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- Press PVR or VIDEO in TV mode (this replaces the standard movie list), or
- start MovieCockpit ("Manage recordings") from the plugin menu.
Leave with EXIT (or POWER, HOME, TV).
Where the list opens depends on Show bookmark content on start. On (the default) it always opens the home directory. Off, it opens the directory and entry you were on when you left it.
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| MovieCockpit - Videos - <folder> | title bar
| [sort] Date sort down [disk] hdd: 42.5%, usb: 18.0% | sort mode, disk usage
| |
| list of recordings | cover |
| icon title date | title |
| (progress bar, picon) | length, description, |
| | extended description |
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| <1> Delete | Sort mode | Move | Trashcan Menu Info | colour buttons, level
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- Title bar shows the plugin, Videos (or .Trash inside the trashcan) and the folder relative to its bookmark.
- Sort mode shows how the current folder is sorted (see below).
- Disk usage lists the used percentage of every mounted bookmark disk.
- Details on the right update shortly after you stop moving the cursor (200 ms by default), so scrolling through a long list stays fast.
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Colour buttons at the bottom change meaning with the level shown as
<1>...<4>. See Keys and Buttons.
| Part | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Icon | Folder, back arrow (..), link, trashcan, or a movie in one of four states (below) |
| Title | The programme title (from the EIT file, falling back to the meta file or the file name) |
| Date column | Programme start, formatted per the date format setting. For folders: the folder information. While a file operation runs on the entry: Deleting, Moving, Copying or Loading |
| Progress bar | How far you have watched, or how far a running recording has progressed |
| Picon | The channel logo of the recording |
| State | When |
|---|---|
| Default | Not started, or less than Watching in progress percent watched (default 10 %) |
| Watching | At least Watching in progress percent watched (default 10 %) |
| Finished | At least Finished watching percent watched (default 90 %) |
| Recording | The recording is running right now |
The colours come from the skin, there are no colour settings:
- Normal entries use the text colour of the skin's list, and the highlighted colour of the skin for the row under the cursor.
- A running recording is shown in the skin's error colour (red), also when the cursor is on it.
- Entries that you have marked, or that a file operation currently holds, are shown in the skin's yellow, also when the cursor is on them. This wins over the red of a recording.
The colours change with the skin and with its light or dark colour set. See Skinning.
For folders the date column can show nothing, the word directory, the number of recordings in it (12),
the number and total size (12/84 GB), or just the size (84 GB). Choose it with Show directories information.
The trashcan has its own setting, Show trashcan information. The .. row shows up.
FAST FORWARD and REWIND cycle through four ways of filling the list. There is no on-screen label; the list simply changes. The choice is remembered.
| Mode | The list shows |
|---|---|
| 0 | Recordings of the current folder only. No folders |
| 1 | Folders first, then the recordings of the current folder (default) |
| 2 | All recordings from all folders below the home directory, as one flat list |
| 3 | The recordings of the current folder with its sub-folders mixed in. Empty sub-folders are hidden, and a sub-folder containing exactly one recording shows that recording instead of the folder |
Mode 2 is useful to find a recording when you do not remember the folder. Mode 3 gives a compact view of series folders.
Each folder remembers its own sort mode. Green at level 1 changes the sort mode (date or alphabetical), and green at level 2 flips the order.
| Mode | Order |
|---|---|
| Date sort down | Newest first (default) |
| Date sort up | Oldest first |
| Alpha sort up | A to Z |
| Alpha sort down | Z to A |
Entries that compare equal are ordered by the other criterion (title for date sort, date for alphabetical sort).
The mode is saved in the cache and in a small .sort file inside the folder, so it survives a cache reload. A series folder you create yourself starts as Date sort up, so the episodes are in
order.
Most functions work on the marked entries. If nothing is marked they work on the entry under the cursor.
- VIDEO / PVR (short press) marks or unmarks the entry under the cursor and moves down.
- VIDEO / PVR (long press) unmarks everything.
- The
..row cannot be marked. - Marked entries are shown in the skin's yellow, see Colours.
After a function runs on the entry under the cursor, the cursor moves on to the next entry, so you can work through a list by repeating the same key.
Press OK on a recording. A folder opens instead. Details are in Playback. If the file does not exist any more, a message tells you which one.
- INFO (short press) opens the EPG info of the programme: title, times, description, extended description. From there yellow opens the TMDB info (if TMDBCockpit is installed) and blue starts a Mediathek search/download (if MediathekCockpit is installed).
- INFO (long press) goes straight to the TMDB info.
- Key 5 opens Recording Info, a technical page listing path, file name, the times stored in the cache,
and what the
.eit,.metaand.xmetafiles contain. It is the first place to look when a time or length looks wrong. See Troubleshooting.
- MENU (short press) opens the function menu: Home, Directory up, Delete, Move, Copy, Create series directory, Move to series directory, Empty trashcan, Delete cover, Bookmarks, Archive (if enabled), Reload cache, Remove all marks, Setup, About.
- MENU (long press) opens the plugins menu with every plugin that registers itself for the movie list (for example subtitle or convert tools). It acts on the entry under the cursor.