MediaPortal 1.1 ALPHA - Released

A lot has happened since MediaPortal 1.0.2 had been released. The team has agreed that MediaPortal 1.1 will be the last major release of MediaPortal and will then focus on MediaPortal 2.

As this will be the last major release we want it to be the best ever. Therefore we need your help again!

 

Major changes in this ALPHA:

• old, unsupported TV-Engine (TVE2) was removed
  (together with all related plugins - WepEPG is currently ported to TV-Server, which will be available in 1.1.0 RC1)
• first steps to support Windows 7 and Vista+TV-Pack
• UAC compatibillty enhancements:
  following folders are now also located in %ProgramData%\TeamMediaPortal\MediaPortal
  • Tuningdetails
  • Languages
  • Skins
• IP-TV support has been added to TV-Server
• access CI-menu from inside MyTV and TV-Server configuration
• integration of MPC-HC subtitles engine
  (no need for any 3rd party filters any more to get subtitles to work)
• updated installer to use MySQL 5.1 64bit on 64bit OS'es
• MySQL 5.1 is now the default SQL-Server on a fresh installation.
  (you can still use your already present SQL-Server as this effects only systems where no SQL-Server is present)
  Benefits compared to MS SQL-Server:
  
  • works nicely on Windows 7 RC1 32 and 64 bit
  • uses less system resources than MS SQL Server
  • much easier to deploy (automatic download/install of MS SQL 2008 is not possible on Windows 7)
  Note: If you want to use MS SQL 2008 Express SP1, then you have to install it manually.
• Skinchanges:
  • brand new OSD for MyTV, MyVideos and DVD
    (still work in progress (Zap OSD still missing) and only available for Blue3wide at the moment) You can show the osd by using "i" button on your remote or "y" button on your keyboard.
  • VU-Meter in MyMusic (off per default, has to be enabled in MP Configuration - only available in Blue3wide at the moment)
  • List of all skinchanges since 1.0.1 (Skin Designers should subscribe that page!)
    

 

Complete list of changes:

There were a lot of smaller changes done as well.

• Changelog: MediaPortal 
• Changelog: TV-Server
• Changelog: Installer - DeployTool

 

Installation notes:

• a present MediaPortal 1.0.x installation can not be upgraded
• a present MediaPortal 1.0.x installation will be uninstalled
  (No data will be lost, you will find MediaPortal_backup and TV-Server_backup folders which contain the plugins,skins and userfiles of the 1.0.x installations)
• a present TV-Server database will be upgraded and can be reused
• do not reuse any skins, plugins, databases or configuration files from MediaPortal 1.0.x with this alpha!

 

Testing and Bugreporting:
The changes we made require a lot of testing to ensure that MediaPortal 1.1 will be shipped as bug-free as possible.
Please take your time to test this Alpha release carefully and report bugs you found in our related bugreport forums in the development section.

Do not post results of 1.1 ALPHA testing anywhere else!

Please follow the Bugreport guideline when reporting issues. If you don't, then the bugreport will not help our developers and it will be removed to keep the forums clean.

 

Development:
If you are a developer, then you can help us to make MediaPortal 1.1 a great release. You can post your bugfixes directly in the dedicated ::submit patches forum:: . Our developers will review them and then add them to SVN once approved.
Besides bug fixes, we also have a lot of open tasks in our roadmaps which community developers might want to help us with.
Just pick one and start a "Work in Progress" thread in the ::submit patches forum:: to avoid someone else doing the same work.

• Roadmap: MediaPortal
• Roadmap: TV-Server 
• Roadmap: Installer - DeployTool  

Our SVN on sourceforge will be synched during the next 48 hours so you can base your changes on the latest svn.

Because of issues with the automatic synching between our team svn server and sourceforge, we have decided to move our team internal svn repository to a new powerful, dedicated server.
Once this is finished, everyone will have read-access to it and therefore access to the most recent sources.
Sourceforge will be keept as a backup where we synch our svn once every month.
Please watch the news for more details.

 

SVN-Testbuilds
After the release of MediaPortal 1.1 ALPHA, we will start to release SVN-Testbuilds again.

 

The road to 1.1 final
As soon as we can be sure that all major changes are working nicely, we will release MediaPortal 1.1 RC1.
Depending on how well the development goes, there might be more release candidates.

Our release target for 1.1 final is December 2009.
But depending on the amount of help from the community, an earlier release might be possible as well.

 

The time after MediaPortal 1.1
The team will focus on MediaPortal 2 from now on. But this does not mean that MediaPortal 1 is dead.

There will be at least one 1.1.x release. But we want to outsource the major part of it's development to the community.

 

A short notice before installing: Please do not use this ALPHA on a productive system. It is pretty stable but might still contain some glitches that may lower the WAF ;)

 

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