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<blockquote data-quote="rkooten" data-source="post: 641069" data-attributes="member: 81039">Same here! MP is superior thanks to its extensibility and tweakability. That said, as soon as XBMC or similar product would have the same feature-set I would switch immediately. I like MediaPortal but it has issues that would cause me to switch if there was a decent alternative.I'm back at skinning and that's when you really notice that the code most probably includes many hacks and shortcuts. It's inconsistent at best (sometimes an id/control has a hardcoded action or hyperlink attached to it, sometimes it hasn't, sometimes an id/control is required even if there's no use for its functionality, etc...).It's not something the developers can do much about. They basically inherited a broken product and it is amazing how much they have been able to fix after they took over... so kudos for that! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />To be honest, I hope they drop MP1.x development asap (although some of the features planned for MP1.2 are much appreciated (spin+checkbutton, tableLayout, yes!) and start working on MP2 which seems to have a much better architecture and philosophy. I hope they play around with XBMC and experience its responsiveness before they really get into development mode!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rkooten, post: 641069, member: 81039"] Same here! MP is superior thanks to its extensibility and tweakability. That said, as soon as XBMC or similar product would have the same feature-set I would switch immediately. I like MediaPortal but it has issues that would cause me to switch if there was a decent alternative. I'm back at skinning and that's when you really notice that the code most probably includes many hacks and shortcuts. It's inconsistent at best (sometimes an id/control has a hardcoded action or hyperlink attached to it, sometimes it hasn't, sometimes an id/control is required even if there's no use for its functionality, etc...). It's not something the developers can do much about. They basically inherited a broken product and it is amazing how much they have been able to fix after they took over... so kudos for that! :) To be honest, I hope they drop MP1.x development asap (although some of the features planned for MP1.2 are much appreciated (spin+checkbutton, tableLayout, yes!) and start working on MP2 which seems to have a much better architecture and philosophy. I hope they play around with XBMC and experience its responsiveness before they really get into development mode! [/QUOTE]

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