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1. Watch Videos: Home Theatre at its Best
1. 1.1. Related Plugins
2. 1.2. Menu Options
  1. 1.2.1. Layout
  2. 1.2.2. Sort by:
  3. 1.2.3. Switch Views
  4. 1.2.4. Play DVD
  5. 1.2.5. Current Playlist
  6. 1.2.6. Playlists
  7. 1.2.7. Eject
3. 1.3. Context Menu Options
4. 1.4. Shares View Context Menu
5. 1.5. Locked content (PIN)
2. Customization
1. 2.1. Codecs
3. Changes in the latest release

Watch Videos: Home Theatre at its Best

Related Plugins

Moving Pictures

Designed for your movies, with categories, parental controls, automatic download of mutliple covers, fanart, and much more

My Films

Use an external database, such as ANT Movie Catalog, DVD Profiler, MyMovies, EAX Movie Catalog, Movie Collector, Personal Video Database or eXtreme Movie Manager (XMM), in MediaPortal

MP-TVSeries

Scan your hard drive for TV episodes (or recorded TV files); download details, posters and fanart; browse, manage and play your episodes

Online Videos

Watch movies online or trailers from Youtube, IMDb or Apple Trailers site

Fanart Handler

Supports fanart backdrops for your movies in Videos

The Videos feature is the central point for playing all kinds of videos and movies. It will stack multi-part movies and you can also create playlists. IMDb support is built-in to automatically get movie information and DVD cover images.

Pressing F3 on a selected movie will display the IMDb information or will access IMDb to download the information and automatically add the movie to the MediaPortal database.

Menu Options

Access the Videos Menu by pressing the left arrow key.

Note: the Trailers and Subtitles options only display if you have installed the Online Videos and SubCentral plugins are installed and enabled

Layout

Clicking this button displays a dialog/list to select the layout you prefer for videos:

List., Icons, Big Icons, Filmstrip & Cover flow

Sort by:

Click the up/down arrow to toggle between ascending or descending sort order. Select the Sort by; button to choose the type of sort:

Name, Date, Size, Year, Rating, DVD# or Watched

Switch Views

Select the button for a list of supported Views:

Note: Shares view is like a Windows explorer view of network shares, folders and files. Genres, Actors, Titles or Years are Database Views which require that the movie titles have been added to the database. If you use IMDB lookup, via the context menu, and the video (movie or TV series) is found, the file will be automatically added to the database. The movie or TV series will then appear in these views as well. This is true even if you lookup a movie while using Shares view.

Play DVD

Plays the DVD disk inserted in the DVD drive (based on Autoplay settings)

Current Playlist

Displays the current playlist and videos you have added - See Video Playlists

Playlists

Display a list of playlists you have saved in the playlist folder you select in Configuration > Videos.

Eject

Ejects the DVD disk in the DVD drive.

Context Menu Options

Right clicking a video in the list, pressing F9 on the keyboard, or the Info/More key on a remote, will display a context menu:

Shares View Context Menu

In Shares view you can play all videos in a selected folder and it's sub-folders by right clicking on it or by pressing F9 and selecting "Play all videos in selected folder":

According to your settings in Configuration > Videos, your videos will either start to play immediately or you will be asked how you wish to sort video files before they play.

Locked content (PIN)

In database views now PIN locked content will not be visible anymore. To unlock content, use context menu command "Unlock content" and enter valid PIN. If more shares are protected with different PINs, only content with entered PIN from belonging share will be unlocked

Example: If you have two shares SHARE1 and SHARE2 with PINs 1234 and 4321, if you enter PIN 1234 only content from SHARE1 will be unlocked). So, if you want to unlock all protected content with one PIN, use the same PIN for your shares.

Unlock will be valid as long you're in My Videos screens (or in fullscreen video).

To lock content again, use context menu command "Lock content" or exit My Videos.

Customization

To set the location for the files displayed in Videos, to define your own Views for Videos, as well as many more advanced options, see Configuration > Videos.

Codecs

You must have the correct codec installed in Windows to play your videos. In Windows 7 most codecs are automatically installed, however some files may require additional codecs and Windows XP or Vista require you to install codecs for most video playback formats.

You may select which codecs you prefer to use using Configuration > Codecs and Renderer > Video Codecs

See also Preparing Your System > Codecs, for detailed instructions on installing codecs in Windows to play all your video files..

Changes in the latest release

The following table shows the changes that affect the user interface in the latest version of MediaPortal (final or test release), either within MediaPortal or in the Configuration tool(s). Select the links to view details of the changes. These changes are incorporated into this wiki page once the final stable version is released.

You may sort the table by any of the columns. Note: the Date column displays the date the UI Rellated Change wiki page was created.