Software update: MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC4

The fourth release candidate of MediaPortal was released on Tuesday. 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.

Version 1.1 completely says goodbye to the old TV engine TVE2. Furthermore, a clean installation now uses MySQL 5.1 instead of SQL Server, although the latter can still be used as usual. This was done because MySQL requires less resources and otherwise works fine under Windows 7. This fourth release candidate contains mostly bug fixes, including the problem with the TV service being unable to stop, which prevented the installation from proceeding and the TV server stopped working. The full release notes can be found below.

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC3:

• [fixed] IMDB grabber script was broken – use the “update grabber scripts” button in MediaPortal Configuration if you upgrade from a previous version of MP!
• [fixed] installation of TV-Server failed in a few cases because TV-Service could not be stopped
• [fixed] RSS plugin did not work
• [fixed] installation of an MediaPortal Extension might fail
• [fixed] Various tuning problems with DVB-T cards

Community Skin Designers should review the list of skin changes since 1.0.1 .
There were some changes done which require Community Skins to update to be fully 1.1.0 RC4 compatible.

Please have a look at our changelogs for a complete list of changes.

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

Installation notes:

MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1 installation to RC4:

• The installer will allow you to simply “upgrade” to 1.1.0 RC4.
• Please also update your community skins and plugins to their latest version right after you installed 1.1.0 RC4!

MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA/BETA installation to RC4:

• these installations can not be upgraded to 1.1.0 RC4
• these installations will be uninstalled
  (No data will be lost, you will find MediaPortal_backup and TV-Server_backup folders which contain the plugins,skins and userfiles of the 1.0.x installations)
• refer to the upgrade guide if you are moving from an existing MediaPortal installation, older than 1.1.0 RC1.
• a present TV-Server database will be upgraded and can be reused
• do not reuse any skins, plugins, databases or configuration files from MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA/BETA with this Release Candidate!