MediaPortal Install Guide - Page 3

I've been looking for VCD support all over for a few days now and haven't found anything. I would also love to get this working rather than resort to Daemon Tools because VCD is a much better mounting program. Please let me know if you find anything.

Might have finally found something. Haven't checked it out and tested it yet, but thought I'd post it pre-maturaly incase someone else has time right away to check around with it. This was the original post, and the link below is the single post with the file for the patch for VCD:

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/ge...n-tools-47372/

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/315505-post1.html

Yeah, I need to get VCD working as well. Also, I'm having a hard time associating some of my MKV rips to the actual movie titles. For instance I can't get my Band of Brothers rips to pull up anything related.

Any clue how to use those files to get VCD to work? there's no installer and i just don't understand the code quite well enough (fairly amateur when it comes to programming)...

This thread seems to suggest a plugin (mediaslayer) that supports VCD (I also don't want to mess with compiling source code).

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/ge...08/#post315505

This is the thread talking about mediaslayer:

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/pl...6/index21.html

I've downloaded the plugin and will post with how things go when I've tried it out.

Making some progress here...

The thread on Media Portal forum refers to a plugin and the plugin happens to have support for Virtual CloneDrive. I have done a fresh install of Media Portal, and the plug-in isn't nessessary for enabling VCD support.

There are instructions on the main post, but basically you only need to install the DLL files and then point Media Player to the VCDmount.exe file in the Daemon Tools configuration.

1. Download this zip file which includes Core.dll and WindowPlugins.dll
enhanced_dll_rc3-svn-oct25-.zip

3. Copy Core.dll to the MediaPortal root directory (I suggest backing up original file).

4. Copy WindowPlugins.dll to Plugins\\Windows directory (again, backup original).

5. In the Media Player configuration window (General -> Daemon Tools) select the option to enabled Automount .iso/.bin files using Daemon Tools. Then click the Browse button, and point to the Virtual Clone Drive install directory and select the VCDmount.exe file. Then specify your Virtual Drive letter.

Now you should be all set for VCD mounting in Media Portal.

The only problems I have so far are getting back to Media Portal once I hit stop in TMT. TMT sits at the main splash screen. I have to click the Info button, and then select Exit to get back to Media Portal. Does anyone know how to enable the stop button to exit all the way out of Media Portal?

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Credit to the original thread on Media Portal forums and -Manfred- for the plugin and .dlls.

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/pl...l-v1-0e-37606/

I have a Linksys DMA2100 and a Samsung Extender. Is there a way to use MediaPortal with these Extenders?

How do I choose audio track in MP player? I have a series with 3 audio tracks in each episode, in MP it plays all of them at once. In VLC player I was using I could just choose from context menu which audio track to play.

One more thing: how do I search for a specific movie in moving pictures? I mean if want to watch a movie which starts with M do I have to scroll through all movies in database to get to it or can I search for it somehow?

Extenders are designed for Windows Media Center. No relation to Media Portal.

Another newb question:
If I rip a TV series DVD to a .TS format, will the TVSeries plugin recognize individual episodes or just treat it like a regular DVD?
Thanks!

I'd advise against using dll's from previous versions of MP. I'd suggest asking the author to update the files for RC4.

No problems so far, but I did send a message asking for any updates.

Anyone with any information about closing TMT with MCE remote?

In VMC (and I assume MP works this way as well), I just use the green button.

It apparently closes TMT, since it is not there if I minimize VMC via a mouse.

Perhaps I should take this to the TMT thread, but the green button will launch the media center, correct? So in your case (because using VMC) the green button is launching back into VMC, which is closing TMT because the TMT player you are using is the one built specifically to run in VMC.

I don't want to launch VMC when I press the green button.

Is there a way to make this NEWS Ticker on the bottom of the first picture in the guide (also below) a SPORTS Ticker with streaming sports news like ESPN's Bottom Line?

I haven't set up the RSS Feed, I'll try in a little bit, but if its just an RSS feed address, you could put this into the configuration:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news

That is the RSS feed for top headlines.

All of ESPN RSS feeds can be found here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/index

Thanks for the reply. So basically, that NEWS Ticker is really just an RSS feed?

I go to a site to watch streaming videos of TV Episodes. Is there a way to view these in Media Portal or a way to open a browser or something like that? Thanks!

Check out this plug-in:
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/file...MultiShortcut/

I think it's supposed to let you launch any .exe file from within MediaPortal.

Configuration issues causing a crash... have you successfully logged into the database? Did you do the edit of the .xml file mentioned in the early section of this post?

TV support... I'm not using this latest release but have been using MP for a couple o' years now. YES, MP supports TV tuner cards! Apparently it also supports a vast variety of satellite receiver cards, NTSC, ATSC and the HDHomeRun. Personally I have an ATi HDTV-Wonder and the Hauppauge 1600. It is an excellent PVR!

There is a new version of StreamedMP out - time to update the guide

No worries. The link goes to the new version anyway, looks like the version edit is no longer needed. Just installed today using this guide. Thanks daMaster!!! Now to test it out later with some mkv's and Bluray .iso's.

Wow i've been using MediaPortal for about a year now and loved it.

Now thanks to this thread i discovered the StreamMP skin & database updater.

Thanks for rekindling the flame LOL

Seriously how did I live without this plugin

Thanks OP

What did you need to do in order to get it to become a PVR? What plug ins, etc?

I should have my new HDD today or tomorrow, so I am going to start my first ever MP install then.

Pretty sure basic PVR stuff comes standard. It was working for me before I fried my system last weekend, and I just installed the TVServer software (standard download). My plan was to use the For The Record plugin, as it looked a bit more advanced, but I wanted to get the basic stuff working first.

PVR, TV functionality is a core part of Mediaportal. Pretty much why I don't use XBMC too. However, getting TV working can be a PITA. You need to install TVServer and MS SQLServer Express, but the auto-installer takes care of most of it for you. Just follow the documentation on the MP site.

Any suggestions on naming conventions for ripped files so that I have in MKV? I am having issues with MP finding the right movies.