Download MediaPortal II preview release

The developers behind MediaPortal yesterday released Infinity, the nickname for the first preview of MediaPortal II. 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. The release of MediaPortal II does not mean that MediaPortal I, of which version 0.2.3.0 appeared last month, will be abandoned. Work is still underway towards a stable 1.0 release.

In MediaPortal II, the heart and plugin system has been completely rewritten. This makes it possible to easily replace or update certain parts at a later date. Infinity is an early alpha and at the moment it is only possible to view photos, play movies, listen to music and query the weather. Watching television or listening to radio is not yet possible. This is planned for the next release, codenamed ‘Haiti’. More information about MediaPortal II is in this announcement to find. Below is an excerpt from that announcement:

MediaPortal II – Preview Release

The first public release of MediaPortal II (Codename: Infinity) is NOW available. We are calling this a “preview” because it is still work in progress. However, we wanted to give everyone an early Christmas present and something to play with over the holiday period.

The download can be found on sourceforge. For further information click here for the full news.

MediaPortal 1.0 and TV Server 1.0

The release of MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 and the announcement of Media Portal 2 do not implicit that the “good old MediaPortal I” is abandoned. Our next goal is to create a stable MediaPortal – TV-Server solution, which means to work towards a MediaPortal 1.0 and TV-Server 1.0. For those who fear the chance: MediaPortal 1.0 will still contain the inbuild TV-Engine.

So the main focus for the 1.0 releases is on stability and usability. This means that you will not see many (if any) new features in these releases.[break]