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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1247918" data-attributes="member: 109222">No it was a logical decision not to waste time on such things. This always can be done later, if all new and important things are finished and there still is any need for such. Aside this you definitely can play BD/DVD and ISO files in MP2 for sure. You also can use external player, if you want to. There are only a few tiny bits like the BD-J menu support that are not implemented.  This simply is not true. The development of MP1 is at it's limits. Many many new things are even not possible to achieve in MP1... The whole MP2 structure is far more flexible right from the beginning than MP1 ever will be...So the only thing you do with your HTPC is to watch BluRay? Ok, then it is possible that not too much things are important to you. The really incomplete and ugly series support in MP1 is a completely NoGo, if you like to watch series more than occasionally (just a single example)... The TVDB is so extremely limited, way to many series are not allowed or locked long before they are translated properly. Aside this it is totally unreliable. FYI, the TVDB is not reachable for me right now (as around 30% of all the times). It most likely will be back up in some minutes but nevertheless this is a pain in the a...  Depending on TVDB solely for the whole series part is in- acceptable and a complete showstopper. MP2 offers five different data sources for series, incl important online source like themoviedb or fanart.tv and local .nfo and fanart of course...  In MP1 you are stuck with TVDB only. The TVSeries plugin is simply a local clone of the TVDB. You can't do nothing without TVDB there... Since more than 10 years many, many people are asking for .nfo support over and over again to become independent from TVDB at least a little bit. I'm one of them the earlier days. What happens, nothing... TVSeries is the only known HTPC "module" that did not support at least one alternative to the main data source (TVDB in this case).Aside this MP2 can handle multiple episodes in one file and multiple files for a single episode. Especially the first one should be important for you too, Imagine all the BD/DVD or ISO with 4, 5 or even more episodes on one disk. It's impossible to manage them in TVSeries (limited to 2 episodes in one file) but a piece of cake in MP2 (un-limited episodes in one file)...Indeed TVSeries plugin was the first and most important reason for me to leave MP1 as soon as the series support was included in MP2... If MP2 wouldn't be there that time I definitely would have leaved MP completely and switched over to a different HTPC tool as I couldn't stand TVSeries plugin any longer...</blockquote>

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