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User Guide

Opening

  • From the plugin menu or the extensions menu: MediathekCockpit. The list opens with the newest programmes of all channels.
  • From the EPG info of a programme: Mediathek Downloads. A keyboard opens with the programme's title, ready to search.
  • From MovieCockpit: blue in the info screen. Same keyboard, with the title of the recording.

Leave with EXIT or RED.

The screen

+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| MediathekCockpit - Movies - Search results - Page: 1/5        |
|                                                               |
|  [logo] ARD                 Tatort (S12/E4)       |  description |
|         21.10.2026 20:15    Der Pott              |  of the      |
|  [logo] ...                                       |  selected    |
|                                                   |  entry       |
|                                                   |  Duration:   |
|                                                   |  90 Minutes  |
|  Exit      Channels      Download       Search    Menu  Info    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+

Each row shows:

Part Content
Logo and channel The broadcaster's logo (if there is one for it, see Channels and Logos) and the channel name
Date and time When the programme was broadcast (or published), below the channel name
Name The programme or series name, with the season and episode in brackets, e.g. Tatort (S12/E4)
Second line The episode title, in grey

The pane on the right shows the description of the selected entry and its duration in minutes.

Paging

The list does not load everything. It loads a page of as many entries as the setting Entries in list says (default 120) and shows Page: n/m in the title.

  • Move down past the last entry and the next page is appended to the list. Scrolling continues seamlessly.
  • CHANNEL+ / CHANNEL- jump up or down by one whole page.
  • LEFT / RIGHT jump by 12 rows.

A new search or channel choice starts again at the first page.

The entries that the filters remove (see Searching) are removed from the page after it is loaded, so a page can show fewer entries than the page size.

Choosing something to do

Button Does
OK Watch the selected programme now. See Playback
Yellow Download it. See Downloads
Blue Search again. The keyboard opens with the name of the selected entry
Green Choose a channel
MENU Download manager, Settings, About
INFO Description, time, duration and channel of the selected entry
5 The raw data of the entry (for troubleshooting)

The information screens

INFO shows the programme: its name as the title, the date and time, the duration, the channel and the full description (short description first, then the long one).

5 (Movie Info) lists every field of the entry as MediathekViewWeb delivered it: channel, topic, title, description, time, date, duration, size, id, the three video addresses (low, medium, HD), the website address, the time stamp, the event name and the short description. Use it to see whether a programme has an HD version, or what the download would fetch.

The menu

MENU opens a short list:

Entry Does
Download Manager Opens JobCockpit's list of this plugin's downloads (progress, cancel)
Settings The settings. Page size and the future movies choice apply to the next search
About Version and licence

MediathekCockpit

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