• 0003047: [general] GUITextureManager deadlock
• 0002983: [TV-Server] Case sensitive SQL installations fail with an exception
• 0003040: [My Videos] very slow browsing speed in shared folders which contain many files
• 0002989: [Radio Guide] when scrolling down in “channeldetail view”, the day does not change
• 0003003: [My Music] Improved speed of Music Database Scan
• 0002973: [My Weather] in Blue3Wide, weather text overlaps the weather icon
• 0002991: MPTray.exe locks the MPTray.log file
• 0002994: [WatchDog] Unable to browse to set folder with watchdog due to invalid characters in filename
• 0002992: [general] MediaInfo: delay on AVI with AC3 codec introduced after v0.7.26
• 0002969: [general] MiniDisplay: MatrixOrbital driver locks DVD/CD tray
• 0002981: [general] Memory left indication is wrong when PC has more than 2GB RAM
• 0002980: [Installer] Sometimes font installation fails
• 0002984: [Installer] Crash with filenames containing special characters (ascii code > 127)

For a complete list of fixes and changes, check out the changelogs below.

• Changelog: MediaPortal
• Changelog: TV-Server
• Changelog: Installer – DeployTool

If you’re a MediaPortal user or just want to try it out head to team-mediaportal.com to download the latest version.

In a few weeks, we will start a MediaPortal 2 skinning contest where we will publish an exercise to create a skin which follows certain requirements. Everyone can participate. The best ideas will be used in MediaPortal 2 – maybe you can obtain a place in our skinning team? The main excercise will be to create a complete skin for the existing screens but you can also impress us by presenting good new UI concepts and even better skinning team leadership concepts for our project.

Although the overall purpose and outcome of the contest hasn’t been shared, wild guesses could be made that the winning skin could become a default skin for MediaPortal 2. Or, as they’ve alluded to, the winner could take a place on the skinning team. Discuss the skinning competition in the MediaPortal forums.

All the major hard work and long hours are over. While the sun was still down here in the U.S., Team MediaPortal announced the release of the final version of MediaPortal 1.1.0. We now are able to present you MediaPortal 1.1.0: the best release in our six year history says infinite.loop, proudly in their news post.

MediaPortal 1.1.0 Final introduces the following changes over MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC6:

• [general] Change logverbosity to “info” for the 1.1.0 final version (chemelli)
• [Skin Engine] Reinstate the skin version check for MP 1.1.0 and increase the skinversion in references.xml
• [general] Update MediaInfo to 0.7.34 (chemelli)

Head over to the MediaPortal’s post for installation notes and to download the latest and greatest MediaPortal release.

RC5 was planned to be the last Release Candidate for MediaPortal 1.1.0 final.

However, the fix of a major issue related to the detection of a timeshift buffer file being video or radio makes us believe that a big field test is required to ensure that 1.1.0 final will be the most stable release in MediaPortal´s six year history.

If all goes according to plan, then this “slide-in” RC6 release will not delay the final version of 1.1.0, which is planned for release around the 16th of July.

We need the help of our great community to ensure the fix does not cause any unwanted side effects.

RC6 is as close to the final release as it can get.

Changes since 1.1.0 RC5:

• 0002953: [fixed] Some TS files are wrongly detected as video/radio
• 0002883: [fixed] Pulse and Loop animations do not work because conditional animations do not work
• 0002950: [fixed] Video thumbnails are not being generated and do not display in RC5
• 0002802: [fixed] B3 skin does not show recorded TV thumbs in list views

Team MediaPortal has released MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC5 which they hope to be the final release candidate of MediaPortal 1.1.0. If no new, major issues are found the final version will be released in the upcoming weeks.

Here it is, the last Release Candidate for 1.1.0!

RC5 focuses on the last remaining, showstopper issues. If no new showstoppers are found in this release, then MediaPortal 1.1.0 final will follow in a few weeks.

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC4:

• [fixed] 0002936: MPC-HC subtitle engine is not working with MPC splitters
• [fixed] 0002919: Timeshift repeating on channel change
• [fixed] 0002940: Starting/stopping a current program recording gives an exception
• [fixed] 0002920: Scheduled recording could be inerrupted by epggrabber
• [fixed] 0002948: bug in MediaInfo.dll causes playback of ATSC recordings to fail
• Skin Designers should review the list of Skin Changes since 1.0.1 – while Plugin Developers should take a look at the newly created Code Changes page.
• There were some changes done since the last stable release which require Extensions (Skins and Plugins) to update, to be fully 1.1.0 RC5 compatible.

The team would like to thank everyone who submitted patches and great bug reports!

From the announcement:

We decided to release 1.1.0 RC4 earlier than planned, to give us more time to test a few changes we have done.

The most important fix is about the issue some users experienced where the installer was not able to stop the TV Service properly.
This resulted in the problem that the new version could not be installed and the TV-Server failed.
Important changes since 1.1.0 RC3:

• [fixed] IMDB grabber script was broken - use the “update grabber scripts” button in MediaPortal Configuration if you upgrade from a previous version of MP!
• [fixed] installation of TV-Server failed in a few cases because TV-Service could not be stopped
• [fixed] RSS plugin did not work
• [fixed] installation of an MediaPortal Extension might fail
• [fixed] Various tuning problems with DVB-T cards

Head over to team-mediaportal.com to read the full list of changes or download the latest version.

Source: MediaPortal

Team MediaPortal addresses 41 issues with MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC3. Most notable is their debug mode which lets users start MediaPortal in “safe mode” loading only the original plugins and skin provided with MediaPortal. This makes it easier for the user to troubleshoot and provide a clean log file in forums for support. Check out the other

Important changes since 1.1.0 RC2:

• [reworked] reporting bugs is now a lot easier
• [fixed] upgrade of Tv-Server can result in a crash
• [fixed] several issues which could prevent an upgrade or a clean installation
• [fixed] Stopping video playback can cause crash to desktop
• [fixed] several memory leaks
• [fixed] Animations using conditional visibility
• [fixed] MyVideos reloads the contents of a folder when stoping playback (which could cause that MP does not respond for quite a time)
• [fixed] last.fm lookup creates a lot of temp files which are not deleted
• [fixed] Some H264 recordings do not play
• [fixed] Pulse and Loop animations do not work
• [fixed] tvservice would sometimes hard crash when writing dx error to log
• [fixed] TeVii issues with graph building and very long tuning using diseqc
• [fixed] RTSP streaming doesn’t work after sleep, when re-init TVService is enabled
• [fixed] Unable to tune same ATSC channel/subchannel consecutively
• [fixed] stream interuptions/stuttering
• [fixed] Weekly schedules appear 1 (or more) day off in EPG when using SQLServer with certain regional settings

Check out the full list of changes in MediaPortal, TV-Server, DeployTool. If you’re an existing MediaPortal user or not go on and download it.. worth the try.

Source: MediaPortal