Software update: Media Portal 0.1.0.4

A new version of Media Portal can be found on Source Forge. It concerns version 0.1.0.4 and it is available from here are downloaded. With this program, a Windows PC can be turned into an HTPC. This makes it easy to watch or listen to radio, music, video and DVDs. In addition, it is also able to record TV programs and the appearance can be adjusted by means of so-called skins. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Done by Agree:

• Modified UpdateSatChannel()
• Configuration: Added:
• Options to setup LNB-Parameter
• Radio-Channels TreeView in Channel-Edit-Form
• ‘Stop scan’ button, breaks an Channel scan
• Provider listed in Channel Edit
• Checkbox to config Plugins
• Added: Loading of Plugins for DVBs on startup
• Added: MenuSelect for Plugins
• Removed bug (was still using TVDatabaseV9)
• SampleGrabber: old SetMediaType() cant set AMMediaType struct
• Mail Changes: Support of MD Plugins. NOTE: Timeshifting/Recording is NOT available on using Plugins currently due to an Bug in StreamBufferSink!!
• The SoftCSA.dll needs to be in MediaPortal-Folder to use MD-Plugins

Done by coolhammer:

• Finnish language update

Done by corl:

• Fixed TV Guide colors
• Work on windows form name and dialog menus
• Overlay support for Mouse actions in dialogbox
• Added “previous window”
• Reset Formname to last name when exiting dialog
• MSN fix
• TVGuide first time label not visible bug fixed
• MSN chat update
• Fixed kenburns XFade nr of frames
• Added window names MyNews, Explorer, MSN osd
• MSN plugin: Fixed sorting problem
• MSN plugin: Changed status buttons into a “select button”
• Fixed progressdialog and windowsform name set/reset
• Added double click as right click selection
• Added right click shows context menu if control selected
• Updated for mouse events while fullscreen tv/video
• Added mouse event handler
• Added msn chat window
• Added “myvideo” msn chat window
• Added mouse support
• My TV: Fixed osd program info not update after channel change with remote or keyboard
• My TV: Added “exit full screen tv” item to the context menu
• Fixed mouse left button double click event (and set to “show context menu” event)
• My Pictures: Added fullscreen picture osd menu
• English language: Updated for slidedshow osd
• My Pictures: Update KenBurns
• Config update for kenburns
• Skin MCE: Changed id to 102 in SettingsSlideShow.xml
• My Mail: Added full pathnames check and fix for mail folder and attachment folder
• My Pictures: Added something like a Ken Burns effect for slideshow
• Skin MCE: Slideshow settings updated items
• Settings: update for Slideshow
• Fixed: Progressbar rendering when viewing ff or rw
• Fixed mouse hide / unhide
• Topbar enabled with dialog boxes
• Fixed the behavior of the switch mode
• 0000274 – Overlay (music/video): When a TV recording is going the music overlay will show the TV icon as album art always and program title will be in the scroll
• 0000299 – General: Progressbar resizes bar images after change
• 0000307 – My Music: Albumart briefly shown large before sliding in with the viz
• 0000312 – MSN Messenger plugin: enter key not working after clicking window border of MP
• 0000313 – MSN Messenger plugin: Text background is not moved when GUI is calibrated
• 0000314 – General: Page counter not being updated when using mouse bars
• Fixed: Forum bug: Caught in the IMDB loop
• Fixed: Forum bug: Buttons after hibernate do not work
• Fixed: Forum bug: My Wheather bug (sattelite picture not updated and not redrawn)
• Changed delete mail button (wrong function, it shows html contents in browser)
• 0000035: AVdelay dialog in OSD shows weird values. Impossible to return to 0
• Change double click action for TouchScreen usage
• Update OSD and mouse Autohide cause of problems with metal skin and sub menus
• Change “Search” button name to “Add” button in weather setup was not logical
• “Search Remove Edit” changed into “Add Remove Edit”
• RPM text for MyStatus added
• UPM text for MyStatus added
• Changed fixed text “upm” to localized text
• 0000306: vertical scroll speeds r not ok

Done by Frodo:

• TV Home: status not updated when recording started
• TV Home: shows separate tv activemedia window for some tv cards
• Recordings: duration of recordings was wrong
• Recordings: deleting a recording sometimes resulted in a crash
• New option : hide windows xp balloons
• New option: hide or dont hide taskbar
• Fixed: auto tuning for analog cards
• New option: support for mce2005 USA or Europe model
• Brightness, contrast, sharpness, and gamma settings now work in my tv
• Added sorting by genre/channels to recorded tv
• Changed behavior of the select buttons
• New tv engine
• Added version checking for skins
• Fixed bug : pressing green button on MCE remote doesnt hide video window
• Fixed bug : pressing green button on MCE remote doesnt close dialog window
• 0000297 – My Status: Status details displayed on sensor selection buttons
• 0000310 – My Videos: IMDB lookup broken
• 0000311 – My Videos: Pin protected movies r playable using the database
• Added option to conifgure the which mpeg2 demuxer pins contain video & audio pins for BDA DVB-T graphs
• Show city instead of id when grabbing weather
• Fixed: onscreen keyboard for searching music, tv, … was broken
• Fixed: filmstrip panel did draw outside region
• Added: double check texture dimension allocated by vmr9
• Removed: bda slip de-framer from capturecards list
• Fixed auto tuning for s/w cards
• Fixed tearing when playing DVD with VMR9
• Fixed: configuration.exe now gives warning if no compressors are specified in edit tvcapture card
• Configuration now checks if name & folder are filled in when you add/edit a share

Done by Harley:

• Skin Naley: updated for slideshow settings
• Skin Naley: Naley update for music ratings and favorites
• Actually fixed the whole skin to support 0.1.0.4

Done by MrMario64:

• Skin Crystal: added My Explorer
• Skin MCE: small fix for My Explorer
• Skin MCE: made picture info look better
• Skin Crystal: Added msn TV chat dialog and tv osd changes
• Skin Metal: Updated
• Skins: Added imdb stars rating and music ratings dialogs to skins. Favorites is also added to music.
• Skin Crystal: got rid of a double graphic

Done by MrMitchel:

• Skin MetalMedia updated
• Added SF Patch:1094124

Done by Rich71:

• New Swedish translations

Done by waeberd:

• My Programs: TreeView item titles are not refreshed when item changes
• My Programs: myPrograms: new files registered
• My Programs: fix broken cvs
• My Programs: reworked the plugin setup screen (treeview, less popup-windows etc.)