OpenPLi Wiki: PLi� specific features

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This is an old revision of PliFeatures made by jonc on 2008-06-11 05:05:23.

PLi� specific features - E1 boxes

Below you will see a small example of the special functions and features found in our images for Enigma 1 or E1 boxes.

Audio / Video:

- Supports mp3, streaming mp3, video files and text files
- 32bit picture viewer
- Preferred audio language
- NTSC compatible, set PAL/NTSC default after flashing
- NTSC adjusted default layouts to center as many objects as possible
- PiG 500 and 56x0, hardware doesn't support PIG, therefore you can show a picture via the skin
- Commercial Skip Implementation (CSI): < is backward (15sec), > is forward (60sec)

EPG:

- USA DishNetwork EPG compatible, thx to the Nitro team for the Dish decryption routines.
(completely written from scratch, EPG descriptor parsing in EITEvent)
- Multi-EPG redesigned and updated, using PiG (Picture in Graphics) device, and more options to select (skin) colors for epg areas

Downloads / Updates:

- Preliminary support for ipkg packages in software download [ links to be added ]

SQLite:

- EPG in an SQLite database, data can be buffered, read and inserted in SQLite database (when /var on CF, HDD or USB), (also works on external mounts!)

Mounts:

- Mount points can be specified using host names or IP addresses
- Possibility to move /var to CF card
- var_flash dir, this dir is always mounted to the flash dir so can be used for copying the animations

Harddisk:

- Set spindown and accoustic parms when HDD is attached as slave drive

Skin / Graphic:

- Extra skin extensions Settings OSD skin

Timer:

- Timer offset now has a setting for start and end (start 5 minutes before start and end 10 minutes after end, settable in the WebIf.

The Web Interface (webif):

- PLi� version
- Enhanced Sat Finder - the Zoom function

Backup / Restore / USB / Menus:

- Backup / Restore script
- x% in use of your hard disk
- Start plugin via Help button via editing register

Satellites anD Transponders:

- Last scanned services bouquet: all scanned services are added to this new bouquet and should be removed manually
- Updated satellites.xml to a global worldwide satellite file so all satellites are directly available

Foreign Characters:

- Chinese version available (all Chinese menus) - we welcome your input in helping to write a wiki in Chinese
- Thai Skin available Media PLi Thai (Thai language EPG for Thaicom / True Visions / ASTV / Samart etc)

PLi� specific features - E2 boxes

Below you will see a small example of the special functions and features found in our images for Enigma 2 or E2 boxes.

= to be completed =

Highlights:

UPnP media server / client plugins
IDE/SCSI hard disk manager
DVD player plugin
Complete picon sets
Screen position adjust plugin (DM7025 only)

Enigma 2 or E2 as it is also called:

- 20080430 drivers for DM7025
- 20080515 drivers for DM800
- Some Crypto Info converter types and functionality added
- Scan Setup:

Cable transponder 'blind'-scan: make sure we don't miss transponders when we receive incomplete lines in our data Avail callback
Default cable scan 'steps' instead of 'bands', 'bands' doesn't find all transponders on Dutch Cable network

- Don't create a 'largefile' ext3 fs on a small (<=4GB) device, that wouldn't allow us to e.g. install a lot of picons on a relatively small CF
- Added picon install location selection screen
- Only allow to install picons on filey stems which support symlinks
- Always allow picons to be installed on HDD, with the new selection screen it's your own responsibility
- Rewrote hard disk manager, support scsi and ide devices
- Show correct hard disk capacity
- Media Player:

Support ':' in paths
Use an absolute path when a play list entry starts with 'http://'

- Record Timer (and parseEvent): fall back to the extended description, when an event doesn't have a short description
- Join short/extended description, when the short description is so long that it looks like a situation where short and extended contain parts of a single full description

EPG

- Fill Now/Next with EPGcache, untill EIT arrives
- Implemented Now/Next refresh timer, started when the EIT reader stops with an error (EPG cache now/next will be used instead)
- Implemented context menu for event view (open with 'menu' or 'info' key while in event view window)

IMDB plugin installs itself into this menu

Enigma 2 Plugins:

- PPanels: avoid BSOD when 'pipe' fails (it often fails with errno 12, 'Cannot allocate memory')
- Remote control channel config plugin
- Lip Sync plugin: store audio delay as Enigma2 config values, set audio delay at startup, no longer depend on /etc/init.d/bootup to copy the values at boot up
- RSS reader: fix some escaped characters in the RSS data
- New RSS Reader feeds
- Mount Manager plugin:

Do network mounts when Enigma2 starts, no longer depend on /etc/init.d/bootup to perform the mounts

- enigma2 plugins 20080512 (including dvdplayer)
- opencam 2.0.13
- mgcamd 1.29
- CCcam 2.08
- rqcamd 0.74
- scam 3.29

UPnP Plugins:

- UShare mediaserver
- djmount mediaclient

Skins Enigma 2:

- All Global provider picons for Radio and TV per Satellite added
- Dutch TV Home picons added (thx to Xilorp)
- 'Crypto Info' convertor added.
- Torkoise Skin added:

updates by mimi74

- Nemesis.Black Box skin:

'Decode Info' as example for Crypt Info converter usage added

- Rewrote Picon renderer, some speedups, check /picon/, check if /media/hdd/picon/ exists at startup, add that path to the search list only if it exists
- Nemesis Chromeline Skin added (PLi modded)
- Glassline Skin added (PLi modded)

Languages:

- Several other languages updated

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