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Skin Properties MediaPortal 1
This thread is intended for all active/ongoing Skin Designers to find out about the available skin properties in MP itself and in different plugins.The lists are currently up to date for MP Version 1.39, but may be subject to future changes.
All lists are sorted in alphabetical order, not by context (maybe changed later).
The "Skin Properties Team" (@CyberSimian, @High_Five and I) will work on giving you more information about the properties (e.g. coding examples) for a better understanding where and when these properties are used - so stay tuned
To look up the usage of the properties, you should use the respective skin files of DefaultWideHD as a reference (always maintained by High_Five and me)
To find out the logic behind the very important <visibility>-tags and string manipulations used in MP 1, just follow this Wiki link for the "Skin Logic Expressions":
Skin Logic Expressions
Skin functions and properties provide great flexibility to the skin designer, but sometimes simple property replacement is not enough. One such case is when you need to combine a property with a localized string. Skin expressions provide a way to calculate more complex operations based on skin...
With Ctrl+F you can search any property on this page
Table of contents for the various ‘Skin Properties’ categories in this thread:
- Standard Skin Properties Mediaportal 1 (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties TVSeries (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties Moving Pictures (Part 1) (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties Moving Pictures (Part 2) (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties OnlineVideos (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties Radiotime (TuneIn) (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties mvCentral (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties FanartHandler (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties Action IDs (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties Radiotime (TuneIn) (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties Trakt (@High_Five)
- Skin Properties Global Music Search (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties InfoService (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties LogoManager (@High_Five)
- Skin Properties SubCentral (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties MyLyrics (@catavolt)
- Skin Properties Clickfinder Program Guide (@High_Five)
Please note:
Some plugins have only very few skin properties and won´t be listed in this thread, so please refer to their XMLs in the DefaultWideHD folder.
These plugins are:
- APOD (APODPlugin.xml)
- Bing Image (BingImage.xml)
For your convenience, you may also download the attached ZIP file "Skin Properties.zip" with all the lists found in this thread in different text files
This thread was actualized on Friday, 02.10.2026:
- Added "Skin Properties Trakt" by @High_Five
- Attached new Skin Properties.zip with new file "Skin Properties Trakt.txt"
- Added "Skin Properties Global Music Search"
- Added "Skin Properties InfoService"
- Attached new Skin Properties.zip with new files "Skin Properties Global Music Search.txt" and "Skin Properties InfoService.txt"
- Added "Skin Properties LogoManager" by @High_Five
- Added "Skin Properties MyLyrics"
- Added "Skin Properties SubCentral"
- Attached new Skin Properties.zip with new files "Skin Properties LogoManager.txt", "Skin Properties MyLyrics.txt", and "Skin Properties SubCentral.txt"
- Added "Skin Properties Clickfinder Program Guide" by @High_Five
- Attached new Skin Properties.zip with new file "Skin Properties Clickfinder Program Guide.txt"
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