Kodi was originally designed as a local media player for the Xbox console. Some of these Plex alternatives are even completely free. There are quite a few Plex alternatives that offer similar free and paid versions. Plex is far from the only media server available. To learn how to access the source code and build MediaPortal 1, see Building MediaPortal from Source.If for whatever reason, you don’t like Plex, or it isn’t working for you, we have some formidable Plex media server alternatives. MediaPortal is open source software and uses Git (GItHub), a revision control system to maintain current and historical versions of our source code. This forum stores test builds of bug fixes and features that are currently in development. Test builds are provided in our forum: Skins ForumArea 51 - Testing Area. The final or stable version is normally released about six weeks after the pre-release, once all bugs reported with the pre-release are fixed and tested.Īdditional maintenance or 'hot-fix' releases may be published if required. Contact the skin developer directly via our Final releases Although there are exceptions when a new skin feature is added but not implemented in the provided skins. Skin related bugs should be reported in the appropriate Quality Assurance sub-forum.ĭo not expect community skins to be updated instantly to support these test releases. Generally the provided Default/wide or Titan skins should be used in test releases. Normally you may upgrade between test releases up to the final stable release. These releases are ONLY for testing bug fixes and new features or changes to features (reworks). Releases are scheduled every 3 months and contain a mixture of new features, reworks, bug fixes and code refactoring. Release ProcessĪs of 2013, Team MediaPortal moved to a more 'agile' development model. Downloadĭownload the latest stable or test release for both MediaPortal 1 and 2 from our website. See the Official News releases for further information. MediaPortal 2 is the next generation version presently in development, MediaPortal 2 Spring '16 was released in April 2016.ĭevelopment is quite active for both versions of MediaPortal. For an overview of MediaPortal 1 features see Products > MediaPortal: Find Out More

MediaPortal 1 is the current version of MediaPortal.

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