MediaPortal

I just implemented a patch mcraenz has submitted to the sourceforge patches page. He has given a quite good description so i just quote him In New Zealand (I suspect other countries too) we have a DVB-S service that has no CAM so we have to use ... [More] analog blaster STB; which is fine, however what we have found is that the EPG is not encrypted and since many of us have a DVB-S card pointing at the same sat for our FTA stuff we scan in the encrypted channels, combine them with the STB analog channels, set the analog card with higher priority than the DVB-S card and enjoy reliable EPG data from the sat while watching the channel via analog from the STB. This works very well... [Less]

I just implemented a patch mcraenz has submitted to the sourceforge patches page. He has given a quite good description so i just quote him In New Zealand (I suspect other countries too) we have a DVB-S service that has no CAM so we have to use ... [More] analog+blaster+STB; which is fine, however what we have found is that the EPG is not encrypted and since many of us have a DVB-S card pointing at the same sat for our FTA stuff we scan in the encrypted channels, combine them with the STB analog channels, set the analog card with higher priority than the DVB-S card and enjoy reliable EPG data from the sat while watching the channel via analog from the STB. This works very well... [Less]

I just implemented a patch mcraenz has submitted to the sourceforge patches page. He has given a quite good description so i just quote him In New Zealand (I suspect other countries too) we have a DVB-S service that has no CAM so we have to use ... [More] analog blaster STB; which is fine, however what we have found is that the EPG is not encrypted and since many of us have a DVB-S card pointing at the same sat for our FTA stuff we scan in the encrypted channels, combine them with the STB analog channels, set the analog card with higher priority than the DVB-S card and enjoy reliable EPG data from the sat while watching the channel via analog from the STB. This works very well... [Less]

During some extensive debug sessions the last weeks/months we developed various test/debug tools. Some of these tools might be also quite interesting for all users, so we decided to create a new forum section called MediaPortal Tools . You can ... [More] find the new forum section as the last one in the hirarchy. Currently there are 3 tools (TsPacketChecker, MPTail, MPTvClient). These tools are already in SVN and the sources can be downloaded via the SVN URL in every section's Introduction Features sticky thread. So we hope some of these tools might be of help for you Please note that improvement suggestions might take some to be implemented and the main focus is on MP I, MP II and... [Less]

During some extensive debug sessions the last weeks/months we developed various test/debug tools. Some of these tools might be also quite interesting for all users, so we decided to create a new forum section called MediaPortal Tools . You can ... [More] find the new forum section as the last one in the hirarchy. Currently there are 3 tools (TsPacketChecker, MPTail, MPTvClient). These tools are already in SVN and the sources can be downloaded via the SVN URL in every section's Introduction Features sticky thread. So we hope some of these tools might be of help for you Please note that improvement suggestions might take some to be implemented and the main focus is on MP I, MP II and... [Less]

This is especially important for New Zealand and Norgwegian DVB-T users. Special thanks go out to RadScorpion (Igor) who adjusted his LATM capable AAC decoder to work with our file reader / demuxer filter. You can see some information about this ... [More] decoder here... http://blog.monogram.sk/janos/2008/03/01/monogram-aac-decoder-0910-beta/ (http://blog.monogram.sk/janos/2008/03/01/monogram-aac-decoder-0910-beta/) To make this work you need to install SVN release 17664 or later of MediaPortal and TVServer / TVClient plugin. The TVClient plugin comes with RadScorpion's AAC decoder as part of the install package. All you have to do is setup the AAC codec via MediaPortal Configuration under Television. Note: If you have the Monogram AAC decoder already installed I would suggest de-registering it. Enjoy your TV experience for those users who can now receive the benefits. [Less]

This is especially important for New Zealand and Norgwegian DVB-T users. Special thanks go out to RadScorpion (Igor) who adjusted his LATM capable AAC decoder to work with our file reader / demuxer filter. You can see some information about this ... [More] decoder here... http://blog.monogram.sk/janos/2008/03/01/monogram-aac-decoder-0910-beta/ (http://blog.monogram.sk/janos/2008/03/01/monogram-aac-decoder-0910-beta/) To make this work you need to install SVN release 17664 or later of MediaPortal and TVServer / TVClient plugin. The TVClient plugin comes with RadScorpion's AAC decoder as part of the install package. All you have to do is setup the AAC codec via MediaPortal Configuration under Television. Note: If you have the Monogram AAC decoder already installed I would suggest de-registering it. Enjoy your TV experience for those users who can now receive the benefits. [Less]

MediaPortal TV Server offers some nice features for series handling. One of those features is called episode management. This feature was dissabled for quite some time because a bug caused that users lost recorded shows. Now this issue has been ... [More] fixed and the feature is enabled again. It allows you to keep always the latest x episodes of a series you scheduled for recording on your hard disk (of course this feature does not work with recordings of type once ). Example scenario: let's say you want to record The Simpsons which airs every weekday in the evening. You first set up an appropriate schedule (type weekdays ) and set the number of episodes to keep to... [Less]

MediaPortal TV Server offers some nice features for series handling. One of those features is called episode management. This feature was dissabled for quite some time because a bug caused that users lost recorded shows. Now this issue has been ... [More] fixed and the feature is enabled again. It allows you to keep always the latest x episodes of a series you scheduled for recording on your hard disk (of course this feature does not work with recordings of type once ). Example scenario: let's say you want to record The Simpsons which airs every weekday in the evening. You first set up an appropriate schedule (type weekdays ) and set the number of episodes to keep to... [Less]

Some people wondered why we didnt use WPF for our skinengine. WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation) , is a new technology from Microsoft for creating really cool GUIs Although WPF is a ... [More] wonderfull piece of technology, it also has some major drawbacks. One of those drawbacks is that there is no way to integrate WPF with DirectX and/or DirectShow. Although WPF contains its own internal video player that player is so limited and unusable for an application like MediaPortal. Some other drawbacks are the focus/input management and offcourse the fact that its closed source That said, WPF still rocks. Skinners get really nice features like vector graphics, linear radial gradient brushes, image brushes, panels, storyboards, triggers, animations etc etc etc So I... [Less]