Hello!
Ive been a Windows Media Centre user for some time and have always appreciated the ability to customise a HTPC...etc. Anyway to cut a long story short, WMC would not do what I wanted it to.
I have a rack mounted HTPC in my loft feeding my lounge TV and when the time came (a few months ago) to installing a client in the loft for my bedroom TV I ran into a load of hassle using MCE as basically...it wont do what I wanted it to.
One night 2 weeks ago I re-installed windows and had a play with mediaportal. I must say im impressed. Ive done a bit of reading and had a play with a few plugins and got most things up and running. I have 8 satellite feeds and 4 freeview feeds into my server along with a load of movies and TV series. Ive used the Titan skin (which I think works well) and have MP TV series plugin installed and a few others. Ive also setup my client and seems to be working nicely. Hoping to get it wired tonight and start testing it.
Anyway was hoping for some advice on the following...
1) Using EPG collector and XMLTV plugin when EPG is grabbed and loaded into mediaportal I get a beautiful full guide listed EPG...however my EPG colours disappear. Ive had a brief play but cant seem to get it working? I quite like having a coloured EPG. EPG collector can also grab fan art and display it in the MCE guide (which I like)...is there any way of doing this with mediaportal?
2) Ive seen the 'online videos' plugin which ive had working, however is there any way to get Netflix as a plugin as im a big fan of the service?
3) I downloaded the 'UK TV Logos pack' and my EPG shows all channel logo's (which is great) but when I go into 'Radio' I get a nice list but no logos. Also is there anyway to default the radio menu to display radio shows as EPG view like for TV other than 'list' or 'large icons'?
4) I said earlier im running 8 satellite feeds and 4 freeview (UK) as a TV server but have no MB space to add anymore. Can clients be setup with tuners installed so they can all share tuners on a network?
5) Im a big fan of 'Media Center Master' and have a huge collection of fan art for all my movies and TV series. Ive read that media center master does not support mediaportal as the formats are different? Is this true?...The reason I ask is im using mediaportal fan art plugin and updating my movies, but fanart is missing (however there is loads of fanart located in my movie directory as background.pjpg, folder.jpg etc).
Thanks for any help.
Ive been a Windows Media Centre user for some time and have always appreciated the ability to customise a HTPC...etc. Anyway to cut a long story short, WMC would not do what I wanted it to.
I have a rack mounted HTPC in my loft feeding my lounge TV and when the time came (a few months ago) to installing a client in the loft for my bedroom TV I ran into a load of hassle using MCE as basically...it wont do what I wanted it to.
One night 2 weeks ago I re-installed windows and had a play with mediaportal. I must say im impressed. Ive done a bit of reading and had a play with a few plugins and got most things up and running. I have 8 satellite feeds and 4 freeview feeds into my server along with a load of movies and TV series. Ive used the Titan skin (which I think works well) and have MP TV series plugin installed and a few others. Ive also setup my client and seems to be working nicely. Hoping to get it wired tonight and start testing it.
Anyway was hoping for some advice on the following...
1) Using EPG collector and XMLTV plugin when EPG is grabbed and loaded into mediaportal I get a beautiful full guide listed EPG...however my EPG colours disappear. Ive had a brief play but cant seem to get it working? I quite like having a coloured EPG. EPG collector can also grab fan art and display it in the MCE guide (which I like)...is there any way of doing this with mediaportal?
2) Ive seen the 'online videos' plugin which ive had working, however is there any way to get Netflix as a plugin as im a big fan of the service?
3) I downloaded the 'UK TV Logos pack' and my EPG shows all channel logo's (which is great) but when I go into 'Radio' I get a nice list but no logos. Also is there anyway to default the radio menu to display radio shows as EPG view like for TV other than 'list' or 'large icons'?
4) I said earlier im running 8 satellite feeds and 4 freeview (UK) as a TV server but have no MB space to add anymore. Can clients be setup with tuners installed so they can all share tuners on a network?
5) Im a big fan of 'Media Center Master' and have a huge collection of fan art for all my movies and TV series. Ive read that media center master does not support mediaportal as the formats are different? Is this true?...The reason I ask is im using mediaportal fan art plugin and updating my movies, but fanart is missing (however there is loads of fanart located in my movie directory as background.pjpg, folder.jpg etc).
Thanks for any help.
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