It is our pleasure to announce the release of the MeediOS Installer v0.4.5. Special thanks goes to skypichat for all his hard work on the installer and dakkar for the hours of work he has put into the GUI setup features. Yes you can now configure your media locations from inside MeediOS! There are also many fixes and stability improvements so come join us on the forums or irc to leave some feedback.

MeediOS is incredibly versatile and it never ceases to amaze me what people come up with. We have had a ROM importer since the early days of MeediOS but no obvious way view the data or launch the emulators. Forum member senortinto recently posted some amazing screenshots of his ROM setup that he's managed to put together. He uses a combination of erebus44's ROM importer plugin, as well as playmee to launch the roms and modified evolution screens. The end result of his hard work is a very capable console game management system.

The great strength of MeediOS has always been its database features, so its good to see someone coming up with a plugin to automatically group Movie Series. Ccrocker on our forums just released his Freebase scraper plugin which creates the 'FilmSeries', 'Sequel' and 'Prequel' fields in your Movie library. Using these new fields, we can create all kinds of interesting views such as boxsets, sequels or maybe future "play next in movie series" functionality in Themes.

The MeediOS project has been going 5 years and probably the biggest single feature request has been for a simple to use internal video player. Many advanced users have been happy using Zoomplayer, VLC or MPC-HC but its wasn't the out-of-the-box experience that some people expected. So up steps reverson1 and after a very steep learning curve he managed to write a completely new video renderer. No config is necessary, you just need the correct windows codecs installed. Check it out in the latest 0.3.5 release.

It is our pleasure to announce the release of the MeediOS Installer v0.3.5. Special thanks goes to skypichat for all his hard work on the installer and reverson1 for the hours of work he has put into the internal video player. Yes the new video player is included in this build! There are also many fixes and stability improvements so come join us on the forums or irc to leave some feedback.

MeediOS is built with an "Everything is a plugin" ideology which makes it incredibly easy to change even the most fundamental parts of the software. banderson1311 on our forums took a look at the back end database and decided that using PostgreSQL could solve a number of limitations of the current SQLite plugin. The addition of this database plugin will hopefully allow full client server functionality of MeediOS, so many clients can be run all around your house and be kept in sync. The code was committed to SVN this week so feel free to follow the thread and try it out.

Evolution 1.3.6 is out of the door. Grab it while its hot! New features include extra theme animations, details and now playing updates, new 'efstrip popup' view(shown above) and the usual bug fixes and code optimizations. The release of this theme means we are very close to the full MeediOS installer v0.4 being made available. Look out for for an announcement soon.