Mediaportal-II Infinity released

[frodo]

The first public release of MediaPortal II (Codename: Infinity) is NOW available.
We are calling this a "preview" because it is still work in progress. However, we wanted to give everyone an early Christmas present and something to play with over the holiday period.


The download can be found on Sourceforge. For further informations click here for the full news.

Questions & Answers

What is special about MediaPortal II?

MediaPortal II is a total re-write of the core application and plugin system. A new core framework allows all parts of the system to be easily replaced or updated, with very little effort and minimal effect to the overall system.

Another major new feature is the new GUI and skin system. After trying WPF & XAML, and finding it was not possible to do many of the things we wanted. We returned to DirectX, and developed a new system from the ground up.

More information can be found in the first announcement .

What User features are present in this release?

* My Pictures
* My Movies (+DVD)
* My Music
* My Weather


Where is My TV?

The TV part is not completed to a stage where it can be released. In fact there is still some work to do finishing off and cleaning up the core system, before we move on to more plugins.

Discussion

MediaPortal II already has its own forum section for discussions about this preview.

Installation

The Installer has the ability to install the IR Server Suite, which adds support for various Remote controls.

Some of the programs distributed need the Visual C++ Runtime enviornment installed. It is recommended to install the VC++ Runtime as part of the MediaPortal II Installation. If you have previously installed MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 on the same machine, you can skip this step. It won't however do any harm, if you install it a second time.


Where can I find the source code?

The source code is also now publicly available in our SVN


Important Note: This release shows off a very early stage of MediaPortal2. Any Plugins developped by the Community won't be supported or manitained by the Team Mediaportal yet because the internal architecture and skinengine will still change in future releases and therefore will most likely break any Community Plugins.

Plugin-Devs, please be aware of this!

[Darre]

thx a million!

Expect a donation for your great work in the near future =)

[tompa]

Shall i put my x-mas decorations up tonight, or...


/tompa

[mikael]

This is very great news, thank you MP-team for your great work! WOW!

[Dubyahjay]

SPICY!!!!!

[karimkb]

ooo, nice! whats the ETA for My TV?

also, for My Movies, does it launch external powerdvd 7.3 for HD-DVD/Blu-Ray movies on server? (are HD movies even available for cataloging in My Movies?)

edit: also, how about some more screen shots

thanks!

[BoelShit]

oops i already crashed it and i dont even know how

but i sure gonna love this

Ohhh i know.. for some reason i cant select a folder to watch without it letting crash

[ShAddiX]

I really like the new engine. =)
There will be very nice skins in the future.

But until that, it's still a long way ;-)

[maxtrash]

first impression: looks very very slick. A bit like MCE also (only know about MCE2005).
Did also get a few crashes and killing the process (no application!) caused my taskbar to disappear.
also the framerate is very slow at about 8 fps. I know this is an alpha so I'm not compaining

[Gixxer]

Originally Posted by maxtrash

first impression: looks very very slick. A bit like MCE also (only know about MCE2005).
Did also get a few crashes and killing the process (no application!) caused my taskbar to disappear.
also the framerate is very slow at about 8 fps. I know this is an alpha so I'm not compaining

few crashes also

caused my taskbar to disappear also

cant select usb external drive

cant select network drive

when in weather the onscreen keyboard looks wrong

no gui after crash, just mp logo

as said, its alpha so no complain, just informing