The developers behind Media Portal have released version 0.1.0.2 of their Windows port of the Xbox media center. With this program a PC can be turned into a HTPC (Home Theater PC). The software allows you to watch and listen to radio, music, video and DVDs in an easy way. In addition, it is also capable of recording TV programs. The appearance can also be adjusted with, for example, the Christmas skin from the screenshot. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:
Added:
- strings.xml: added exif tags
- Added picture info dialog (exif)
- Added resume from recorded tv
- Added minimize to system tray
- Added My Status plugin
- Added My Plugins plugin
- Added and changed a lot of stuff to the Setup and the Wizards
Fixed:
- 0000210 – General: MCE remote button TV cannot be used to go fullscreen (X)
- 0000268 – My TV/TVGuide: Hang when browsing through TVguide whith tv preview on
- 0000278 – My TV / Home: Progressbar TV has wrong position (too low)
- 0000279 – My TV / Home: Overlay preview lost when returning from fullscreen
- 0000281 – General: Artist lookup not working on MCE skin (Mario)
- 0000282 – General: 2 clicks for the price of 1 after hibernation
- 0000283 – DVD Player: MP always plays dvd from first device
- 0000284 – My TV / Home: MP hangs when entering MyTV
- 0000285 – My TV / Home: TV preview not killed going to HOME when using overlay
- 0000286 – My Videos: Skipping to next part in a stacked movie hangs MP
- 0000287 – General: Time does not progress
- 0000288 – My TV / Home: TV not working when radio runs and vice versa using PVR card
- 0000290 – Skin Engine: Select buttons don’t work anymore
- 0000291 – My TV / TVGuide: Cannot use time compensation with half hours
- Skin MCE: Fixed artist info
Updated:
- MyPrograms:
- BUGFIX: when “Hide file extensions” was deactivated, no pictures were found in “directory browse” / “directory cache” mdoe
- MP now waits for a launched program to exit, before it continues to run (should lower CPU usage while launching applications)
- Powerscheduler: Don’t shutdown if playing a movie, dvd, recording,… in home
- Update the skins MCE, Metal and Crystal to reflect the new My Plugins and My Status plugins
- Updated the Naley skin for the two new plugins
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| Version number | 0.1.0.2 |
| Operating systems | Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP |
| Website | Source Forge |
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| File size |
16.87MB |
| License type | GPL |