MyTheatre is a modern multimedia application for end user which allows watch Satellite TV and Radio, playback multimedia files (mpg, mp3, DivX and many others) and DVD. MyTheatre is highly integrated application. Main purpose of this application is to turn PC to Home Theatre PC (HTPC). Sitting on sofa, management by remote control and see on TV-Set
Features of MyTheatre:
- Support various DVB cards:
DVB-S (Satellite):
- Cards with BDA compatible drivers.
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- Technisat SkyStar-2 (PCI and USB)
- TwinHan VisionPlus including OEM versions
- Pinnacle PCTVSat
- Aver DVB-S
- BroadLogic 2030/2035
- NetCast PCI
- Hauppauge DEC3000
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
DVB-C (Cable):
- Cards with BDA compatible drivers.
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- TwinHan VisionPlus
- NetCast PCI (need test)
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
DVB-T (Terrestrial):
- Cards with BDA compatible drivers.
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- TwinHan VisionPlus
- NetCast PCI (need test)
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
Common Interface Support:
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- TwinHan VisionDTV
- Pinnacle PCTVSat
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
Remote Control Support:
- Integrated Technotrend Premium and Budget PCI
- Integrated Hauppauge Nexus and Nova PCI
- TwinHan USB Remote Control
- Pinnacle PCTV-Sat COM(RS232) Remote Control
- Realmagic XCard COM(RS232) Remote Control
- ATI RemoteWonder
- Thomson TAK Interactive TV Keyboard
- Other remote control supported through plugins
Some other manufacturers use OEM versions of these cards, and thus supported too.
- DiSEqC v1.0(2.0), v1.1, v1.2- Support Common Interface (Nova CI, SkyStar-1 CI, TwinHan VP1030)
- recording and archiving television and radio broadcasts without any quality loss.
- playback almost any multimedia files and DVD disks.
- Electronic Program Guide.
- Channels and EPG served in most popular database format which allow quickly create
numerous parsers and converters to TXT, HTML and other human readable formats.
- Independent Video Render (IVR) mode for better usability.- Support hardware MPEG2 decoding for SkyStar-1 cards
- On-Screen Display for comfortable management by Remote Controls (RC)
- Support wide variety RCs including native SkyStar-1 RC and TwinHan RC.
- Enhanced add-on for TwinHan RC
- Support Widescreen TV-Sets and video source
- Modern Non-Linear 4:3 <-> 16:9 Video transformation for better look.
- Automatic PAL/NTSC switching for Matrox DualHead videocards
- Timeshift allows pause live video and continue later without skipping fragments.
It also allows positioning back an watch already seen episode in case you missed
something or want record that episode.
- AC3 audio recording
- Stereo/Dual-Mono mode (for SS1 hardware and also for InterVideo audio decoder)
- Speakers setup with Dolby Prologic I/II capability
- Favorite lists of channels
- Comfortable media playback with playlists (support WPL, M3U, TXT, LST lists)
- DVD playback with many Audio/Video settings
- TwinHan and SkyStar-2 cards switch LNB power off which is useful when LNB
sharing between several receivers
- Lock unwanted channels against children
- Skin interface which allows choose or create look of MyTheatre as you wish
- Many plugins which extend power of MyTheatre
- ... and many other features!
MyTheatre constantly in improvement state. Thus expect many and many other new features!
OS:
Windows 2000/XP/2003 (depend on DVB card driver support).
CPU:
Pentium 4 or Athlon 1700MHz or above (2GHz is preferred)
Video Cards for simple video:
nVidia GeForce.
ATI Radeon.
Matrox G400 or better.
MyTheatre is shareware program which mean you can download and try it before buy.
Only restriction: Trial version works 1 hour per start.
Full Package v3.25.1
~16MB Lite Package v3.25.1
(without additional skins, help, and drivers) ~7MB Update From v3.21 to v3.25.1
(without any updates in skins, help and drivers) ~3MB
Attention! if you use bundled version of MyTheatre then you have to download any updates from manufacturer site!
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Previous versions
Beta version usually less stable than regular versions. If you have problems with this version then use regular versions (listed above).
Features of MyTheatre:
- Support various DVB cards:
DVB-S (Satellite):
- Cards with BDA compatible drivers.
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- Technisat SkyStar-2 (PCI and USB)
- TwinHan VisionPlus including OEM versions
- Pinnacle PCTVSat
- Aver DVB-S
- BroadLogic 2030/2035
- NetCast PCI
- Hauppauge DEC3000
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
DVB-C (Cable):
- Cards with BDA compatible drivers.
