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<blockquote data-quote="morpheus_xx" data-source="post: 882149" data-attributes="member: 48495"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><u><strong>The Summer is getting hot - MP2 Alpha 1 Summer Release is there !</strong></u></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">The development of MediaPortal 2 made a good progress! On our way to the 2nd Alpha Release we created many new features, made important changes, added localization and much more. A big "thank you" to all who helped to achieve this!</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">With so many changes we thought it would be a good time to release an interim build for users to test. We like to get a much feedback as possible about this build, to help build a very good 2nd Alpha!</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p><u><strong>Main new features overview:</strong></u></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New inbuilt Series/Movies feature!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Centralized fanart support, distributed by MP2-Server using UPnP!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Localization in many different languages, thanks to all translators @ transifex!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New features for VideoPlayer (i.e. chapters and titles support)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many bugfixes, enhancements and usability improvements</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Improvements on Reflexion and default skin</li> </ul><p><strong><u>Important changes:</u></strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Complete switch to .net4 framework</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">SlimTv: Tv4HomeProvider is now unsupported and got removed. It's replaced by MpExtendedProvider which has much more features</li> </ul><p>Some words about...</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><u><strong>Series and Movies feature</strong></u></span></p><p> </p><p>MP2 is now able to detect Series episodes and Movies from different sources:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reading title, production year, season number, episode number, episode title from MP1 TvServer recording's .xml file</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reading title, production year, season number, episode number, episode title from matroska tags</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Extracting season number, episode number, episode title from folder/file names (using regular expressions)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Online lookup<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">for Series from TheTvDB.com, downloading of cover, poster, fanart</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">for Movies from TheMovieDB.org, downloading of cover, poster, fanart</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">download of information in language based on the MP2 language setting(!)</li> </ul></li> </ul><p><u>There are already more features planned, like:</u></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">supporting more online sources,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">adding online lookup for Music/Artists,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">making list of regular expressions for series lookup user extensible</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">better language selection for downloading online information, based on audio streams of video...</li> </ul><p>You can see some screenshots and the development history of this feature in <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/new-series-and-movie-support-for-mp2-medialibrary-2012-07-01.106960/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/t...pport-for-mp2-medialibrary-2012-07-01.106960/</a>. Enjoy!</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><u><strong>Localization</strong></u></span></p><p> </p><p>With moving to the online translation platform Transifex (<a href="https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/MP2/" target="_blank">https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/MP2/</a>) we received a great support by many volunteers. Translations were done for many languages in quite a short time. Thank you all!</p><p> </p><p>With so many new languages supported, this will probably bring more requirements to our SkinEngine (like right-to-left support) and to the chosen fonts in skin, because they need to contain much more unicode characters than before.</p><p> </p><p>So if you don't see all texts in your language yet, please test different Skins (Default, Rising Skin, Reflexion), or change back the MP2 regional setting to "English".</p><p> </p><p><u><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Further information & support</span></strong></u></p><p> </p><p>If you are looking for further information please check out <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_MEDIAPORTAL_2" target="_blank">MediaPortal 2 wiki</a> first. We are heavily working to improve it.</p><p>If you don't find an answer there create a new thread in <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/forums/general.529/" target="_blank">MediaPortal 2 forums</a>.</p><p>If you found a bug, please check <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_all_bug_page.php" target="_blank">Mantis </a>& <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/forums/submit-bug-reports.532/" target="_blank">bug report forums</a> first. If it has not been reported already, create a new thread.</p><p> </p><p><u><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Requirements</span></strong></u></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><span style="color: #222222">Before installing MediaPortal 2, you need to make sure all <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_MEDIAPORTAL_2/FAQ#Requirements" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024282">requirements</span></a> are installed.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><u><strong>Detailed list of changes from mantis:</strong></u></p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3858" target="_blank">0003858</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> Synchronise the OS requirements within dokan installer and MP2 (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=124" target="_blank">chefkoch</a>) - resolved.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3880" target="_blank">0003880</a>: <strong>[skinengine]</strong> Update SlimDx assembly to January 2012 (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3891" target="_blank">0003891</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> Update all MP2 projects to .NET framework 4 (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3912" target="_blank">0003912</a>: <strong>[skinengine]</strong> Disabled controls prevent moving focus with keyboard (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=145" target="_blank">Albert78</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3821" target="_blank">0003821</a>: <strong>[Videos]</strong> Add title and chapter support to VideoPlayer (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3812" target="_blank">0003812</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> Database size limit reached, connection string "max database size" is never used (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=145" target="_blank">Albert78</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3844" target="_blank">0003844</a>: <strong>[skinengine]</strong> Default fonts have serious issues with unicode characters (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3814" target="_blank">0003814</a>: <strong>[Videos]</strong> Video skip steps not consistent (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3820" target="_blank">0003820</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> Extend Metadata definitions and skin support (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3845" target="_blank">0003845</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> Starting MP2-Server using parameter -d, still creates files in ProgramData directory (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3841" target="_blank">0003841</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> MP-Client crashes when an invalid language file was found (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3815" target="_blank">0003815</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> Setup does not grant the "Everyone" group to fullcontrol access on the folder ProgramData\Team Mediaportal (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=124" target="_blank">chefkoch</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3834" target="_blank">0003834</a>: <strong>[General]</strong> Dokan opens an explorer window at the end of the installation (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=124" target="_blank">chefkoch</a>) - closed.