:11:17] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed mini epg showed radio channels
03/02/2007 [18:28:42] rtv tvserver fixed mini-epg if not using SQLServer
03/02/2007 [18:30:38] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed waitforpmt message on atsc cards
04/02/2007 [10:25:56] _Frodo_ fixed rtsp playback on remote pc (needs latest svn of MP and tvserver/plugin)
04/02/2007 [18:53:54] rtv tvplugin fixed wrong percentage in mini-epg when using MySQL
04/02/2007 [20:07:13] Bavarian ConlictWindow Conflict window is now implemented for tvserver
04/02/2007 [20:09:40] Bavarian ConflictWindow Conflict window is now implemented for tvserver
04/02/2007 [22:36:34] _Frodo_ tvserver, fixed no audio pid found when scanning for atsc channels
05/02/2007 [22:08:54] _Frodo_ fixed ci interface of technotrend cards didnt work on tvserver
05/02/2007 [23:13:47] rtv tvplugin optimized performance of mini-epg with many channels when using MySQL
06/02/2007 [10:14:03] _Frodo_ tvserver improved CI handling for technotrend cards
06/02/2007 [11:29:45] _Frodo_ tvplugin speeded up loading of tvguide
06/02/2007 [19:18:41] rtv PlaylistPlayer fixed: do not attempt to play the next file if filetype is video
06/02/2007 [21:25:46] dman_LFC TVEngine3 Czech EPG capabilities
07/02/2007 [07:51:57] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed fllickering teletext button
07/02/2007 [10:35:11] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed 'unknown error' message which appeared sometimes for analog cards
07/02/2007 [10:35:23] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed 'full buffer' messages in log file
07/02/2007 [13:10:00] _Frodo_ tvserver hopefully fixed stream-freezes on remote client
07/02/2007 [13:27:29] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed flickering record button
07/02/2007 [13:27:40] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed unable to turn on/off tv for analog cards
07/02/2007 [15:09:37] _Frodo_ fixed tvserver remote streams freezed when server was under heavy HDD usage
08/02/2007 [07:57:41] _Frodo_ mce blaster plugin to tvserver
08/02/2007 [10:03:07] _Frodo_ fixed crash in tsfilesource.ax
08/02/2007 [12:07:08] _Frodo_ fixed tvserver didnt find audio/video pids for some tv/radio channels (like SPIKE)
08/02/2007 [13:22:14] _Frodo_ tvplugin fixed 'tvstreams' button for analog cards
08/02/2007 [14:18:22] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed analog recordings
08/02/2007 [14:18:35] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed issue where crash in tvmovie plugin stopped entire tv service
09/02/2007 [01:40:27] rtv tvserver adding manual epg import trigger for clickfinder plugin
09/02/2007 [01:41:24] rtv tvserver added options for import scheduling (when should the database be considered out of date)
09/02/2007 [15:00:42] rtv tvserver fixed clickfinder was re-triggering background import while a slower former import wasn't done yet. Improved logging
10/02/2007 [11:39:24] dman_LFC TVEngine new Nvidia MCE Dual definition
11/02/2007 [09:01:05] _Frodo_ tvserver now finds dvb-s channels like premiere portal which dont have a service name
11/02/2007 [09:41:04] _Frodo_ tvserver, scanning channels now only overwrites/updates existing channels if networkid/serviceid and transport id match
11/02/2007 [11:19:34] tourette tvserver Added Finish Cable provider Welho tuning parameters
11/02/2007 [11:30:27] Bavarian Music svn patch 1656832 - Support for m3u playlists as written by Windows Media Player - thx to Patr3ck
11/02/2007 [15:26:49] _James WebEPG - Fixed half day listings out by 12 hours
12/02/2007 [14:19:58] _Frodo_ tvserver: delete recordings from remote client didnt actually remove the file from harddisk
12/02/2007 [14:20:09] _Frodo_ tvserver: view recordings on remote pc didnt work
12/02/2007 [17:50:04] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed. unable to playback recordings on remote client if recording was done in .ts format
12/02/2007 [18:10:10] _Frodo_ tvserver. fixed crash in tsfilesource.ax
13/02/2007 [09:20:24] _Frodo_ fixed seeking when watching recordings remotely
13/02/2007 [09:59:07] DalaNorth WebBrowser Removed web browser keyboard. Latest version of webbrowser plugin must be used from now on.
13/02/2007 [15:33:17] rtv MyMusic removed playlist limit from Audioscrobbler config (no longer needed); fixes 100% cpu issue in Now Playing
13/02/2007 [17:26:58] _Frodo_ fixed xml error in weatheroverlay of bluetwo skin
13/02/2007 [19:24:31] rtv tvserver speed up the tv movie EPG import
13/02/2007 [21:05:52] rtv tvserver optimized purging of old tv movie EPG data - fixes empty TV Guide during new import
14/02/2007 [10:05:30] _Frodo_ tvserver: tvservice now supports power management events
14/02/2007 [11:51:24] _Frodo_ tvserver added multi-channel descrambling support for technotrend cards
14/02/2007 [12:45:01] _Frodo_ tvserver added new option to specify the limit of how many channels each cam can decode
14/02/2007 [14:39:16] _Frodo_ tvservice changed card allocation algorithm to get rid of joboel and iloop's nagging ;)
14/02/2007 [18:16:50] Broce tvserver Conflicts Manager plugin now supports subChannels ( Beta )
15/02/2007 [11:21:56] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed 'PTS out of range' error in VLC
15/02/2007 [13:29:09] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed channel renaming in setuptv
15/02/2007 [13:29:18] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed taborder of several dialogs in setuptv
15/02/2007 [13:51:51] _Frodo_ tvserver : changed edit channel so you can specify the satellite when editting a dvb-s Channel
15/02/2007 [19:40:27] _Frodo_ tvserver improved performance of rtsp streaming
16/02/2007 [10:47:30] tourette tv engine added new Finnish DVB-C tuning parameters (Elisa-J?rvenp??)
16/02/2007 [13:29:19] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed after editing dvbt channel the bandwidth was always set to 8MHz
16/02/2007 [14:42:16] _Frodo_ fixed bug where new user was assigned to a card which was recording but not timeshifting
18/02/2007 [10:18:48] Bavarian GuiLib fixing blinking button animations
18/02/2007 [10:56:53] rtv BlueTwo fixed wrong #currentplaytime for overlays - thx BoelShit!
18/02/2007 [15:58:45] rtv tvserver TVMovie EPG: adjusted program rating, added short critic, added detailed ratings for action, erotic, etc
19/02/2007 [13:24:04] hwahrmann Music Pausing Music when using ASIO was not working. thx, koudijs for the fix
19/02/2007 [16:25:01] rtv tvserver TVMovie EPG: added director and actors to extended description, code cleanups
19/02/2007 [17:29:59] _Frodo_ mediaportal skinningengine added reflection to control types image and menu
19/02/2007 [20:20:56] rtv tvserver fixed orphaned recording directories if recordings are placed into subdirs (default) and deleted
20/02/2007 [08:24:48] _Frodo_ tvserver added option to enable/disable plugins
20/02/2007 [09:05:47] _Frodo_ fixed play current recording didnt always work properly
20/02/2007 [10:12:49] hwahrmann TV dvbt.xml was referenced relative, causing FileNotFoundExceptions when used together with Music Viz, changing the Startup Path.
20/02/2007 [12:25:33] mPod General removed x64 platform targets (makes it possible to run MP on x64 systems!!!)
20/02/2007 [18:04:23] _Frodo_ fixed slow startup of tsfilesource
20/02/2007 [18:31:38] Bavarian animations fixing delayed animations affecting the value from the beginning on
20/02/2007 [18:55:41] _Harley_ adding flipreflektions to the header images
20/02/2007 [18:56:57] _Harley_ overworking weatheroverlay with hasmedia visible, so no overlaying on musicoverlay
20/02/2007 [18:58:10] _Harley_ fixed no overlaybackground in musicoverlay
21/02/2007 [10:35:05] _Frodo_ better error handling when transport stream contains errors during timeshifting/recording
21/02/2007 [18:19:20] Maschine Wikipedia Added site configuration from XML file.
21/02/2007 [18:51:11] Maschine Wikipedia added Danish and Polish sites
21/02/2007 [22:37:05] _Frodo_ fixed mpeg-1 playback
22/02/2007 [12:35:20] _Frodo_ filmstrip added reflections and animation for thumbnails, demonstrated in bluetwo/my pictures
22/02/2007 [18:02:43] hwahrmann Music Fixed some Playback issues with ASIO. Thx Koudijs for the fix
23/02/2007 [07:40:40] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed subtitles where not recording in .ts files
23/02/2007 [07:40:54] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed scheduler didnt start recording if card was tuned to another transponder
23/02/2007 [11:00:41] _Frodo_ tvplugin speeded up my program info screen
23/02/2007 [11:23:16] _Frodo_ tvplugin speeded up tvguide loading
23/02/2007 [14:46:27] _Frodo_ tvserver now keeps history of all programs viewed for future personal epg
23/02/2007 [14:47:05] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed bug where user could not zap because cam limit algorithm contained a bug
23/02/2007 [14:47:23] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed bug in setuptv where each channel represented a different user
23/02/2007 [15:13:23] _Frodo_ tvserver disable vista's sleep timer when recording
23/02/2007 [15:33:30] Maschine Wikipedia fixed language mixup Italian/Swedish
23/02/2007 [15:33:41] Maschine Wikipedia fixed parsing exception with special characters
23/02/2007 [19:40:38] hwahrmann Music Tagreader was returning ID3v1 tags with extra "�" at the end
23/02/2007 [19:42:56] _Frodo_ tvserver added support for CI/CAM interface of KNC cards
23/02/2007 [23:47:20] hwahrmann Music Updating the Music DB from the Shares stores last import date. Next time only new / changed files are processed
25/02/2007 [11:18:23] mPod MyTV updated/added ALL UK frequency regions for DVB-T
25/02/2007 [11:21:40] mPod TVE3 updated/added ALL UK frequency regions for DVB-T
25/02/2007 [20:44:15] Bavarian myWeather new Overlay for weather informations
26/02/2007 [01:57:56] rtv tvserver added method to retrieve the tuneability of channels
26/02/2007 [01:59:00] rtv tvplugin mini-epg dims channels which cannot be tuned currently
26/02/2007 [07:40:38] _Frodo_ tvserver added option to override the default LNB low/hi/switch frequencies
26/02/2007 [12:09:21] rtv tvserver added function to check for idle cards - speeds up mini-epg again (not yet finished for multi-user)
26/02/2007 [12:21:57] DalaNorth MediaPortal Fixed IMDB lookup to work with new IMDB site layout
26/02/2007 [12:29:06] rtv tvserver fixed: split recording files (e.g. due to interruption) were not removed on delete
26/02/2007 [21:40:13] Bavarian BigIcons fixing mantis 961: "Big Icons" view is broken
26/02/2007 [22:30:14] Bavarian WeatherOverlay fixing wrong city name got displayed
27/02/2007 [07:07:20] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed technotrend card stopped working after a while
27/02/2007 [07:54:53] _Frodo_ show DVB recordings in tvstreams and allow user to play it
27/02/2007 [07:55:07] _Frodo_ show context menu in scheduled tv when schedule is clicked
27/02/2007 [12:14:46] hwahrmann Music Action PLAY (Keyboard "P" or rempte play button) was not working on "Various Artists" albums or Artists, which are part of a Various Artist Album.
27/02/2007 [12:37:38] DalaNorth MediaPortal Fixed bug where a perfect IMDB match resulted in "No IMDB info found"
27/02/2007 [12:38:52] hwahrmann Configuration CD /DVD Speed was not saved
28/02/2007 [03:29:20] diehard2 MyTV added quality control for all hauppauge cards
28/02/2007 [03:29:57] diehard2 MP change MP process priority from the config
28/02/2007 [09:18:35] rtv SetupTV TV Movie mapping only offers channels which are ticked (meaning visible in guide) to workaround TVGuide issues for identical named channels on different transponders
28/02/2007 [10:13:52] DalaNorth MediaPortal Added option to only update movie database (during scan) with files not already in database.
28/02/2007 [10:27:07] hwahrmann Configuration was crashing on exit, because of a combo box not initialised.
28/02/2007 [10:36:38] _Harley_ new Basichomescreen with Flyaroundmenue
28/02/2007 [10:37:10] _Harley_ new musicmenu with Flyarroundmenue
28/02/2007 [10:38:31] _Harley_ new filmstripview to mymusic, only the zoom for frame does not work yet.
28/02/2007 [12:24:10] micheloe tvengine Update satellite list was broken
28/02/2007 [15:02:09] hwahrmann Music Playing songs via the Share View added them to the database even when the UseID3 checkbox was not checked.
28/02/2007 [19:56:04] _Harley_ Basichomescreen Flyarroundmenu with two direktions now , left and right .
02/03/2007 [22:48:31] hwahrmann Configuration Added Error handling to CD/DVD Speed
02/03/2007 [23:00:50] hwahrmann Music Fixed some Playback issues with 5.1 upmixing
02/03/2007 [23:33:36] rtv tvplugin fixed: mini-epg did not respect the sort order of the current group
03/03/2007 [01:54:25] rtv tvplugin fixed: mini-epg was slow changing groups, optimized channel loading
03/03/2007 [10:23:47] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed radio
03/03/2007 [10:35:57] micheloe ExternalPlayers iTunes: fixed next song from iTunes library was played shortly on song changes
03/03/2007 [10:36:16] micheloe ExternalPlayers iTunes: fixed pause/unpause skipped to next song
03/03/2007 [13:08:19] micheloe TVServer Properly deinitialize TVController when service is stopped - fixes tvservice stopping issues
04/03/2007 [09:17:52] micheloe WeatherOverlay fixed wrong LayerID caused issues with other overlay windows in some circumstances
04/03/2007 [23:52:48] rtv Audioscrobbler fixed: timing issues when using iTunes could cause submit problems
05/03/2007 [01:18:22] rtv tvplugin speed up program fetching for mini-epg by 20x when using SQLServer (now equal with MySQL) - added relaxed channel status checking
05/03/2007 [08:59:24] DalaNorth MyVideos Fixed Mantis issue 0000964: cd# input in IMDB lookup always 1 lower than you input using number keys
05/03/2007 [17:24:05] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed pause with remote clients
05/03/2007 [18:53:42] _Frodo_ fixed progress bar in tvplugin
05/03/2007 [19:11:42] _Frodo_ tvserver added joboehl's fixes
06/03/2007 [20:18:49] Bavarian MusicOverlay fixing MusicOverlay not displayed after a cover update
06/03/2007 [23:07:45] rtv MyMusic added chefkoch's fixes for playlist navigation issues
07/03/2007 [09:59:11] hwahrmann Music Weather Overlay caused GUI to hang when playing Music, due to wrong window id used
07/03/2007 [14:14:39] rtv ExternalPlayers added plugin icons, fixed: active playback wasn't stopped for all media types
07/03/2007 [17:46:58] rtv MyPictures added sf.net patch #1675575 (Not able to change picture after zoom out) - thx lkuech!
07/03/2007 [18:00:36] rtv Core added sf.net patch #1662708 (National characters in FreeDB) - thx sergem1!
08/03/2007 [18:11:35] rtv tvplugin added support to change the audiostreams for ts files (e.g. AC3 support in tvserver) - thx gemx!
08/03/2007 [18:16:48] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed tsfilesource didnt play some files
08/03/2007 [21:15:21] rtv tvserver fixed NetworkId data type overflow for MHW EPG - thx crazyboy!
08/03/2007 [21:52:57] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed tsfilesource didnt play asidie files
09/03/2007 [08:07:14] _Frodo_ added tourettes changes to tsfilesource for subtitles
09/03/2007 [11:11:30] hwahrmann Music When pressing "P" on a folder in Share View and the songs were not already in the Music DB, the album got added multiple times. 1 entry per song
09/03/2007 [11:25:47] hwahrmann Music When a WMA file is write protected, i.e. on a network share, the tag reader was failing with an exception - thx, Koudijs
10/03/2007 [11:38:26] _Frodo_ tvsetup crashed when selecting path to comskip path
10/03/2007 [11:51:27] micheloe TVServer Fixed: when TVController was restarted ITvServerEvent wasn't registered anymore with the GlobalServiceProvider
10/03/2007 [14:37:16] rtv tvplugin fixed audio switching for single seat - thx Hugo!
11/03/2007 [19:26:13] Bavarian home adding home menu sorting to config
12/03/2007 [13:11:49] rtv added sf.net patch #1622929 (VMR9 bug) + various fixes for MyMusicVideos and MyTrailers - big thank you to all involved people!
12/03/2007 [13:25:16] rtv BlueTwo added sf.net patch #1676815 (Blue2 : fix for some navigation issues and xml-cleanup) - thx chefkoch!
12/03/2007 [16:52:48] hwahrmann Music Using Upmixing songs couldn't be stopped in some cases.
12/03/2007 [19:16:04] _Frodo_ fixed some nasty exceptions in tswriter.ax
13/03/2007 [09:56:12] _Frodo_ tvserver added option to set timeshifting buffer filesize
13/03/2007 [12:30:30] _Frodo_ fixed skipping when timeshifting file rolls over (needs update of mp and tvserver and plugin)
13/03/2007 [14:12:14] joboehl fixed - Timeshifting at the sever was not being stopped in some cases.
13/03/2007 [14:15:37] joboehl fixed - TVPlugin was not stopping timeshifting at the sever in some cases.
13/03/2007 [14:16:14] and-81 Videoplayer Added support for ComSkip txt files. Allows skipping of commercials in videos on playback.
13/03/2007 [14:34:05] joboehl TVPlugin fixed - was not stopping timeshifting at the sever in some cases.
13/03/2007 [15:32:39] rtv setuptv added schedules to channel backup - thx gemx!
13/03/2007 [16:49:47] hwahrmann Music When Upmixing Fast Forward, Fast Rew and Cross fading was working with a delay because of a too large buffer
13/03/2007 [19:02:01] tourette InputMapper - Added next & prev chapter mappings for MCE remote in tv & video playback ( for comskip support )
13/03/2007 [19:25:29] tourette InputMapper - Added next & prev chapter mappings also for other remotes
13/03/2007 [19:49:58] dman_LFC Weather - new weather configuration option not to show weather overlay when media is playing. Useful for 4:3 skins.
14/03/2007 [12:27:39] _Frodo_ fixed mhw -epg problems
14/03/2007 [12:28:23] _Frodo_ fixed lnb overrides not used in the tuningspace
14/03/2007 [12:28:51] _Frodo_ tvserver refresh epg button now actually does something
14/03/2007 [14:27:45] hwahrmann Music With G-Force as selected Visualisation, the cursor was not hidden in FullScreen.
14/03/2007 [15:37:31] _Frodo_ tvserver updated support for KNC cards with latest sdk
14/03/2007 [17:02:17] hwahrmann Music In some cases MusicShareWatcher added an album several times
14/03/2007 [19:51:07] hwahrmann Music Playstate Icons were not displayed besides the Music Overlay Window
14/03/2007 [21:08:42] micheloe TVServer added PowerScheduler plugin to SVN snapshots
14/03/2007 [22:01:44] hwahrmann Music Key "G" in any Window toggles the PlaybackType between Normal(Gap) / Gapless / CrossFade. Icon is displayed besides the Overlay Window. BASS only.
15/03/2007 [09:43:54] hwahrmann Tagreader The null character was not sucessfully trimmed from id3 tags resulting in "�" appended to the Tag.
15/03/2007 [14:42:08] _Frodo_ mp updated to directx sdk feb 2007
16/03/2007 [14:38:39] micheloe Core Fixed GUI wasn't rendered on some installations (empty window was displayed)
16/03/2007 [21:39:09] Bavarian GuiLib adding frame animation for Filmstrip Control
17/03/2007 [12:35:42] micheloe TVServer fixed several small issues in PowerScheduler plugin
17/03/2007 [12:38:57] and-81 TVEngine fixed OnTvRecordingEnded not providing the RecordingFileName
17/03/2007 [14:11:45] rtv MyMusic changed url cleaning for last.fm to support R.E.M / D.D.E and other special cases
17/03/2007 [14:14:30] rtv General fixed: MP crashed when scanning a share which contains paths longer than 254 chars.
17/03/2007 [14:41:26] rtv MyMusic fixed: NowPlaying was using incorrect track length.
17/03/2007 [17:18:30] dman_LFC MyMusic fixed: If you delete the music database after using MediaPortal previously the database never got updated for older files.
17/03/2007 [17:54:44] micheloe MusicDatabase Fixed a crash when a user was using a non-standard date format in Windows
17/03/2007 [19:17:22] diehard2 MP Fixed videowindow being shown when not allowed by the skin file
18/03/2007 [00:32:04] micheloe Music Fixed: Replay/Skip for music wasn't working anymore
18/03/2007 [07:11:01] joboehl VolumeHandler now fires a message so plug-ins can react to audio volume changes.
18/03/2007 [12:45:56] Bavarian skin fixing filstrip focus shows always a green area
18/03/2007 [18:33:40] micheloe TVServer Added a "reinitialize service on wakeup" option to PowerScheduler (also reinitializes tuners)
19/03/2007 [03:59:31] joboehl Default Volume OSD can now be disabled/enabled in the Configuration utility.
19/03/2007 [04:16:02] joboehl ServerBlaster - Added debug option and fixed card selection duplicates.
19/03/2007 [09:26:54] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler plugin: reinitialize controller now releases TV cards resources before entering standby
19/03/2007 [13:12:41] Broceliande TVPlugin added conflict icon type for series recording status in tvguide
19/03/2007 [21:30:47] hwahrmann Music Querying FreeDB left the CD drive open causing problems for CD Playback with BASS. thx to Koudijs
19/03/2007 [21:32:28] hwahrmann Music Always use FreeDB when a CD is inserted. thx to Koudijs
19/03/2007 [21:33:58] hwahrmann Music Jump to Playlist when the Play CD button is pressed to play an Audio CD. thx to Koudijs
20/03/2007 [20:37:07] Bavarian MyMusic fixing playlist items on more then one page are not displayed
21/03/2007 [16:26:59] gemx TvPlugin implemented resume from last position for recordings
21/03/2007 [18:55:16] micheloe TVServer Fixed possible NullReference exceptions during card detection
21/03/2007 [18:57:34] micheloe TVServer Fixed a possible crash when handling power management events
22/03/2007 [11:38:19] gemx MyVideos Fixed playing an mpeg recording while it's still being recorded
22/03/2007 [11:40:56] mPod Remotes MCE transceiver IDs are configurable via XML file now
22/03/2007 [12:15:32] gemx XMLTvGrabber Update for Croatia. Thanks, mvedrina
22/03/2007 [14:35:17] gemx TvServer Fixed SkyStar2 DiSEqCMotor usage. It's now only used if the motor is enabled in the settings
22/03/2007 [18:29:44] gemx SetupTV Fixed problem while scanning if 2 channels have the same name but different tuning details
23/03/2007 [09:27:14] DalaNorth IMDB Bugfix. Actors or characters with the string "more", such as Freddie Highmore, caused the IMDB lookup to fail.
23/03/2007 [16:07:17] gemx TvPlugin Added Tuning details screen which can be used as sat finder also
23/03/2007 [16:22:21] Broce_LT TVE3 Scheduler Merged DVDFreak's fuzzy logic methods for incoming periodical schedules
24/03/2007 [11:42:20] and-81 Plugin Added ComSkip Launcher plugin
24/03/2007 [15:55:04] micheloe TVServer Fixed export/import didn't import schedules.
24/03/2007 [20:46:47] gemx SetupTV added "Clear" Button to RadioChannels Sections/RadioChannels.cs
24/03/2007 [20:48:04] gemx SetupTV fixed "Clear" button in TVChannels section. It now only deletes tv channels and not radio channels anymore
24/03/2007 [21:12:41] micheloe TVServer Fixed PowerScheduler didn't wake up the system for several scheduled recording types
24/03/2007 [21:13:36] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: Added option to run an external command before standby / after wakeup of the system
24/03/2007 [22:26:46] hwahrmann Music MusicShareWatcher is renewing connections to shares when returning from hibernation/standby to prevent problems with network shares.
24/03/2007 [22:39:49] hwahrmann Music Reorg of Music DB is done in background when run inside MP.
24/03/2007 [22:44:10] hwahrmann Music New Plugin MusicDBReorg allows scheduling of Music DB reorganisation.
25/03/2007 [12:40:17] _James Core New language string file format and localisation system
25/03/2007 [21:49:23] Bavarian MyMusic fixing flickering in the upper left corner when visualization is turned off
26/03/2007 [10:45:11] gemx SetupTV Implemented rename a channel group
26/03/2007 [11:52:20] gemx SetupTV added export/import of channel groups
27/03/2007 [18:22:41] mPod General Skin engine & weather module are using the cache folder now
27/03/2007 [20:38:34] mPod Setup Next release installer (no date yet) should be compatible to every windows from w2k to vista
28/03/2007 [09:34:06] mPod TVServer Installer for TV plugin should show up as "MediaPortal TV Client Plugin" in add/remove programs now (& internal cleanup)
28/03/2007 [12:33:52] joboehl TvPlugin Added more context related options to the FullScreen TV context menu
28/03/2007 [12:52:07] mPod General SF 1689777 - Overloaded Load method to allow window-specific keymaps
28/03/2007 [22:57:17] hwahr Music Coverart contained in FLAC MetaDataBlock #6 were not recognized, causing other tags not to be read in some cases
29/03/2007 [12:04:53] rtv MyMusic fixed: when using internal music player "Now Playing" went back to previous screen after each track
29/03/2007 [18:12:53] and-81 TVServer Integrated ComSkip Launcher plugin
29/03/2007 [19:19:04] _Frodo_ tvserver didnt store subtitle data in .ts recordings
29/03/2007 [19:42:09] kaybe VideoEditor added support for comskip-file
29/03/2007 [20:02:55] gemx TvServer Added experimental DISH Network EPG grabbing
29/03/2007 [21:47:09] rtv MyMusic fixed GUI crash with lots of DX errors for some people using BASS engine
29/03/2007 [23:13:23] _kaybe_ VideoEditor added mpeg to divx conversion with mencoder
30/03/2007 [14:30:32] DalaNorth MediaPortal Fix for Mantis issue 0000968: navigation from topbar or from music/video-overlay does not focus the correct button
31/03/2007 [22:33:22] hwahrmann Music Added support for Winamp Visualisations.
01/04/2007 [01:56:38] gemx TvPlugin Added switch to next audio stream via key 'A' like in TVEngine2. Thanks MisterD!
01/04/2007 [11:42:23] mPod Topbar Hotfix for broken Topbar buttons (MediaPortalDirs.xml got updated!)
01/04/2007 [12:02:20] Koudijs General Added a 'SortBy' column to the 'Movie Views' and 'Music Views' configuration that sets the default sort. This default can be overruled within MP.
01/04/2007 [12:33:05] mPod Topbar Broken Topbar buttons fixed - DELETE SKIN CACHE FILES packedgfx*.* to see effect
01/04/2007 [13:50:30] mPod General EXPERIMENTAL - Vista Media Center services should all be halted as well during an MP session. NEEDS MP TO BE RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR - otherwise cards/remote might be blocked by WMC background processes
01/04/2007 [16:33:33] rtv MyMusic fixed and improved scrobbling of similar artists - webservice had changed
01/04/2007 [17:33:00] mPod General Added warning when newer MediaPortalDirs.xml has been detected
01/04/2007 [17:41:44] rtv MyNumberplace added sf.net patch #1688004 [Blue2: fixed/added animations to MyNumbersplace] thx chefkoch!
02/04/2007 [17:22:26] rtv General added specific menu headings depending on the menu type - fixes bogus "Menu Menu" at various places
03/04/2007 [16:01:58] rtv General changed sort handling of MyMusic, MyPictures and MyVideos to use a contextmenu for better selection
03/04/2007 [17:37:45] rtv tvserver added parts of sf.net #1651921 [Additional fields in Program table] for further EPG usage - thx youdee! (db upgrade needed)
03/04/2007 [17:55:35] hwahrmann Music TagReader now returns Rating from ID3 POPM frame
03/04/2007 [20:26:32] hwahrmann Music Upgrade of Music Database to V8. Supports Date Added and Rating for Songs.
04/04/2007 [00:18:43] rtv MyMusic added direct rating support for the current song (via number keys 0-5) to Now Playing screen
