MediaPortal the .net based media center system (which supports live and recorded TV and is a good Windows Media Center alternative) has a new pre-release available for testers.

The new version can now decode and display closes captions from TV channels that use H.264/AVC compressions (as well as the existing MPEG2 features). There are also bug fixes, gamepad support and some minor UI improvements.

Details and the download links at MediaPortal:

For users of Closed Caption subtitling, MP 1.12 Pre Release can now decode and display Closed Captions from TV channels using H.264/AVC video compression (in addition to the existing MPEG2 capability).

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