MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more.
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I'm always a couple days ahead. Someone e-mailed OpenSourceWindows.org and suggested this a couple days ago, it's pretty neat.
But I was surfing the web a little and it looks like it needs .net framework, not sure...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
I downloaded an played around with this. Definitely needed .NET framework. Additionally, the PC you are plugging your drive into would need one of the supported hardware cards installed in it.
Which version of .NET is required? And what hardware would it need? I don't understand why it would need specific hardware.
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
From their website : Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 with SP1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2
In order to get the TV aspect you will need a video capture card - more specifically a card that it supported by the application.
Here's the rest of the system/hardware requirements:
Operating System:
Windows XP SP2: With WindowsXP you are able to use MediaPortal with one DVB TVCard or multiple Analog TVCards.
Windows MCE 2005 RU2: With Windows MCE you are able to use MediaPortal with more than 1 DVB TV Card!
Install SP2 and all WindowsUpdates
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 with SP1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2
DirectX 9.0c
Windows Media Player 10
WindowsXP SP2 Hotfix for DVB
Windows SP2 Hotfix for 1394 (Firewire)
Hardware Requirements:
CPU: 1.4 GHz or higher / 2.8 Ghz for analog software tv-cards
Memory: 256MB RAM
Harddisk: ~200 MB for MediaPortal
VGA: DX9 compatible videocard with at least 64MB of video memory
TV-Cards: See the following page for the latest supported TV cards
I'm not too worried about the TV part, even tho my computer meets those requirements. My computer has:
Windows XP MCE SP2
4096MB DDR2 Memory
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
But this is about Apps that can be use by average joe, that means everyone, not only you and me...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Yes but how many people could use all of the other features of the application besides the TV aspect. If someone can't use the TV feature, they can still use the majority of the features listed at this site: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/features.html]
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
very good what's your point (I'm not a natural English speaker but Spanish)... but if all that you want is Portable Internet TV, the best option out there is
JLC's Internet TV, just download the exe and extract using Universal Extractor.
The rest of the features I think that can be achieved using a combination of VLC, and some other portable Apps around here.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
What I want is a portable Media Center, not just TV. If I wanted just TV then I would have searched for one that did just TV and not all the other stuff.
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
Bah, Im on Windows 2000 Pro. The only thing I cannot have is Windows Mediaplayer 10 (9 is max
A real open source solution would not need Windows Media Player
I fell sorry for you.. keep fighting that good fight. (hey at least it's not windows 98)