Vrijdag is versie 1.01 van MediaPortal uitgebracht. Met dit programma kan een Windows-machine als het hart van de multimediahardware in de huiskamer worden gebruikt. Zo kan er op een eenvoudige manier naar radio en muziek worden geluisterd, naar video's en dvd's worden gekeken en kunnen tv-programma's worden opgenomen. Door middel van plugins en extensies kan de functionaliteit worden uitgebreid en de 'look & feel' van het programma worden aangepast.
Versie 1.01 bevat diverse aanpassingen die met name de bruikbaarheid en stabiliteit van MediaPortal en de TV-Server ten goede moeten komen. Verder is het nu ook voor het eerst mogelijk om het programma te updaten naar een nieuwere versie, zonder dat hierbij de huidige instellingen verloren gaan. Het enige wat hiervoor gedaan hoeft te worden, is het installatiebestand te starten en voor 'update' te kiezen. Hieronder zijn de release notes van deze uitgave te vinden:
TV guide:
- Improvements concerning the speed of the TV guide
- New group button which allows switching between TV channel groups more easily
TV-Server:
- Support for analog TV cards has been improved a lot, TV experience should be much smoother now
Performance:
- Animations of default skin feel a lot snappier
- Scrolling text is displayed smoother
- Subfolder navigation is much faster in certain circumstances
- Pictures plugin is more responsive during DB additions
- Better handling of network shares
- Faster channel zapping
Better error handling:
- Users will receive an error message when video files don't play due to missing codecs
- GPU recovery in Windows Vista will no longer hang the system
- Better handling of system wake-ups from standby
Configuration:
- Configuration now remembers the removal of optical drives
- Support for the DVD Navigator of PowerDVD 8
- The previous limit of 20 shares was increased to 128
Various others:
- The Refreshrate Changer is now integrated into MP
- Recordings can now be imported even if the channel does no longer exist
- Better handling of skin changes from within the MP GUI
- Subtitles can now be enabled / disabled from the GUI
- Integrate non-linear (smart) stretching of 4:3->16:9
- Automatic start of the TVService if necessary
And much more…
Installation notes:Please be aware that the update function only works on MediaPortal 1.0.0 release installations. If you have a SVN build installed you will have to do a clean installation. If you want to keep your current settings then please take a look at the related wiki article.
If you have community skins or plugins installed then you should update them to the latest version as well or you will encounter issues.
As many systems might not need a reboot we do not enforce it. Nevertheless we heavily recommend to reboot your computer after the installation / update has completed to avoid any issues.
What happens next?
While we are slowly but surely shifting our attention to MediaPortal 2 we are already working on MediaPortal 1.0.2.
If you want to keep an eye on its development you should monitor the roadmaps of MediaPortal and the TV-Server.
Changelogs and Roadmaps:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.0.1 final
Changelog: TV-Server 1.0.1 final
Changelog: DeployTool 1.0.1 finalSkinchanges between MediaPortal 1.0.0 and 1.0.1
Roadmap: MediaPortal 1.0.2
Roadmap: TV-Server 1.0.2
Roadmap: DeployTool 1.0.2
