Open Source MediaPortal

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more.

As Open Source software licensed under the GNU/GPL agreement, you get MediaPortal for free. This means anyone can contribute to MediaPortal or customize for their own needs!

MediaPortal is built on the Microsoft .NET framework using C# and currently has a growing international community of over 60,000 users.

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

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

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

• Watch your pictures/photos
• Slideshow support with nice transitions
• Zoom in/out, rotate pictures (rotation is remembered next time)
• Pause, previous/next picture
• Delete picture(s)
• Background music, either songs from my music, or radio from my radio
• Auto thumbnail generation
• Sort in Name, Date, Size
• View in List, Icon or Big Icon display
• Ken Burns effect slideshow
• Filmstrip view

• View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs
• Sort your music in many ways like tracks, genre, filesize, artists, album,…
• Use visualisations from Windows ?Media Player 10
• Load, create & save playlists (.m3u, .pls, .b4u)
• Automaticlly gets album art & info for all your albums
• Automaticlly gets artist art & info for all your artists
• View by list, icons, and big icons
• Shuffle, repeat, FF, RW, pause,…
• Music ratings
• Favorites
• Party shuffle mode
• Search music for specific songs
• Display all your favorite songs in one screen
• Utilize Winamp, Foobar or iTunes plugins for music playback

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