Media Portal / TV Server 1.0 RC1 ...

As Team Media Portal has decided to release the first release candidate version of Media Portal and TV Server in one easy to use Deploy Tool, I decided to start all over again once more....

After uninstalling the previous installation, which means removing Media Portal 0.2.3, TV Server and Microsoft SQLServer Express, and of course downloading the latest RC1 version from the Media Portal site, the installation can start by launching the downloaded file:

Just pressing the Install button starts the extraction process, and the actual installation -you have the option here to change the extract directory (I am just using the defaults supplied) - starts with the option to select the language used during installation:

I decided to leave the default option, being english, to allow you all to follow the installation. The next step in the installation process is selecting whether an install is to be performed, or only the necessary components to be downloaded from the net (the latter will enable you to install the package on a machine without an internet connection):

As my machine is connected to the internet, and I want to install the software, I picked the default choice of "Start the installation now". The next choice is determining whether we want to use the system to watch TV:

As I certainly wish to use Media Portal for watching TV, I kept the default selection, and pressed Next....:

Are we also watching HD content? Indirectly this is asking whether to use TV Server or the original Media Portal TV Client. As I wish to use the TV Server package, I kept the default choice once again. Next we have to determine whether we want a One Click Installation from here onwards, or we want to change any of the default settings.

As I want to make sure that the software will be using the right directories to store it's data, I selected the - non default - advanced installation.

The first step in the advanced installation is to decide if TV Server will be running on the same machine, or on a different machine in the network.

My Media Center machine has the TV Card built in, so it will also be used as the TV Server machine, so I selected the first option. Unfortunately the screen capture of this screen was not done very well, my apologies for that.

Now we have to decide which database engine we want to use with TV Server. TV Server needs a database engine to store information with respect to recordings and the like. I select the default Microsoft database server, and as I removed everything before starting this install, the install tool has to install it.

The configuration screen for the MS SQL Express server pops up next. I kept the defaults. Be sure to remember the admin password - default "MediaPortal" - as we will need that later in the configuration process.

The default Media Portal Installation directory is fine with me, so I kept the default once more.

The same applies to the TV Server Installation directory, so I pressed Next again. Which reveals the overview of the actions that will be taken by the installation program when you press Install.

After pressing install, the system will download and install all the software for you. Note that during the installationg of MS SQL Express an intermediate dialog pops up:

After all the download and installation steps have been completed, the status will be updated:

Pressing Next show the final screen of the installation tool:

After pressing Exit on this one, we can start the configuration of the TV Server, which I will show you in the next posting.