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MediathekCockpit lets you search the German-language public broadcasters' Mediatheken (ARD, ZDF, 3sat, ARTE, KiKA, the regional ARD stations, ORF, SRF and more) from your set-top box. You can watch a programme at once, with the full control of a recording (pause, skip, resume), or download it as a file that then sits in your movie directory like any recording.
This wiki describes version 0.15.1.
- Search the Mediatheken by title or topic, by channel, or straight from the EPG of the programme you are watching. See Searching.
- Play with recording-style control. Pause, skip forward and back, and resume like with a recording, even though the programme is a stream. See Playback.
- Download programmes, several at a time, with cover, description and channel, so they appear in MovieCockpit with a cover and a channel logo. See Downloads.
- Filter the noise. Hide audio-described versions, trailers, sign-language versions and very short clips.
- Hook into other plugins. MovieCockpit's info screen and the EPG info of Enigma2 can open MediathekCockpit with the programme's title already searched. See Integration.
The programme data comes from the public MediathekViewWeb service (mediathekviewweb.de), which collects the listings of the Mediatheken. MediathekCockpit has no catalogue of its own. The box needs an Internet connection.
| Page | For | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Installation | everyone | Requirements, installing, where it appears |
| User Guide | everyone | The screen, the list, paging, information screens |
| Keys and Buttons | everyone | Every key |
| Searching | everyone | Text search, channels, filters, what the entries show |
| Playback | everyone | How watching works and what happens to the temporary file |
| Downloads | everyone | Quality, file names, what is saved, the download manager |
| Settings | everyone | Every setting |
| Channels and Logos | everyone | Channel logos, channel mapping for MovieCockpit |
| Integration | everyone | How MovieCockpit and the EPG open it |
| Troubleshooting | everyone | Problems, logging, limitations |
| Plugin | Relation |
|---|---|
| JobCockpit (JOC) | Runs and shows the downloads (job manager id MTC) and the temporary playback download (TMP) |
| CacheCockpit (CAC) | Newly downloaded files are added to MovieCockpit's cache |
| MovieCockpit (MVC) | Shows the downloaded files; offers a "Mediathek Download" button |
| ComponentsCockpit | Skin components |
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