System requirements
| Optical drive required |
Y |
| Mac compatibility |
N |
| Minimum processor |
PC 750MHz |
| Minimum RAM |
256 MB |
Additionally
| Wireless technologies |
Wired & Wireless |
Wireless MediaMVP
MediaMVP is the link between a TV set and your PC, allowing you to watch and listen to PC based music, videos, digital pictures and Internet radio on your TV set. MediaMVP works with Ethernet wired networks, and connects through most access points, routers or switches.
Up to 24 wired MediaMVPs can be connected on a home network, or add up to four wireless MediaMVPs. Listen to PC music on one TV set while watching an MPEG movie on another. Play a PC based MPEG movie on one MediaMVP, stop it and then resume where you left off on another MediaMVP. MediaMVP and your PC make the ultimate home media system!
MediaMVP is simple to install: install the MediaMVP server application on your PC, then connect MediaMVP to your PC through a 10/100 RJ-45 Ethernet port on routers, hubs or switches. Plug MediaMVP into your TV set and in just a few minutes you’ll be able to play your PC based music, videos or digital pictures on your TV set!
Navigate through your PC media from your TV set, selecting MPEG or DivX® videos, individual music titles to listen to or digital pictures to watch. You can simultaneously play a picture slideshow while listening to a complete music tracks. Or play a music playlist (MusicMatch, Winamp and Windows Media playlists supported).
Play MPEG movies on your TV set. Create MPEG videos on your PC with Hauppauge's WinTV (optional), then play those videos on your TV set through MediaMVP. MediaMVP works with videos recorded with WinTV, WinTV-PVR and with our international digital TV tuners. MediaMVP also supports most standard MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and DivX® videos.
MediaMVPs remote control gives you complete control over your PC multimedia. Pause, fast forward, rewind, skip or fast skip through videos. Play and pause music and digital picture shows. You can adjust the audio volume from MediaMVPs remote control, so you won’t need to use your TV's remote control.
Connect MediaMVP to your home theater system! Connect MediaMVPs’ S/PDIF digital audio outputs to your home theater system and you'll be able to watch your digital videos and pictures on your TV set while listening to MediaMVP audio through your home theater speakers!
MediaMVP can be connected directly to your PC or laptop. All you need is an Ethernet cross over cable (available at most computer shops) to directly connect MediaMVP with your laptop.
Technically speaking
MediaMVP is a Linux based digital media receiver. Inside MediaMVP is a high performance IBM PowerPC processor and a hardware MPEG audio/video decoder for MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 videos and MP3 music.
MediaMVP receives digital media from the PC via the Ethernet LAN, decodes the media and outputs audio/video to the TV set through the S-Video and composite A/V connectors. Digital pictures are software decoded by MediaMVP’s processor.
The MediaMVP Server application creates menus on the PC, which are transmitted over the LAN to the MediaMVP, where it provides the on-TV-screen display. MediaMVP receives commands from the supplied remote control, and sends these commands to the PC server, where the remote control commands are executed.
