As we all know, Mediaportal was born, in the first place, from the idea of migrating xbmp (xbmc) into Windows platform.
currently MediaPortal I & MP TV Server are working great & very stable.
meanwhile, another software arrived to Windows platform, and it seems to be very powerfull and it has a very rich set of plugins & scripts.
it called XBMC for windows.
I tested it and its working great!
it can do anything that media center software should do.
the animations are great, the configuration is easy and everything is being done with the gui. no external configuration or changing files are required.
The only thing that it don't have is the TV support.
Here's my dream:
MP developers will abandon the MPII project and join the "XBMC for windows" project.
they will create a plugin that will be able communicate with the MP TV Server.
and will continue improving and writing plugins for the XBMC & MP TV Server
and then everybody will live happily ever after.
I Know this dream is far from being come true so I'll be happy to get help from anyone who can - in order to build such a plugin for xbmc.
I Love MediaPortal but maybe it's time to stop & think - what is the purpose of MediaPortal when there is much faster, stable, richer and easy to use opensource project for windows as XBMC? XBMC can also run on Linux, Mac and of course X-BOX. MP can never compete with that.
currently MediaPortal I & MP TV Server are working great & very stable.
meanwhile, another software arrived to Windows platform, and it seems to be very powerfull and it has a very rich set of plugins & scripts.
it called XBMC for windows.
I tested it and its working great!
it can do anything that media center software should do.
the animations are great, the configuration is easy and everything is being done with the gui. no external configuration or changing files are required.
The only thing that it don't have is the TV support.
Here's my dream:
MP developers will abandon the MPII project and join the "XBMC for windows" project.
they will create a plugin that will be able communicate with the MP TV Server.
and will continue improving and writing plugins for the XBMC & MP TV Server
and then everybody will live happily ever after.
I Know this dream is far from being come true so I'll be happy to get help from anyone who can - in order to build such a plugin for xbmc.
I Love MediaPortal but maybe it's time to stop & think - what is the purpose of MediaPortal when there is much faster, stable, richer and easy to use opensource project for windows as XBMC? XBMC can also run on Linux, Mac and of course X-BOX. MP can never compete with that.