</p><p>- <a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3822" target="_blank">0003822</a>: <strong>[skinengine]</strong> Implement Effects support in SkinEngine (<a href="http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173" target="_blank">morpheus_xx</a>) - closed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="morpheus_xx, post: 882149, member: 48495"] [CENTER][SIZE=5][U][B]The Summer is getting hot - MP2 Alpha 1 Summer Release is there ![/B][/U][/SIZE][/CENTER] [LEFT] [/LEFT] [LEFT] [/LEFT] [LEFT]The development of MediaPortal 2 made a good progress! On our way to the 2nd Alpha Release we created many new features, made important changes, added localization and much more. A big "thank you" to all who helped to achieve this![/LEFT] [LEFT] [/LEFT] [LEFT]With so many changes we thought it would be a good time to release an interim build for users to test. We like to get a much feedback as possible about this build, to help build a very good 2nd Alpha![/LEFT] [LEFT] [/LEFT] [U][B]Main new features overview:[/B][/U] [LIST] [*]New inbuilt Series/Movies feature! [*]Centralized fanart support, distributed by MP2-Server using UPnP! [*]Localization in many different languages, thanks to all translators @ transifex! [*]New features for VideoPlayer (i.e. chapters and titles support) [*]Many bugfixes, enhancements and usability improvements [*]Improvements on Reflexion and default skin [/LIST] [B][U]Important changes:[/U][/B] [LIST] [*]Complete switch to .net4 framework [*]SlimTv: Tv4HomeProvider is now unsupported and got removed. It's replaced by MpExtendedProvider which has much more features [/LIST] Some words about... [SIZE=5][U][B]Series and Movies feature[/B][/U][/SIZE] MP2 is now able to detect Series episodes and Movies from different sources: [LIST] [*]Reading title, production year, season number, episode number, episode title from MP1 TvServer recording's .xml file [*]Reading title, production year, season number, episode number, episode title from matroska tags [*]Extracting season number, episode number, episode title from folder/file names (using regular expressions) [*]Online lookup [LIST] [*]for Series from TheTvDB.com, downloading of cover, poster, fanart [*]for Movies from TheMovieDB.org, downloading of cover, poster, fanart [*]download of information in language based on the MP2 language setting(!) [/LIST] [/LIST] [U]There are already more features planned, like:[/U] [LIST] [*]supporting more online sources, [*]adding online lookup for Music/Artists, [*]making list of regular expressions for series lookup user extensible [*]better language selection for downloading online information, based on audio streams of video... [/LIST] You can see some screenshots and the development history of this feature in [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/new-series-and-movie-support-for-mp2-medialibrary-2012-07-01.106960/']https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/t...pport-for-mp2-medialibrary-2012-07-01.106960/[/URL]. Enjoy! [SIZE=5][U][B]Localization[/B][/U][/SIZE] With moving to the online translation platform Transifex ([url]https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/MP2/[/url]) we received a great support by many volunteers. Translations were done for many languages in quite a short time. Thank you all! With so many new languages supported, this will probably bring more requirements to our SkinEngine (like right-to-left support) and to the chosen fonts in skin, because they need to contain much more unicode characters than before. So if you don't see all texts in your language yet, please test different Skins (Default, Rising Skin, Reflexion), or change back the MP2 regional setting to "English". [U][B][SIZE=5]Further information & support[/SIZE][/B][/U] If you are looking for further information please check out [URL='http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_MEDIAPORTAL_2']MediaPortal 2 wiki[/URL] first. We are heavily working to improve it. If you don't find an answer there create a new thread in [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/forums/general.529/']MediaPortal 2 forums[/URL]. If you found a bug, please check [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_all_bug_page.php']Mantis [/URL]& [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/forums/submit-bug-reports.532/']bug report forums[/URL] first. If it has not been reported already, create a new thread. [U][B][SIZE=5]Requirements[/SIZE][/B][/U] [SIZE=13px][COLOR=#222222]Before installing MediaPortal 2, you need to make sure all [URL='http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_MEDIAPORTAL_2/FAQ#Requirements'][COLOR=#024282]requirements[/COLOR][/URL] are installed.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [U][B]Detailed list of changes from mantis:[/B][/U] - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3858']0003858[/URL]: [B][General][/B] Synchronise the OS requirements within dokan installer and MP2 ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=124']chefkoch[/URL]) - resolved. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3880']0003880[/URL]: [B][skinengine][/B] Update SlimDx assembly to January 2012 ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3891']0003891[/URL]: [B][General][/B] Update all MP2 projects to .NET framework 4 ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3912']0003912[/URL]: [B][skinengine][/B] Disabled controls prevent moving focus with keyboard ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=145']Albert78[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3821']0003821[/URL]: [B][Videos][/B] Add title and chapter support to VideoPlayer ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3812']0003812[/URL]: [B][General][/B] Database size limit reached, connection string "max database size" is never used ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=145']Albert78[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3844']0003844[/URL]: [B][skinengine][/B] Default fonts have serious issues with unicode characters ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3814']0003814[/URL]: [B][Videos][/B] Video skip steps not consistent ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3820']0003820[/URL]: [B][General][/B] Extend Metadata definitions and skin support ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3845']0003845[/URL]: [B][General][/B] Starting MP2-Server using parameter -d, still creates files in ProgramData directory ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3841']0003841[/URL]: [B][General][/B] MP-Client crashes when an invalid language file was found ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3815']0003815[/URL]: [B][General][/B] Setup does not grant the "Everyone" group to fullcontrol access on the folder ProgramData\Team Mediaportal ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=124']chefkoch[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3834']0003834[/URL]: [B][General][/B] Dokan opens an explorer window at the end of the installation ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=124']chefkoch[/URL]) - closed. - [URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3822']0003822[/URL]: [B][skinengine][/B] Implement Effects support in SkinEngine ([URL='http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view_user_page.php?id=173']morpheus_xx[/URL]) - closed. 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