Media centre application which supports all advanced media centre functions

MediaPortal

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MediaPortal

  -  212.8 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    MediaPortal 2.5.0 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    MediaPortal Team / External Link

  • Filename

    MediaPortal2-2.5.0.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

    e396f20a8d3498cdcf7f568990ec5e48

MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. Do you want a Home Theatre with audio streaming throughout your home, a digital photo album to organize all your photos and webcam videos, access to web streams and information like weather, news, sports, or Wikipedia, plus a super TiVo? With MediaPortal (MP) you can do all this and more, from the comfort of your sofa. It is the most feature-rich Media Center software in the world today, and it's free!

Features and Highlights

Watch and Record TV
Watch live or recorded TV on any networked PC. You can do everything a TiVO can, and more, but for free! Use the TV Guide to group your channels, view program details, and upcoming airings, or list recorded or scheduled programs.

Watch Videos and DVDs
Browse all your movies, videos, and DVDs, with cover art and details. Then watch them with superb quality playback.

Listen to Music
listen to all your music using high-quality Bass effects, or your own player. View artist images and details, album covers, and fanart backdrops. Organize, sort, and view your music in whatever way YOU like - by artists, albums, genres, top 100, songs, or even file size.

Listen to Radio
Listen to FM or web Radio on any PC, even on your network, and record your favorite programs.

View Pictures
MediaPortal can scan your drives and display all your photos or images for you, either as a single image or a slide show.

Check Weather & More
Get weather data for as many cities as you like, anywhere in the world, and view satellite weather images.

Skins & Plugins
The default skin, Blue3, is designed with elegant simplicity to perform well even on older PCs. All main features are included in Media Portal; you do not require any additional plugins.

Note: Requires .NET Framework and DirectX. Compatible video card with at least 128 MB of video memory.

  • MediaPortal 2.5.0 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

- 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.
- 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

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 Canada, Japan, Denmark, Italy, Finland and Australia
- 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

TV:
Dedicated Radio Tile:
- So far radio was part of TV, with MediaPortal 2.5 we added a dedicated radio tile
- In main menu you have a radio tile with own home content
- Radio has own EPG screens
- Recordings and schedules are still shared between TV and Radio, but can be distingished by media type

TVMosaic:
- The 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. The client plugin can be selected in the installer now. Further improvements and bugfixes as improved EPG loading time were integrated since previous version.

TVE3.5:
- The current TV engine (TVE3) for Media Portal 1 and 2 was developed long time before 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:
- 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 dis-/appear. The dialog appearance was significantly improved with a skin setting to configure (glow effect, edge radius, transparency).
- Fix dialog closes if non-clickable element within dialog is clicked

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