MediaPortal is a .net based Windows Media Center alternative, which supports music, video pictures and TV. The MediaPortal team have updated the app to version 1.22 and it includes a number of fixes and improvements to the TV features.

The server is free and a 10 foot media center like user interface. You can download the server from team-mediaportal.com and here are the release notes:

Highlights of this release (relative to 1.21 Final release):

Bugfixes:

We fixed an issue with Intel HDMI audio

We fixed an issue with sound volume control and OSD on Windows 7

We fixed an issue with errors in displayed file timestamps

We fixed an issue with the Windows Update date checking

We fixed an installer issue with Visual C++ 2008 SP1 version checking

Since 1.22 Pre-release:

We fixed an issue with scrolling text across the TV recording ‘red button’ icon in the Default Wide HD skin

We removed the Windows Update date checking

We fixed some problems with the IMDB grabber

New and Improved:

We added new and improved functions in the following areas:

Merged HD-PVR support patches into TV Server

Merged TBS tuner support patches into TV Server

Merged DigitalDevices Dynamic PMT patch into TV Server

Merged DisEqC motor delay support patches into TV Server

TV Server tuner allocation updated to improve handling of per-tuner CAM availability

TV Server record start/stop control synchronised to the system clock to improve accuracy

Default Wide HD skin updates

Remove warnings for supported Windows Server OS

Add support for HTTPS (SSL/TLS) web downloads in MP Extension Manager and other places

Increased the number of supported fonts in the skin engine.

Add string.replace function to skin engine

Add otherwise to include condition to skin engine

Add #TV.Record.Active (RedDot) property for skin use

Since 1.22 Pre-release:

We updated some TV tuning and EPG grabber data

We added https:// URL capability in some places

Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

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