04/04/2007 [17:14:20] hwahrmann Music Added support for Winamp2 plugins, like Geiss 2, Beatharness, Milkdrop 1.04
04/04/2007 [20:28:26] gemx TvServer Fixed teletext language recognition SF [ 1692445 ] TVE3: Teletext language recognition. Thanks mistderd!
04/04/2007 [20:32:53] gemx TvServer Fixed Toptext (Teletext) Green and yellow buttons were swapped. SF Patch [ 1692448 ] TVE3: Green and yellow button of toptext where swapped. Thanks misterd!
05/04/2007 [10:42:12] hwahrmann Music Winamp Visualisations can no be configured via Config Button
05/04/2007 [11:10:04] rtv tvplugin fixed compile errors, moved tvserver related skin files to MP
05/04/2007 [12:13:24] DalaNorth MyVideos Fixed Mantis issue 0000997: MyVideos-Playlist: after switching the view the playlist-style is gone
05/04/2007 [14:59:55] rtv BlueTwo added many skin fixes and cleanups by chefkoch
05/04/2007 [15:57:54] rtv MyMusic display the current track's rating on playing now screen (change with 0-5)
05/04/2007 [19:44:13] hwahrmann Music Winamp Visualisations display now the correct Song Title.
06/04/2007 [20:25:41] gemx SetupTV fixed db upgrading
07/04/2007 [13:47:24] Maschine Wikipedia Added support for Czech and Hungarian Wikipedia.
07/04/2007 [13:48:17] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: moved disable/enable EPG grabber on standby/resume to PowerScheduler plugin
08/04/2007 [14:45:09] micheloe TVServer Fixed: XMLTV Import failed if tvguide.xml didn't contain Star Rating
09/04/2007 [20:34:34] Bavarian myTV adding two new label controls to OSD in FullScreen mode
10/04/2007 [20:07:04] gemx TvServer added support for linked channels e.g. Premiere Direkt Portal
10/04/2007 [20:59:36] rtv MyMusic fixed: mantis #0001000 (cover art/visualization screen overlays the list of albums in the main screen)
10/04/2007 [22:24:30] rtv MyVideos fixed: mantis #0000999: (*.sbe files wont't be deleted from myVideos)
11/04/2007 [10:13:21] DalaNorth IMDB Updated IMDB parser. "Directed by" is now "Director" and "Writing credits" is now "Writer". Solves problem with 0 matches when actually a perfect match.
11/04/2007 [13:16:53] gemx SetupTV added option to enable/disable the linkage scanner. Default is disabled
11/04/2007 [13:26:03] hwahrmann Music Tagreader now uses the first POPM entry found in an ID3 Tag for rating purposes.
11/04/2007 [16:39:49] rtv BlueTwo fixed: mantis #0000992 (overlay is visible in basichome-screen without playing any media)
11/04/2007 [18:37:29] rtv Core fixed: mantis #0000996 (GUIDialog: After dialog finished fade-out on close, the dialog title flash-up again)
11/04/2007 [19:03:51] rtv tvserver fixed errors on EPG import for some star rating formats
11/04/2007 [19:13:58] _Harley_ update of Basichomescreen , Hovers now visible without focus
11/04/2007 [19:14:54] _Harley_ Update of musicmenu, now both sides flayaround
12/04/2007 [13:00:56] hwahrmann Music Fixed hang on startup, when using Winamp Visualisations
12/04/2007 [17:18:24] rtv MyLastFM added option to reload tags/friends from last.fm, added button to toggle submit on/off from GUI
12/04/2007 [21:01:39] Bavarian myMusic fixing album art not shown with internal player
13/04/2007 [11:58:55] rtv MyMusic fixed: viz could be enabled even without using Bass engine - thx ronilse!
13/04/2007 [23:27:56] Koudijs fixed: mantis #0000972 (overlay is still active, now-playing-screen and listitem of song still displayed as now playing)
16/04/2007 [07:54:10] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed stream id in .mpg recordings was wrong
16/04/2007 [14:55:25] hwahrmann Music Sonique Visualisations and Music where always out of sync.
16/04/2007 [21:17:41] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: Fixed system did not resume when reinitialize controller option was enabled
16/04/2007 [21:17:50] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: Fixed system would sometimes enter standby immediately after resuming
16/04/2007 [21:18:02] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: Added handler which prevents standby when a recording is almost due
17/04/2007 [08:42:44] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: fixed wakeup for canceled series
17/04/2007 [08:42:52] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: fixed several bugs in manual wakeup time determination
17/04/2007 [20:19:35] gemx TvServer Fixed ChannelLinkageScanner was not started after each channel change
18/04/2007 [12:09:53] gemx TvServer Changed behaviour of epg infos. Now they are only stored in db for channels that have the GrabEPG bit set.
18/04/2007 [16:48:52] hwahrmann Music The Year wasn't displayed in Status Overlay in Fullscreen, when playing from Shares
18/04/2007 [17:29:53] hwahrmann Music Some ID3 Tags were not returned, if the Tag Editor set a wrong ID3V2 Size in the Header.
18/04/2007 [18:34:31] gemx TvServer Fixed EPG infos were not stored to db if a timeout occured
18/04/2007 [21:13:02] JoeDalton ExternalDisplay Added Samsung VFD driver
18/04/2007 [21:13:57] JoeDalton ExternalDisplay Displays are now initialized before opening the advanced configuration
18/04/2007 [23:48:51] hwahrmann Music Visualisation was started, even when disabled in Player Settings, causing the overlay window hanging in worng place, when leaving NowPlaying
19/04/2007 [17:29:01] gemx TvPlugin Implemented preferred audio stream selection
19/04/2007 [18:22:51] gemx SetupTV Added option in TVChannelsTV EPG Grabber to select/deselect if infos are only stored for selected channels to grab from
19/04/2007 [18:46:11] _Frodo_ tvserver fixed ac3 tracks in .mpg recordings where incorrect so they could not be played
19/04/2007 [19:41:28] gemx SetupTV Added button to TVChannelsTV EPG Grabber to auto select all channels that are in a group. Thanks gibman!
20/04/2007 [10:58:43] gemx TvServer Fixed the nasty Side by Side error in the eventlog caused when loading kncbdactrl.dll
20/04/2007 [11:23:33] hwahrmann Music Removed checkBox Enable Visualisation, enable/disable Visualisation now only through the Visualisation Combo Box. thx, chefkoch
20/04/2007 [11:51:39] gemx SetupTV Fixed Ma
ntis issue [0001008] first TV Card in list of cards can not be moved down
20/04/2007 [12:30:07] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0001015: When installing TV Plugin to many files it's copied to pluginswindows dir.
20/04/2007 [14:11:49] gemx TvServer Fixed mantis issue 0000983: Canceling of schedules don't get written to DB
20/04/2007 [16:34:19] gemx SetupTV Fixed mantis issue 0001010: when entering setuptv /manual control then "restart service" is shown shortly on the button
20/04/2007 [16:50:54] gemx SetupTV Fixed mantis issue 0001009: SetupTV freezes when you stop service in manual control and then select any other area in setuptv
20/04/2007 [18:37:25] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0000978: MyTV->Recorded TV->Cleanup->Not working
20/04/2007 [19:23:05] kaybe VideoEditor fixed: setting menu does not respond after 2nd opening
20/04/2007 [20:51:13] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0001016: Radio-Guide has no Channel-Logos
21/04/2007 [10:33:18] _James WebEPG - New HU and RO grabbers, thanks to Dukus
21/04/2007 [13:34:37] gemx SetupTV Added option to create group for each sat while scanning for DVB-S channels
21/04/2007 [13:43:13] gemx Turning TV off results in sluggish GUI
21/04/2007 [14:26:35] micheloe TVServer PowerScheduler: fixed bug where past recordings prevented standby
21/04/2007 [22:08:26] hwahrmann Music MP was loosing focus when starting a Winamp Plugin.
23/04/2007 [16:50:21] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0000978: MyTV->Recorded TV->Cleanup->Not working.
23/04/2007 [17:10:30] rtv guilib added sf.net patch #1704088 (some zoom modes have distortions when using PixelRatio <> 1) thx lkuech!
23/04/2007 [17:11:35] rtv dialogs fixed: mantis #996 (even more controls were showing the title text after fading out)
23/04/2007 [18:03:08] gemx SetupTV Fixed mantis issue 0001004: sorting by name not working in various places
23/04/2007 [18:08:59] rtv tvplugin moved tuningdetails to context menu (if skin file available), changed sort order of tv home screen.
23/04/2007 [23:25:11] Broce_LT TVPlugin (TVE3) removed btnGroup references: leads to an issue as it has been removed from the skin
24/04/2007 [15:59:56] dero79 TVServer TvPlugin Fixed "Can't nagivate issue" when selecting recording from scheduler-window. (Mantis #976)
24/04/2007 [16:00:36] dero79 TVServer PowerScheduler Mouse moves and keyboard inputs reset the idle counter.
24/04/2007 [16:00:48] dero79 TVServer PowerScheduler Denies standby when TVServer is busy. This does not work on Vista, and will never work due to the design of Vista.
24/04/2007 [16:01:01] dero79 TVServer PowerScheduler EPG handling improved, runs external command before internal handlers are triggered, allowing external preparation for EPG (e.g. downloading TVGuide).
24/04/2007 [16:01:14] dero79 TVServer XMLTvImport Consumes way less memory, Allows batch importing (list of files in tvguide.lst).
24/04/2007 [21:33:41] micheloe RemotePlugins Fixed doubleclicks with MCE remote for some buttons after resume from standby
25/04/2007 [11:11:06] gemx TvPlugin Implemented mantis issue 0000982: remember position in "upcoming episodes" when scheduling recordings
25/04/2007 [11:54:52] micheloe TVCapture Fixed Mantis #000797: enable TV (TS=off) while playing music makes MP freeze
25/04/2007 [12:06:25] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0000977: MyTV: Search: Title view only works after clicking on Title, Genres and Title again.
25/04/2007 [12:35:37] gemx SetupTV Fixed mantis issue 0001006: sort order for custom groups is not stored after creation of the group
25/04/2007 [15:21:28] gemx SetupTV Fixed mantis issue 0001007: up/down buttons in TV Groups to sort channels
26/04/2007 [14:17:21] gemx MyRadio Fixed mantis issue 0001017: Whlie playing Radio overlay in My Home is black
26/04/2007 [14:45:50] gemx TvServer Fixed mantis issue 0000979: %series% and %episode% do not work
26/04/2007 [18:46:08] dero79 TVServer3 XMLTvImport: Fixed a bug when importing XML from Zap2It.
26/04/2007 [21:47:07] Bavarian myAlarm fixing mantis bug 1019: Dialog make other open dialog become a zombie
26/04/2007 [22:42:21] Bavarian MP fixing mantis bug 1021: Patch added in revision 14270 breakes Max FPS set in Settings => patch removed
27/04/2007 [11:22:41] dero79 MediaPortal: Fixes to the "FullScreen does not show OSD and cannot navigate"-bug.
27/04/2007 [12:27:34] dero79_ MediaPortal: Fixed: Start to view recording from live point may not allow to navigate in the rocording.
28/04/2007 [21:48:01] Bavarian Core fixing mantis bug 970 - spinbutton is displayed focused, even if another control already got the focus
29/04/2007 [20:18:31] Bav|BBL myPrograms fixing mantis bug 991: When displaying a png-file the transparency is ignored
30/04/2007 [14:29:37] dero79 TVServer TVService: Improved handling of suspend queries: Does not show the ugly "TVService did not allow to suspend computer" message box anymore.
30/04/2007 [15:44:08] dero79 MediaPortal PlayDVD: Bass-viz-overlay wass hiding the "Select DVD"-dialog.
30/04/2007 [17:37:20] hwahrmann Music Ignoring Buffer Size when BASS Mixing is enabled. When stopping a music title, it was still heard until the buffer was empty.
01/05/2007 [21:01:03] Bavarian Tetris fixing bug 1025: Tetris does not recognize that the game is over in some cases
02/05/2007 [07:21:01] _Frodo_ setuptv fixed creation of mysql database
02/05/2007 [17:27:17] hwahrmann Music When Upmixing is selected, the Volume is set to Master Volume to prevent problems
02/05/2007 [17:30:38] hwahrmann Music Speed Improvements when Updating the Database from Shares
02/05/2007 [17:33:59] hwahrmann Music Preview for Winamp Visualisations is done in a separate Form, to prevent problems in some installations
02/05/2007 [18:38:58] hwahrmann Music Visualisation was set back to "None", if the Vis Tab was not activated in Config
02/05/2007 [21:24:53] JoeDalton ExternalDisplay: Added support for Fujitsu Siemens ScaleoEV USB display
02/05/2007 [21:35:05] Joboehl Tv Plugin - Allow resume from last position on RecordedTV for Multi-Seat environments
03/05/2007 [04:47:03] Joboehl TvPlugIn - Recorded TV information is now displayed on OSD in multi-seat setups
03/05/2007 [12:10:14] dero79 TVServer3 Fixed meaning of card-priority to match logical sense: higher value is higher priority.
04/05/2007 [13:25:45] Joboehl TvPlugin: Fix issue with changing channel between different cards in multi-seat causing tv to stop. - thx Gibman!!
04/05/2007 [13:26:03] Joboehl VideoPlayer: Show RecordedTV metadata (title and description) for both multi-seat and single-seat with TVEngine 3.
04/05/2007 [14:43:08] Joboehl TvPlugin: Channel and program information was not always updated on TV Home screen.
05/05/2007 [10:24:06] Bavarian RenderInfo fixing mantis bug 1036: Selecting "Close button" in MP home & other text like "render" information "Animates"
05/05/2007 [15:28:11] Bavarian Core fixing WaitCursor gets animated by previous animation info
07/05/2007 [13:59:02] hwahrmann Music Increased speed finding new files to be added to the Music Database
07/05/2007 [14:02:07] hwahrmann Music Winamp Vis causing problems are now blacklisted and no longer selectable
07/05/2007 [20:03:55] Joboehl TvPlugin: Black screen in some situations when playing recordings (at beginning and live point). Thks dero!!
08/05/2007 [11:57:02] hwahrmann Music Fixed Mantis 0000965: MyMusic - same song is twice in playlist, music stops after first is finished
08/05/2007 [12:52:39] hwahrmann Music Tagreader ignores the mp3 TLEN frame and calculates the length out of the mpeg frames
08/05/2007 [13:21:45] gemx TvPlugin Added menu in TvRecorded after clicking the cleanup button to select the cleanup method
08/05/2007 [13:25:05] gemx TvServer Implemented grabbing the Premiere private epg data for the portal channels
08/05/2007 [13:49:24] hwahrmann Music Context menu option "Play Next" when used from Shares view added the title twice to the playlist in some cases.
08/05/2007 [15:29:03] hwahrmann Music Music Views selecting Album on top level were failing due to invalid SQL syntax
08/05/2007 [15:37:09] hwahrmann General Added the "NOT LIKE" operator to Views
08/05/2007 [15:50:35] hwahrmann Music The Combo box with asio devices found was not cleared when ticking the check box
09/05/2007 [11:56:00] hwahrmann Music When updating the Music Database from Shares, files in the root directory of the share were ignored
09/05/2007 [12:48:04] gemx TvServer Fixed grabbing the premiere private epg data
09/05/2007 [13:30:39] hwahrmann Music Redesign of DSP support. VST and Winamp DSP plugins share now the same config. plugins MUST be in directory MusicPlayer/plugins/dsp
09/05/2007 [15:30:06] hwahrmann Music Changed stream flags for ASIO to have better input for Visualisation
09/05/2007 [15:36:29] rtv tvplugin removed database password from connection log
09/05/2007 [22:13:33] chefkoch MyPrograms better default views, localisable views, SetupForm cleaned, ...
11/05/2007 [17:33:55] rtv General removed default remote mapping for autozap option from play button (avoids killing the timeshift buffer)
11/05/2007 [21:23:12] joboehl TVPlugin: Program Information in the home screen was not always updated.
11/05/2007 [21:23:38] joboehl TvPlugin: Added option to only delete watched recordings for a single show.
11/05/2007 [21:46:56] Koudijs Music Fixed mantis 0000972: overlay is still active, now-playing-screen and listitem of song still displayed as now playing
13/05/2007 [10:20:02] chefkoch MyPrograms fixed AllGame.com info grabber
14/05/2007 [13:30:58] hwahrmann Music When Upmixing, songs where terminated to early under specific cases
14/05/2007 [14:16:43] rtv Remote updated USB-Uirt to use driver release V1.4 - thx ronilse!
14/05/2007 [17:06:22] hwahrmann Music BASS player can now also be used for Internet Radio
14/05/2007 [17:20:33] rtv Configuration disabled First-Start-Wizard due to long-term-bugs in many sections
14/05/2007 [18:54:08] rtv guilib fixed: mantis #1035 (buttons in TVGuide to change the day are not reachable with remote/keyboard)
14/05/2007 [19:05:52] joboehl TVPlugIn: Changed ChannelChange code (performance and stability).
14/05/2007 [20:10:59] gemx TvPlugin Fixed "Cleanup" dialog menu was not reset before showing
14/05/2007 [22:26:53] rtv tvserver fixed mysql support and some typos in database definition (db update required)
14/05/2007 [23:14:30] rtv tvserver added sf.net patches: #1692460 (TVE3: Hamming and subtitle recognition), #1692456 (TVE3: Fix for Fasttext and added toptext support) - thx MisterD!
14/05/2007 [23:21:02] rtv WebEPG added sf.net patch #1669841 (WEBEPG : Updated french grabber file) - thx waltz1000
14/05/2007 [23:46:38] rtv tvclient fixed flip-over behavior of RecordedTV list
15/05/2007 [12:10:03] hwahrmann Music Redesign of ASIO support. Crossfading now working for ASIO playback as well
15/05/2007 [17:16:42] rtv Plugins removed GUIScripts from project.
15/05/2007 [17:52:18] rtv WebEPG updated grabber for tvtoday_de (site changed) - thx Hawkeye!
15/05/2007 [18:45:46] rtv tvplugin fixed mantis #1034 - Groups are changed via context menu; a label is indicating the current group
15/05/2007 [22:33:33] Koudijs Music Fixed music overlay problem when both upmixing and crossfading are used
16/05/2007 [13:57:53] rtv tvclient fixed: tv guide dialog didn't close after zapping to another channel
16/05/2007 [18:33:01] Dukus_ MyVideos Fixed mantis 0000963(Retrieval of artwork for movies (imdb) results in low res version first time viewing)
16/05/2007 [20:24:01] Broce TVServer Fixed 0001043: some schedule types are NOT using pre-recording time , fix from ronilse
16/05/2007 [20:56:38] hwahrmann General Fixed Mantis 1041: Access to PIN protected shares didn't work in some cases
17/05/2007 [19:20:13] Joboehl TVServer: Fix Mantis 0001051 - Wrong recording could be stopped if multiple recordings on the same card.
18/05/2007 [14:26:56] rtv MyPictures added sf.net Patch #1700308 (Recursivly generate thumbs in my Pictures) - thx mbuzina
18/05/2007 [14:45:23] rtv tvserver added sf.net patch #1720393 (TVE3: Fix for mantis bug 1039); needs testing! - thx misterd_sf
18/05/2007 [14:47:45] rtv tvserver added sf.net patch #1720449 (TVController not intializing with MasterSlave) - thx krazer
19/05/2007 [09:34:41] Dukus_ MyVideos Fix Mantis 0000973: It is not possible to navigate after resetting db and changing view
19/05/2007 [19:05:33] Joboehl TVPlugin: Fix Mantis#1040 - TV sometimes auto re-enables.
20/05/2007 [07:43:30] _James WebEPG NO grabbers updated - thanks KRA
20/05/2007 [18:34:00] tourette Fixed Mantis issue 1042: MyVideos: Black Screen on some files in fullscreen Normal-Zoom-Mode.
21/05/2007 [10:39:19] gemx TvService Fixed mantis issue 0001055: Database password gets written to error.log
21/05/2007 [11:09:07] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0000978: MyTV->Recorded TV->Cleanup->Not working
21/05/2007 [12:08:34] rtv MyMusic fixed mantis #1000 (cover art/visualization screen overlays the the list of albums in the main screen)
21/05/2007 [12:20:38] hwahrmann Music Bass didn't play ASX Internet Streams
21/05/2007 [15:05:55] Joboehl TVServer: Fixed mantis #1054 - Changing from unscrambled channels to scrambled channels doesn't work.
21/05/2007 [15:29:43] hwahrmann Music Database Reorg raised an exception, while trying to access CD / DVD shares
21/05/2007 [21:33:16] Joboehl Fixed Mantis #1059: start/end time in MyTV OSD timeline is flickering for livetv.
22/05/2007 [14:45:48] hwahrmann Music Playing Internet Streams via the BASS player, shows Song Information
24/05/2007 [14:14:13] rtv tvserver fixed: tv channels mapped for tv movie epg could not be deleted
25/05/2007 [10:32:06] rtv MyWeather fixed: default radar animation was outdated - site changed
25/05/2007 [11:06:55] hwahrmann Music After introducing support for mms audio streams, the playback of mms video streams failed.
25/05/2007 [13:09:20] Broceliande ConflictManager: Several Optimizations. Execution time and cpu load should be decent now
25/05/2007 [16:16:53] rtv tvsetup added dependency on database for tvservice. This will avoid that tvservice is started before the database is available.
26/05/2007 [10:31:57] Broceliande TVPlugin Fixed Mantis #0000969: Program reminder not working as it should
26/05/2007 [13:32:02] Koudijs Music Fixed mantis 0001062: NowPlaying does not show all infos about tracks which are not in database
26/05/2007 [23:08:36] Broceliande OSD : Removed unused ( so not working ) subtitle delay slider - closes mantis #971
28/05/2007 [15:52:58] rtv MyMusic fixed: Playing Now was showing "old" info when no track was playing
29/05/2007 [12:59:11] Broceliande TVCapture Fixed Mantis 956 (for TVE2 ) : "Record every time on this channel" fails for back-to-back recordings with the same name . Great thx to Ronilse for his help
29/05/2007 [15:03:08] rtv MyPictures added sf.net patch #1720926 (Adds a View by Date Taken feature to My Pictures) - thx mbuzina
29/05/2007 [22:15:08] chefkoch MyPrograms fixed: some control were still visible after H (switchHome) was pressed in GUIProgramInfo-screen
29/05/2007 [22:15:08] chefkoch MyPrograms fixed: null-reference exception when thumbnail was rendered during DirectX-Device reset
30/05/2007 [11:00:54] chefkoch MyPrograms fixed: facadeView was not updated after lunching an fileitem, old lunchcount or -time was displayed
30/05/2007 [11:00:57] hwahrmann Music Playlists containing Internet Streams were not marked as type AudioStream and the wrong player used because of that.
30/05/2007 [11:07:17] chefkoch MyPrograms fixed: the default view and sorting, which can be set in config were not loaded
30/05/2007 [15:40:20] rtv MyDVD fixed mantis #1049 (DVD menu does not minimize to preview(overlay)-window)
31/05/2007 [07:01:01] Joboehl TvServer: Fixed scheduler stealing TVCard when a free card was not available for recording.
31/05/2007 [07:02:25] Joboehl TvPlugIn: Fixed timeshifting being stopped by a client in some invalid situations.
31/05/2007 [17:21:43] hwahrmann Music Playlists in M3U Format conatining URLs were always played with WMP9, regardless if BASS is the default music player
31/05/2007 [19:41:42] chefkoch MyPrograms fixed: packshot and screenshot download for AllGameInfoScraper
31/05/2007 [23:44:19] Broceliande TVCapture fixed : weekdays/daily/weekly schedules didn't work as expected
31/05/2007 [23:45:06] Broceliande TVCapture fixed : null reference logged when some programs are missing in guide
31/05/2007 [23:56:08] micheloe TVServer FreeToAir property now gets updated from PMT - Fixes decryption of DVB channels when for example it changes from FTA to scrambled
04/06/2007 [18:18:23] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0001058: Remember position in TV->Search
05/06/2007 [09:18:24] hwahrmann Music Removed Volume control for ASIO as it caused stuttering on playback.
05/06/2007 [13:07:07] hwahrmann MusicVideos GUIMusicVideos and GUITrailers used wrong player when VMR9 is disabled.
06/06/2007 [12:50:41] Broceliande TVPlugin Fixed timer issues - Fix submitted by gibman in MP forums
06/06/2007 [18:06:32] Broceliande TVServer Fixed Mantis 0001022: problem with scheduling a show if one with the same name starts right before or after
06/06/2007 [18:07:21] Broceliande TVServer Fixed Mantis 0001029: back-to-back rec. which are triggered by "always on this/all channel " result in incomplete 2nd rec.,if they have the same name
06/06/2007 [18:07:39] Broceliande Reverted breaking fuzzy logic stuff
07/06/2007 [03:46:31] Joboehl ServerBlaster: Fixed extended logging not working.
07/06/2007 [03:47:10] Joboehl ServerBlaster: Added option to send select signal after channel number to speed channel change.
07/06/2007 [08:37:57] rtv tvserver fixed: tv movie could unnecessarily deny standby for epg import
07/06/2007 [09:56:19] dman_zZz TVServer Added latest TSFileSource code to SVN
07/06/2007 [17:39:10] rtv MyMusic fixed: now playing was showing the full file path instead of just the filename if there were no tags available.
07/06/2007 [17:39:53] rtv MyMusic changed the default audio player from internal dshow to BASS engine
08/06/2007 [08:09:27] Broceliande SF patch from CPP2005 : [ 1732979 ] fixed memory leak in TStreamBufferPlayer9
08/06/2007 [10:18:54] Broceliande TVServer Fixed , back2back recordings with same titles weren't using pre rec time
08/06/2007 [10:22:07] Broceliande TVServer Improved "Always on..." Schedules types handling . Resulting recordings duration shouldn't vary more than a few seconds now .
08/06/2007 [16:24:30] hwahrmann Music Set ASIO volume alwayss to 1.0 (Normal) to prevent stuttering.
08/06/2007 [16:56:39] Broceliande sf patch [ 1732979 ] fixed memory leak in TStreamBufferPlayer9
09/06/2007 [10:59:09] Broceliande TVServer Fixed : Record Once schedules could be recorded with a wrong program name
10/06/2007 [12:37:01] Koudijs Music Solved two ASIO playback problems; Resume paused track with Enter; Avoid short playback of stopped track when starting new one.
10/06/2007 [23:20:26] Joboehl TvPlugIn: Fixed change from channels with AC3<->NON-AC3 resulted on no sound in some situations.
11/06/2007 [08:48:12] hwahrmann Music Some ASX streams were parsed wrong.
11/06/2007 [11:51:25] hwahrmann Music Fixed an exception retrieving Metatags from an Internet Stream
11/06/2007 [11:53:30] Bavarian myMusic fixing mantis bug 1020: Texture Glitch in My Music when using icons view
11/06/2007 [12:56:30] rtv tvserver added sf.net #1734436 (TVserver MasterSlave Removing user from card during tune) - thx krazer
11/06/2007 [13:00:02] rtv Language added sf.net #1728507 (french language update) with prefixes - thx framug!
11/06/2007 [14:44:26] hwahrmann Music Fixed: Mantis 1056: Cover art/visualization screen hides channel selection in My TV.
11/06/2007 [14:51:55] gibman MyTV: Fixed channel change from non-ac3 to ac3 and vice versa stopped timeshifting.
11/06/2007 [14:53:15] gibman MyTV: Fixed a problem with the recorder where it was writing mpeg files when in fact it was configured for TS files and the opposite writing mpeg files when configured for TS files.
11/06/2007 [14:57:10] gemx TvPlugin Fixed mantis issue 0001058: Remember position in TV->Search
11/06/2007 [18:09:10] Broceliande TVServer Fixed daily, weekly, weekdays, week-end schedules were recorded with previous show name
11/06/2007 [23:16:40] hwahrmann Music Detect song changes in last.fm radio and reset the current play time.
12/06/2007 [11:24:51] hwahrmann Music Fix for Mantis 1056: Cover Art was overlaying Channel Menu. Happened also without Visualisation active
12/06/2007 [14:17:41] rtv MyLastFM added exact next-track-recognition based on hwahrmann's BASS additions - fixes out-of-sync track info when the last.fm streams lags
12/06/2007 [17:09:48] rtv tvserver fixed: startup dependency was not added to registry although detected properly
12/06/2007 [20:44:29] gibman MyTV/TVplugin/MyVideos fixed OSD Timeline does not disappear when pausing the video and then use skipsteps
13/06/2007 [00:08:00] dman_LFC TVServer Fixed AC3 channel issue for US users especially. Thanks Agarwal!
13/06/2007 [19:04:52] rtv tvserver tv movie epg: use short epg description if there is no better long description available


