MediaPortal 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.

Features:
- Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins!
- MediaPortal can easily be extended with extra plugins
- You decide which keys you want to use for which actions
- Internal support for several remote control (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc, hauppauge, FireDTV)
- Windowed and fullscreen support
- Supports analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC
- HDTV and AC3 support
- Support for multiple tuners
- Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
- Advanced recording scheduler
- Timeshifting,Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV
- Advanced recording management
- TVGuide
- TV Guide search
- TV Channel grouping
- Supports over > 10000 channels
- Auto channel tuning
- Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv)
- Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV)
- Support for Teletext
- Standby control to put your HTPC sleeping. It will awake when there a recording needs to start
- 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 AudioStreams/Subtitle languages...
- Resume from playback on next play
- Watch your pictures/photos
- Slideshow support with nice transitions
- Zoom in/out, rotate pictures (rotation is remembered next time)
- Pause, previous/next picture
- Delete picture(s)
- Background music, either songs from my music, or radio from my radio
- Auto thumbnail generation
- Sort in Name, Date, Size
- View in List, Icon or Big Icon display
- Ken Burns effect slideshow
- Filmstrip view
- View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs
- Sort your music in many ways like tracks, genre, filesize, artists, album,...
- Use visualisations from Windows ?Media Player 10
- Load, create & save playlists (.m3u, .pls, .b4u)
- Automaticlly gets album art & info for all your albums
- Automaticlly gets artist art & info for all your artists
- View by list, icons, and big icons
- Shuffle, repeat, FF, RW, pause,...
- Music ratings
- Favorites
- Party shuffle mode
- Search music for specific songs
- Display all your favorite songs in one screen
- Utilize Winamp, Foobar or iTunes plugins for music playback
- Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, DVB or internet stream)
- Auto tuning (FM)
- Logo's for each radio station (manual process)
- Supply a friendly name for each radio station
- Internet radio station streaming (ASX or Shoutcast)
- Support for external radio tuner applications
- Auto start listening to your selected radio station when MediaPortal starts
- Show the latest weather information
- Support for multiple cities
- Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast
- Temperature (in degrees C/F)
- UV Index, Humity (%), Wind (mph/kph), etc
- Support for live images from internet