Turn Your PC Into An Advanced Audio Video Media Center For Free!

Media Portal is a free and Open Source application released under GNU/GPL, which allows turning your pc into an advanced Media Center for audio-video management.

It let you listen your favourite music and radio, watch and store your favourite streaming and DVD video and schedule video streaming recording.

The Media Portal TV Guide

Streaming and analog video management

It supports several analog and digital video standards such as DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and HDTV. Personal Video Recorder plans scheduled video recording and provide a TV guide based on the XMLTV open source project. Media Portal is compatible with the most common TV tuner cards at present outstanding.

It will be possible to archive all kind of videos by keywords allowing custom video player selection (it has also an embedded video player). Pictures and photos can be organized in slideshows with cool visual effects.

The Recording Interface

Radio and music

Media Portal support Playlist creation and management. Furthermore, it is fully compatible with others media application such as Itunes and it update automatically song’s titles and picture covers of the audio tracks. Obviously, also radio channels management has advanced search and archiviation feature. It supports FM, DVB e streaming radio.

For last but no last it provide a powerful weathercast service.

MediaPortal plugins and extensions

One of best point of this Media Center is its upgradability level. There is a big choice of extensions which increase the audio/video functionalities with Podcast management, gaming, improved visual effects on videos and photos, video karaoke and more.

These are the minimum system requirements for Media Portal (PC only):

•  Windows XP SP2
• 2,5 Ghz processor speed
• 1 Gb Ram
•  Windows Media Player 9
• DirectX 9
• A TV tuner PC card

The latest stable release is the Version 0.2.2.0.