My video & Audo portal Features:

Our Portal is to be allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations watch and store your videos and DVDs views. This means you can help develop MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovative plugins from our great community

    * MediaPortal can easily be extended with extra plugins
    * You decide which keys you want to use for which actions
    * Internal support for several remote control

    * Windowed and fullscreen support
    * Resume from playback on next play

    *  Watch your pictures/photos
    * Slideshow support with nice transitions
    * Zoom in/out, rotate pictures (rotation is remembered next time)
    * Pause, previous/next picture
    * Delete picture(s)
    * Background music, either songs from my music, or radio from my radio
    * Auto thumbnail generation
    * Sort in Name, Date, Size
    * View in List, Icon or Big Icon display
    * Ken Burns effect slideshow
    * Filmstrip view

    * On Screen Display (OSD) for: Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages...

    *  Supports analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC
    * HDTV and AC3 support
    * Support for multiple tuners
    * Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
    * Advanced recording scheduler:
      - Record once
      - Record now
      - Daily o Weekly
      - Weekdays (Mon-Fri)
      - Every time a program appears on this TV channel
    * Timeshifting,Watch, Pause, Rewind, FF, RW Live TV
    * Advanced recording management:
      - Handle conflicts
      - Set recording priorities
      - Quality settings / recording
      - Transcode to WMD, XVID or MPG
      - Diskmanagement auto deletes old and/or watched recordings


    * TVGuide:
      - Grab DVB-EPG & MHW-EPG directly for DVB
      - Supports XMLTV
      - Colors for genres
    * TV Guide search
    * TV Channel grouping
    * Supports over > 10000 channels
    * Auto channel tuning
    * Normal OSD (On Screen Display during movies/tv)
    * Special ZAP OSD (Shows description of what is playing currently on TV)
    * Support for Teletext
      *  Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)
    * All your movies will be stored in MediaPortal's video database
    * View your movies by actors, genres, year, title
    * Sort your movies by actors, genres, year, rating
    * Automatically retrieves video art & info from IMDB
    * Stacking/unstacking if your movie consists of multiple files
    * Internal DVD player with menu's (you can also use an external DVD player)
       
    *  View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs
    * Sort your music in many ways like tracks, genre, filesize, artists, album,...
    * Use visualisations from Windows ?Media Player 10
    * Load, create & save playlists (.m3u, .pls, .b4u)
    * Automaticlly gets album art & info for all your albums
    * Automaticlly gets artist art & info for all your artists
    * View by list, icons, and big icons
    * Shuffle, repeat, FF, RW, pause,...
    * Music ratings
    * Favorites
    * Party shuffle mode
    * Search music for specific songs
    * Display all your favorite songs in one screen
    * Utilize Winamp, Foobar or iTunes plugins for music playback