MediaPortal




In the last days I’ve played with a new (to me) program called MediaPortal. It tries to simulate an interative TV, allowing to browse through movies, pictures, music, etc with a cool interface an functions to get data from the internet. But I’ve got 3 problems with it (and then probabily won’t be fixed so soon, because people who speek english don’t use subtitles :S):

  • Since it retieves data for movies, tv series, controls what you’ve saw, etc, why it can’t download subtitles automatically?
  • It does not show subtitles by itself, but uses VobSub for that. The problem is that the subtitles are always over the movie, even when there is a black space bellow the movie (because I don’t have a widescreen TV, you know… ). The best player I’ve saw to handle it is bsplayer version 1. It puts the subtitles in the right place, allow changing t timing of subtitles during the movie, etc, etc.. It is a pitty that the version 2 is adware (or something like that).
  • I missed a way to control a collection of movies in different DVDs (with a lot of movies per DVD). It would be perfect if it had a way to do that easy, something like: it shows a list of all movies, you pick one and it says: ‘Insert the disk XYZ’.
    PS: It would have an screen to load all data from a DVD
    PS2: Since retrieving data takes a long time, it could do it in background

Ahh… dreams… Who knows, maybe someday i do it…

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