MediaPortal 0.2.2.0 released
Written by rtv
You're on christmas holiday and need a rest? Team MediaPortal has a gift for you!

This release contains many features which weren't included in the 0.2.1.0 Version because we wanted them to be more mature and stable.

From now on svn updates can only be used with this build!

Click on read more to see a list of important changes.

TV Movie Clickfinder 5.2 users, please see this post. A small bug crept into the release in the last minutes.

Changes:

- Many GUI and skin improvements for more smoothness including some nice animations. (new recorded tv look, changed font, "watched" status, ...)

- New thumbnail handling with configurable quality & size options. Relying on locally cached thumbs MP should work much smoother especially in the music part.

- A completely re-written Home-Menu-Control offering skinners more flexibility.

- A completely re-written Powerscheduler - being fully event driven now.

- Music visualization support via MP's bass engine. Use lots of free Sonique visualizations with MediaPortal!

- The new lightning fast music tagreader supporting many more filetypes and tag fields.

- A Last.fm radio stream plugin allowing to listen to your personal radio, love, ban or even skip tracks! (Audioscrobbler plugin needed)

- BASS supports Steinberg VST and Winamp plugins (experimental!)

- More easily sort your TV channels like you're used to with music playlists

- The Sudoku game has a highscore mode now

- Many fixes to bring the MyBurner plugin up to date - including DVD support

- A Dreambox TV plugin including its EPG

- Clickfinder supports the new 5.2 release (pls set "usedatabasedate" to >yes<)

- Some Web-EPG grabbers have been added / improved

- New autocropper plugin based on live picture with subtitle support

- Ability to deactivate unnecessary zoom modes


MediaPortal 0.2.1.0 Feature Release
Written by rtv
Saturday, 21 October 2006

Finally it's there! 0.2.1.0 released on Oct 21th!
We couldn't let you wait until Helloween, so here it is!

Integrating the last plugins like "My MusicVideos", "WikiPedia" and the totally revamped "Playing now" screen into the next stable patch I came to a point where a major re-sync with svn was needed. This is why we needed to test more thoroughly and call this a "feature release" and not a stable update.

Working on this release was a nice team experience as we decided to include a widescreen mod of BlueTwo - and got it ready in just 2 weeks! Special thanks go to:

* mPod for doing so much "under the hood work"; he e.g. wrote a skin converter to change all skin xml files to a desired resolution.
* Inker for upscaling most gfx to 1366x768.
* mofux for his sexy new OSD files and all those mockups
* Harley for helping with TV skin files
* Boilermaker who has done all this work on his own for the former B2 16:9 skin!

This skin is 100% identical to B2 4:3 and therefore fully supported with every new feature. "Dark lovers" should check out Harley's Project Mayhem 3 skin which is also up to date for this release.

There are looots of other changes and fixes of people who deserve a big "thank you" but I don't want to bore you - just drop by on IRC or the forums and remember we're doing this in our spare time.

Download the new release here.

Please note: This release does not contain a new skin engine nor the new TV engine. Those will follow in later releases.

A changelog will follow.


