The MediaMVP Media Center (mvpmc) is a media player written in C. It currently runs on the Hauppauge MediaMVP hardware. It can play video (including live TV), audio (including live radio), show pictures, and retrieve Yahoo! weather. mvpmc can access media from a MythTV, ReplayTV, Hauppauge, VLC, or SqueezeCenter (aka SlimServer) server. It can also access media via UPNP, HTTP, NFS and CIFS. There is a VNC viewer built in. It understands MPEG1 and MPEG2 video, MP3, OGG, WAV, AC3 and FLAC audio and JPG, BMP & PNG images.

News

New Release - 2007-11-19

Version 0.3.4 of mvpmc has been released here.

The changes include:

  • misc Hauppauge emulation mode improvements
  • misc mclient improvements
  • misc MythTV improvements
  • JIT audio/video sync improvements
  • boot progress meter
  • support for Yahoo! weather
  • support for wireless MediaMVP
  • improved menu images

New Release - 2007-01-23

Version 0.3.3 of mvpmc has been released here.

The changes include:

  • add sshd support
  • improve NFS performance
  • add UPnP support
  • add FLAC audio support

New Release - 2006-12-20

Version 0.3.2 of mvpmc has been released here.

The changes include:

  • Upgrade to Linux 2.4.31
  • Many VLC improvements

New Release - 2006-10-23

Version 0.3.1 of mvpmc has been released here.

The changes include:

  • support DHCP servers that provide multiple NTP servers
  • jpeg slideshow support
  • mythtv scheduling support
  • updated cross compilation environment to use buildroot
  • support mythtv protocol versions through 31
  • new tvguide for mythtv

UK Mirror - 2006-09-10

Mike Richardson has set up a mirror of the mvpmc site in the UK at uk.mvpmc.org.

New Domain - 2006-08-21

The mvpmc project has relocated to mvpmc.org.

New Release - 2006-06-15

Version 0.3.0 of mvpmc has been released here.

The changes include:

  • support for UTF-8 encoded characters in mythtv
  • jpeg image scaling
  • upgrade to busybox 1.1.3
  • support for randomizing a playlist
  • support for new H1/H2 MediaMVP hardware
  • colorbar support
  • support for ntp
  • fullscreen gui for mclient several enhancements to native mp3 and ogg streaming
  • downloads default current internet radio playlists from Shoutcast
  • other popular internet formats, wma, asf, mms, real audio, and aac+ via vlc and mplayer
  • Podcast support
  • divx and flv video files from filebrowser using vnc
  • integrated web server for configuration, playlist management, and status reporting
  • works as dongle.bin replacement
  • "Emulation Mode" support for vnc-based Hauppauge protocol access to Hauppauge, gbpvr, MediaNet, MVPServer and mvpvdr.servers.

New Source Code Repository - 2006-04-05

A new source code repository based off a completely new build infrastructure has been set up here. Please join the discussion on the mvpmc-devel mailing list if you are interested.

New Release - 2006-02-11

Version 0.2.1 of mvpmc has been released here.

The changes include:

  • add support for DNS
  • MythTV event handling
  • MythTV sort options: date recorded vs original airdate
  • support for latest MythTV protocol (version 26)
  • correctly letterbox widescreen content on 4x3 displays
  • play all option in the filebrowser
  • allow ip address to be changed in the settings menu
  • support for hiding MythTV recordings based on recording group
  • MythTV upcoming recordings filtering
  • MythTV recordings filter by: title, category, rec group
  • misc mclient updates
  • http playback support for audio and video in playlists
  • add a new theme: easy

Website Update - 2005-11-02

The look and feel of the project website has been updated. If you notice any problems with the HTML or CSS, please let me know here.

New Release - 2005-11-02

Version 0.2.0 of mvpmc has been released here.

The changes include:

  • support building on ppc linux
  • support building with gcc 4.0
  • add support for mpeg transport streams
  • improve .wav file support
  • allow playback to continue outside the area of mvpmc that initiated the playback
  • add an audio playback thread to the file browser for better reliability
  • add shuffle play to the file browser
  • add mclient, a SlimServer client
  • add mythtv livetv support for multiple backends
  • add tcp receive buffer size settings for libcmyth
  • add popup menu in myth livetv to choose tuner
  • added support for ReplayTV 4K devices
  • updated ReplayTV discovery server to prevent DVArchive error messages
  • add ReplayTV relative jump forward/back
  • add initial VNC support
  • add shared memory area so settings can survive a crash
  • add config file support so settings can survive a reboot
  • add more themeable widgets
  • add theme names to theme menu
  • add one new theme: Big Orange
  • revamp the settings menu
  • improve brightness setting
  • add volume control
  • add a new 16:9 aspect ratio setting with widescreen signaling (WSS)
  • add the viewport setting to specify the viewable area of your TV
  • add ability to capture screenshots

New Release - 2005-09-13

Version 0.1.8 of mvpmc has been released here.

New Release - 2005-07-14

Version 0.1.7 of mvpmc has been released here.