KAI MEDIA CENTER News

* KAIface new skin for KAI MEDIA CENTER
* KAI MEDIA CENTER 0.2.3.0 RC2 released!
* Team Blog
* KAI MEDIA CENTER Installer (MPI)
* Re-Design MyTV - get involved
* KAI MEDIA CENTER 0.2.3.0 RC1 released!

Developer Blog

* Heartbeats - a way for TVserver to keep track of live and dead clients .
* Subtitles on DVB broadcasts in KAI MEDIA CENTER
* Splashscreen for Configuration
* NA-, SA-SAT Channel re-name Feature

KAI MEDIA CENTER is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. KAI MEDIA CENTER allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get KAI MEDIA CENTER as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing KAI MEDIA CENTER or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.
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KAI MEDIA CENTER 0.2.3.0 RC2 released!
Monday, 03 September 2007

We are proud to announce the release of KAI MEDIA CENTER 0.2.3.0 RC2.

Our main focus has been on stability and bugfixing. But we’ve also added some nice “presents” for you in this release.

Please click at the ‘read full article’ link.

*update*
We lately updated a dll (basscd.dll) in KAI MEDIA CENTER wich is unfortunatly reported as a trojan by Bitdefender and Bullguard. It it a false positive but can make the install fail and in any cases you won’t be able to use the Bass Engine , as the dll is blocked by BD.

We are in touch with their support and they are aware of this. This issue should be fixed within short delays and we will post as soon it is.

The only actual workaround is to temporary disable your AV while setup. Then reenable it and … don’t use bass related stuff . Disabling your antivirus is not safe and we don’t recommend you to do . An incoming update of bitdefender should allow this involved file again . Sorry for concerned MP users.

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Team Blog
Thursday, 09 August 2007

We know that everyone is interested to find out what the team is currently working on. But not all of you have the time to monitor the Forums. There also is the changelog, but since it only allows a short description, the entries are a bit cyrptic sometimes.

Thats why we will inform you about the “interesting” changes we are currently working on in our Team Blog.

There you will find new entries from Developers, Designers and Testers in the future.

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KAI MEDIA CENTER Installer (MPI)
Wednesday, 01 August 2007

It was always a little difficult for endusers to use plugins cause there was no “standard way” of installing. Our developer ‘dukus’ is about to change that in the future with a dedicated installer for plugins and skins.

The installer is a separated program located in same directory as KAI MEDIA CENTER with abilities to make, update, download, install and uninstall mpi packages. Informations can be found in the wiki.

Plugin-coder should have a look and add their plugin as .mpi to the KAI MEDIA CENTER Installer (MPI) section. The program is included in latest SVN. Please also provide us with feedback and suggestions in this thread.

The online support(updating, online browsing with MPInstaller) is not implemented yet…

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Re-Design MyTV - get involved
Friday, 27 July 2007

Recently the Team KAI MEDIA CENTER has been talking internaly about the current design of TV-Servers MyTV Client Plugin.

Now we would like to ask YOU what you think about how it should work, look and feel. Therefor we have created a new sub-forum where you can start a thread for your proposal. Click here for further details if you want to actively contribute to KAI MEDIA CENTER and help us to improve it. We are waiting anxious for your mindblowing concept designs!

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KAI MEDIA CENTER 0.2.3.0 RC1 released!
Thursday, 14 June 2007
As some of you may have noticed it has been a little calm the last weeks. However this doesn’t mean that development has slowed down. We just realized that alot of work was going on trying fresh skin ideas and creating amazing new plugins. Therefore we focused on getting MP more stable than ever and smoothing the edges.

To fullfill our goal we need your help! Please download the new release candidate (which should be quite safe to use) and report the remaining bugs. While we’re trying to squish those bugs the skin and plugin devs might want to use the time to get their goodies ready for the 0.2.3 final release.

Please click at the read more link.

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Let us know how you’re going to upgrade for HiDef
Saturday, 02 June 2007

We’re interested in your HTPCs and if you’re looking to upgrade for HDTV, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc support.

The reason why we’re asking is that we have an option to implement a H/W decoding solution that will require you not to have to upgrade at all in most cases.

All you will need is a spare PCI or PCIe x1 slot.

So please have a look at this poll and let us know your strategy for the next generation of video and audio quality

Just a bit about the hardware decoding solution. It will be capable of decoding VC1, MPEG-2, H.264, DivX & Xvid video streams with most audio.
So if you have a high CPU% decoding any of these at the moment in standard or high definition then it may be a solution for you.

Also note any purchases if we go ahead will automatically result in donations to KAI MEDIA CENTER too!

Cheers
DMAN

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More…

* Nightly builds moved to forum
* Webinterface mistake
* April Fools’ joke sucessful
* We want your opinion!
* Watch/Record multiple channels with a single dvb tv card?
* Support for s/w encoding cards in the tvserver
* TV-Server Tutorial Videos
* DVB-S2 support in TvServer
* KAI MEDIA CENTER 0.2.2.0 released
* Xmas Skin 2006
* DVB-S DiSEqC motor support
* Forums revamped!
* Live TV on your cellphone/pda or web??
* Did you know that…
* Animation effects

Quicklinks
Download KAI MEDIA CENTER
TVEngineV3 / SVN builds
Plugins & Extensions
Manual (Wiki)
Bugtracker / Pastebin
WebIRC
New Plugins/Skins
Sep.30 PureVision
Sep.29 Australian TV Logos 200 x150
Sep.29 MyPlanner
Sep.28 ETVNet Russian TV-on-Demand
Sep.28 Blue Portal
Random Screenshot

SVN-Changelog
KAI MEDIA CENTER ExternalDisplay
30/09/2007 [00:35h] JoeDalton added: cybrmage fixed a bug in the Soundgraph iMon LCD driver

KAI MEDIA CENTER ExternalDisplay
30/09/2007 [00:34h] JoeDalton added: Added Matrix Orbital GX Series driver

KAI MEDIA CENTER Teletext
29/09/2007 [21:52h] MrHipp added: Further optimizations to Teletext Page Renderer

KAI MEDIA CENTER myVideo
29/09/2007 [19:16h] Bavarian added: fixing mantis bug 1114: OSD doesnt dissapear when film start is reached after fast-reverse

KAI MEDIA CENTER Music
29/09/2007 [14:55h] hwahrmann added: PLayback of asx files failed, if the last entry is a http reference and is not available

KAI MEDIA CENTER supports tv-cards from

* Digital Everywhere
* Hauppauge
* AVerMedia
* Pinnacle
* Technotrend
* Twinhan
* KNC One
* Technisat
* Dvico
* FlyTV
* and many more

KAI MEDIA CENTER, your digital video recorder