Download MediaPortal 1.3.0 RC

While MediaPortal 2.0 is still being worked on, the release candidate of version 1.3.0 has appeared. 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. The release notes for this release can be found below.

MediaPortal 1.3.0 RC Released

We are happy to announce that the Release Candidate of our new major release MediaPortal 1.3.0 is now available for download!

A lot has changed since the release of MediaPortal 1.2.3. Too much to fit everything into one news. So we will focus on what has changed since the 1.3.0 Beta release. If you want to find out what was added in the 1.3.0 Alpha and 1.3.0 Beta versionthen please have a look at their release news, or view all the changes in our wiki: What’s New > 1.3.x

This Release Candidate is the last stop before the final version of 1.3.0. The focus since the release of 1.3.0 beta has been on bug fixes and polishing. We want to thank everyone in the community for their help with finding the bugs!

Please be aware that even though this version is very close to the final product, it can still contain issues. This means that we advise against using it on production systems. Make sure that you read the instructions at the end of this news regarding installation, upgrade and extension compatibility.

Highlights of this release:

• Titan: many fixes and adjustments
• Titan Extended: added support for more community plugins as well as bug fixes and tweaks
• MediaPortal Audio Renderer: fixed an issue with AC3 encoding that could cause a memory leak
• Themes: fixed a bug that could crash MediaPortal when changing themes several times
• Videos inside Pictures section: a lot of problems have been fixed that where present when users tried to play their holiday videos along with viewing their holiday pictures
• Thumbnailer: fixed a bug which caused the creation of a thumb to fail for files which have a semicolon in their name
• Volume Control: A bug was fixed which caused that you could not increase the volume on a fresh install on Windows 7
• TV-Server Database connection: fixed an issue in the upgrade procedure which could change the hostname in gentle.config to “localhost”

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for 1.3.0 Beta by using the following links:

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

Compiled List of Skin and Plugin related changes

Community Skinners and Developers should have a look at the following pages to find out about the changes which will effect their extensions.

Some of these changes are mandatory to become 1.3.0 compatible:

• changes which affect skins
• changes which affect plugins