MediaPortal 0.2.0.4
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Fixed:
- MP crash in powerscheduler with daily scheduled recordings
- CPU usage spikes while playing music
- DiSEqC configuration per LNB#
- weird behavior of TV on/off button on manual recordings
- Hebrew language support

Improved:
- Significantly reduced CPU load of the GUI
- Audioscrobbler plugin's handling of server errors / song caching
- Dvrms/Mpeg-Cut-plugin has new features like joining recordings

Added:
- Playlist support for MyVideo
- Suggestions for MyMusic (autofill playlists based on last.fm recommendations)
- Hidden option to remove "scanlines" (as seen for some TV stations)
- new capturecards

Removed:
- Support for mce and Project-X skin
- Party mode (there will be an "offline mode" soon to replace it)
- TV.com support (broken due to website's change)


MediaPortal 0.2.0.3
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Fixed:
- Mantis 745: TV progress bar wrong after zapping.
- No music notification in MyPicture slideshow
- FireDTV DiSEqC setup for 2:1 and 4:1 switches
- Global DiSEqC config handling
- Incorrect DiSEqC value stored when autotuning
- DiSEqC config wasn't stored for radio stations
- NullReference Exception in GUIImage
- GUIWindow lost focus during mouse movements
- IMDB info not stored correctly to database for DVD movies or DVD images
- Disabled xmltv import option if using clickfinder plugin
- Channel config: "delete scrambled" did not always delete every encrypted channel on first try

Improved:
- Font texture uses DDS instead of png. Faster load!
- Overlay disabled now when using wallpaper-mode (tv as background)

Added:
- Audioscrobbler plugin for live-journal support on last.fm - please join our group!
- TVGuide: if you click on a program currently recording you're asked for starting playback at its starting point (e.g. avoids spoiling sport events)
- Support for some tv cards


MediaPortal 0.2.0.2:

Fixed:
- Standby issue: Some cards didn't record after resume
- Standby issue: No volume buttons on remote
- Standby issue: Some remotes stopped working
- Standby issue: Turn Monitor or TV on after standby
- Mantis 786: �remember last used folder� for Videos could loop DVD iso playback
- GUIConfigWizard crashed when web-epg mapping was obsolete
- Music importer ignored abr bitrate setting
- Wrong String for creating picture thumbnails

Improved:
- MyPictures does pre-caching now - switch immediately to the next/previous pic
- Config's skin and language settings, description of DVD subtitle settings
- SVN versioning scheme
- Fullscreen teletext respecting screen calibration now

Removed:
- Waitcursor for internet radio streams to workaround a MusicVideo plugin bug

Added:
- 14:9 mode to watch 4:3 sources zoomed on 16:9 displays with correct aspect ratio
- Right-To-Left language support (Hebrew currently)
- Switchable prefixes for Norwegian and German translation
- Support for some new tv cards


0.2.0.0 patch
Fixed:
- Scheduled recordings sometimes failed with powerscheduler
- Manual scheduled recordings failed for channels without EPG data
- MCE remote produced "double clicks" after standby on some machines
- Cursor selection changed text color
- Crash in dvblib.dll in rare occasions
- MPSA had "normal" merits; this is okay but gb-pvr has problems with this
- Project X settings navigation
- DiSEqC SimpleA/SimpleB for FireDTV-S (SimpleB wasn't working)
- Crash of config wizard's media scan when path was longer than 260 chars
- Minor fixes for TV Movie plugin

Improved:
- Video files start much faster now
- TV Guide does not display "unknow" any longer if no description is available
- Music context menu, reordered for faster playlist building, little speedup

Added:
- Wait cursor while loading internet-streams.
- Weather plugin's city search can be canceled now
- Support for some new tv cards
- Notification on song change while watching picture slideshows


MediaPortal 0.2.0.0
MyTV:

* "No signal" message does not disturb your TV sessions any longer
* Lowered zapping delay almost down to the driver's capabilities
* A new "Mini-EPG" has been mapped to the "OK" button which is very nice for zapping. You can also switch channel groups quickly with the "left/right" buttons
* Zap to last channel now uses "0" button
* EPG for channels which share the same frequency can now be merged

MyDVD:

* "DVD menu" button directly jumps to DVD playback now
* Navigator issues fixed

MyMusic:

* MyMusic has better Various Artist handling
* Audio player supports fast forward
* Inbuilt support for CD importing

Plugins:

* MyWeather plugin has been polished
* Every plugin can be disabled now
* TV movie (german guide data) direct DB support
* Cutting plugin for dvr-ms and mpeg (even via remote)

General:

* The brandnew, high quality MPV/MPA codecs are included now. Although not using HW-Acceleration they often achieve amazing results while de-interlacing fast movement scenes. Being rock stable these should be your defaults if any problem occurs.
* MCE remote buttons can be mapped individually now
* Skip steps (jumping in timeshift/video files) can be configured now
* Green Button can be used to switch between "Home" and "Basic Home"
* The GUI can be calibrated to solve overscan issues
* Pin protected shares working 100% reliable now
* Almost every part supports multi-language now
* Change skin and language "on the fly"
* Added Support for maaaany TV cards
* Hundreds of bugfixes for stability and speed
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/news_feeds/mediaportal/svn_changelog_0.2.html


MediaPortal 0.2.0.0 RC4 released
Not much has changed from RC3 apart from some bugs being squashed, a few more cards being supported - oh, not to forget mofux' marvellous new MiniEPG and mPod's excellent MCE remote custom configuration option.


MediaPortal 0.2.0.0 RC3 released
Unfortunately due to some last minute bugs we could not provide you with the greatly anticipated 0.2.0 final release.
As you will see in Mantis (our bug tracking system) we still have too many bugs at this stage. So as not to dissapoint we have decided to release another 0.2.0 candidate (RC3).


Mediaportal 0.2.0.0 RC2
The focus of RC 2 was/is stability, so you wont see much new functionality in this release candidate when comparing it to RC 1.


Mediaportal 0.2.0.0 RC1

TV (Frodo & Agree)

* Transport Stream recording/ timeshifting
* Dynamic switching between AC3/MPEG audio
* DVB: Subtitles
* DVB: Logical US channel selection
* DVB: No/bad signal notification
* DVB: channel not broadcasting (or scrambled) notification

My Radio (Frodo)

* Radio recording and timeshifting

Setup (Frodo & James)

* Finishing the Setup Wizard in MP
* Finishing the settings menu in MP
* Writing our own xmltv grabber

MyMail (Waeberd)

* Hotmail Support
* HTML Mail Viewer
* IMAP 4 Support

My Programs (Waeberd)

* All game scraper with MP (F3 key)
* Dynamically add new ROMs in MyPrograms

Direct Input (Waeberd)

* Handle connects / reconnects of joysticks while MP is running

General (Smirnoff)

* Skinning engine enhancements
* General search keyboard in all views
* MCE Customized keyboard mapping as an option to the canned mapping - allow each key to be custom for any trigger event within MP
* Adjustable font sizes

My Pictures (Smirnoff)

* Picture crop

MP Web Interface (Maschine)

* Fix the last bugs to get a release version of the MP Webinterface done
* A web based editor for the Movies database (as module for the MP Webinterface)


Mediaportal 0.1.3 Prerelease is available for download

So whats new? here is the short list:

* A faster MediaPortal start-up time MediaPortal will now start-up at roughly 1/3 of the previous start-up time.
* My TV: ATSC support. (Note: This is for cards with BDA drivers only)
* My TV: Recording Priorities When scheduling a recording you will be able to set a priority of that recording so other scheduled programmes don't take precedence
* Recording Qualities Also when scheduling a recording you'll be able to set a recording quality type for that scheduled recording - This will work only with Hauppauge based PVR cards.
* My TV: Recording conflict management Now when recording shows and a scheduled or manual recording is present MediaPortal will now prompt you for which one to keep.
* My TV: Episode retention policy This allows you to specify in configuration the maximum number of episodes to keep
* My TV: Automatic background EPG & MHW grabbing MediaPortal will now grab the EPG data for the current transponder/multiplexers channels and automatically populate the TV Guide.
* My TV: Video statistics Press ! to receive video statistics while playing a movie or watching TV and it will show the average frame rate, av/sync, frames drawn, frames dropped and jitter
* My Programs: Direct MAME Support MyPrograms will query the internal MAME database to gather information about the ROMS that are installed on your system. With this info, MyPrograms will fill in the Manfucaturer, Year, Overview information and - find the correct official title of your ROM files.
* My Programs: Improved Screens MyPrograms List-View will display a screenshot / slideshow of the currently selected item on the left.
* My TV: MP's own MPEG-2 sections & tables parser
Agree has done a fantastic job of making a MPEG-2 sections & tables parser.
* My TV: Twinhan DVB CI support
The CI of twinhan cards is now supported
* My TV: Notify me
Mediaportal can now give you a visual notification when a program is about to start
* My TV: Compress
Compress your DVR-MS files to mpg, xvid or WMV
* My Music: speedup
Browsing/playing mp3's has become a lot faster
* My Music: All songs
New view showing all your songs
* My Music: Itunes
Use iTunes as external media player
* My Music: Reorganize
Completely reworked music re-organisation
* My Videos
specify the default language for movie subtiles
* My Videos
New view : unwatched movies. MP now keeps track which movies you have watched already
* My Videos: IMDB actor info
When lookin up IMDB information the actor biography is now also available
* General: Remote
added native support for FireDTV and Hauppauge remote controls
* General: Screensaver
blanks the screen (optional) after 1 minute
* Caller ID: ISDN
Caller id plugin now works with ISDN also


0.1.2.0 Release

Done by Agree:

* Added : Very first native MHW-EPG support for Skystar2 (NO summaries and themes yet. dont be very happy with that version, still to improve some things and DONT FORGET to report bugs!) (MHW is currently ONLY tested with some dutch channels!)
* Changed : DVBGraphSS2 to support new (and only the new!) MD-Plugins wrapper
* Added : Modified TSHelperTools for MHW-Support (to grab some MHW data, goto config -> select tv-card -> edit -> goto epg-grabber page)
* Removed log ;)
* Changes for mhw-epg
* First improvments for mhw-epg
* Added code to summaries for mhw-epg
* Added function to get an TVProgram object from an given Summary-ID in DVBEPG
* Removed bug in mhw-epg handling
* New grabbing code for (dvb) mhw-epg
* Cleaned up some code
* Added SetAudioLanguage,GetAudioLanuage to change the audio pid for dvb
* Added AudioLanguage struct
* Code for return an list with availible audio-pids of current channel
* Audio selection for ss2 works now
* Changed menu-item for selecting the audio-stream from "language" to "audio"
* Removed bug for dvb-radio with ss2: diseqc value was hard-coded to zero on storechannels()
* Bugfix: typed pagenumbers are not shown
* Bugfix: text in fullscreen should render now ok (lower fontsize)
* Removed bug that cause stutters on tv after using teletext for a while
* Removed bug that cause stutters on tv after using teletext for a while
* Bugfix: teletext is sometimes bad readable by using Arial-Font. now using 'Courier New'
* Workaround for mhw-epg: now mhw-channels are cached to file "mhw.xml". that should used in case of no channels-tab are found in the stream

Done by Corl:

* Fixed: annoying scan of floppy drives in list/item views
* Fixed: bug in pin protected share lookup (was case sensitive)
* Fixed: exit (dont show) menu dialog if no entries
* Added: entries for filemenu
* Updated: filemenu
* Fixed: 000411: Possible to copy PIN protected share to unprotected area
* Fixed: 0000412: Have to enter PIN code for each folder in FTP share
* Fixed: TVGuide text to long, text drawn outside image
* Fixed: Music playlist currently played item and highlighted item didnt match
* Fixed: TVChannel frequency import (XML import)
* Added MusicTag to playlist player items (To hold song data)
* Added GetCDDBDiscID to read the DiskID of an Audio cd
* Fixed : GUI_MSG_CLICKED message (produced errors when send with Control=0)
* Fixed : Display of AudioCD track names and cd song info
* Fixed : 0000419: U doesn't work in new views
* Fixed : 0000420: Pressing Y does not start music in new views
* Fixed : File datatime exception when no "Date Created" info available (forum bug)
* Changed : TV, only show timeshift functions when in timeshift mode
* Fixed : 0000417: MyTV starts at start of timeshift buffer
* Fixed : TV Change channels in overlay windows / home menu
* Fixed : "live.tv" title name
* Changed : added SetRecorderProperties() and changed call freq. to every 10sec
* Changed : Live tv current playtime to time of current program instead of timeshift buffer time
* Fixed : LiveTV set tv channel properties to preview window
* Added : Touchscreen support for TVGuide
* Changed : Change log
* Fixed : 0000440: ZapOSD not working on current CVS
* Added : Delete picture from database
* Fixed : Mouse issue in tvguide
* Fixed : Database song filename and checksum calculation fault when using ' character in song filename Added : Delete song from database
* Added : String for filemenu in MyMusic
* Added : Filemenu in MyMusic
* Fixed : TV 1 sec pause after channel zap (zap osd)
* Added : Routines for DVB audio language
* Fixed : Some mouse and dvd OSD actions
* Updated to get the selected audio language
* Added set SelectedListItemIndex
* Added : Add(GUIListItem)
* Changed : Index show only 1-9 (that are shortcut keys)
* Added : Smal channel icon to context menu channel list
* Fixed: 0000446: Zoom mode not set in Preview window when entering TV
* Fixed: 0000435: config time/date home menu test button not OK
* Changed switching channels (AV sync)
* Fixed : 0000402: MyPlugins button not shown correctly in Metal
* Fixed : 0000418: All images shown when entering/leaving MyPlugins
* Fixed : 0000455: Mousepointer invisible on "Old skin dialog"
* Added : Item filter
* Fixed : Search keyboard could only be used once bug
* Fixed : 0000461: Database search in My Music not working / locking MP
* Fixed : 0000459: Toggle-Buttons (asc/desc) not clickable
* Fixed : DVD mouse navigation, only for overlay !
* Catch plugin errors (Fixes some unexpected MP exits without log entries)
* Fix: 0000473: It's is not possible to remove recipes from favorite list
* Fix: 0000474: Print button should only be enabled in details screen
* Added : Set initial search kind
* Fix : Broken OSD buttons
* Changed Last_Viewed_Channel key to "Z"
* Added "Enter" key to switch to the "Last_Viewed_Channel" if no osd is visible
* Fixed : 0000392: MyMail skin: Can not navigate away from attachments
* Fixed : ZapOsd first view the rec icon was shown Fixed : Wrong start/end time / progressbar when channel has no tvguide data
* Added : MyRecipes "0" key for delete item
* Fixed : OSD channel icon update when channel changed
* Fixed : 0000484: Back/forward navigation broken after deleting picture
* Fixed : 0000479: Back button does not work on some screens
* Fixed : Protected share lookup (subdirs)
* Fixed : Pincode in DB view
* Fixed : 0000493: MP window title wrong after leaving virtual keyboard
* Fixed : 0000490: Virtual keyboard: Click into input area types highlighted letter
* Fixed : 0000492: Object count disappears when virtual keyboard comes in
* Fixed : 0000491: Virtual keyboard: Search is based on "Starts with" -> unexpected behaviour
* Fixed : 0000490: Virtual keyboard: Click into input area types highlighted letter
* Fixed : MP window title wrong when switching view/files/playlist
* Fixed : MyVideo playlist disable buttons when playlist empty
* Fixed : 0000505: Black preview window shows up when jumping to Guide directly
* Fixed : 0000506: TV Fullscreen: Progress bar is not updated when zapping w/o timeshift
* Fixed : 0000494: Cursor is in the list when leaving playlist with ESC
* Fixed : Enter on first item closed dialog without selecting item
* Fixed : Playlist key F1 in DB views
* Added: Save view on view change
* Fixed : TVGuide slider positioned outside slidebar at 100%
* Fixed : Hor scrollbar not to 100%
* Fixed : TV guide properties still shown when no program selected
* Fixed : Hor scrollbar not to 100%
* Fixed : TV guide properties still shown when no program selected
* Fixed : Thumbnail current page number not correct after fullscreen video toggle
* Fixed : 0000498: BlueTwo: Green border around preview seems to be some pixels off
* Fixed : 0000503: After zapping wrong MP window title caption
* Updated window names MyVideo/shares and MyMusic/shares
* Fixed : Thumb icon 1 pixel too low

Done by DMAN:

* Added: Emuzed Maui I PCI (All variants)
* Fixed irregular entry in ATI TV Wonder Elite
* Added: AVerMedia DVB-T USB2
* Added: ADS Instant TV DVB-T PCI
* Taiwan does not have an offset
* Fixed FlyView Duo Analog after driver change
* Fixed LR6650 for driver change
* Added new Dvico HDTV Plus card
* Adjusted all the Dvico Cards to support the filter names for the latest driver.
* Attempt at Creative Video Blaster Digital VCR support
* The Hauppauge PVR 350 has differing crossbars depending on the driver revision - added the other variant and renamed the commercial names to reflect the driver revision.
* Added all variants of the BlackGold GDI card
* Added: Empire DVB-T support and Medion BDA Analog Hybrid support
* Added yet another BlackGold GDI card
* Changed Tuner filters for Twinhan based on 1.2.1.8 drivers
* Added: Twinhan MagicBox II (USB Box) & TwinhanDTV Alpha USB2
* Added: YUAN PVR PG600 Falcon 2
* Updated FireDTV devices to now work with the 05/04/2005,4.0.0 drivers
* Added: YUAN PVR BMP837 USB2.0 MPEG2 Capture Box & Terratec Grabster AV 400
* Added: YUAN PVR MiniPCI MPC622, YUAN DVB PG300 & YUAN DVB PG700
* Fixed: ATI eHomeWonder - pins were wrong on some cards
* Added: More Compro VideoMate T300/T200 variants
* Changed: Twinhan 1.2.1.9 drivers now have different filter names
* Added: another Compro VideoMate DVB-T200
* Added: Another Hauppauge Nova-T
* Added: LifeView DVB-S card (not on general sale yet)
* Added: Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-S -->
* Added: Dvico FusionHDTV DVB-S and another Dvico FusionHDTV DVB-T
* Removed: Test Medion Analog (DVB Hybrid) references as they were causing conflicts with non DVB cards with the same Moniker. See the wiki's 'unsupported' software card list for the code.
* Tidied up Dvico commercial names.
* Added: Dvico Analog for non Plus version
* Added: UltraView HDTV DVB-T Plus
* Added: LifeView FlyDVB-T DUO Cardbus, Lifeview FlyDVB-T Mini, more Lifeview FlyDVB-T variants, LifeView FlyDVB-T DUO Mini, LifeView FlyDVB-T DUO variants
* Fixed: Changed German word for Shares to Freigaben
* Fixed: Dvico USB after RC1 driver update

Done by Frodo:

* 0000475: Old skin warning when using most recent skin
* Added: waeberds fps
* Fixed: 0000294: Cannot restart/focus MP when minimized to tray
* Fixed 0000384: Thumbs with Radio streams are diplayed behind the visualisation
* Fixed: 0000396: Need to press F3 twice to remove picture info bar
* Fixed: 0000423: Skipping to next video in playlist hangs MP
* Fixed: 0000433: OSD does not go away after FF and skipping in DVD
* Fixed: 0000434: Press PLAY DVD button without a disc or open tray gives no dialog
* Fixed: 0000450: TV and DVD play simultaneous when using autoplay
* Fixed 0000451: FTP share in Movies not working ok due to Stacking
* Fixed: 0000456: coverart not displayed *directly* after allmusic lookup
* Fixed: 0000460: Sorting by date is based on (file system) creation date
* Fixed: 0000462: Coverart in Artists view not displayed on Album
* Fixed: 0000466: Crashes after adding a movie file from CD to database
* Fixed: 0000475: Old skin warning when using most recent skin
* Fixed: 0000482: Sorting in MyRadio not saved
* Fixed: 0000483: Stream radiochannels can be assigned to analog radio card
* Fixed: 0000508: Page-refresh causes black intermediate flashing
* Fixed: 0000500: GUI mode: Button captions disappear
* Fixed: 0000505: Black preview window shows up when jumping to Guide directly
* Fixed: 0000507: Alarm settings are not saved correctly
* Removed comments (causes crash in .net 2.0 beta 2)
* Put error messages in the error.log file
* Store dvb-t bandwidth in radio database
* Turn tv button off when entering my tv and video/dvd/music is playing
* Fixed: choppy tv when using vmr9+timeshifting
* Fixed: remove
from tvguide program descriptions
* Added caller id plugin
* Fixed: topbar was broken
* Added: External display plugin for supporting LCD/VFD
* Fixed coverart for music artists
* Fixed vmr9 aspect ratio issues
* Fixed dvbt-tuning
* Fixed: hangup when changing channels
* Added: x10 plugin
* Refactored my tv/scheduled tv
* Fixed: exception in log file when starting configuration.exe
* Fixed: visualisations stops at end of song
* Fixed vmr9 for intervideo/cyberlink codecs
* Fixed: slow response in my recorded tv
* Fixed : my tv guide flickering
* Fixed : recording icon was sometimes too wide
* My tv: added support for new softcsa.dll
* My tv: fixed tv context menu/channels didnt work anymore
* My tv: fixed hangup when recording channel X and zapping to channel Y
* Added: movie view editor
* Added: my video views
* Fixed: epg grabber was broken
* Added: movie view editor
* Fixed: dont import recordings when a card is recording
* Fixed: no teletext button was hidden when entering my tv
* Refactored my tv home
* Applied SF patch: better cdlabel management
* Refactored my music/favorites
* Refactored my music/playlist
* Refactored my music/years
* Refactored my music/top100
* Fixed: visualisation for mp3 playback are slow
* Fixed: slow mymusic/album view
* Added: My Music/years view
* Fixed: black screen problem after looking up several IMDB movies
* Fixed: black screen problem which occured after the virtual keyboard
* Fixed: start/end times where not imported from dvr-ms files
* Fixed: 0000499: DVB-T (BDA/VMR): Manual recording blocks MP
* Fixed: 0000517: myRadio: next/previous not always working

