So, I’ve not updated this blog in quite some time. Why is that?
Well, after some time with Mediaportal, I moved to using Windows Media Centre instead. So why switch? Well, the key reason was reliability. Whilst MP was certainly fully featured and looked great, there were a few too many reliability niggles which had a [...]
Retrieved an old 4×20 LCD display I had for a previous project, so my next project is to try and hook it up to Mediaportal!
The Scott Electronics BPP 420VY display is a very simple serial driven device (as all the electronics for controlling it are on the display itself) so it basically requires 3 wires, [...]
I’ve just finished setting up the My TV Series plugin, along with the StreamedMP skin.
The new skin is very slick looking, with lots of nice dark grey and some nice animation touches. The WAF is diminished slightly due to the lack of MePo and it looking like “some executive loft apartment” but she’s ok with [...]
Up till now, i’ve been using the XMLTV EPG. This basically downloads tv listings from the Radio Times and formats them in the open XMLTV standard for import into MediaPortal. This works ok, apart from the fact that a lot of channels don’t actually get listings in the Radio Times (albeit some of the more [...]
Well, I should apologise for not having updated the blog for a little while. The truth is that a) I’ve been a bit busy recently, and b) Mediaportal and the PC are, as a general rule, working very well day to day!
Around Christmas, Team Mediaportal released the final version 1 release (i.e not a Release [...]
The Mediaportal team have today released RC4! I’ll try and get it installed shortly.
Thanks in advance to all the team for their hard work!
Spotted on a couple of forums, channel 5 (”Five”) is now broadcasting FTA so can be picked up on the PC at long last!
Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as just tuning to the FIve i’d already added to my EPG in preparation though, as it’s on a different frequency!
So to get FIVE working, I had [...]
So, I had a spare half hour last night, and figured I may as well fit the two DVB-S2 cards into the PC.
They slotted into the two PCI slots quite happily, and I installed all the drivers off the supplied CD, along with the Hauppage software (I may not use PowerCinema but it seems that [...]
The first thing I needed to decide on was what hardware to use.
Budget would be a primary concern, so I wanted to minimise the number of components - this should prove cheaper in theory. Salvation came in the shape of the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2814) . This board could almost have been designed [...]
Hi,
This blog is going to take you through my experiences of building my first “media” (or htpc) pc.
What brought this on? Well, we’d been having a few problems with Sky (poor reception thanks to a tree) and decided that to be honest we could lose it and get freeview instead. Unfortunately, where we live, freeview [...]
