Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.

It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/noppes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!

Main Features:
- Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
- Support for multiple tuners
- Timeshifting, Watch, Pause, Rewind,FF,RW Live TV
- Video Recording
- Advanced TV Guide based on XMLTV
- Scheduler to manage all your recording schedules
- Listen to your favorite radio stations (local radio stations using the FM tuner of your capture card)
- All music gets stored in Media Portals music database
- View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs
- Watch your pictures/photos
- Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)
- All your movies will be stored in Media Portals video database
- Show the latest weather information (Tempeture and 3-day forcast)
- And a LOT more....

Supports most newer hardware, but you are going to want to look HERE to be certian.

New in this version:
- A faster MediaPortal start-up time
- My TV: ATSC support.
- My TV: Recording Priorities
- Recording Qualities
- My TV: Recording conflict management
- My TV: Automatic background EPG & MHW grabbing
- My TV: Video statistics
- My Programs: Direct MAME Support
- And a lot more.