MediaPortal offers you the most powerful TV Engine and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) available today. Ready to get started? Proceed to Server Setup .MediaPortal is a free open source media center software, ideal for turning your PC into a very advanced multimedia center, or Home Theater PC, to view all your digital media in your living room. It will automatically open a Wiki page in your browser to assist you in configuring the related settings. In addition to the tutorials, a Help Button appears at the top right of every Configuration Screen for both Server and Client Setup. Then you can proceed to customize even more, by using different Plugins and advanced features. Once you have completed the above tutorials, you should have a working setup for TV. Power Saving - so your TV-Server can 'wake' whenever you wish it to record or grab EPG data.Channel Logos - to display TV and Radio channel logos in your TV Guide and many TV/Radio windows.

TV Guide Setup (EPG) - to get TV Guide data.

Client Setup - to configure each client (even the same PC) to connect to your TV-Server.

Server Setup - you must setup the server before any client (even the same PC) can connect to it.

No matter which configuration you choose, you can use the following tutorials to setup TV:

Client software only on each client PC in a Multi-Seat setup.

Server software only if you do not use your server as a client to use MediaPortal (Multi-Seat).

Server and Client software on the same system (Single-seat configuration).

To check which special features are supported for your TV Card, see TV Card Features Methodologyĭepending on your system configuration, and how you installed MediaPortal, you will setup:

Of course you need a TV Card that supports recording installed in the computer where you install TV-Server. Make sure your system meets the Recommended Hardware and TV-Server Requirements. Client software - MediaPortal (often called the “client-side”), which allows you to interact with MediaPortal on your PC, play your media (Live and recorded TV or Radio, Movies, Music, Online Videos, Photos, etc) and store TV and Radio channel logos.Server software - TV-Server (often called the “server-side”), which connects to the TV tuners, grabs EPG (TV Guide) data.Thus, the software is split into two parts,: TV in MediaPortal provides a whole-house media solution, which includes sharing TV Tuner(s) resources to multiple systems (clients) on a home network. How to configure TV for use with MediaPortal.

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