Today we want to commemorate one of our developers who has left us forever at the beginning of the year through his sudden death.

That's why we dedicate this MediaPortal release version to "regeszter" aka Attila, who spent a lot of time coding and with his innovative ideas made sure that you can enjoy a unique software - alone, with your family or with your friends.

Therefore we are pleased to announce the new version of MediaPortal named "MP 1.23 Final Release ". Thank you for your understanding.

Highlights of this release 

Bugfixes:

• [MP1-4967] - Increase timeout delay of AsyncDNSReverseLookup for fix the timeout problem.

New:

• [MP1-4777] - Use MP-MediaInfo package

Improvement / Rework:

We improved this functions :

• [MP1-4314] - Hardcoded labels in Titan
• [MP1-4842] - Remove extra skin files from Titan
• [MP1-4948] - Add Year thumb support to MyMusic
• [MP1-4950] - Fetch Actor details and thumbs when Movie updated
• [MP1-4951] - Add TMDB support to MP grabbers
• [MP1-4953] - Add #Actor.Movies.Progress property to GUIVideoArtistInfo
• [MP1-4955] - Add 3D and HDR mark to MyVideo
• [MP1-4958] - Inconsistent date display format in TV Guide
• [MP1-4959] - Enable user configuration of PowerScheduler active port monitoring
• [MP1-4960] - Update Titan skin
• [MP1-4962] - Update libbluray to 1.1.2 and freetype 2.10
• [MP1-4963] - TV Zap OSD rework
• [MP1-4964] - TVE3 - Implement recording file name/file path length checking
• [MP1-4965] - Add MIME view level in music view

Along with the above items we kept consolidating our software.

Important Notes: This Release will break all plugins who use MediaInfo, please report issues on dedicated thread, related to plugin.
Notes:

For use Bluray with BD-J support, please read the Wiki

Full list of changes

You can review the complete change log for this Release by using the link below:
Changelog: MediaPortal 1.23 Final Release

Documentation of new features will be added to: Wiki - What's New

Installation, Upgrade, Download and Feedback

Installation

Since we switched to .NET4 you need to make sure you have.NET4 installed on your computer (not needed if you are on Windows 8 because it comes with .NET4, but you NEED the .NET 3.5 features enabled!). Otherwise you are not able to install MediaPortal and the installer just quits.

Download-Link: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Standalone Installer)

Aside from that when doing a clean installation of the this Pre Release there is nothing else to worry about.

Upgrade

Upgrading from MP 1.2.0 Beta or later to 1.23 Final Release

All MediaPortal 1.2.0 Beta installations can be upgraded to this Pre Release without losing your settings.

Plugins:

If you are running MediaPortal 1.6.0 or earlier, then it is possible that some of your previously installed plugins will be shown as incompatible after the upgrade to this Release! Whether or not a plugin is incompatible depends on the MediaPortal subsystems the plugin uses.
All plugins that work for the 1.7.1 HotFix release, should also work with the this Pre Release.

Upgrading Extensions:

The easiest way to upgrade your extensions is by launching the MediaPortal Extension Installer, and let it check for updated versions. However this only works for extensions that use our MPEI system. If the author of the extension releases it as a stand alone installer, you must contact them for an updated version.

General note about Upgrades

Manually stop TV-Service!

On some systems our installer is not able to update the TV-Server installation because its files are locked or the service can not be stopped.
For upgrades to this Pre Release we recommend that you manually stop the TV-Service and make sure, via Windows Task Manager (enable the "all users" option), that the TvService.exe process is really gone before starting to upgrade.

Custom TV-Service properties

If you manually changed the properties of the TV-Service (like restart on error options), then you must redo these changes after the upgrade. The installer is not able to save and restore your custom service properties when it installs the new version of the TV-Service.

Feedback

Bugs

If you think you found a bug then please post a detailed report in our Bug Reports Forum.

Make sure your report includes all the required information. Incomplete reports will be removed to keep the forum clean.

 Download

Finally - the download. We hope that you took the time to read this release news entirely because it includes vital information about the major changes.

  If you would like to support MediaPortal, we would be happy to receive a donation!

The Team wishes you a lot of fun with this new release!