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.