[News] MediaPortal 2 Alpha 4 released - Christmas is coming early this year :) (2 Viewers)

[mhoogenbosch]

This MP2 seems cool with client, server, NAS and all!
But I guess that if I want to try it for real (server and several clients), I need to use the 'native' movie and series function (and not 'Moving Pictures' and 'My TVSeries').
As I have 1,859 Movies and 221 TV Shows with 4,370 Episodes I cannot just import them all from a share as I will loose all info about what I have seen.
So my question is, what is the best way to convert or export/import the databases from 'Moving Pictures' and 'My TVSeries' to the native movie and series function?
(And can I still use IMDB+ with the native movie function? I guess not as I am pretty sure it is made for Moving Pictures.)

Use Trakt.tv plugin, thats so great! I always had exactly your problem, but when you create an account at trakt and configure the plugin, the site keeps track of what you have seen. So your database will always be up to date. Ofcourse i don't know if there is a trakt.tv plugin for MePo2 yet, but surely it will get avaliable one day. No more troubles with migrating

 

[Grudd]

Hi All,
First post here
I discovered Media Portal searching for a "Windows Media Center" replacement (you now must pay for it in Windows 8 / 8.1)
So i gave MP2 a try on my fresh Windows 8.1 Pro install
Unfortunately i got a black screen with a white square at startup... i looked at logs and saw that some dx9 .dll files were not found
--> Installing DirectX 9 solved the issue.

DirectX 9 is not part of Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 by default.
You may want to add a dependency in MP2 installer or advise user to install DX9 before.

Thanks a lot for your hard work

Cheers
Grudd

 

[mrj]

Hi Grudd
please read the installation instructions
first
Installation
Before installing MediaPortal 2 make sure all requirements are installed.
Then extract the downloaded .zip archive and simply run the .msi installer file. For screenshots or further details, refer to our Getting Started wiki.

and then

MediaPortal 2 specific requirements
MediaPortal 2 is developed to run on modern operating systems and supports only Windows 7 in both 32 and 64 bit versions. Older operating systems are not officially supported.
You need the most current DirectX 9 runtime installed, which you can download here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...ang=en&id=8109 (June 2010). This might be skipped on Windows 8.1, there should all DirectX libraries be available.

 

[Grudd]

Hi Mrj,
Yes i'm using Windows 8.1
And it has not to be skipped.
Rgds,
Grudd

 

[MJGraf]

@morpheus_xx @chefkoch can anyone of you remember who thought that this is not necessary for Win 8.1? If not we should delete that sentence in the wiki...

 

[morpheus_xx]

It was me I didn't have any addition DX runtime listed in "Programs", so I though it is completely contained. (And btw, the sentence was written in subjunctive )

I'll remove this part from wiki.