MediaMVP connects to your TV set, and allows you to watch and listen to PC based media via an Ethernet network.

Watch digital camera slide shows with music on your TV set!

Watch any MPEG videos (especially those recorded with the Hauppauge WinTVs) on your TV set!

Navigate through your PC media on your TV set, selecting individual music titles to listen to or digital pictures to watch. You can simultaneously play a digital picture slideshow while listening to a complete music program. Or play a music playlist (MusicMatch, Winamp and Windows Media playlists supported).

Create MPEG videos on your PC with any Hauppauge WinTV or WinTV-PVR, and play them on your TV set. You can use Hauppauge's SoftPVR™ with any WinTV board to record videos in MPEG or DivX. For the best system performance, use a WinTV-PVR-150, WinTV-PVR-250, WinTV-PVR-350 or WinTV-PVR-usb2 with hardware MPEG recorder built-in. MediaMVP also supports most MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or DivX standard videos.

MediaMVPs remote control allows you to pause, fast forward and rewind through videos, plus pause music and picture shows. You can adjust the audio volume from MediaMVPs remote control, so you won’t need to use your TV sets remote at all!

Connect MediaMVP to your home theater system, for the ultimate home media network. Just connect the S-Video and stereo audio outputs to your home theater switch, and you'll be able to watch your digital videos and pictures on your TV set while listening to the digital audio on your home theater speakers!

MediaMVP is great when traveling with laptop computers. It's small enough to carry on vacations and business trips, so you can watch videos, digital pictures and listen to music on your hotel room TV set. All you need is an Ethernet cross over cable (not supplied) to directly connect MediaMVP with your laptop.

Technically speaking: MediaMVP is a Linux based digital media receiver based on a powerful IBM PowerPC processor. It includes a hardware MPEG decoder to process digital video movies, while music and digital pictures are software decoded by MediaMVP’s processor. It receives the digital media from a PC via an Ethernet LAN, decodes the media and outputs video through composite and S-Video connections, and audio through stereo audio output connectors. MediaMVP and the PC operate in a 'client-server' system, where the MediaMVP requests menus and media from the PC, and the PC satisfies those requests. MediaMVP receives user commands from the infrared remote control and sends these commands to the PC server. Menus seen on the TV set are created via HTML on the PC and sent over the network to the MediaMVP for display on the TV set. Custom user interfaces for the TV set can be created by making new HTML screens on the PC.

• Watch and listen to PC based music, videos and pictures on your TV set
• Play slide shows with music, too!
  
• Connects to Ethernet networks with standard RJ-45 connectors
• Play MP3 music and music playlists (New! Now plays WMA audio)
• Play MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 videos (New! Now plays DivX movies!)
• Includes remote control for easy navigation from your TV set
• New! Now with Internet radio!
  

• MediaMVP video decoder
• Dedicated hardware decode support for MPEG-2 Transport Stream, MPEG-2 MP@ML, and MPEG-1. Decodes full CCIR601 resolution NTSC and PAL encoded MPEG-2 bit streams in real time, up to and including 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL).
• Hardware audio decoder: MPEG-1 level 2 (MP3) or level 3 (PCM audio not supported at this time).
• Decodes MPEG datarates from 1.5 Mbits/sec to 8 Mbits/sec
• Video output: composite, S-Video and RGB (Scart equipped models only)
• Upscales half screen resolution video to full screen. For example, MediaMVP will take 320x240 VCD video and play it full screen. It also offers a tunable Anti-Flicker Filter.
• Three level anti-flicker filter
• Outputs NTSC and PAL video, software selectable
• MediaMVP audio decoder
  
• Dedicated hardware decode support for MPEG-1 level 2 or level 3 audio (MP3 audio).
• Decodes MP3 audio with datarates up to 320 Kbits/sec, variable or fixed
• Decodes mono and stereo. Mono audio sent to both left and right channels.

Requirements

• TV Set
• Composite or S-Video input on North America models. Scart input on European models.
• Left and right audio input jacks (or Scart on European models)
• PC System
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Home, XP Professional or Windows2000
• 128MB RAM and 20GB hard disk space (minimum recommended)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
• Processor: 750MHz or faster. 1.8GHz P4 or faster to play DivX movies.
• CD-ROM drive for loading software
• Network
• One 10/100 RJ-45 port on a Router, Hub or Switch

• Direct connect from MediaMVP to PC via cross over LAN cable (not supplied)

Included

• MediaMVP digital media receiver device
• Stand
• Wall mounted power supply
• Remote control with batteries
• MediaMVP Installation CD-ROM
• MediaMVP QuickInstall Guide
• 1.5 meter A/V cable set
• 1.5 meter Ethernet cable