Fans of MediaPortal will be pleased to see a pre-release of the next version of the open source Media Center system. Version 1.6.0 pre-release has an updated database engine (MySQL 5.6) which should improve stability, it has improved TV playback (including fixing stuttering issues with Freeview HD), new music visualisations and lots more. Since 1.5 Media Portal have dropped support for Windows XP but have added support for Windows 8.1

Pre-release builds are designed for testing and not on your main home system unless you are feeling brave!

More details and the download links on the Media Portal site.

Attached to this news you will find the Pre Release version of MediaPortal 1.6.0. Pre Releases are provided as a way for the community to test and give feedback on all the exciting things we have lined up for the next release. We allocate about one month for Pre Release testing. In that time we only do bug fixes… and then comes the final release!

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