Description of Media Portal 1.0.0.0 RC2 Beta Software

Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...).All your movies will be stored in MediaPortal's video database.View your movies by actors, genres, year, title.Sort your movies by actors, genres, year, rating.Automatically retrieves video art & info from IMDB.Stacking/unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files.Internal DVD player with menu's (you can also use an external DVD player).On Screen Display (OSD) for: Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages.Resume from playback on next play.MediaPortal's roots lie in the XBox Media Center (XBMC) project which goal was to build a media center application for the Microsoft XBox gaming console. The founder of XBMC, Erwin BeckersThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (also known as Frodo) concluded early in the XBMC project that there were notable limitations to the xbox platform, mainly that it is unable to support TV cards. XBox Platform limitations like these would ultimately hinder the vision of a feature rich media center application. In February 2004, Erwin left the Xbox Media Center project to start a new project, now known as MediaPortal that would run on the Microsoft Windows platform. Initially existing code was re-used from the XBMC project but after several releases and innumerable feature enhancements there has been almost a complete re-design. Today, MediaPortal continues as an open source project, has a core team of developers and a growing community of over 10,000 registered users. In 2006 MediaPortal enters a new aera with the release of the TV server. For the first time users can now use multiple frontends for viewing & recording TV streamed from 1 or more TV servers.