MediaPortal turns your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center. Our software allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations; watch and store your videos and DVDs; view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder; and much, much more. MediaPortal is open source software. This means you can help develop MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovative plugins from our great community.
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After my last Blog, several users posted comments (thank you all) asking about our Repository or Downloads page and how it could be improved. As many of you know, we have tried for almost two years to find a web developer to improve it. Although several offered, they all left us, with nothing usable. So, about a year ago Infinityloop posted in the user Forums asking for feedback: The future of MPI - we need your opinion! The idea was to develop an alternate, consistent method to install and update skins and plugins.
It was a very hot topic! The result was, that now, one of our genius developers, Dukus, has written a whole new Extensions Installer from scratch, incorporating the feedback which users and community developers provided. Dukus is already well known for his many excellent plugins like Youtube.fm, Radiotime, MTV MusicVideos and Yahoo MusicVideos (he likes music ). A lot of testing has already been done, as you can see in this forum post Extension Installer V2.
If you want to find out the new, easy way to install and auto update plugins and skins, read on! Yes, you heard me, I said 'auto update'. You can even choose only the plugins and skins that support your version of MediaPortal. Impressed? You should be!
Here is The Inside Scoop Vol 1-2 with Duka aka Dukus:
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Our developer Dukus is currently reworking the MediaPortal
Extensions Installer (MPEI) for the upcoming MediaPortal 1.1.0 release.
The reason for this rework is simple. The MPEI (a fast and very easy way to install skins, plugins and other extensions) is simply not used by the majority of community skin designers and plugin developers.
Now
Dukus is recreating MPEI from scratch to make it more powerful and flexible. This will allow everyone
to create even "complex" installation packages with ease.
But to achieve that he needs your comments and feedback.
If you want to help, then please have a look the new thread in our forums which Dukus created.
We are working hard to finish the first Release Candidate of MediaPortal 1.1.0.
Sadly we were not able to make it for our target release date in October, because there are currently a few major issues left, which turned out to be much harder to solve than expected (see roadmaps for details).
As soon as these problems are resolved, we will release MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1.
With a feature freeze starting on the 1st of October,
MediaPortal 1.1.0 will enter the final stage of development.
Starting with that date, the team will stop adding new features to the code and focus on fixing yet unresolved, non risky bugs.
For October we plan to publish a first release candidate,
the final release of 1.1.0 is still targeted for December 2009.
A new Skineditor
For a few weeks NoBugS, a member of our community, has been working on a new SkinEditor for MediaPortal 1. Although his application is in an early stage of development, it already looks very promising.
What he needs is the feedback of our Community Developers, so that he can provide them with the tool they need.
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