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MediaPortal

MediaPortal running on Windows XP MCE
Developer(s)	Team-MediaPortal
Initial release	2004
Stable release	1.0.2 / 2009-04-20; 7 months ago
Preview release	1.1.0 Beta 1 / 2009-08-30; 3 months ago
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Development status	Active
Type	Media center
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.team-mediaportal.com

For the hardware device, see 2Wire MediaPortal.

MediaPortal is an open source media center software with a 10-foot user interface design for the living-room TV that acts as front-end for Personal Video Recorder (PVR), video, pictures, music and many more functionalities. MediaPortal runs under Microsoft Windows unlike most other open source media center programs, such as MythTV and Freevo, which run on Linux.

MediaPortal allows a computer to perform many entertainment-related tasks, such as recording, pausing, and rewinding live television, much like a PVR box such as TiVo. Other functionality includes watching video, listening to music with dynamic playlist building based on the social music network Last.fm, launching and playing games, recording live radio and browsing picture collections. MediaPortal supports a plugin system and a skin engine allowing users to extend the base software.

1 Features
2 Requirements
3 See also
4 External links

Features

Direct X GUI
Video Mixing Renderer 9
Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR) on Vista
Advanced Digital Video Broadcasting support (Common Interface, DVB radio, DVB EPG etc..)
Built-in Weather, RSS reader, and Wikipedia, ...
Plugins

Requirements

Minimum hardware requirements

The minimum hardware requirements listed here are for standard definition resolution playback and recording with MPEG-2 video compression using a single TV-tuner. Multiple tuners, or MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) playback carries higher system requirements, see 1080i/1080p HDTV minimum hardware requirements.

1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) processor
256 MB (256 MiB) of System RAM
DirectX 9.0 hardware-accelerated GPU with at least 64MB of video memory
- Graphics chips which support this and are compatible with MediaPortal:
  - ATI Radeon series 9600 (or above)
  - NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (or above), GeForce FX 5200 (or above) and nForce 6100 series (or above)
  - Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated i865G)
  - Matrox Parhelia
  - SiS Xabre series
200 MB (200 million bytes) free harddisk-drive space for the MediaPortal software
12 GB or more free harddisk-drive space for Hardware Encoding or Digital TV based TV cards for timeshifting purposes

HDTV minimum hardware requirements

HDTV (720p/1080i/1080p) playback/recording, and also recording from multiple tuners, and playback of MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video, carries higher system requirements.

2.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent) processor
512 MB of System RAM
DirectX 9.0 hardware-accelerated GPU with at least 128MB of video memory
- Graphics chips which support this and are compatible with MediaPortal:
  - ATI Radeon series 9600 (or above)
  - NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (or above), GeForce FX 5200 (or above) and nForce 6100 series (or above)
  - Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated i865G)
  - Matrox Parhelia
  - SiS Xabre series
  - XGI Volari V Series and XP Series
200 MB free harddisk-drive space for the MediaPortal software
12 GB or more free harddisk-drive space for Hardware Encoding or Digital TV based TV cards for timeshifting purposes

Operating System and Software requirements

Windows XP 32-bit Edition with Service Pack 2 or later
Windows Media Center Edition 2005 with Update Rollup 2 or later
Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit with Service Pack 1 or later
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 sp1
DirectX 9.0c
Windows Media Player 11

Unsupported Operating Systems

Windows 7
Linux
Unix

External links

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