Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.

It 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.

You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/noppes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!

General

- Flexible XML based skinning engine - Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins !
- Extendable via plugins. Media Portal can easily extended with extra plugins. Plugins can be overlay windows, modules, tag readers, players,...
- Topbar at every screen with buttons for pause,FF,RW,skip, exit,reboot and back to previous screen

Time, Date

- Dynamic keymapping. You decide which keys you want to use for which actions
- Remote Controller support (using an external program like girder)
- Switch between graphics & LiveTV as background when browsing the menus

My TV

- Record, watch, timeshift Live TV
- Get programme information while watching live TV

Advanced recording scheduler:

- record Once
- record now
- Daily
- Weekly
- Mon-Fri
- Every time this program appears on this Tv channel
- Every time this program appears on any TV Channel
- Support for multiple tuners
- Timeshifting, Watch, Pause, Rewind,FF,RW Live TV

Video Recording

- Advanced TV Guide based on XMLTV
- Scheduler to manage all your recording schedules
- Recorded TV section: Manage all your recorded tv programs. See what has been recorded, delete programs, check which programs you already watched and offcourse select and play a recorded program
- Support confirmed so far: Hauppage PVR 250, PVR 350, PVR USB2, ATI TV Wonder VE PCI, ATI TV Wonder NTSC PCI, ATI All-In-Wonder 7500, 8606-40 MSI TV PCI, Terratec TerraTV+, Compro PVR(Gold and non-Gold), Terratec Cinergy 600. More to come hopefully ! Let us know if your card works...

My Radio

- Listen to your favorite radio stations
- Auto tuning
- Supply nice logo's for each radio station
- Supply a friendly name for each radio station
- Internet radio stations
- local radio stations using the FM tuner of your capture card
support for external radio tuner applications

My Music

- All music gets stored in Media Portals music database
- 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 MediaPlayer 9
- 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 overlay : will show what song is playing together with visualisation,albumart, artist,title,album etc on every module in Media

Portal

- My Pictures
- 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
- 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

My Videos

- Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)
- All your movies will be stored in Media Portals video database
- View your movies by actors,genres,year,title,
- Sort your movies by actors,genres,year,rating
- Automatically retrieves video art & info from www.imdb.com
- Stacking/Unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files
- Internal DVD Player with Menus!
- External Player (Zoomplayer/MPlayer/etc) option
- On Screen Display(OSD) for : Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages...
- Internal DVD player with menu's ( you can also use an external DVD player )
- Internal movie player you can also use an external media player )

My Weather

- Show the latest weather information
- Support for multiple cities
- Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast
- Temperature (in C/F)
- UV Index, Humity (%), Wind (mph/kph), etc
- Settings
- Screen Calibration
- UI Calibration
- My Music options
- My Pictures options
- My Programs

Launching external programs like:

- Games
- Emulators
- Email application
- Internet Browser
- IRC client
- Basically you can launch any program you like including parameters

My News

- Adding RSS news feeds
- Showing RSS news feeds

My Recipies

- Download recipies from the internet (there is a standard databse/file format for recipies) and import them in MP
- Browsing and showing of recipies