Software Update: MediaPortal 1.1 Beta 1

Although the intention was to have the alpha of version 1.1 of MediaPortal followed by a release candidate, due to the large amount of changes that have been made in recent weeks, it has been decided to release a beta release first. 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, 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.

In version 1.1, the old TV engine TVE2 has been completely abandoned. Furthermore, a clean installation now uses MySQL 5.1 instead of SQL Server, although the latter can still be used. This was done because MySQL requires less resources and also works fine under Windows 7. What else has changed can be found below in the release notes:

Major changes in this BETA are:

• WebEPG is now included as a plugin for TV-Server
• RTSP Streaming IP can be changed in TV-Server configuration
  (This is useful if the default port is in use by any other application.)
• New OSD’s have been slightly reworked and finished
• TV-Server configuration has been reworked in some areas to enhance the usability, like new tuningformats and simplified scan dialog
• Options have been added to TV-Server and MediaPortal Configuration to allow to disable and enable Microsoft MediaCenter Services
  (This is required for TV-Server and Microsoft MCE Remote to work properly.)
• Various memory leaks have been fixed in MediaPortal
• Various fixes for the Topbar in MediaPortal
• Improved Windows 7 compatibility
• Solved problems caused by IPv6 in TV-Server (only IPv4 is supported!)
• Added dvb-s2 support for ProfRed Cards
• Added CI menu support for Twinhan/Terratec cards
• Improved TV error handling for better user experience
• CI menu and messages are automatically enabled now
• a few more features have been added to the SkinEngine
• Audio seek with different speeds for BASS player
• E-AC3 / DD+ audio stream type support for TV

The team would like to thank everyone who sent us patches!

Complete list of changes:

There were a lot of smaller changes done as well.

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

Installation notes:

• a present MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA installation can not be upgraded
• a present MediaPortal 1.0.x or 1.1.0 ALPHA installation 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)
• 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 with this BETA!