Media Player (en)

The Enigma2 Media Player

Intoduction

The Media Player was developed as part of the Open Embedded project.

It is therefore delivered with all standard images, unless the image builder chooses to exclude it.

The Media Player is able to play all the different media formats supported by the box it is running on,
for example TS-Streams and MP3's. On the DreamBox 8000 it can also play AVI's.

Note the accent is upon play. It does not display pictures (jpeg bmp tiff).

To open the Media Player use the <Menu> Button on the remote control use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the entry 'Media Player' and then select it using the 'OK' key.

Main Menu

Main Panel

When you start the Media Player for the first time it looks like this. To start finding your way about in the media player, try pressing the <HELP> button on the remote control, all the functions available are listed together with which key they are assigned to.

Media Player Main Panel Note that this window is divided into three parts. In the top part you can see information about the currently playing media (information), in the middle part, you can see the navigable directorty sctructure (file tree), at the bottom (playlist) the currently selected media files - as you have not selected anything yet it is empty. Functional Summary Use the arrow keys on the remote control (up and down) to move to a directory you want to browse, select that entry with <OK>, The entry <parent Directory> in the file tree returns you to the directory you came from. This allows you to navigate in the directory tree. If you press <OK> while the highlight selection is on a file, that file will be added to the playlist, you can move between the playlist and the file tree by using the <BOUQUET> rocker keys (+)file tree (-)Playlist, press <OK> on an entry in the playlist and the media player will start to play the playlist from that point. When a music title is being played the information available in the file (mp3) will be displayed and the CD cover will also be displayed if available. You can exit the Media Player at any time by using the <EXIT> key. In the information area there is also a solid line that shows how much of the file has currently been played, as well as icons for rewind (red) play (green) pause (yellow) and fast forward (blue). They are there to remind you that the these functions are available during playback on the colour keys of the remote control. <RED> <GREEN> <YELLOW> <BLUE>. However these keys do not work as expected. Red skips to the previous playlist entry , blue skips forward to the next playlist entry, yellow selects any audio options and green appears to do nothing.

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Additional Playlist Functions and Media Player Settings

Playlist functions for the Media Player can accessed by pressing the <MENU> key on the remote control. Note that the menu is different depending on where it is called from (File Tree or Playlist).

Here is the menu you get when you are in the File Tree

Mediaplayer Menu <1> Adds all the files in the highlighted directory to the playlist <2> Moves the focus to the playlist <3> The current highlighted file in the File Tree is deleted <4> The player is made invisible, <5> The name of a file containing a playlist will be prompted for and the playlist will be loaded <6> The name of a file containing a playlist will be prompted for from a select list and the playlist will be saved, if it is left blank the current date and time will be used <7> The name of a file containing a playlist will be prompted for from a select list and the playlist will be deleted The playlists are stored in the flash filesystem directory /etc/enigma2/playlist with the suffix e2pls, the current playlist is stored in the file /etc/enigma2/playlist.e2pls

The <8> key gives you access to the settings menu.

Mediaplayer Settings

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Here is the menu you get when you are in the Playlist. It has one extra entry 'Shuffle Playlist'.

Mediaplayer Menu <1> Adds all the files in the highlighted directory to the playlist <2> Moves the focus to the playlist <3> The current highlighted file in the File Tree is deleted <4> The player is made invisible, <5> The name of a file containing a playlist will be prompted for and the playlist will be loaded <6> The name of a file containing a playlist will be prompted for from a select list and the playlist will be saved, if it is left blank the current date and time will be used <7> The name of a file containing a playlist will be prompted for from a select list and the playlist will be deleted The playlists are stored in .....

The <9> key gives you access to the settings menu.

Mediaplayer Settings

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Medienwiedergabe

Um Medien abspielen zu können muss man sich nun durch seine Verzeichnisse Angeln.

Verzeichniswahl des Mediaplayers Drückt man hier dann die OK-Taste wird der film zur Wiedergabeliste (unteres Fenster) hinzugefügt und startet auch gleich.

Um mehrere Medien auszuwählen um diese in der Wiedergabeliste aufzunehmen drückt man einfach die Pfeilstasten <rechts>/<links> um wieder ins Auswahlfenster der Medienwiedergabe zu gelangen.

Verzeichniswahl des Mediaplayers Vorsicht: der Mediaplayer reagiert "beschissen" drückt man zu lange oder wiederholt die OK-TAste bekomt man die gleiche Datei mehrfach in die Wiedergabeliste.

Läuft nun eine Media-Datei kann man nun mittels den Pfeiltasten <rechts>/<links> wieder ins Auswahlfenster des Medienwiedergabe zu gelangen und sich nun weitere Medien mittels der OK-Taste hinzufügen "ohne" das diese sofort abgespielt werden.

Verzeichniswahl des Mediaplayers Vorsicht: der Mediaplayer reagiert "beschissen" drückt man zu lange oder wiederholt die OK-TAste bekomt man die gleiche Datei mehrfach in die Wiedergabeliste. Tipp: Sollte es sich bei der Mediadatei um einen TS-Stream handeln, kann man mittels der <Info>-Taste auch das EPG aufrufen. Mit der <video>-Taste kann die weiss unterlegte Mediadatei aus der Wiedergabeliste gelöscht werden.

Um wieder das Fenster zu schließen (zum ansehen des laufendes Filmes) muss man auf den laufenden Film den Courser setzten (weiss unterlegt) und die <OK>-Taste zu drücken. Durch drücken der <Exit>-Taste wird der Mediaplayer beendet.

Das spulen funktioniert nicht im Mediaplayer (ewiger Bug) am besten springt man mittels den Zahlentasten

Um zwischen den oberen Auswahlbereich und dem unteren Bereich (Wiedergabeliste zu wechseln benutzt man am besten die Plus + / Minus - Taste der Bouquettasten.

Verzeichniswahl des Mediaplayers

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