Done by Waeberd:

* BUGFIX: myMusic: 0000470: "Play CD"-button doesn't work when mp3 is playing
* BUGFIX: re-FIX myWeather: 0000465: Bad background color in some weather-images
* BUGFIX: myWeather: 0000465: Bad background color in some weather-images
* BUGFIX: 0000478: Button "Update music database..." enabled/disabled-state sometimes wrong on double-click
* BUGFIX: myRadio: 0000514: Radio-Autotune: Progress-Bar doesn't stay at 100% when finished (pvr350)
* Code-Cleanups
* BUGFIX: allGame-Scraper: was not possible for FILELAUNCHER-items
* BUGFIX: AllGame-Scraper: saved all the images to the root directory if no imagedirectory was defined
* BUGFIX: fixed crashes when launching a DirectX application while liveTV / movie was playing ("WaitForExit" option stops internal player now)
* Usage of new SkinControlAttribute
* NEW: added emulator profile for MESS (Atari 7800)
* BUGFIX: Internal Player VMR Mode now also for DIRBROWSE
* BUGFIX: Internal Player didn't work in VMR mode, OSD controls ok now
* My Programs: It is possible to watch myProgram media with the internal generic player now. (Movies / Streams etc.)
* INTERNAL: avoid weird compiler warnings (xml "ID" keyword)


Release notes for release 0.1.1.1
Done by Corl:

* Fixed: Explorer, Selected files size not updated when removing a file from the selection
* Added SMS Style/Keyboard "string" search
* Added default dvd settings to configuration wizzard
* Added default language settings to configuration wizzard
* Added static shares (DVD/CD drives) to MyPicture shares in configuration wizzard
* Fixed back "esc" to previous window bug
* Added drive type "Names" to shares
* Added removable drives to default shares
* Moved the line 790 to line 767 this bug prevents previous channel switch in tv gui mode Fix from mPod
* Applied patch from sourceforge 1156694 My News local feed support
* Added removable drive
* Added strings for filemenu
* Copy of Network images for removable drives
* Added filemenu
* Fixed "Autotune radio" button place and style
* Added ACTION_MOVE_LEFT and ACTION_MOVE_RIGHT
* Added: Item search switch to "containing" string when searchstring has more than 3 character
* Set default view to "Icon view"
* Small rename fix
* Fixed double initialisation
* Added filemenu dialog window
* Added removable media Inserted/Removed notification
* Fixed filemenu text deletions
* Updated version number (Added filemenu dialog)
* Update for filemenu
* Fixed wrong reg name for SPDIF setting

Done by DMAN:

* Added PVR550
* Added exact frequencies of UK Mux's for Nova-T 90002 users for their driver bug problem
* Added Avermedia A16A DVB-T card
* Specific Transponder information for 28degrees East
* Added Aito DVB-T DUO Cardbus Card
* Added - Vstream Xpert TV PVR 883
* Added Hauppauge Nova-C support & variants
* Fixed weird character in the xml file
* Added NVTV Single Tuner
* Added Medion DVB-S card and SMRT TV Card (2 b confirmed)
* Added Sony MPEG RealTime Encoder
* Added Nova-T USB2 (Soho)
* Added Hauppauge NOVA-T (Oxford)
* Attempt at Plextor ConvertX TV402U
* Added new Dvico DVB-T card
* Added: KNC ONE TV-Station DVB-T, Pinnacle PCTV USB2, Plextor ConvertX TV402U
* Fixed: Nova-T USB2
* Tweaked the Plextor ConvertX TV402U entry - confirmed working now too
* Added Emuzed III-G, PAL, NTSC models
* Added Twinhan DVB-C
* Removed Old Twinhan DVB-T definition from old drivers.
* Added ATI eHomeWonder Card
* Fixed Genre alignment
* Added InnoDV DV-3300
* Added more variants of the ATI eHomeWonder cards (confirmed working now)
* Added Emuzed Maui II, AverMedia M150 (PAL) & Plextor ConvertX M402U
* Added yet another Nova-S also the TV Station DVB-S
* Added ATI TV Wonder Elite variant & a new Nova-S variant.
* Added KNC ONE DVB-C cards and additional DVB-T & S variants
* DVB Audio fix - as per Agree's instructions
* Added yet another KNC ONE card
* Fixed double space on sone KNC cards
* Tweaked aiw 9800 after driver change

Done by Frodo:

* My TV: fixed tv for all in wonder cards
* Fixed compilation warnings
* My TV: ProgDVB plugins now also work for BDA DVB-C/S/T
* Added import/export of tv channels
* Support relative paths in music playlists
* Added my playlists button to my music
* Added support for relative paths in playlists (m3u/b4s/pls)
* Fixed : mp didnt remember last group used
* Added support for windows media player playlists
* Fixed warning
* Added : auto shuffle/repeat for my pictures patch from SF
* Added : resume from DVD patch from SF
* Movie database editor (unfinished)
* Add tv recordings to movie database (on/off)
* Fixed: recorded tv
* Added: imdb runtime and mpaa rating informatio
* Added: imdb runtime and mpaa rating information
* Restore music overlay when another plugin has changed the tags
* Merged the green button plugin

Done by Gucky62:

* Add TopBar in Submenu function. e.g. for Touchscreen users
* Add Burn Music CD functions
* New function for MP configuration backup
* New Text for Burner Plugin
* Bug Fix: Back button in MP backup inoperable
* Add datetime folder for backup
* New Icons in setup
* Fix Error in Date Setting
* Added function for burning Audio CDs.
* Added MP3 converting to WAV
* Added Path to copy MPEG Files after coversion
* Added Script function
* Added Debuging functions
* Change GUIExplorer: Now all file types are displayed

Done by Harley:

* Made a new skin called: Project X which replaces Naley Evo!

Done by MrMario64:

* Removed user unwanted info from OSD (scaling info)
* Adjusting most of the skins to keep the up to date
* Replaced Naley Evo skin with project X skin. Thanks Harley!!!!

Done by MrMitchel:

* Metal skin update

Done by Waeberd:

* BUGFIX: Emulator-Profiles: fixed Startup-Directory-Parameter for the ePSXe-profile
* IMPROVE: Autoplay is temporarily disabled while a launched program is running (fixes the "CD-Drive busy" error when NERO or ePSXe is launched and you try to access the cd-drive)
* COSMETICAL: small splashscreen typo corrected
* NEW: allgame.com scraper for game-lookups
* NEW: winkawaks support (profile included)
* BUGFIX: scraper: first imagefile wasn't refreshed
* INTERNAL: up to 5 retries for allgame-detail lookup
* INTERNAL: some small cleanups
* WORKAROUND: allgame-detail URL doesn't work with mozilla firefox => always launch iexplorer
* IMPROVE: Firefox-Browser support added for detailed game-urls
* BUGFIX: Filmstrip-View: slideshow wasn't working anymore
* BUGFIX: Occasional freezes in filmstrip-slideshow fixed
* INTERNAL: cleanup: removed debug log message
* IMPROVED: max-rating is now 10 (all games could not get higher than 9)
* FIX: allgame-scraper: Filtercontrols were not working correctly anymore
* INTERNAL: normalized rating / relevance values
* BUGFIX: allgamescraper: occasionally, the same screenshot was saved more than once
* NEW: IPluginReceiver interface (patch by mPod)
* IMPROVE: allgame reviews were not downloaded if there was no covershot on the detail page
* IMPROVE: allgame scraper: speedup of listitem-selections
* IMPROVE: allgame: +context menu "check files wihout images" / "check files without overviews"
* IMPROVE: sorting improved
* COSMETIC...
* INTERNAL : (sort reverted, major fuck-ups found)
* NEW: allgamscraper: + progress-bar + cancel-button
* INTERNAL: sorting RE-FIXED!
* NEW: allgame scraper "time remaining" information while searching
* NEW: allgame scraper: fileitem-titel can be edited to tweak search results
* FIX: Don't sort folder items!
* IMPROVE: "u" key navigates to the previous directory
* NEW: allgame scraper: + options to download data and / or images only
* NEW: improved image-matching code: if no exact match is found, myProgram tries to find "near"-matches (nice for Screenshot-Packs done for another country!).
* BUGFIX: "Delete Items" for file entries was broken
* INTERNAL: cleanup log.writes
* INTERNAL: myPrograms detail screen: changed id-numbers of labels to unique values (will be needed soon)
* IMPROVE: textbox-scrolling: if the last line was displayed - but not entirely, scrolling never started!
* IMPROVE: FileInfo: replaced some labels with fadelabels (for scrolling)
* NEW: improved *.my-file importer
* NEW: Content of FileInfo screen is customizable
* NEW: new database version (v3, including automigration)
* Content-profile for kino.de scraper (by sloty, see myhtpc.de for details)
* NEW: option "WaitForExit" for every application
* Minor bugfixes
* Added FileDetailContents.xml (content profiles for myPrograms)
* INTERNAL: cleanup!
* NEW: "StartProcess" reorganized
* NEW: myPrograms uses utils.startprocess (to send events)
* BUGFIX: myPrograms: <F3> on a folderitem crashed MP
* BUGFIX: accept missing FileDetailContents.xml file
* INTERNAL: added needed myPrograms XML files to release-dir
* NEW: "StartProcess" reorganized
* NEW: myPrograms uses utils.startprocess (to send events)
* BUGFIX: myPrograms: <F3> on a folderitem crashed MP
* BUGFIX: accept missing FileDetailContents.xml file
* NEW: accept fileitems without a filename


Release notes for release 0.1.0.10

Done by Agree:

* MY TV : fixed some channels had false audio channel after scanning DVB/S/C/T

Done by Corl:

* Added : window history to the Back function
* Added : background (image) to text input field
* Added : MY TV : hide teletext button when there's no teletext
* Changes for window history
* Fixed : "Folder.jpg" not saved in folder containing image file
* Fixed : item lookup (added check if selected item is inside panel)
* Fixed : Wrong subtitle in DVD (Forum bug report)
* Fixed : 0398: Slidercontrols not work correctly with the mouse
* Fixed : 0391: Back goes to Home instead of MyPlugins
* Fixed : increased max characters for fonts to 5000
* Fixed : msn plugin Added background (image) to text input field
* Fixed : msn plugin key issues with keyboard
* Fixed : 0400: Trackinfo on CD in second drive not correct

Done by Frodo:

* Added support for the BlackGold GDI (DVB-T)
* Fixed: channel 1 was not scanned for analog tv auto-tuneAdded: error.log file which will any error
* 0403: General:When playing video using VMR9 the fonts in the GUI look bold
* 0401: My TV / Scheduled: # Tags are shown when no Guide data is available
* 0399: Skin Engine: TV Wallpaper does not work
* MY TV : fixed: faster channel zapping for DVB
* MY TV : fixed: 'delete recording when watched' only deleted the file, not the recording info
* MY TV : fixed: sometimes external channels are not tuned
* MY TV : fixed: tuning problems with DVB-S for BDA cards
* MY TV : fixed: tvrecording : cannot select recorings with cursor right key
* MY TV : fixed: tvrecording : view channels / genres didnt work
* MY TV : fixed: black screen in my tv
* MY TV : fixed: multi-tuner problems
* MY TV : fixed: scheduled tv showed wrong recording times for recordings of type weekdays
* MY TV : fixed: slow GUI when playing a recording or movie
* MY TV : fixed: TV as background (TV wallpaper)
* MY TV : added: support for serie scheduling & recording
* MY TV : added: scheduled TV now shows series info (if available)
* MY TV : added: radio support for AIW s/w cards
* MY TV : added: radio support for s/w cards
* MY TV : added: better tv guide searching
* MY TV : added: mute volume during channel changing for s/w cards
* MY TV : improved tvguide search
* MY Music: fixed: could not exit playlist window in anymore with remote control
* Setup : fixed: could not disable quality profile for hauppauge cards after it was set
* Setup : fixed: yellow button for usa model of mce remote
* Setup : fixed: analog tv tuning now starts at channel 1 and ends at channel 400
* Setup : fixed: after renaming a tv channel all dvb settings where reset to -1
* Setup : fixed: line input was reset when re-editting the capture card
* General : added: MP will now generate an error.log file which will contain any errors
* My Videos: fixed: thumbnails not shown for dvd image files

Done by Gucky62:

* Add function to automatic convert TV record files in background
* Added support for the new recording folder/card
* When Fix Scroll bar selected in Setup the scroll bar will fixed in the middle of the menu
* Show two TV record shares when installed two TV cards in MP
* Speed up date handling
* New Function NoScrollSub it prevented the multiple Menuentrys in Submenus
* New Date setup with user define date
* Setup with TabControl
* Include Back Buttons in Submenu Option
* Bug fix in setup
* Tolerant input for user date
* Enhanced Home plugin. In setup you can now tweak it anyway you like

Done by MrMario64:

* Fixed no space between time and program name for "on TV Now" in TV OSD


Release notes for release 0.1.0.9

Done by Agree:

* Changes for Auto-Tune
* Removed SkyStar2 Section, it now supports Auto-Tune
* Skystar2 support for dvb-radio, epg
* Support for dvb-radio
* Delete old dvb-radio code
* Added lanuage selection to epg-grabber. for streams that contain two or more languages
* ISO-639-language-codes adde
* Language-check for epg-languag
* Using short-descr. when extended event are empty
* Modified EPG-Grabber to additional check short-event-descriptor for language
Bugfix on grabbing epg

Done by Corl:

* Improved picture zoom
* Changed "always on top" so that MP always has focus when this is selected
* Added 'keys' to Y/N dialog window
* Added key lookup
* Added ID 13012 "Loading picture, please wait"
* Added pageup pagedown home & end keys and actions
* Added new key description
* Fixed Touchscreen navigation bug
* Changed context menu to only show MSN messenger items when plugin is enabled
* Changed 2 digit channel number input to 3 digit -Source cleanup
* 0323 - MSN Messenger plugin: message line is longer than specified in skin
* 0365 - My Videos: Movie Resume breaks 2-disc again
* 0385 - My Videos: Deleting files in stacked mode should delete both.
* 0389 - General: MP not focus app after standby
* 0390 - General: No skin when characters>321 in strings.xml
* 0394 - Skin Engine: Can not type number in a spincontrol with 4 digits

Done by Frodo:

* Improved mapping channels to groups
* Dump mpeg2 multiplexer pid mapping to log file
* Added: use channel numbers from xmltv fil
* Fix: My TV OSD / ZAPOSD stuttering fix
* Speeded up my tv/recorded tv
* Added list view to tv/recorded tv
* Added default tv group 'all channels'
* Fixed: unable to play cd's with winamp/foobar plugin
* Added: -recording folder per card
* Added:-quality settings per card
* Fixed:USB-UIRT fix - switch channel only if needed
* Added support for the 'ATI TV Wonder Elite' tv card
* 0386 - Configuration: You lose the channel selection after pressing up/down (changing the order)

Done by Gucky62:

* Using Burner Plugin without burner. You can only use the Convert Functions
* After Converting and delete DVR-MS Files the TVDatabase will be updated

Done by Samsonite:

* Skin BlueTwo: Graphic updates

Done by Weaberd:

* NEW: 3seconds Slideshow in Filmstrip-view, if there is more than one picture for an item
* BUGFIX: some navigation-bugs fixed (jumpback after a program has exited was not always to the correct screen)


Release notes for release 0.1.0.8

Done by Agree:

* Skin MCE: for fullscreen-teletext
* Changes to epg-grabbing
* Added mapping channels to card
* New class DVBEPG
* Using new class DVBEPG
* Added ChannelName property
* Removed bug from epg-grabber
* Set to use timeout-property for epg-grab
* Added save and load list of last scanned channels for epg
* Removed old epg-grabber code
* Removed unused codes "Scan"-Tab

Done by corl:

* Added Window Id for Fullscreen Teletext
* Added Contextmenu item for Fullscreen Teletext
* Added Window text for Fullscreen Teletext
* Disabled channel changing osd
* Skin BlueTwo: Topbar update
* Hide mouse at startup when "autohidemouse" is selected
* Disable first mouse action when mouse is hidden
* Changed context menu and previous window
* Changed context menu in mymusic
* Changed "previous window" to go to prev. window instead of home
* change fixed number 7700 (win id) to window...teletext
* added teletext button
* removed volume handling (os does volume handling)
* Fixes mantis 361: MyMail setup bug
* Removed buttons that are now in context menu
* Added slideshow option to the slideshow context menu so you can start a slideshow from a picture
* Added play cd from other that the first cd drive
* Fix by Morten007
* Fixes crash while importing TVGuide episode numbers
* Progressbar render fix
* Fixed Overlay not shown bug
* Fixed image outside viewport bug (thumbnail scroll)
* Fixed listview didnt dispose items bug
* Texture dispose fixes
* Added Record status to osd's
* 0000349 - Skin Engine: thumbs scroll looks .... weird ?
* 0000350 - Skin Engine: Hover control does not listen to width and height tags
* 0000358 - Skin Engine: Edges not OK on skin graphics
* 0000359 - Video OSD: Information in OSD is from previous movie
* 0000362 - My Videos: folder.jpg not replaced on IMDB search
* 0000367 - My TV / TVGuide: Guide graphics do not align nicely (3part button)
* 0000370 - Audio player: Autoplay Audio CD does not work when radio is playing
* 0000371 - Audio player: Audio CD's can only be played from the first drive
* 0000372 - My TV / Home: submenus from context menu during fullscreen tv overlay not shown
* 0000376 - General: Starttime in ZapOSD moves when tuning
* 0000377 - My Tetris: allowoverlay = yes does not work in Tetris
* 0000378 - General: small thumb view sometimes showing 9 icons instead of 16
* 0000379 - General: Select button not working as it should visually

Done by Gucky62:

* New menu structure
* TV Record Path added to Shares
* New strings for myburner
* Added Delete DVR-MS after Convert

Done by Frodo:

* group scanned dvb-s/t/c channel bij network provider
* fixed: Viewing scrambled signals with FireDtv DVB-S/C/T boxes works now
* fixed: enter channel number during fullscreen tv didnt use current tv group
* fixed: live tv in background was broken
* fixed: limit max. packed texture resolution to 2048x2048
* fixed: 1st transponder was not scanned for dvb-c/t/s
* fixed: only 200 frequencies max. where scanned for dvb-T
* added: sorting channels in groups (in configuration.exe)
* added: store cached pmt's in databasepmt
* added always on top option for MrMario64:)
* added burner plugin
* added context menu to recorded tv
* mp now chooses correct card for the tv channel during recording
* fixed hangup when watching scrambled channels with vmr9
* fixed 'back to previous window' in music/videos -added mapping channels to cards in configuration
* added Kona One TV
* fixed crash when adding a s/w card in configuration
* fixed crash when auto-tune DVB-S/C/T
* fixed : renaming a tv channel group in configuration didnt work
* fixed : rewind (F5) was not possible with DVR-MS files
* fixed : when entering time during a video skin was a mess
* myvideos: could not delete a folder which contains non-movie files my pictures: could not delete a folder which contains non-picture files
* added support for full screen teletext for BDA DVB-T/C/S
* fixed compiler warnings
* added seppie's TV ZAP OSd
* fixed: mute audio line input after stopping my tv with a s/w encoding card
* fixed: DVB-T/C/S didnt find tv channels which dont have an audio stream
* added support for the ASUS PVR 416
* BDA DVB-T/C/s : resume viewing tv when stopping a recording
test: turn off s/w deinterlacing when DXVA is used
* added: new option to set deinterlace mode
* fixed crash in my alarm
* 0000356 - Skin Engine: home menu shows wrong graphic on bottom button during scrolling
* 0000366 - Configuration: Renaming a group in TV configuration will creat an empty new one
* 0000368 - General:deleting a folder is not possible when it holds no files
* 0000369 - My TV / Home: Cannot rewind DVR-MS files
* 0000373 - Configuration: moving channels up/down in channels list taking too long

