General

• Create your own skins, or choose one of the available skins!
• 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 (streamzap, MCE, redeye, winlirc, hauppauge, FireDTV)
• Windowed and fullscreen support

My TV

• 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
• Standby control to put your HTPC sleeping. It will awake when there a recording needs to start

My Video / MyDVD

• 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)
• On Screen Display (OSD) for: Pause, Rewind, FastForward, Stop, Mute, Bookmarks, Switching Audio Streams/Subtitle languages…
• Resume from playback on next play

My Pictures 

• 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

My Music

• 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

My Radio

• Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, DVB or internet stream)
• Auto tuning (FM)
• Logo’s for each radio station (manual process)
• Supply a friendly name for each radio station
• Internet radio station streaming (ASX or Shoutcast)
• Support for external radio tuner applications
• Auto start listening to your selected radio station when MediaPortal starts

My weather

• Show the latest weather information
• Support for multiple cities
• Current temperature, 3 Day Forecast
• Temperature (in degrees C/F)
• UV Index, Humity (%), Wind (mph/kph), etc
• Support for live images from internet, like:
  – Satellite images
  – Temperature images
  – UV Index images
  – Winds images
  – Humidity images
  – Precipitation images

More features!

• Launching external programs like:
  – Games
  – Emulators
  – Email application
  – Internet Browser
  – IRC client
• Burner let’s you burn all type of files and folders directly to CD-DVD from within the MediaPortal interface
• Showing RSS news feeds
• Read and send mail within MediaPortal
• Monitor computer hardware:
  – CPU temperature
  – Motherboard Temperature
  – Hard disk Temperature
  – Used Memory
  – Used Virtual Memory
• Allow the PC automatically go to standby/hibernation and wakes it when there is a scheduled recording! Just like a real VCR!
• Has different alarm features
• You can even play included games like Tetris or Sudoku!