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<blockquote data-quote="ziphnor" data-source="post: 233497" data-attributes="member: 14215">This is all very well, but most likely completely useless for at least 90% of our users. Im not sure i understand the big advantage of making Mediaportal 'portable' for general purposes. Most of the settings in mediaportal will be tied to one HTPC/location anyway (channel information and tuner drivers for example). Its much more likely that you want to bring the media (movies, picture and music) with you. I suppose it could be nice to bring all your music (if you can fit it on a DVD with BartPE and MP) along with the music database and playback software on a DVD to for example a party, but its still a rather special use scenario.I think the coolest use of this plugin would be to make 'presentation' DVD's allowing you to easily show off MP on someones HTPC without having to change their setup. A second cool idea, could be an install DVD that installed windows and Mediaportal along with any prereq's thus improving the installation experience greatly, but that would probably be a legal nightmare to achieve.I dont think anyone is preventing it (as i said i think its a nice idea), i just dont see why it should be included in the default install (which is bloated enough with plugins as it is).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ziphnor, post: 233497, member: 14215"] This is all very well, but most likely completely useless for at least 90% of our users. Im not sure i understand the big advantage of making Mediaportal 'portable' for general purposes. Most of the settings in mediaportal will be tied to one HTPC/location anyway (channel information and tuner drivers for example). Its much more likely that you want to bring the media (movies, picture and music) with you. I suppose it could be nice to bring all your music (if you can fit it on a DVD with BartPE and MP) along with the music database and playback software on a DVD to for example a party, but its still a rather special use scenario. I think the coolest use of this plugin would be to make 'presentation' DVD's allowing you to easily show off MP on someones HTPC without having to change their setup. A second cool idea, could be an install DVD that installed windows and Mediaportal along with any prereq's thus improving the installation experience greatly, but that would probably be a legal nightmare to achieve. I dont think anyone is preventing it (as i said i think its a nice idea), i just dont see why it should be included in the default install (which is bloated enough with plugins as it is). [/QUOTE]

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