How did you find Media Portal? (1 Viewer)

[Anonymous]

I have found MP on the sourceforge's website , searching for "multimedia"
and I found this cooooooooooolllllll software there !

same thing here

 

[Anonymous]

i was using xbmc (i still am), and read the post where Mario and Frodo decided to port xmbc to the pc

i think the funniest thing is that before media portal development started frodo was always asking why anyone would want xbmc on the pc *g*

 

[MrMario64]

i was using xbmc (i still am), and read the post where Mario and Frodo decided to port xmbc to the pc

i think the funniest thing is that before media portal development started frodo was always asking why anyone would want xbmc on the pc *g*

yeah, just for laughs....
Frodo posts regarding xbmc on PC )))

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Its not 2 hard to port XBMC to windows (xp)
I guess it could be done withing lets say 1-2 weeks
However why do this?
there are already very good alternatives for the pc like:

- showshifter
- MyHTPC
- windows media center 2004
- freevo (linux)
- MythTV (linux)

and prolly a lot more i dont know off...
Frodo

------2------
Actually
it makes more sense 2 port it to longhorn
Creating an app similar to XBMC in Longhorn with C# and XAML would be soooo easy

Much easier then doing the same stuff on XP
Frodo
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hehehehehehehe......

 

[mama]

I searched for an alternative to myHTPC in sourceforge, found a lot of never ended and continued projects and got stuck here. And if MP at least will run on my PC, I´ll be really glad and kickk myHTPC!

 

[Anonymous]

Porting to PC? 1-2 weeks huh???
Did someone make a slight miscalculation?
Or was that just ever-optimistic programmer-speak?

Looks like its turning into a monster!! :lol:
Still, opensource so I aint complaining.... the longer we develop it, the better the program becomes for everyone!

I found MediaPortal via SourceForge.net, I tend to look for things there first as a lot of programs are open-source and do just as good a job as commercial versions. (e.g look at openoffice.org! )

 

[Anonymous]

well, actually the porting itself didn't take very long as i remember, it's just that xbmc was only the base of what mediaportal has become

like for example the tv module wasn't even existent in the xbox version...

 

[Anonymous]

starting to get really pissed by TVCentral <grin>, I started googling for "htpc open source", found a lot of no-no-software and finally found my new home here with you guys.....

So "mentioned in a forum" is the closest match!

Cheers!

Daniel

I hadn't tried tvcentral, but found it googling for opensource htpc

 

[Jay_74]

Hi,
first post for me
I discovered MP from another forum (AVS forum) and this is the first (and maybe the only one) forum that I registred into... nice work !

 

[Frodo]

Porting to PC? 1-2 weeks huh???
Did someone make a slight miscalculation?
Or was that just ever-optimistic programmer-speak?

Nop, but instead of porting we re-wrote it from scratch
XBMC is written in C++, Mediaportal in C#
XBMC uses mplayer, Mediaportal uses DirectShow/WMP10
etc etc
so its not a port and therefore takes much more time
But (i think) the endresult is much better

Frodo

 

[Anonymous]

Hi,
first post for me
I discovered MP from another forum (AVS forum) and this is the first (and maybe the only one) forum that I registred into... nice work !

Welcome, you picked the right place to register