• MediaPortal
• Configuration
• Television

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Television setup

Some of these options can also be set from within the MediaPortal interface, in the ?My TV options of the Settings section. This information will be used within the My TV section of MediaPortal.

Note:

• Instead of using MediaPortal's default TV plugin, if you are feeling adventurous, you might want to try the new TV-Server. This provides a complete replacement for the My TV plugin, as a networked client-server solution.

• After configuration, you may want to display channel logos in MediaPortal. Read TV and Radio Channel Logos to see how that works.

• To get a program guide, configure either WebEPG (recommended) or the build-in XMLTV.

Initial screen

Settings

• Video codec - Default: MPV Decoder Filter

• Audio codec - Default: MPA Decoder Filter

• Audio renderer - Default: Default DirectSound Device

• Deinterlace mode

  • None (default)

  • Bob
  • Weave
  • Best
• Default zoom mode

  • Normal (default)

  • Original source format
  • Zoom
  • Zoom 14:9
  • Stretch
  • Non-linear Stretch
  • 4:3 Letterbox

Auto on

• Auto turn TV on when entering My TV - Default: off

• Directly show fullscreen TV - Default: off

Misc

• Select channel by index (non US) - Default: on

• Show channel numbers - Default: off

Allowed Zoom Modes

• Normal - Default: on

• Original Source Format - Default: on

• Zoom - Default: on

• 14:9 Zoom - Default: on

• Stretch - Default: on

• Non-linear Stretch - Default: on

• 4:3 Letterbox - Default: on

Add/Edit Capture Cards

Capture Card

• TV Capture Card

• Priority - Default: 1

• Frame size
  • 768x576 PAL square pixels
  • 720x576 PAL/SECAM ITU-601 D1 (recommended)
  • 720x480 NTSC ITU-601 D1 (recommended)
  • 704x576 PAL/SECAM TV broadcast
  • 704x480 NTSC TV broadcast
  • 640x480 NTSC square pixels
  • 352x288 PAL CIF
  • 352x240 NTSC CIF
  • 320x240 NTSC CIF square pixels
• Frame rate
  • 29.97 fps (NTSC)
  • 25 fps (PAL/SECAM)
  • 15 fps

• Use this card for viewing TV - Default: on

• Use this card for recording TV - Default: on

• Recording folder - Default: <My Documents folder>\My Recordings

• Crop settings - Default: 0

Autotune

• Country
• Input Source

  • Antenna (default)

  • Cable
• Scan
• Progress
• Signal strength
• Signal quality
• Channel list

• To edit a channel, double-click it or right-click and choose Edit Channel. To delete a channel, press delete on your keyboard or right-click and choose Delete Channel. To re-arrange, drag and drop the channel in the new location.
  

• Note: after re-arranging your channel list, do not go to the next tab but choose OK to save your settings so far.

• Channel Download
• Add/Edit
• Delete All

Add/Edit Channel

• General
  • Name
  • Channel
  • TV channel is encrypted
• Analog
  • Frequency

  • TV standard - Possible values: Default, NTSC M, NTSC M J, NTSC 433, PAL B, PAL D, PAL G, PAL H, PAL I, PAL M, PAL N, PAL 60, SECAM B, SECAM D, SECAM G, SECAM H, SECAM K, SECAM K1, SECAM L, SECAM L1, PAL N COMBO

  • Country

• DVB-T / DVB-C / DVB-S / ATSC

  • Network ID (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S)
  • Service ID (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S)
  • Physical channel number (ATSC)
  • Major channel (ATSC)
  • Minor channel (ATSC)
  • Transport ID (all)
  • Carrier Frequency (all)
  • Symbolrate (DVB-C, DVB-S, ATSC)

  • InnerFEC (DVB-C, DVB-S, ATSC): Max, Not Defined, Not Set, RS 204/188, ?ViterBi

  • Modulation (DVB-C, ATSC)
  • Polarisation (DVB-S): Horizontal, Vertical
  • Provider (all)
  • Audio PID (all)
  • Video PID (all)
  • Teletext PID (all)
  • ECM PID (DVB-S)
  • PMT PID (all)
  • Bandwidth (DVB-T)
  • PCR PID (all)
  • Audio 1 PID (all)
  • Audio 2 PID (all)
  • Audio 3 PID (all)
  • AC3 PID (all)
  • Audio (all)
  • Audio 1 (all)
  • Audio 2 (all)
  • Audio 3 (all)
• External
  • Type: Received by tv card, Received by external settop box
  • Input via: CVBS#1, CVBS#2, SVHS, RGB
  • Channel number on settop box

Autotune Radio

• Country
• Input Source

  • Antenna (default)

  • Cable
• Scan

• Sensitivity - Default: High

• Progress
• Signal strength
• Signal quality
• Radio Download

Edit Radio Station

• Name
• Frequency
• Genre

Audio Mapping

• CVBS #1/2/3, SVHS #1/2/3, RGB #1/2/3
• Audio-in #1/2/3

Quality

• Use quality control - Default: off

• Default quality: Portable, Low, Medium, High
• Audio quality: 192/224/256/384 Kbps

• Average bitrate

• Peak bitrate
• VBR

TV channels

TV Channels

What does the checkmark do?

• Combine

• Combines the channel number and frequency of the first channel with all other info from the second channel. (First and second in sorting order, not in selection order.)

• Add
• Manually add a TV channel.
• Delete
• Delete the highlighted channel.
• Edit
• Edit the highlighted channel.
• Clear
• Delete all the channels.
• Up
• Move the highlighted channel(s) one place up in the preference order.
• Down
• Move the highlighted channel(s) one place down in the preference order.
• Lookup
• Import channel list from predefined city-based listings.
• Backup
• Backup the channel list (and scheduled recordings) to an XML file.
• Restore
• Load the channel list from an XML file, completely replacing any existing channel set.
• Import from TV Guide
• Add CVBS/SVHS
• Delete scrambled

TV Cards

• Map channels to TV card
• Available TV channels
• Assigned TV channels

TV channel groups

TV Channel Groups

• Add/Edit
  • Group name
  • PIN code
• Delete
• Up/Down

Map Channels

• TV channel group
• Available TV channels
• TV channels in group
• Up/Down

Program guide

General

XMLTV

• Path to tvguide.xml

• Use time zone information from XMLTV file

• Compensate timezone
• Update TV database

DVB-EPG Grabber

• Grab EPG from DVB - Default: off

• Languages to grab
• All/None

Miscellaneous

• Use colors for genres - Default: off

• Remove all programs

Scheduler

These settings configure XMLTV. I recommend skipping this section and instead running one of the alternative EPG solutions after the MediaPortal configuration, these are much more flexible than XMLTV.

Grabber Settings

• Grabber
• Parameters
• List
• Basic multiday grab
• Advanced single day grabs

• Days to keep in guide - Default: 7

• Days to download - Default: 1,2,3,5

• Run grabber with lower priority - Default: off

• Run grabber

Windows Task Scheduler Settings

• Create task at - Default: off

• User account/Password
• Delete task

Recording

Settings

Custom Paths and Filenames

Disk quota

Post processing