What tools do I need to customize media portal (1 Viewer)

[hothnem]

I just starting to us media portal and I want to add some customization to it. Like, delete, add or rename some of the links on the main interface. I would like to use my own external music player instead of the one built into media portal. I have some coding experience but not alot. Can anyone suggest where I can start and do I need any software to do any recoding of media portal. I've just been reading these forms for a while picking up a bits of pieces but I haven't found a really good post to get me started.

 

[wishywashy]

I don't know what level of experience you have but take a look at this link. It's a good place to start.

https://www.team-mediaportal.com/articles/howtos/how_to_write_a_plugin.html

 

[Nightmare77]

hothnem,
A lot of the things you can modify with the skin editor, you should be able to modify some of the names of things , like menu options in the xml files , with the music i don't think there is an option for external software like in the videos option however as wishy said you get right a plugin to run your music player instead. So for general layout and naming changes i would suggest the skin editor

 

[hothnem]

Thanks for the info
The skin editor is is just what I needed.

 

[CoolHammer]

some of the stuff you mentioned are configurable on Configure app.

CoolHammer