Download MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC5

The fifth release candidate of MediaPortal was released on Thursday. With this program, 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, as well as watch videos and DVDs. TV programs can also be recorded. By means of plug-ins and extensions, the functionality can be expanded and the ‘look & feel’ of the program can be adjusted.

Version 1.1 completely says goodbye to the old TV engine TVE2. Furthermore, a clean installation now uses MySQL 5.1 instead of SQL Server, although the latter can still be used as usual. This was done because MySQL requires less resources and also works fine under Windows 7. There is now a feature freeze and this fifth release candidate only contains bug fixes. If no serious issues crop up, this could well be the final release candidate. Below are the release notes for this release.

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC4:

• [fixed] 0002936: MPC-HC subtitle engine is not working with MPC splitters
• [fixed] 0002919: Timeshift repeating on channel change
• [fixed] 0002940: Starting/stopping a current program recording gives an exception
• [fixed] 0002920: Scheduled recording could be interrupted by EPG grabber
• [fixed] 0002948: bug in MediaInfo.dll causes playback of ATSC recordings to fail

Community Skin Designers should review the list of skin changes since 1.0.1 †
There were some changes done which require Community Skins to update to be fully 1.1.0 RC5 compatible.

Please have a look at our changelogs for a complete list of changes.

• Changelog: MediaPortal
• Changelog: TV Server
• Changelog: Installer – DeployTool

Installation notes:

MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1 installation to RC5:

• The installer will allow you to simply “upgrade” to 1.1.0 RC5.
• Please also update your community skins and plugins to their latest version right after you installed 1.1.0 RC5!

MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA/BETA installation to RC5:

• these installations can not be upgraded to 1.1.0 RC5
• these installations will be uninstalled
  (No data will be lost, you will find MediaPortal_backup and TV-Server_backup folders which contain the plugins,skins and userfiles of the 1.0.x installations)
• refer to the upgrade guide if you are moving from an existing MediaPortal installation, older than 1.1.0 RC1.
• a present TV-Server database will be upgraded and can be reused
• do not reuse any skins, plugins, databases or configuration files from MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA/BETA with this Release Candidate!