Requirements - MEDIAPORTAL Use your big television screen as Smart TV now! Just connect your computer and run MediaPortal, the open source media center.
Tune to regular TV and radio channels, watch or listen to online media, enjoy your own media files or comfortably browse the web while sitting on your couch.
Features:

Watch and record TV
Watch videos and DVDs
Listen to music
Listen to broadcast and web radio stations
View the TV guide on any PC in your home
Movie covers and details are automatically downloaded from IMDB (Internet Movie Database)
View all your artists, albums, tracks, CDs, DVDs or playlists, with album art and artist images
Enjoy audio visualizations
Stream throughout your home via any PC client connected to the MediaPortal TV server
View pictures and slideshows
Check weather reports, your RSS feeds or Wikipedia on your TV screen
Browse the huge plug-in archive
Choose from a variety of looks, styles and interfaces to suit your taste

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MediaPortal is a free open source media center software, ideal for turning your PC into a very advanced multi media center, or Home Theater PC (HTPC).

Using MediaPortal, you can listen to your favorite music and radio; watch your videos and DVDs; or view, schedule and record live TV, much like a digital video recorder such as TiVo, but better. And that's only the basic features!

MediaPortal 1.7.1 HotFix

Today we present to you the MediaPortal 1.7.1 HotFix. HotFix

This release supersedes the 1.7 Final release and includes a few bug fixes. Please report any problems in the bug reporting section of the forum.

Highlights of this release

We discovered a few issues with our 1.7 Final release which we addressed in this replacement, the 1.7.1 HotFix release. The most important change comes from a SubsystemVersion bump (MP.Externals.BASS to be specific).
Attention Plugin developers! If your plugin references to the MP.Externals.BASS SubsystemVersion, your plugin will show up as incompatible as of the 1.7.1 HotFix release, and an updated version is needed.
Besides the SubsystemVersion bump, we updated the Bass ASIO binary and fixed a possible crash if you ONLY installed the BassBox visualisations. There has also been some work done on the WMP visualisations.
And last but not least, we fixed some potential freezes which were caused by using an obsolete Album View (Music) setting in Shares View.

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for MP 1.7.1 by using the link below:

Changelog: MediaPortal

Compiled Plugin related changes

Community Plugin Developers should have a look at the following page to find out about the changes which will effect their extensions.
Some of these changes are mandatory to become 1.7.1 compatible:

Changes which affect plugins

Installation, Upgrade, Download and Feedback

Installation

With MediaPortal 1.6.0 we switched to .NET4 so you need to make sure you have .NET4 installed on your computer (not needed if you are on Windows 8 because it comes with .NET4, but you NEED the .NET 3.5 features enabled!). Otherwise you are not able to install MediaPortal and the installer just quits.
Download-Link: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Standalone Installer)
Aside from that when doing a clean installation of 1.7.1 there is nothing else special to worry about.

Upgrade

Upgrading from 1.2.x, 1.3.0 Alpha/Beta/RC/Final, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0 and 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 HotFix

All MediaPortal 1.2.x, 1.3.0 Alpha/Beta/RC/Final, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 installations can be upgraded to 1.7.1, without losing your settings.

Plugins:

If you are running MediaPortal 1.7.0 or earlier, then it is possible that some of your previously installed plugins will be shown as incompatible after the upgrade to 1.7.1! Whether or not a plugin is incompatible depends on the MediaPortal subsystems the plugin uses, but for this HotFix only Music plugins should be affected.

Skins:

Warning! Due to the new features and changes introduced in 1.4.0, none of the 1.3.x skins are compatible with 1.7.1!
Please contact the author of the skin you use for further information and updates.

Upgrading Extensions:

The easiest way to upgrade your extensions is by launching the MediaPortal Extension Installer, and let it check for updated versions. However this only works for extensions that use our MPEI system. If the author of the extension releases it as a stand alone installer, you must contact them for an updated version.

Upgrading from 1.2.0 Alpha or earlier to 1.7.1

All MediaPortal installations starting with 1.1.0 RC1 can be upgraded to 1.7.1, without losing your settings.
If you are running MediaPortal 1.2.0 Alpha or earlier, then none of your extensions (plugins and skins) will work after the upgrade to 1.7.1! You must update your extensions after the upgrade!
So, please make sure that 1.7.1 compatible versions of your extensions are available before you start the upgrade!

General note about Upgrades

Manually stop TV-Service!
television-icon

On some systems our installer is not able to update the TV-Server installation because its files are locked or the service can not be stopped.
For upgrades to 1.7.1 we recommend that you manually stop the TV-Service and make sure, via Windows Task Manager (enable the "all users" option), that the TvService.exe process is really gone before starting to upgrade.
Custom TV-Service properties
If you manually changed the properties of the TV-Service (like restart on error options), then you must redo these changes after the upgrade. The installer is not able to save and restore your custom service properties when it installs the new version of the TV-Service.

Feedback

Bugs

If you think you found a bug then please post a detailed report in our Bug Reports Forum.
Make sure your report includes all the required information. Incomplete reports will be removed to keep the forum clean.

Download

Finally - the download. We hope that you took the time to read this release news entirely because it includes vital information about the major changes.

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