Done by MrMario64:

* Fixed: could not go up a button when timeshift button was selected in B2 skin
* Skin MCE: disabled thumbnail zoom in My Video's
* Skin BlueTwo: fixed bad layout of tv osd and tv progress dialog in bluetwo
* Skin BlueTwo: new Guide Graphics for BlueTwo
* Skin BlueTwo: new Home menu and new zap osd
* Skin BlueTwo: fixed My burner (please gucky62, mind keyboard control and respect GUI layout so it's the same as other sub screens)
* Skin BlueTwo: fixed rec logo positions
* Removed card# button in all skins

Done by MrMitchell:


* Restore MP from minimized by doubleclicking the icon
* Skin Metal updated
* 0000360 - My Videos: Images on the 4 day forecast days look fuzzy
* 0000361 - My Mail: Wrong hostname shown when DNS resolving fails

Done by weaberd:

* IMPROVE: "weather now" icon was in (blurry) low-res when choosing a "4 day forecast" day in detail
* BUGFIX: Configuration: Modified "plugin title" was not saved
* BUGFIX: Configuration "Use Quotes" was ignored, if the %FILE% placeholder was used (this fixes the Kega Fusion profiles)
* INTERNAL: small code cleanups
* IMPROVED navigation (plugin remembers last selected item on exit / on launch)
* BUGFIX: back from infoscreen didn't display the thumbnails in listview
* All Skins: Filmstrip-View support added
* NEW: Filmstrip-View added
* BUGFIX: many navigation bugs fixed


0.1.0.7 Release

# new TV Guide with new gfx
# new Video- and Audiooverlay , Buttons and Previewpanel now only comes if run a song or video If not is playing there are hide ( make the skin clear )
# added Teletext
# added Tetris
# added new Weather funktion
# updated for all new Funktions for 0.1.0.6
# Bug fixed the wrong funktion in Shut down Dialog
# Bug fixed in TV Overlay some wrong positions and double Preview
# Bug fixed in MyRadio no View as funktion
# new gfx added radio icons
# Bug fixed in TV OSD Buttons are not shown on position
# a lot of small bugfixes


0.1.0.6 Release

Done by Agree:

* Modified Channel-Searching-Tools
* Added EPG-Grabbing-Tool
* Added Code to edit/modify/save TPL (Transponder-List) Files
* Modified selection of Channels
* Added EPG-Grabbing Code
* Modified to get ECM-Pid from PMT (incomplete)
* Removed Bugs on using Plugins
* Set to use TVDatabaseV12 in DVB-Radio
* Update for pid-handling
* Enabled timeshifting/recording again
* Update on pid-handling
* TSHelperTools: new class for all TS related code
* Added Handling for scrambled Videodata on VMR9
* Added button for deleting sat-channel from database, named "Channels"-Tab as "Scan"-Tab
* Added TSHelperTools class
* Added Link-Handling Code, corrected WIKI-Link
* Fixed: open TPL-File crash, if file dont exists
* Added fix for TV-Fullscreen is going to GUI when switching a channel on timeshifting
* Some changes to DVBSkyStar2Helper/DVB_SECTIONS
* Hotbird Transponder-List File
* Astra Transponder-List File (changed to add the 'satname= <Name / Description>' line)
* My TV: changed SetEITToDatabase(EITDescr data, string channelName) to get the Channel-Name instead of get it from TV-Database
* Teletext: removed grabbing pages with hex-values. its handled now in DVBTeletext
* Teletext: added code to handle dec<->hex in GetPage
* My TV: removed bug (exception) on null object
* Teletext: Added code to draw last line in double height
* My TV: added code to re-set tuner-status
* Teletext: First improvments for teletext
* My TV: Removed bug from SetupDemuxer()
* Added Timeout Property to set Sections-Timeout for LoadPMTTables()
* Speedup Channel-Scan
* Added for SkyStar2: after scan is finished, groups are automatic created for all providers and the channels are maped to them
* Making provider-groups is optional now
* Set sorting of TreeView for EPG-Grabber

Done by corl:

* Enabled mouse actions with Fullscreen TV in overlay mode
* Added oversized look to focused thumbnails
* Fixed bug (auto created thumbnails doesn't work anymore)
* Added MSG "GUI_MSG_ITEM_FOCUS_CHANGED" to listbox
* Added auto refresh of the current (shown) news feed
* Thumbnail zoom update
* Filmstrip thumbnail zoom update
* Fixed filmstrip spin control not working bug
* Added skin element "zoom" to zoom an image into the destination rectangle
* Changed portrait thumb zoom from top instead of center
* Changes for TVGuide skin update
* Fixed: When switching on tv the first frame takes whole screen (in MyTV)
* Moved the SetVideoWindow()
* proc to before mediaCtrl.Run()
* Fixed Mouse cursor doesn't return after autohide in overlay
* Added starttime to program name in singlechannel mode when genre label is invisible
* Added check for null-value in array-list
* Routed all windows messages on overlay windows back to main form
* Fixed import bug on "0" episode number
* Set owner to FormOSD
* Fix Mouse click on osd loses focus to MP
* Added GUIGraphicsContext.form.Focus() in timer routine
* Fixed: home menu viewport not GUI compensated, top or bottom item was hidden
* Changes for "Topbar autohide" implementation
* Update for new window "back" function
* Added DirectoryDelete
* Added skin autohide tag
* Added "autohide" settings
* Changes for skin "autohide" setting and improvements
* Fixed password bug
* Fixed tv perview selection
* Fixed group selection bug
* Changed context menu content to reflect selected item
* 0000017 - Overlay (music/video): Albumart in overlay is not being AR corrected
* 0000167 - My TV / Home: Mouse cannot click on the TV window to go fullscreen
* 0000277 - My Videos: Cannot click on video preview to return to GUI (overlay)
* 0000308 - Topbar: Topbar not moved when GUI is compensated (corl)
* 0000326 - General: When moving in iconsview the cursor moves to menu when last item is reached
* 0000349 - Skin Engine: Thumbs scroll looks .... weird ? (corl)
* 0000357 - My TV / Home: Can't select group after using it once (corl)

Done by Frodo:

* Started with support for DVB-C and DVB-S with BDA drivers
* Fixed: channels < 1000 didnt appear in tvguide this is now for channels < 10000
* Fixed configuration.exe crashes
* MP now supports more then 1 definition per card in capturecarddefinitions.xml
* Autotuning for DVB now sees which channels are tv, which are radio and if its encrypted or not
* FireDTV CI module should now decrypt scrambled channels
* Started with a new feature which allows you to group tvchannels in 1 or more groups
* Added group choice to tv home
* Added group choice to tv guide and tv fullscreen
* Added channel choice to tv fullscreen
* Remember selected card in tv home
* Added: you can now select the maximum FPS mediaportal should render in settings->screen->speed
* Added: support for FireDTV-c (dvb-c) CARD
* Added option to configuration.exe to set the timeshift buffer size
* Added UK frequencies for DVB-T
* 0000192 - My TV / Home: Composite inputs either show video or audio, not both
* 0000289 - My TV / TVGuide: Rendering take a lot of CPU (60 to 80 %)
* 0000316 - General: MP doesn't show folder icons anymore in thumbview
* 0000318 - General: My explorer plugin doesn't handle cdroms correctly
* 0000319 - My Videos: Video-overlay not working when using vmr9 + avi
* 0000320 - Setup: Can nly add 1 tvcard, even when having 2 that r in the xml
* 0000321 - Setup: dvb-t crashes during autotuning
* 0000322 - Setup: Autotuning radio causes an exeption (pvr350)
* 0000324 - My TV / Search: Genre search not working
* 0000325 - General: View ain't remembered
* 0000328 - Audio player: Texts slide in from bottom in thumb views
* 0000329 - My Pictures: When I rotate a picture in the GUI the pic ain't rotated when showing 0000331 - Configuration: Sorting of channels in groups not correct
* 0000332 - Configuration: Deleting groups does not really delete them
* 0000333 - Configuration: * displayed in Pincode field when editing a TV Channel group
* 0000335 - My Pictures: Picture preview in dialogpictureinfo is not using the set rotation
* 0000336 - My Pictures: Filmstrip does not always show big thumbnail
* 0000337 - My Pictures: Movie info has no background
* 0000338 - General: TV overlay background is not compensated by GUI compensation (x-y)
* 0000339 - My TV / TVGuide: Long channelnames r written out of the buttons boundaries
* 0000340 - Video OSD: OSD does not show buttons anymore (CVS)
* 0000342 - Audio player: Music overlay albumart not correctly GUI compensated (CVS)
* 0000341 - My Videos: Video overlay background not compensated by GUI compensation (CVS)
* 0000343 - My Music: Albumart not shown when using filmstrip
* 0000345 - My Tetris: Tetris does not set #currentmodule tag (Patch attached)
* 0000346 - My Videos: Context menu does not shown when using VMR9
* 0000351 - My TV / Home: when using TV fullscreen and opening the context menu TV will start stuttering a lot
* 0000352 - Skin Engine: On startup the fps is slow, when waiting you willl see it rise to the set fps in settings
* 0000354 - My Videos: OSD displays bad when using overlay
* 0000355 - Setup: when setup is started from MP (F2) settings won't be saved
Done by MrMario64:

* Updated all skins to support this release
* New version of sqlite browser
* Updated all skins for improved My Weather, addition of My Tetris, etc
* Removed crystal, will be replaced by BlueTwo
* Added BlueTwo skin, The great new skin from SAMSONITE!!!!!!
* MCE Skin: Replaced backgrounds with versions without transparency
* Fixed tvosd alignment. date and time shifts in home and plugin screens
* Added topbar to bluetwo
Done by MrMitchell:

* 0000327 - Skin Engine: Playtime of song not displayed anymore in MCE

Done by Rich71:

* Swedish translation updated

Done by Samsonite:

* The awesome new skin called BlueTwo!!!

Done by weaberd:

* IMPROVE: Splash-Screen while importing files / fixed screen refresh problem
* IMPROVE: in Directory-Cache / Directory-Browse modes, the available file-extensions can be looked up now (so no need to browse and find out extensions)
* BUGFIX: "Update database" button sometimes launched multiple imports for one single click
* IMPROVE: Fileimport-progress is now integrated as a tab-sheet (no popup / no status bar)
* IMPROVE: blocked "dangerous" controls while fileimport is running
* IMPROVE: some small improvements when selecting image directories
* INTERNAL: always write a log entry when launching a program
* INTERNAL: removed useless debug log entries
* IMPROVE: Splash-Screen while importing files / fixed screen refresh problem
* BUGFIX: Filelist deleting one single item didn't work anymore
* BUGFIX: fix render problem (GuiFontmanager.Present() )
* BUGFIX: Directory-Cache mode: "Use quotes around filenames" was ignored while importing a filelist
* IMPROVE: Fileimport-progress is now integrated as a tab-sheet (no poup / no status bar)
* IMPROVE: blocked "dangerous" controls while fileimport is running Profile for VisualBoyAdvance added
* INTERNAL: small fix: "auto get file extensions" now skips files with no extensions


0.1.0.5.1 Release

* Fixed VMR9 and DVD


0.1.0.5 Release

* DVB-S for Skystar 2 is fixed
* Several issues when adding/editing capture cards solved
* Several issues with DVB-T fixed
* Fixed auto-tuning
* Waeberd added a new release of the My Programs plugin
* Danish, Norwegian and German languages updated
* Option to disable hi-quality settings for hauppauge PVR cards
* Added audio input mapping to the edit capture card in configuration.exe (This allows you to map which audio & video inputs of your card should be used for the CVBS1, CVBS2 and SVHS channels)

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0.1.0.4 Release

Done by Agree:

* Modified UpdateSatChannel()
* Configuration: Added:
o Options to setup LNB-Parameter
o Radio-Channels TreeView in Channel-Edit-Form
o 'Stop scan' button, breaks an Channel scan
o Provider listed in Channel-Edit
o Checkbox to config Plugins
* Added: Loading of Plugins for DVBs on startup
* Added: MenuSelect for Plugins
* Removed bug (was still using TVDatabaseV9)
* SampleGrabber: old SetMediaType() cant set AMMediaType struct
* Main Changes: Support of MD-Plugins. NOTE: Timeshifting/Recording is NOT available on using Plugins currently due to an Bug in StreamBufferSink!!
* The SoftCSA.dll needs to be in MediaPortal-Folder to use MD-Plugins

Done by coolhammer:

* Finnish language update

Done by corl:

* Fixed TVGuide colors
* Work on windows form name and dialog menu's
* Overlay support for Mouse actions in dialogbox
* Added "previous window"
* Reset Formname to last name when exiting dialog
* MSN fix
* TVGuide first timelabel not visible bug fixed
* MSN chat update
* Fixed kenburns XFade nr of frames
* Added window names MyNews, Explorer, MSN osd
* MSN plugin: Fixed sorting problem
* MSN plugin: Changed status buttons into a "select button"
* Fixed progressdialog and windowsform name set/reset
* Added double click as right click selection
* Added right click shows context menu if control selected
* Updated for mouse events while fullscreen tv/video
* Added mouse event handler
* Added msn chat window
* Added "myvideo" msn chat window
* Added mouse support
* My TV: Fixed osd program info not update after channel change with remote or keyboard
* My TV: Added "exit full screen tv" item to the context menu
* Fixed mouse left button double click event (and set to "show context menu" event)
* My Pictures: Added fullscreen picture osd menu
* English language: Updated for slidedshow osd
* My Pictures: Update KenBurns
* Config update for kenburns
* Skin MCE: Changed id to 102 in SettingsSlideShow.xml
* My Mail: Added full pathnames check and fix for mail folder and attachment folder
* My Pictures: Added something like a Ken Burns effect for slideshow
* Skin MCE: Slideshow settings updated items
* Settings: update for Slideshow
* Fixed: Progressbar rendering when viewing ff or rw
* Fixed mouse hide / unhide
* Topbar enabled with dialog boxes
* Fixed the behaviour of the switch mode
* 0000274 - Overlay (music/video): When a TV recording is going the music overlay will show the TV icon as album art always and program title will be in the scroll
* 0000299 - General: Progressbar resizes bar images after change
* 0000307 - My Music: Albumart briefly shown large before sliding in with the viz
* 0000312 - MSN Messenger plugin: enter key not working after clicking window border of MP
* 0000313 - MSN Messenger plugin: Text background is not moved when GUI is calibrated
* 0000314 - General: Page counter not being updated when using mouse bars
* Fixed: Forum bug: Caught in the IMDB loop
* Fixed: Forum bug: Buttons after hibernate do not work
* Fixed: Forum bug: My Wheather bug (sattelite picture not updated and not redrawn)
* Changed delete mail button (wrong function, it shows html contents in browser)
* 0000035: AVdelay dialog in OSD shows weird values. Impossible to returnto 0
* Change double click action for TouchScreen usage
* Update OSD and mouse Autohide cause of problems with metal skin and sub menus
* Change "Search" button name to "Add" button in weather setup was not logical
* "Search Remove Edit" changed into "Add Remove Edit"
* RPM text for MyStatus added
* UPM text for MyStatus added
* Changed fixed text "upm" to localized text
* 0000306: vertical scrollspeeds r not ok

Done by Frodo:

* TV Home: status not updated when recording started
* TV Home: shows seperate tv activemedia window for some tv cards
* Recordings: duration of recordings was wrong
* Recordings: deleting a recording sometimes resulted in a crash
* New option : hide windows xp balloons
* New option: hide or dont hide taskbar
* Fixed: autotuning for analog cards
* New option: support for mce2005 USA or Europe model
* Brightness, contrast, sharpness, and gamma settings now work in my tv
* Added sorting by genre/channels to recorded tv
* Changed behaviour of the select buttons
* New tv engine
* Added version checking for skins
* Fixed bug : pressing green button on MCE remote doesnt hide video window
* Fixed bug : pressing green button on MCE remote doesnt close dialog window
* 0000297 - My Status: Status details displayed over sensor selection buttons
* 0000310 - My Videos: IMDB lookup broken
* 0000311 - My Videos: Pin protected movies r playable using the database
* Added option to conifgure the which mpeg2 demuxer pins contain video & audio pins for BDA DVB-T graphs
* Show city instead of id when grabbing weather
* Fixed: onscreen keyboard for searching music, tv, ... was broken
* Fixed: filmstrip panel did draw outside region
* Added: double check texture dimension allocated by vmr9
* Removed: bda slip de-framer from capturecards list
* Fixed autotuning for s/w cards
* Fixed tearing when playing DVD with VMR9
* Fixed: configuration.exe now gives warning if no compressors are specified in edit tvcapture card
* Configuration now checks if name & folder are filled in when you add/edit a share

Done by Harley:

* Skin Naley: updated for slideshow settings
* Skin Naley: Naley update for music ratings and favorites
* Actually fixed the whole skin to support 0.1.0.4

Done by MrMario64:

* Skin Crystal: added My Explorer
* Skin MCE: small fix for My Explorer
* Skin MCE: made picture info look better
* Skin Crystal: Added msn TV chat dialog and tv osd changes
* Skin Metal: Updated
* Skins: Added imdb stars rating and music ratings dialogs to skins. Favorites is also added to music.
* Skin Crystal: got rid of a double graphic

Done by MrMitchel:

* Skin MetalMedia updated
* Added SF Patch:1094124

Done by Rich71:

* New Swedish translations

Done by waeberd:

* My Programs: TreeView itemtitles are not refreshed when item changes
* My Programs: myPrograms: new files registered
* My Programs: fix broken cvs
* My Programs: reworked the plugin setup screen (treeview, less popup-windows etc.)


0.1.0.3 Release

Done by Frodo:

* 0000031 - General: Switching between languages can cause strange characters
* 0000292 - My Pictures: Sometimes images are skipped when browsing images
* 0000293 - General: MP won't start anymore after changing guide timeoffset in setup
* 0000295 - Audio player: Duration of a song is not read from all MP3 files
* 0000296 - General: #currentmodule tag support missing in ...
* 0000298 - My Pictures: Viewing pictures from remote share always shows the same one
* 0000031 - General: Switching between languages can cause strange characters
* 0000292 - My Pictures: Sometimes images are skipped when browsing images
* 0000293 - General: MP won't start anymore after changing guide timeoffset in setup
* 0000295 - Audio player: Duration of a song is not read from all MP3 files
* 0000296 - General: #currentmodule tag support missing in ...
* 0000298 - My Pictures: Viewing pictures from remote share always shows the same one
* 0000300 - My TV / Home: Fullscreen TV goes back to GUI when zapping to a cvbs or svidea input on PVR
* 0000301 - My Status: OverflowException in MyStatus
* 0000302 - Setup: Channels with ' char in the name will not be cleared when pressing CLEAR in setup
* 0000303 - Configuration: Click on the last empty line and you get an exeption
* 0000305 - Winamp / Foobar: Winamp external player does not support Pause
* Press record button on mce now records current program
* Allow goto fullscreen tv in home and other modules
* Press record button on mce now records current program
* Allow goto fullscreen tv in home and other modules

Done by Agree:

* Support for Skystar2 DVB-S
o Disabled DVB_GetMPEGISOLang -> some probs on serval providers, must be checked
o Added DVBChannel-Class
o Removed bug on exit config by pressing ok
o Patch to support Radio over MyTV
o Fixed some warnings
o Fixed detection of pids (ac3, teletext)
o Removed some not used code
o Removed bug that empties the sat-database on exit configuration
o bug fixed on GetSatChannel
o bugfix: button broken
o Disabled check for managed directx version
o Changed to use vmr9 with no timeshifting
o Fixed: GetOtherAudioPids
o Added fallback to overlay if vmr9 fails to work
o Added check for Vmr9!0null before doing Vmr9.Remove
o Edited to enable epg for dvb-s
o Added epg code
o Edit timeout for sectionstable from 1 to 100ms
o Some bugfix for dvb-s radio
o Added check for entries in program-database
o Disabled DVB_GetMPEGISOLang -> some probs on serval providers, must be checked
o Added DVBChannel-Class
o Removed bug on exit config by pressing ok
o Patch to support Radio over MyTV
o Fixed some warnings
o Fixed detection of pids (ac3, teletext)
o Removed some not used code

Done by waeberd:

* MY Programs: NEW: Starup-Directory can contain a new parameter %FILEDIR%. This will extract the directory of the launched fileitem and set this dynamically as the working directory of the launched program.

