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[edit] The history of My Media System

The first two paragraphs written from the view of Anders Rune Jensen.

The project My Media System was started as Mpeg Menu System in the summer of 2002. It was started because at the time there was no Free Software projects that fulfilled my needs for a media system. My needs was a menu system for the dxr3 card which I could use to play music and watch movies. The only other system which was somewhat comparable in its features was vdr. I decided that changing vdr into what I needed was going to be a very ugly and probably be more time consuming than creating my own project. Since that time, two somewhat similar projects has appeared, freevo and mythtv. They are both PVR projects and started about the same time as mms was.

After having developed mms for about half a year it was becoming clear that the design did not scale very well to new features. This meant that mms was rewritten in the late 2002 and mmsv2 was released on 01-Jan-2003. The last version of mms was 0.54 and the first version of mmsv2 was 0.60. The reason not to start the version scheme from scratch was that mmsv2 0.60 provided the same kind of features as mms 0.54 did, it was just a much cleaner core. After mmsv2 was released, development speed increased. This resulted in a new release 1-2 times a month. The changes was mainly bugfixes and small feature enhancements. Noticeable improvements from other developers include framebuffer support by Luis.F.Correia, new config system by NVignot and five translations. Since version 0.80 was released the huge amount of releases died of, this was because the new features for 0.90 required some big changes that couldn't be incrementally added. This meant that the next version 0.90 was released 3 months after 0.80.

At the end of 2005 an official Forum [1] and this wiki were founded. The official stable release is 1.0.7. The next release 1.0.8 is almost finished and is in freeze right now to lure out all the last bugs.

After four years it was time for a new name since mms has grown out of its mpeg-only output starting point and into a full media system. The new name, My Media System, was selected with overall concensus from the forum users. A new domain, www.mymediasystem.com was registered.

The next major release, 1.1.0 will support plugins but is still at early alpha-stage at the moment. Testers welcome!

23:17, 1 December 2007 (CET) UPDATE: Release Candidate 1 is coming closer.