Software Update: Media Portal 0.2.0.0 Release Candidate 1

Completely according to plan, the first Release Candidate of version 0.2.0.0 of Media Portal was released yesterday. With this program, a Windows XP 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 or watch videos and DVDs. Furthermore, TV programs can be recorded and the appearance of the program can be adjusted. There is no changelog for this version, but it is intended that the following functionality will be present in the final version, which is scheduled for October 22:

So, here’s the plan for the next release…

• TV
  • Transport Stream recording/ time shifting
  • Dynamic switching between AC3/MPEG audio
  • DVB: Subtitles
  • DVB: Logical US channel selection
  • DVB: No/bad signal notification
  • DVB: channel not broadcasting (or scrambled) notification
• My Radio
  • Radio recording and time shifting
• Setup
  • Finishing the Setup Wizard in MP
  • Finishing the settings menu in MP
  • Writing our own xmltv grabber
• MyMail
  • Hotmail Support
  • HTML Mail Viewer
  • IMAP 4 Support
• My Programs
  • All game scraper with MP (F3 key)
  • Dynamically add new ROMs in MyPrograms
  • Direct Input
  • Handle connects / reconnects of joysticks while MP is running
• General
  • Skinning engine enhancements
  • General search keyboard in all views
  • MCE Customized keyboard mapping as an option to the canned mapping – allow each key to be custom for any trigger event within MP
  • Adjustable font sizes
• My Pictures
  • picture crop
• MP Web Interface
  • Fix the last bugs to get a release version of the MP Webinterface done
  • A web based editor for the Movies database (as module for the MP Webinterface)

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