Download Mediaportal 1.0 rc3

Today the third release candidate of Mediaportal 1.0 has been released. With Mediaportal, a Windows machine can be used as the heart of the multimedia hardware in the living room. This makes it easy to listen to radio and music, watch videos and DVDs and record TV programs. By means of plugins and extensions, the functionality can be expanded and the ‘look & feel’ of the program can be adjusted. Version 1.0 includes a completely new and self-developed module called TV server, which can be used to watch and record television. The differences with the old module can be this page are being found.

Another big change is the so-called Deploytool. This should make installing Mediaportal a lot easier. Deploytool ensures that the right modules are installed and it is also possible to choose a specific language. This does mean that an internet connection is required during installation. The complete list of changes is too long to list here, so we’ll suffice with an excerpt from the release notes:

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!

Bug fixes

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’t 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.

Even though Blue3 is a 4:3 skin, we would like you to test it on 16:9 displays and share your opinion about what we should change for the wide version in order to profit from the additional width of 16:9 displays.

PayTV related configuration changes in TV-Server

Inside the TV-Server Configuration we did a few changes in order to get cards with and without CAM’s to work properly.

If you use a CAM + smartcard from your provider, you will have to enable your CAM in the new configuration section we created.

Please have a look at the TV-Server Manual where this is described in detail.[break] New MediaPortal 1.0 rc3 skin: Blue3.