Done by MrMario64:

* Skin Crystal: Updated the My Radio graphics, thank you Harley for thesenew radio icons!!
* Added context menus to My Video and My Pictures, other sections follow
* Added shiny weather icons
* Added permission files for shiny icons to installer
* Skin Crystal: Updated the My Radio graphics, thank you Harley for thesenew radio icons!!

Done by corl:

* My TV: Fixed OSD button behaviour. When in Timeshift TV FF or RW the buttons automatically return to default (unpressed state) -Unpause when going FF or RW -Route unhandled actions to the OSD (if activated)
* My Movies: Fixed initial movie info on dvd folder movies in AddFileTo-Database
* Merged files with button/osd changes and context menu
* Added context menus
* Remote: Added context menu button (yellow button)
* Record menu key changed to context menu key
* Added context menu key to exit menu
* Added ejectdrive(strDrive)
* Added close button to dialogmenu
* Added home (green button on new remotes)
* Added ID member to listcontrol
* Added "AddLocalizedString" to dialog with ID
* Changed context menu


0.1.0.2 Release

Added:

* MSN plug-in (Frodo)
o Added wordwrap for MSN plug-in
o You can now insert characters in the middle of a text with the SMS control -added dialog which is shown during sign-in



* New button in configuration/tvguide to remove all programs from the tv database (Frodo)
* Added picture info dialog (exif) (MrMario64)
* Added resume from recorded tv (Frodo)
* Added minimize to system tray (Frodo)
* Added My Status plugin
* Added My Plugins plugin
* Added and changed a lot of stuff to the Setup and the Wizards

Fixed:

* 0000226 - My Videos: First picture in movie info becomes unavailable after switching to the second (Frodo)
* 0000238 - My TV / Home: TV home shows wrong tvguide data when recording (Frodo)
* 0000240 - My TV / Recorded TV: Sorting is wrong (Frodo)
* 0000241 - My Mail: New mail message is shown randomly (Frodo)
* 0000257 - My TV / Home: OSD lost after channel change in full screen (Frodo)
* 0000258 - My Alarm: My Alarm does not set #currentmodule in all screens (Frodo)
* 0000259 - General: MyAlarm can not be navigated completely on MCE skin (Frodo)
* 0000260 - My Pictures: TV overlay remains on screen during a picture fullscreen (Frodo)
* 0000261 - General: <characters> tag does not work aymore (Frodo)
* 0000262 - My TV / TVGuide: No colors in program view and not all programs shown (Frodo)
* 0000263 - My TV / TVGuide: Vertical scrollbar in TV Guide does not get updated (Frodo)
* 0000264 - My TV / TVGuide: EPG data not refreshed when starting a recording (Frodo)
* 0000266 - DVD Player: Cyberlink powerdvd 6 navigator is not selectable (Frodo)
* 0000267 - My TV / Home: Channel switching slower when timeshifting (Frodo)
* 0000269 - My TV / Home: Pressing stop on mce remote on home with tv in preview crashes MP (Frodo)
* 0000270 - My Videos: No coverart in video playlists (Frodo)
* 0000271 - My TV / Home: Black screen issues using hauppauge cards (Frodo)
* 0000272 - My TV / TVGuide: #TV.Guide.thumb does not work correctly (Frodo)
* 0000273 - General: Shutdown PC button (red one in MCE) shows wrong dialogs (Frodo)
* 0000276 - My Videos: Subtitling does not show all chars (special chars)(Frodo)
* Powerschedule was not really off on first run (MrMario64)
* Skin MCE: fixed going to tuesday in My Alarm (MrMario64)
* Fixed crash if log directory could not be found/opened (Frodo)
* 0000226 - My Videos: First picture in movie info becomes unavailable after switching to the second (Frodo)
* 0000238 - My TV / Home: TV home shows wrong tvguide data when recording (Frodo)
* 0000240 - My TV / Recorded TV: Sorting is wrong (Frodo)
* 0000241 - My Mail: New mail message is shown randomly (Frodo)
* 0000257 - My TV / Home: OSD lost after channel change in full screen (Frodo)
* 0000258 - My Alarm: My Alarm does not set #currentmodule in all screens (Frodo)
* 0000259 - General: MyAlarm can not be navigated completely on MCE skin (Frodo)
* 0000260 - My Pictures: TV overlay remains on screen during a picture fullscreen (Frodo)
* 0000261 - General: <characters> tag does not work aymore (Frodo)
* 0000262 - My TV / TVGuide: No colors in program view and not all programs shown (Frodo)
* 0000263 - My TV / TVGuide: Vertical scrollbar in TV Guide does not get updated (Frodo)
* 0000264 - My TV / TVGuide: EPG data not refreshed when starting a recording (Frodo)
* 0000266 - DVD Player: Cyberlink powerdvd 6 navigator is not selectable (Frodo)
* 0000267 - My TV / Home: Channel switching slower when timeshifting (Frodo)
* 0000269 - My TV / Home: Pressing stop on mce remote on home with tv in preview crashes MP (Frodo)
* 0000270 - My Videos: No coverart in video playlists (Frodo)
* 0000271 - My TV / Home: Black screen issues using hauppauge cards (Frodo)
* 0000272 - My TV / TVGuide: #TV.Guide.thumb does not work correctly (Frodo)
* 0000273 - General: Shutdown PC button (red one in MCE) shows wrong dialogs (Frodo)
* 0000276 - My Videos: Subtitling does not show all chars (special chars)(Frodo)
* Powerschedule was not really off on first run (MrMario64)
* Skin MCE: fixed going to tuesday in My Alarm (MrMario64)
* Fixed crash if log directory could not be found/opened (Frodo)
* 0000210 - General: MCE remote button TV cannot be used to go fullscreen (X) (Frodo)
* 0000268 - My TV / TVGuide: Hang when browsing through TVguide whith tv preview on (Frodo)
* 0000278 - My TV / Home: Progressbar TV has wrong position (too low) (Frodo)
* 0000279 - My TV / Home: Overlay preview lost when returning from fullscreen (Frodo)
* 0000281 - General: Artist lookup not working on MCE skin (Mario)
* 0000282 - General: 2 clicks for the price of 1 after hibernation (Frodo)
* 0000283 - DVD Player: MP always plays dvd from first device (Frodo)
* 0000284 - My TV / Home: MP hangs when entering MyTV (Frodo)
* 0000285 - My TV / Home: TV preview not killed going to HOME when using overlay (Frodo)
* 0000286 - My Videos: Skipping to next part in a stacked movie hangs MP (Frodo)
* 0000287 - General: Time does not progress (Frodo)
* 0000288 - My TV / Home: TV not working when radio runs and vice versa using PVR card (Frodo)
* 0000290 - Skin Engine: Select buttons do not work anymore (Frodo)
* 0000291 - My TV / TVGuide: Cannot use time compensation with half hours (Frodo)
* Skin MCE: Fixed artist info (MrMario64)

Updated:

* My Programs: (waeberd)
o re-commited the latest plugin version!
o added new "small/large-pictures" button
* Music playlist: Set default focus to view button if listcontrol is empty (Frodo)
* Show 'no channels' in tvguide when there are no channels configured(Frodo)
* Metalmedia update, Thanks MrMitchell!
* My Programs: (waeberd)
* re-commited the latest plugin version!
* added new "small/large-pictures" button
* Music playlist: Set default focus to view button if listcontrol is empty (Frodo)
* Show 'no channels' in tvguide when there are no channels configured(Frodo)

* My Programs: (waeberd)
o BUGFIX: when "Hide file extensions" was deactivated, no pictureswere found in "directory browse" / "directory cache" mdoe
o MP now waits for a launched program to exit, before it continues to run (should lower CPU usage while launching applications)
* Powerscheduler: Don't shutdown if playing a movie, dvd, recording,... inhome (Frodo)
* Update the skins MCE, Metal and Crystal to reflect the new My Plugins and My Status plugins (MrMario64)
* Updated the Naley skin for the two new plugins (Harley)


0.1.0.0 release:

Added:

* Select best deinterlace method available for vmr9 (Frodo)
* Changed default options of some plugins (MrMario64)
* Added new patch for my recipies (Gucky62/Domi_fan)
* Added new patch for PowerScheduler (v0.2) (Fred)

Fixed:

* 0000021 - Skin Engine: Mousescrollbars are too long (Frodo)
* 0000224 - My Videos: Tagline and description don't scroll (Frodo)
* 0000227 - My TV / Home: TVprogressbar messed up when going to the beginning of a timeshift (Frodo)
* 0000228 - My TV / Home: TVprogressbar not OK after full timeshiftbuffer (Frodo)
* 0000229 - My TV / Home: Selection graphic for the tv screen is too small (Frodo)
* 0000230 - My TV / TVGuide: Guide left graphics missing (Frodo)
* (Frodo) 0000231 - Skin Engine: Scrollbar indicator streched when entering window (Frodo)
* 0000232 - My Radio: 2 visualization in My Radio (Frodo)
* 0000233 - Movie Player: Toggle with X in VMR9 causes problems (Frodo)
* 0000234 - My Pictures: Exceptions in MyPictures (Frodo)
* 0000235 - My Videos: Unable to start disc 2 with autoresume function (Frodo)
* 0000236 - General: Volume down on MCE remote will result in volume increase (Frodo)
* 0000237 - Skin Engine: Topbar visible when topbar plugin is disabled
* 0000239 - Movie Player: Rightclick does not go back to gui (Frodo)
* 0000242 - My TV / TVGuide: Hangup at 0:00 when there's no tvguide data (Frodo)
* 0000243 - My TV / TVGuide: TVguide channels are imported in reverse order (Frodo)
* 0000244 - General: Exception in thumbnailpanel (Frodo)
* 0000245 - My Videos: IMDB info crashes for movie with strange characters (Frodo)
* 0000246 - My Music: Highlighted song (currently playing) not updated after song deletion in playlist (Frodo)
* 0000247 - General: Track number not read correctly from WMA files (Frodo)
* 0000248 - Skin Engine minor: <selectedcolor> tag in skin does not work anymore (Frodo)
* 0000249 - My TV / TVGuide: TVguide shows wrong Program-Info when scrolling down with the cursor (Frodo)
* 0000250 - My TV / TVGuide: Pressing the NEXT DAY button with the remote causes it to skip 2 days (Frodo)
* 0000251 - My TV / Search: Crash when searching tv guide (Frodo)
* 0000252 - General: Section arrows remain on screen when going to the next step (Frodo)
* 0000253 - My Pictures: When you zoom in a picture the word "paused" flashes on screen behind the info bar THX to corl !!! (Frodo)
* 0000254 - My Pictures: Filmstrip does not respect the rotation set by a user for a pic (Frodo)
* 0000255 - My TV / TVGuide: Crash when no tv channels and programs (Frodo)

Updated:

* Skins: Metal has been updated by MrMario64 and MrMitchell
o Updated to current state of msn messenger
o New pictures, backgrounds, etc. Looks way better now :)


0.0.0.13 Release

Added:

* 0000180 - My News: Titles with newline characters look weird (Mr Mitchell)
* 0000185 - My Videos: Going to video playlist crashed MP (MrMario64)
* Added support for the Hauppauge PVR 150 !!! (Frodo)
* Added support for the WinFast PVR 2000 mpeg2 capture card !!! (Frodo)
* Added resume video playback !!! (Frodo)
* Cache downloaded IMDB photos (Frodo)
* My music: hide big playtime for radio stations (Frodo)
* Show album art for 100 frames and viz for 150 frames. is nice! (MrMario64)
* Skin MCE/CrystalCenter: Updated for the new music overlay (yes the playtime overlap is intended!) (MrMario64)
* Added: double click when playing video or watching tv goes back to GUI (Frodo)
* Support for remote control of MCE 2005 (Frodo)
* Powerscheduler patch from sourceforge (Fred)

Fixed:

* 0000148 - My Music: Winamp plays songs twice (int_20h)
* 0000149 - My Music: Winamp plug-in does not skip to next song (Frodo)
* 0000171 - My TV / TV Guide: Stopping a record does not clear record symbol in guide (Frodo)
* 0000172 - My TV / Home: Play does not stop ff or rew (Frodo)
* 0000175 - My TV / TV Guide: Guide does not show current channel on entry (Frodo)
* 0000178 - My TV / Home: My TV FullScreen is not showing up anymore (Frodo)
* 0000180 - My News: Titles with newline characters look weird (MrMitchell)
* 0000181 - General: After startup cursor can't be controlled immediately (Frodo)
* 0000182 - Skin Engine: Progressbar height not scaled correctly (Frodo)
* 0000183 - Video OSD: >>| and |<< button should do the F8 and F7 actions. Instead they skip 10% (Frodo)
* 0000184 - Skin Engine: Album art is not correctly positioned behind the music viz (Frodo)
* 0000185 - My Videos: Going to video playlist crashed MP (MrMario64)
* 0000187 - My Pictures: Flicker in slideshow when new pic is faded in (using fade only) (MrMario64)
* 0000189 - Audio player: Can't play a cd without connection to the net (Frodo)
* 0000190 - Skin Engine: Thumbs loading generally slower (Frodo)
* 0000191 - General: Cursor lost when pressing left on facade view (MrMario64)
* Hardware cards is recognized as software card (Frodo)
* Audio output of crossbar not connected to video capture audio input (Frodo)
* Added : my alarm plug-in v2.1 (devo)
* Crash in OSD when using crystal center skin (Frodo)
* GUIWindowManager.cs: reverted back to old version for MrMario64 (Frodo)
* Subtitles where gone when seeking in a DVD (Frodo)
* No sound or picture on composite #1 or #2 inputs (Frodo)
* Skin fixes for my Alarm and My Recipies (MrMario64)
o Please plug-in makers, respect the layout of skins and use the same places for the default things. Do not change button widths of the menu, check functionality of the keyboard.

Updated:

* Swedish language update, Thanks Rich71 !!!!!
* Finnish language update, Thanks to Mika Hahtokari !!!!!
* Norwegian language update, Thanks Borje !!!!!
* Skin: CrystalCenter: Fixed crash in videoplaylist (MrMario64)
* * DELETE-application: ask if it's ok first! (waeberd)
* My Programs plugin: (waeberd)
o Editor for fileitems in the plugin configuration
o FILELAUNCHER-Mode
o FILE-argument can be anywhere in the list (default: the fileitem is the last argument / new: use the placeholder '%FILE%' for explicitly placing the fileitem argument)
o The emulator "KEGA FUSION" is supported now
o Multiple image support in info-screen ("_1", "_2" postfix in the same directory, same extension)
o Multiple image directory support
o New mode "Directory Cache"
o Fix: "only import valid images" now really checks for existing imagefiles
o Improved/fixed sorting in directory browse mode
o SORTING in all db based modes
o Performance boost in sorting
o Fix: encoding fixed in StreamReader (for non-english inputfiles)
o Fix: my-File keyword detection is now case-insensitive
o Small fix: importer of my files ("chain" parameter, better filename detection)
o Improved render quality of screenshots (was scaled from 128x128, which is too small)
* Swedish language update, Thanks Rich71 !!!!!
* My Programs: (waeberd)
* Set timeshifting buffer to 30 mins (Frodo)
* Photo slideshow now uses real x-fade instead of fade-in (Frodo)
* Naley update! (Harley)


0.0.0.12 Release

Fixed:

* 0000168 - My TV / TV Guide: Cannot scroll down all the way (Frodo)
* 0000169 - My Videos: You get the imdb info of current DVD instead of selected file on pressing F3 in TITLE view on a movie (Frodo)
* 0000170 - General: Going to full screen using ALT+ENTER takes a long long long long time (minutes) (Frodo)
* My Programs: Improved QUOTES-handling: double quotes are correctly trimmed away and (unnecessary) quotes around filename without a space was sometimes buggy (waeberd)
* My Mail: The Mailbox-Setup doesn't save the Server-Password (Agree)
* My Radio: fixed distorted thumbnails (Frodo)
* My Programs: Allow spaces between multiple extensions (waeberd)

Added:

* Thumbnails are now automatically created! (Frodo)
* xmltv.dtd: MrMario64 was a bad boy!!! :-)
* Added the 'guicontrolfactory via reflection' patch (Frodo)

Changed:

* My Programs: Re-merged the My Programs-strings that were kicked out from nowhere :-) (waeberd)
* Skin: Metal update and Dutch language file. Thanks to MrMitchell!!! (MrMario64)
* My Programs: strings translated (waeberd)
* Skin: Filmstrip for video, updated MetalMedia and CrystalCenter (MrMario64)
* Strings.xml: New entries to the translation (Int_20h)
* My Mail: (Agree)
o Changed the Mailbox and Attachments-Path from relative to absolut location. (So re-setup the mailboxes is needed)
o Changed open HTML-Mail-Part from standard Internet-Browser
o Detecting single part mail
o Changed the downloaded Mailmessage-Filename Format to "mail_message_xxx.mail", (xxx is the message number for the filename to be unique)
o Fix for the last fix :)
o This fix displays the raw body for unknown/not supported body-types
* Skin: Updated crystal and mce mail layout (MrMario64)
* Skin: Some MetalMedia updates thanks to MrMitchell!
* Setup: TV guide colors set as default off (MrMario64)
* Skin: MetalMedia weather skin fixes: Thanks esackbauer!


