MediaPortal turns your PC into a very advanced media center, or Home Theater PC (HTPC).

Changelog:

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

Program Information Category: Multimedia Type: Free Version: 1.2.0 Alpha Size: 31.5MB Works on: Windows Product page: here