MediaPortal II Infinity Technology Preview

4.0 out of 5 stars 4.0 (11 votes)

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Windows Vista/XP / Open Source / 2,324 downloads

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.

MediaPortal II is a total re-write of the core application and plugin system. A new core framework allows all parts of the system to be easily replaced or updated, with very little effort and minimal effect to the overall system. Another major new feature is the new GUI and skin system. After trying WPF & XAML, and finding it was not possible to do many of the things we wanted. We returned to DirectX, and developed a new system from the ground up.

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  1. 2 out of 5 stars
    vincent326

    Reviewing Technology Preview (Dec 28, 2007)

    I cannot play anything with it on my laptop, so disappointed!

  2. 2 out of 5 stars
    at80

    Reviewing Technology Preview (Dec 20, 2007)

    The regular MediaPortal is FANTASTIC!!! It kicks the pants off every other media-centre (including Microsoft). Unfortunately MediaPortal II Infinity is very much a work in progress and at least on my system crawls at a snails pace and lacks so much compared to its lineage. Until a lot more work is done, don't waste your time!

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Budgie29

    Reviewing Technology Preview (Dec 18, 2007)

    his is impressive
    GUI is very clean I know it’s just like M$
    But for open source software this is absolutely fanstastic.brillant

    I would have expected to have to pay ££ for this
    What would be the ultimate is to have support for external media players...given this is a preview and not even a beta they will ahve along way to go to impress me given what they have shown what they ca do ... only snag is its resorse hungry .. But I have not knocked them for it

    Keep up the good work lads and let’s show how freeware/open source software can rock

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