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- TwinHan VisionPlus
- NetCast PCI (need test)
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
DVB-T (Terrestrial):
- Cards with BDA compatible drivers.
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- TwinHan VisionPlus
- NetCast PCI (need test)
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
Common Interface Support:
- Technotrend Premium (SkyStar-1)
- Technotrend Budget PCI
- Hauppauge Nexus
- Hauppauge WinTV Nova PCI
- TwinHan VisionDTV
- Pinnacle PCTVSat
- Technotrend MicroPlus
- Digital Everywhere FireDTV
Remote Control Support:
- Integrated Technotrend Premium and Budget PCI
- Integrated Hauppauge Nexus and Nova PCI
- TwinHan USB Remote Control
- Pinnacle PCTV-Sat COM(RS232) Remote Control
- Realmagic XCard COM(RS232) Remote Control
- ATI RemoteWonder
- Thomson TAK Interactive TV Keyboard
- Other remote control supported through plugins
Some other manufacturers use OEM versions of these cards, and thus supported too.
- DiSEqC v1.0(2.0), v1.1, v1.2- Support Common Interface (Nova CI, SkyStar-1 CI, TwinHan VP1030)
- recording and archiving television and radio broadcasts without any quality loss.
- playback almost any multimedia files and DVD disks.
- Electronic Program Guide.
- Channels and EPG served in most popular database format which allow quickly create
numerous parsers and converters to TXT, HTML and other human readable formats.
- Independent Video Render (IVR) mode for better usability.- Support hardware MPEG2 decoding for SkyStar-1 cards
- On-Screen Display for comfortable management by Remote Controls (RC)
- Support wide variety RCs including native SkyStar-1 RC and TwinHan RC.
- Enhanced add-on for TwinHan RC
- Support Widescreen TV-Sets and video source
- Modern Non-Linear 4:3 <-> 16:9 Video transformation for better look.
- Automatic PAL/NTSC switching for Matrox DualHead videocards
- Timeshift allows pause live video and continue later without skipping fragments.
It also allows positioning back an watch already seen episode in case you missed
something or want record that episode.
- AC3 audio recording
- Stereo/Dual-Mono mode (for SS1 hardware and also for InterVideo audio decoder)
- Speakers setup with Dolby Prologic I/II capability
- Favorite lists of channels
- Comfortable media playback with playlists (support WPL, M3U, TXT, LST lists)
- DVD playback with many Audio/Video settings
- TwinHan and SkyStar-2 cards switch LNB power off which is useful when LNB
sharing between several receivers
- Lock unwanted channels against children
- Skin interface which allows choose or create look of MyTheatre as you wish
- Many plugins which extend power of MyTheatre
- ... and many other features!
MyTheatre constantly in improvement state. Thus expect many and many other new features!
System Requirements
OS:
Windows 2000/XP/2003 (depend on DVB card driver support).
CPU:
Pentium 4 or Athlon 1700MHz or above (2GHz is preferred)
Video Cards for simple video:
nVidia GeForce.
ATI Radeon.
Matrox G400 or better.
Video Cards for OSD functions:
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 or better;
nVidia GeForce FX5700 or better. Video RAM: 64MB or higher
ATI Radeon 9600 or better. Video RAM: 64MB or higher
Matrox G400/450/550 32MB, 650/750/Parhelia 64MB or higher
For high quality TV-Out:
MatroxG550 DualHead 32MB (CPU must be 2.4GHz minimum for OSD)
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 or better;
nVidia GeForce FX5700 or better. Video RAM: 64MB or higher
ATI Radeon 9600 or better. Video RAM: 64MB or higher
Matrox G400/450/550 32MB, 650/750/Parhelia 64MB or higher
For high quality TV-Out:
MatroxG550 DualHead 32MB (CPU must be 2.4GHz minimum for OSD)
Licensing info/Download
MyTheatre is shareware program which mean you can download and try it before buy.
Only restriction: Trial version works 1 hour per start.
Beginning from v3.11 MyTheatre requires new license. If you're registered user and you're using version prior v3.11 then you can request new license for free.
Full Package v3.25.1
~16MB Lite Package v3.25.1
(without additional skins, help, and drivers) ~7MB Update From v3.21 to v3.25.1
(without any updates in skins, help and drivers) ~3MB
Attention! if you use bundled version of MyTheatre then you have to download any updates from manufacturer site!
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Previous versions
Full Package v3.21
~15MB Beta/Test Versions
Beta version usually less stable than regular versions. If you have problems with this version then use regular versions (listed above).
latest Beta version - none