0.0.0.11 Release

Fixed:

*
* 0000135 - Setup: Capture cards setup looses framerate (Frodo)
* 0000136 - Setup: 0% value not shown initially on audio volume in capture card setup (Frodo)
* 0000117 - My TV / TVGuide: Topbar buttons don't react on ENTER (Frodo)
* 0000134 - Setup: Framesize in capturecard never displays the selected value after you click on edit capturecard (Frodo)
* 0000138 - Setup: Crash on entering Capture cards setup 2nd time (Frodo)
* 0000140 - My TV / TVGuide: Programs which start before and after timespan cannot be selected (Frodo)
* 0000141 - Setup: Checkboxes in setup dont effect my tv (Frodo)
* 0000142 - My Videos: Crash on imdb lookup (Frodo)
* 0000143 - My TV / TVGuide: Cannot go to a program which fills the timeline completely with cursor (Frodo)
* 0000144 - General: Using the Tool menu to enable / disable plugins won't restart MP (Frodo)
* 0000145 - General: Setup option of Tools > plugins should be disabled on plugins not having a setup (Frodo)
* 0000146 - My TV / Home: Live TV in the background is not working anymore (Frodo)
* 0000139 - My TV / Home: Hauppauge pvr 350 SVHS doesn't work (Frodo)
* 0000147 - My Music: wma files TRACK Tag is imported wrong. It's always 1 too low (Frodo)
* Foobar: FB2K Window shows up on screen when started (Annoying) forum link here (NoMoDo / int_20h)
* Foobar: Wait for FB2K to start is too long. (Changed it so instead of just waiting for three seconds, it will check whether fb2k is ready every 200ms, for up to three seconds.) (NoMoDo / int_20h)
* 0000151 - My TV / Home: Crash on clicking edit on a capturecard after 1st setup (Frodo)
* 0000152 - General: Multiple instances of setup possible (Frodo)
* 0000153 - My TV / Home: The popup message "Live TV in Background / Unable to start. Make sure you use VMR9..." cannot be localized (Frodo)
* 0000154 - My TV / Home: Zoommode not shown in TV when changing with 'S' (Frodo)
* 0000156 - My TV / Scheduled: Changing ongoing recording record time is not applied (Frodo)
* 0000157 - My TV / Scheduled: Re-activating a canceled schedule does not work (Frodo)
* 0000159 - Setup: Crash of setup when loading when no time is given for xmltv scheduler task (Frodo)
* 0000160 - Setup: Framesize of capture device always empty after setting it up (Frodo)
* 0000161 - General: When using search keyboard, Pause, stop etc... are processed (Frodo)
* 0000162 - My TV / Home: After manual recording on SWcard TV is not turned ON (Frodo)
* 0000044 - My TV / Home: After recording with SW encoding card, tv button state is wrong (Frodo)
* 0000163 - Setup: All plugins disabled after first start of configuration.exe (Frodo)
* 0000164 - Setup: Home plugin is always enabled but does not show a checkmark (Frodo)
* 0000165 - Setup: CD/DVD share will be named afdter the cd/dvd inserted on first startup (Frodo)
* 0000166 - My Videos: Given filename in description won't start playback (Frodo)
* Several bug fixes which causes crashes (Frodo)
* Winamp plugin: Allowed extensions does not depend on associated extension to winamp (int_20h)
* Winamp plugin: Winamp window will not show when the plugin is used (int_20h)

Changed:

* New OSD for CrystalCenter (MrMario64)
* Changed radio graphics in CrystalCenter (MrMario64)
* Update the graphics/sounds in Naley Evo (MrMario64)
* Changed behavior when deleting an mail message. if mailbox is empty it will display the mailbox-list (_Agree_)
* French language update, thanx to maniac's!
* Dutch language update (MrMario64)
* German language update (MrMario64)
* Norwegian language update (MrMario64)
* Mail plug-in has been updated (_Agree_)
* Harley updated Naley Evo again:
o New graphic for my mail
o Added Powerdown button in topbarhome with anygif
o Added Search function of my TV
o Fixed/change mytvhome.xml, mymail.xml, mymailinfo.xml, myrecepies.xml, reference.xml, topbarhome.xml, tvsearch.xml
o Some cosmetic changes
* Graphics of MetalMedia has been updated (MrMario64)
* My Mail plug-in has been updated (_Agree_)
* You can now give friendly names to capture cards (Frodo)
* Metal update, thanx MrMitchell!!! (MrMario64)
* Harley updated his Naley skin (see above). Thanks Harley for your continuing work on the skin!!!
* Updated the Italian strings. Thanks gdsantoro !!!!
* Removed junk xmltv stuff (MrMario64)
* My Programs has been update to 0.2 (waeberd):
* Remember listview-setting (in MediaPortal.xml) improved launching
* Options when only using ShellExecute
* Removed debug-only log.writes
* Removed BACK button in application list (you need to press <ESC> to go back)
* Improved error-handling when launching fails (=> handle exception and write LOG-entry)
* Improved handling of duplicate file names (get fileitems by ID, not by TITLE)
* FIX: fileinfo: calling the same fileinfo: "Overview"-text was invisible after the first call
* FIX: fileinfo: do not show file-info screen on "back item"
* Improved form layout
* All file and folder selectors remember the previous setting now
* FIXED: launch info was not read from DB
* FIXED: program title was not always set / refreshed correctly
* FIX: UP / DOWN => checklistbox lost focus

Added:

* TV Search, search the TV Guide for movies, program names, XXX ;-), etc. (Frodo)
* Support for auto-mounting .iso, .bin, .nrg images using Daemon Tools
(Frodo)
* TV Search has now been completed, however CrystalCenter is the only skin yet which has the functionality for tv guide searching (Frodo)
* Added patch for OFDB (Flipger)
* Added support for TVsearch on Crystal (MrMario64)
* Italian language added, thanx to viacampolongo!
* Danish language added (MrMario64)
* Croatian language added (MrMario64)
* XML TV grabbing from inside Media Portal! (Frodo)
* Update for navigation to TV window (coooool!) (MrMario64)
* Now you can search the IMDB info for a DVD! (Frodo)
* IMDB: you can now select a different and higher resolution picture
* IMDB: Bigger picture
* Thumbsize changed from 128x128 to 512x512 for filmstrip. This means people will need to remake their thumbs for it to look good in filmstrip.
* Filmstrip mode for My Pictures (see above)
* Rotate button for My Pictures
* Updated italian strings. Thanx gdsantoro!!!!


0.0.0.10 Release

Fixed:

* 0000131 - General: "Process" plugins don't show up in plugin listing (even if ISetupform is implemented) (Frodo)
* 0000132 - General: Logs are not saved in logs folder (Frodo)
* Performance improvements (Frodo)
* 0000129 - My Music: Music info (F3) on folders gives an exception (Frodo)
* 0000130 - DVD Player: Autoplay DVD dialog pops up multiple times when you have multiple DVD drives (Frodo)
* Updated german strings, thanx to Patric

Added:

* Updated the visuals of the My Mail plugin for de Crystal and MCE Skin (MrMario64)
* Updated the My Mail plugin (_Agree_)
* Update of the Naley skin as described above (Harley)
* Skin: New skinning tags for the next song in the playlist (Frodo)
* Setup/general: new option to setup to enable/disable animations (Frodo)
* Setup/radio: you can specify soundcard & line input for radio card (Frodo)


0.0.0.9 Release

Fixed:

0000101 - My Music: Audio Cd's not existing on cddb will hang MP (Frodo)
0000125 - My Music: Path is being shown on non scanned music and music without tags (Frodo)
0000126 - My Music: Non scanned songs Do show tag info, does MP load ID3 from file always? (Frodo)
0000127 - My Videos: Scan in my videos does not produce thumbnails, F3 does (Frodo)
0000128 - Movie Player: VMR9 has vertical stripes (Frodo)
Fixed double dll's and mce skin was a copy of crystal (MrMario64)
0000123 - My Pictures: Pictures without thumbnail do not show the default thumbnail (Frodo)
0000124 - DVD Player: Cannot play DVD always displayed when using external player (Frodo)
0000018 - My TV / Home: Dual tuner setup (Frodo)
0000099 - My Videos: The FF/RWD indicators are not visible (Frodo)
0000116 - My Videos: Bookmarks can only be created when you have IMDB info of the video (Frodo)
0000118 - Video OSD: No button selected on first open OSD (Frodo)
0000121 - My Music: Albumart not always working (Frodo)
0000107 - Skin Engine: wrong alignment of text and buttons on On screen keyboard when GUI is calibrated (Frodo)
0000108 - My Recipies: Back button is visible but does not do anything (Frodo)
0000109 - My Recipies: Cannot translate my recipies (Frodo)
0000110 - My Recipies: It's not possible to go to the topbar from the listview (Frodo)
0000111 - My Recipies: Cannot navigate using keyboard only (Frodo)
0000112 - My Programs: Cannot translate my programs (Frodo)
0000113 - My Radio: Covert art not shown when playing a radio (Frodo)
0000114 - My Music: Crash when searching music (Frodo)
0000115 - General: Folder settings exception shown in mediaportal.log (Frodo)
0000119 - My TV / Recorded TV Press 0 on empty listview crashes MP (Frodo)
0000120 - My Music: Fullscreen Viz does not work (Frodo)
0000079 - General: My Programs does not show an icon for Back in icon-view (Frodo)
0000097 - My Music: Artist info cannot be retrieved when multiple matches (int_20h)
0000098 - My Music: Albums information is missing in the Artist information (int_20h)
0000102 - Audio player: Crash when switching cd's (Frodo)
0000103 - Skin Engine: #description tags not moved correctly when GUI is calibrated (Frodo)
0000104 - My Music: Overlay bugs when playing a song in a non scanned folder (Frodo)
0000105 - My Weather: Different images with same filename, only one is shown (Frodo)
0000106 - My TV / Recorded: Duration of recordings created with XP SP 2 is wrong (Frodo)
0000069 - General: Plug-in buttons on home keep focus when moving focus to other buttons (Frodo)
0000078 - Setup: Wizards not in 0.0.0.6 (Frodo)
0000089 - Skin Engine: Home menu on focus graphics does not move when GUI is calibrated (Frodo)
0000090 - My TV / Home: When timeshifting with no xmltv data, current watchpoint in timeline is always at 0:00 (Frodo)
0000091 - General: Shutdown Dialog does not have focus when button is pressed in topbar (Frodo)
0000092 - My TV / Scheduled: Manual recordings called "Manual" for all languages (Frodo)
0000093 - General: The "Live TV in background dialog" can not be translated (Frodo)
0000094 - General: The up/down arrows that are displayed with a text area are not scaled (Frodo)
0000095 - General: The left/right arrows in select buttons are not scaled (Frodo)
0000096 - General: Images on home are not scaled (Frodo)
0000071 - My TV / Recorded TV: Progress bar in TV home does not scale correctly (Frodo)
0000087 - My TV / Home: No TV when Timeshifting is Off (Frodo)
0000088 - My TV / Home: TV progressbar not working when No xmltv data is available (Frodo)
Added:

My Alarm plug-in by devo, check this thread for more info
My Mail plug-in by Agree, check this thread for more info
Setup.exe: Some double files removed (dll's and png's) (MrMario64)
Added support for .mpc files (Frodo)
Setup: Added default zoom mode selection for movie and dvd (Bonkalord)
Added default zoom mode selection for television (Bonkalord)
CrystalCenter skin:
Updated recording overlay (MrMario64)
List control overlapped page controls and item count (MrMario64)
Changed time indicator of TVGuide (MrMario64)
Deleted and added a new graphic (MrMario64)
Some other fixing/fine tuning (MrMario64)
Several skin fixes again for CrystalCenter, MCE and MetalMedia (does it never stop???) (MrMario64)
MrMario64 has done some huge changes and fixes to the MCE, MetalMedia and CrystalCenter skins. Thanks MrMitchel for the list of bugs!!!
Cleanup of the MCE and the CrystalCenter skin (MrMario64)
The keymapping.txt has been updated (MrMario64)
CrystalCenter now uses the correct graphics in tv guide instead of the MCE ones (MrMario64)
Added a new button to the MCE, MetalMedia and CrystalCenter skins called "Card" (MrMario64)
Added the ability to switch the tv card in My TV if you have multiple tv cards. So when you are recording on one tv card you can watch tv on the other one. (Frodo)
Thumbnails / coverart is now stored in separate subfolders like thumbs/videos, thumbs/music, thumbs/pictures and using normal filenames instead of those cryptic a79da92r.jpg files (Frodo)
Updated skins with some new AR tags and fixed out of bound textscrolls in myTV (MrMario64)
Added deinterlace to VMR9 (Frodo)
Added grouping of controls & animatons (Frodo)
Added deinterlace to VMR9 (Frodo)


0.0.0.8 Release

Fixed:

0000073 - My TV / Home: MP doesnt seek 2 end when switching channels (Frodo)
0000082 - DVD Player: Autoplay only works 1 time (Frodo)
0000083 - Setup: Setup does not remember the default radio station (Frodo)
0000084 - My TV / Home: Unable to watch fullscreen TV, windowed works (Frodo)
0000085 - My TV / Home: When you switch channels after >15min watching then tv jumps for a whi (Frodo)
0000081 - My Weather: Satellite image does not load (Frodo)
Skin / Keyboard: Changed layout, hereby fixed a crash, changed default search to CONTAINS (MrMario64)
0000074 - My TV / Recorded TV: After playing a recorded file the live-tv preview window isnt restarted (Frodo)
0000075 - My TV / Home: TV format (PAL/NTSC/...) is not used for CVBS/SVHS inputs (Frodo)
0000080 - DVD Player: When playing a DVD always "Unable to play DVD" is displayed (Frodo)
0000068 - DVD Player: DVD's don't play when MP is started with an empty drive (Frodo)
0000076 - My Music: Next (F8) does not work in fullscreen viz (Frodo)
0000077 - Audio player: Doing a SCAN for tags on a audio cd makes CD unusable (Frodo)
Setup: Fixed wrong heading of the picture wizard (Bonkalord)
Setup: Fixed default radio station selection (Bonkalord)
0000067 - My Weather: Some weather images don't get shown (Frodo)
0000070 - Skin Engine: <keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio> should NOT be default. It should be be NO as default (Frodo)
0000072 - My Radio: Previous/Next doest work (Frodo)
MCE skin: Fixed the OSD postition and some errors in the text (MrMario64)
0000022 - Skin Engine: Text runs out of dialog boxes (Frodo)
0000061 - My Music: You can go fullscreen viz (x) when using dshow player (Frodo)
0000062 - My Radio: Internal radio player does not work anymore (Frodo)
0000063 - My Music: m3u is a hardcoded extension (Frodo)
0000064 - General: Live TV as background is broken (Frodo)
0000065 - My Music: Albumart does not get repositioned correctly on scaling the GUI (Frodo)
Setup: Changed the way missing signal strength is interpreted while autotuning (Bonkalord)
Setup: Made a cosmetical fix to the radio section (Bonkalord)
Added:

My Videos: ZOOM mode has been fixed (Frodo)
My Videos: Added two new AR modes (Frodo)
Videos, music, and pictures now remembers settings per folder (Frodo)
Music search patch (_Agree_)
IMDB search patch (MarsWarrior)
Play DVD folder patch (MarsWarrior)
My videos: scan now also works for DVD folders (Frodo)
My Radio: Added option to select a default radio station (Bonkalord)



0.0.0.7 Release

Internal release only specifically for the German c't magazine.



0.0.0.6 Release

Fixed:

Frodo fixed Media Portal so it now working correctly with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Thanks to blackride for his help fixing this!)
MrMario64 has done some fixing to all the skins
0000012 - My TV / Recorded TV: Recorded tv doesnt contain audio (Frodo)
0000025 - My TV / Home: Crash in wmvcore.dll (Frodo)
0000040 - Skin Engine: OSD items do not get scaled correctly (Frodo)
0000051 - Audio player: External players (winamp/foobar) only play one song (Frodo)
0000058 - My Weather: Some animated gifs dont work (Frodo)
0000059 - Audio player: CD playback doesnt work (Frodo)
0000060 - My Weather: Satellite image is not refreshed in my weather (Frodo)
Added:

You can now delete the Top 100 in My Music, so it can start making a new top 100



0.0.0.5 Release
Fixed:
0000055 - My Music: When sorting on Duration, filesize is shown for songs without a duration (Frodo)
0000056 - My Weather: Refresh time is not working (Frodo)
0000057 - General: Last file executed in listview when pressing page button down with mouse on last page (Frodo)
0000032 - My TV / TVGuide: #tagname shown when info is not available from the guide (Frodo)
0000036 - General: Config does not popup when played a video in VMR9 and starting MP in fullscreen (Frodo)
0000049 - Setup: TV channel frequencies are not always saved (Bonkalord)
0000053 - General: Mediaportal does not work under non-admin accounts (Frodo)
0000054 - My Radio: Pausing an internet radio stream (Frodo)
0000029 - My Music: WMA tags r mixed (Frodo)
0000042 - My Music: Album lookup broken again (Frodo)
0000045 - My TV / Home: TV Channel not selected when recording with SW encoding card (Frodo)
0000046 - Setup: Can not delete shares (Bonkalord)
0000048 - Audio player: Music stops after playing 2 song (Frodo)
0000050 - Setup: Setup doest not write wrong television country code to mediaportal.xml (Frodo)
0000030 - DVD Player: DVD navigation behavies wierd (Frodo)
0000033 - DVD Player: PAL DVD plays in ntsc resolution (720x480) (Frodo)
0000034 - DVD Player: Can't exit audio stream selection dialog after selecting a diff stream (Frodo)
0000038 - Setup: Crash when autotuning Radio (Bonkalord)
0000039 - DVD Player: MP crashes when showing OSD in DVD menu (Frodo)
0000043 - DVD Player: MP always reverts to first audio track on new chapter (Frodo)
0000001 - My Pictures: Streaming radio station stops when viewing a picture (Frodo)
0000003 - My TV / Recorded TV: Duration of recordings is wrong (Frodo)
0000004 - My TV / Recorded TV: Duration of recordings is wrong (Frodo)
0000005 - Setup: Movie Calibration: progressbar does not move (Frodo)
0000006 - Movie Player: When paused the GUI is not refreshed (Frodo)
0000007 - Movie Player: No time is shown when entering time in fullscreen video (Frodo)
0000008 - Movie Player: Movie is blocky until you press pause or Y (Frodo)
0000009 - My TV / Home: Cannot record to Windows Media Format (Frodo)
0000010 - Movie Player: Crash after playing a movie (Frodo)
0000011 - Movie Player: Tearing/stripes shown when playing a movie (Frodo)
0000024 - Setup: Radio setup:enter 100,0 as frequency results in 100.000,000 (Bonkalord)
0000026 - My News: Crash when going to feed select button when you have 0 feeds (Frodo)
0000027 - DVD Player: un-pausing DVD only works by pressing pause again (Frodo)
Added:

New FastForward and ReWinD system:
Press 1 time FF or RWD and it will forward or rewind 15 seconds
Press 2 time FF or RWD and it will forward or rewind 30 seconds
Press 3 time FF or RWD and it will forward or rewind 1 minute
Press 4 time FF or RWD and it will forward or rewind 3 minutes
Press 5 time FF or RWD and it will forward or rewind 5 minutes
etc.
If it reaches for example 30 minutes skip and there is only 20 minutes of movie left it will display END (or START when rewinding).
If you press for example 3 times FF and 1 time RWD it will skip 30 seconds
The new skin MCE has been included (GFX by Samsonite and XML coding by MrMario64). See the Screenshots section for screenshots of this beautifull skin.
The weather section now contains a weather radar image or satellite image, you can change the url to this image in the setup. (Can be an animated GIF, JPG or BMP)
Animated GIFs has been added for image tags in the skin engine.
The black pics bug which a few people had has been resolved. (Some videocards didn't support some of the DX9 functions we used)
My TV : SW encoding cards: select audio input of your soundcard (Frodo)
Setup: ffdshow post processing options to Television and Movie (Bonkalord)



0.0.0.4 Release
Fixed
My Music : fixed : F3 on music artists hangs (int_20h)
My pictures : out of virtual memory (Frodo)
Setup : fixed : Default values for various settings are set correctly (Bonkalord)
setup : fixed : Controls are enabled/disabled correctly in the TV Channels section (Bonkalord)
Setup : fixed : Moved the AutoPlay setting to the DVD-Player section, this to make space for the wizard (Bonkalord)
General : fixed : scrolling : base on time instead of frame (Frodo)
General : fixed : scroll speed 9 / 10 are the same (Frodo)
Autoplay : fixed : MP refused to start because of double loading of the Ripper dll (IceFred)
Setup : fixed : Enablig and disabling of buttons in the radio stations and television sections (Bonkalord)
Setup : fixed : Country selection when autotuning radio stations (Bonkalord)
My tv : fixed : spiced up the tvguide. Looks better now (Frodo)
General : fixed : video osd submenu's didnt work anymore (Frodo)
General : fixed : onscreen keyboard : mouse control was broken (Frodo)
My tv : fixed : spiced up the tvguide. Looks better now (Frodo)
Setup : fixed : Default channels were not saved if no other channels were added (Bonkalord)
My tv : fixed : set framerate/framesize to all video output pins (preview/capture/videoport) (Frodo)
Keybaord : fixed : keyboard was not scaled correctly (Frodo)
My music : fixed : After adding an audio cd to the playlist selecting a different song from the playlist does not work (Frodo)
My music : fixed : After adding an audio cd (that has been recognized by freedb) to a playlist. It shows, Track 1, ... instead of the freedb info (Frodo)
My Movies : fixed : pincode was requested too often (Frodo)
General : fixed : On screen keyboard not working. (E.g.,when hitting search in my music nothing happens.) (Frodo)
Added

Recording for software based TV cards!
You can select ffdshow as a post processing filter for DVD and TV
Autoplay for CD/DVD
General : Option to switch between full/windowed mode (Frodo)
My tv/video : Support for ffdshow post processing (still needs 2b added to the setup) (Frodo)
Setup : Option to enable/disable ffdshow post processing of dvd playback (Bonkalord)
Wizards : added : Added DVD, Music, Movie, Pictures and Television wizards to the MediaPortal menu (window mode) (Bonkalord)
Setup : added : Checkboxes to the television channels listview, this to pick which channels should show in the guide in MP (Bonkalord)
My tv : added : tv progress bar (Frodo)
Skinengine : added : listcontrol added properties <textvisible1>yes|no</textvisible1> (and same for textvisible2 and textvisible3) (Frodo)
Setup : added : Configuration for autoplaying audio cd's (IceFred)
General : added : you can now specify the number of characters for a font (default 255) in the language file. Usefull for foreign languages which need more then 255 characters (Frodo)
My tv : added : recording for SW encoding cards (Frodo)
Setup : added : Autoplay functionality for CDs (Frodo)
Setup : added : Codec selection for movie player (Frodo)
My Movies : added : Autoplay functionality for DVDs (IceFred)