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Setup Guides

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1. Welcome to MediaPortal!

Welcome to MediaPortal!

These step-by-step Setup Guides will help you to get MediaPortal up and running with basic features.

If you do not wish or need to use a feature, you may skip that step or section.

If you have not installed MediaPortal yet, see Getting Started > Preparing your System and Installing MediaPortal .

View tutorials for:

Beginner tutorials

Startup MediaPortal

Green Button 1 of 1 found this helpful: How to start MediaPortal using the 'green button' on your remote.

TV Setup

Server Setup: A step-by-step guide to setup the TV-Server: tune and group your TV and Radio Channels and Groups; setup Recording and Time-shifting folders.
Client Setup: How to setup a client on your network with access to the TV-Server to watch, pause and record TV.

DVB EPG Data: How to get EPG data directly from your aerial or satellite provider via your DVB tuner.

Movies Setup: How to setup your Movies database using Videos in MediaPortal 1.3.0 or later.

Intermediate tutorials

WebEPG: How to get EPG data using the WebEPG plugin included with MediaPortal, plus using IMDB grabber for the US.
XMLTV GUI: How to get EPG data for your TV Guide using the XmlTv plugin and XMLTV GUI grabber.
XMLTV mc2xml: How to get EPG data for your TV Guide using the XmlTv plugin and mc2xml program.

This guide has no troubleshooting pages.

Troubleshooting pages are for users to identify reasons and fixes for problems. To mark a troubleshooting page, add the tag article:task-troubleshooting to any page.

View references for:

Features
Samples

Features

TV Setup

TV Card Features 0 of 1 found this helpful: A general reference to TV Card features supported by MediaPortal.

CAMs (Conditional Access Modules): Conditional Access Modules (CAMs) supported in MediaPortal

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Table of Contents

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Topics

Quick Setup
Setup and test the basic functions of MediaPortal on your HTPC, or Client PC.
Startup MediaPortal
Once you have completed Quick Setup, run MediaPortal for the first time and test your basic setup.
Green Button(Tutorial)
TV Setup
How to configure TV for use with MediaPortal.
Server Setup(Tutorial)
Client Setup(Tutorial)
TV Card Features(Reference)
TV Guide Setup (EPG)
XMLTV WebGrab+Plus(Topic)
DVB EPG Data(Tutorial)
XMLTV mc2xml(Tutorial)
XMLTV GUI(Tutorial)
WebEPG(Tutorial)
Channel Logos
Power Saving
How to save power by putting your HTPC(s) to sleep when they are not needed, and wake them to perform scheduled tasks such as grab EPG data or record scheduled TV recordings.
Videos
How to organize, display and play all your videos in MediaPortal.

DVDs and Blu-rays

Home Videos
Movies
Movies Setup(Tutorial)
Online Videos

TV Series
Music
How to setup your Music database to take advantage of all the Music features in MediaPortal
Plugins
How to install, configure and access 3rd party plugins (extensions) in MediaPortal.

Popular Plugins
Skins
How to install and change skins in MediaPortal

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