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Ajpanel_v9.4.0

- Added new option "Move Selected Item" to Custom Menu (to change the position of items in main menu).
- Added "General Guide" to main page menu to show some AJPanel general help.
- Improved AJPanel Update to internally use the new URL ( https://github.com/AMAJamry/AJPanel ).
.. The file "ajpanel_update_url" is no longer needed for the update process.
- Added the option "EPG Events Counter" to EPG Page (to count the events for all DVB & IPTV channels).
- Improved "M3U/M3U8 File Browser":
.. To play M3U/M3U8 files that contain DVB channels and Local media files.
.. To show current file name in INFO.
- Improved File Manager to handle ".m3u" files in "M3U/M3U8 File Browser" (instead of trying to play it).
- Improved IPTV Favourite menu items to show server host when Menu button is clicked.
- Improved reading portal Host/MAC from files wih more formats.
- Improved skipping adults channels and categories.
- Improved "XML-TV Tools".
.. Improved the Green Button to pick a Channel-Reference file (if file is not initially set).
.. Improved the process to cache the total tags per XML file (for faster process).
- Improved PIcons page (Green Button) to locate the current PIcon (if current channel name is used as file name).
- Improved "Restore" pages:
.. Added "Rename" (Blue Button) to partially rename backup files.
.. Added INFO Button to show selected file information.
- Improved Player Bar option ("Start Download") to be available for some URL structures.
- Improved "Dev. Info." >> "Settings File" data to be tabulated.
- Fixed Portal Files Editor to point to the current line number.
- Fixed portal download from tables options "Download Current Movie" and "Download Current Series".
- Fixed the problem of showing "Processing ..." followed by no action.
- Fixed a crash on VTi (in File Manager) when browsing a directory with file extension ".7z" or ".7".
- Fixed File Manager Multi-Select counter (when selecting/unselecting all).

Thx @ Biko_73

[v10.0.0 .. 2024-08-30]

- Added Resume functionality to auto restore last watched movies position.
.. Resume points are saved when the movie is stopped, zapping, restarting GUI, etc.
.. It works regardless of where the movie is played from (bouquets, players, etc.).
.. It can be enabled/disabled in the settings for "All", "IPTV Only" and "All (Except IPTV)".
.. Resume points are only saved after the first minutes.
.. The "Movies Resume History" is in the Main page, Player-Bar, and system Extensions Menu.
.. The history files are saved in the directory "ajpanel_resume" (in your backup directory).

- Improved File Manager
.. Added preview of picture files when the cursor points to them.
.. Added the option "Rotate Image" to rotate a picture (with rotation angle selection).
.. Added the option "Flip Image" to flip a picture horizontally and vertically.
.. Added the option "Save as ..." to convert between png/jpg/gif/tif/bmp.
.. Converting from tif/gif will save all their frames/pages to files..
.. Improved to view svg picture files.
.. Improved File-Propererties to show Video Metadate for local media files (video streams info).
.. Improved the option "Move" to be much faster when moving files/directories within the same mount.

- Improved PIcons Manager layout and portrait pictures dimension ratio.

- Improved Portal servers handling:
.. Faster starting/changing portal channels in the tables and from the bouquets.
.. Catch-up channels will be flagged in the table, and their events can be selected in the Player-Bar.
.. Using OK Button (to play a channel from tables), will not replay it if already playing.
.. Improved Live Auto-Refresh to wait for 10 seconds untill next refresh (for slow servers).
.. Improve downloading Movies from Portal servers.
.. Improved starting portal channels with Reference Type 4097 (servicemp3).
.. Fixed handling some portals (which were not working).

- Improved Player-Bar:
.. Added Signal Bars (for Satellite channels).
.. Added "Cut-List" (Blue Button) for movies default mark points (if the movie has no chapters).
.. Improved Cut-List table to preview screenshots from local movies.
.. Added "Catch-up" (Yellow Button) which appears if archived events are available.
.. Added Catch-up for Portal servers (depends on availability on servers).
.. Added field to show the type of channel (DVB, Local, Portal, FTP, Catch-up, Playlist, IPTV).

- Improved IPTV Service Information:
.. Faster launch of the window + will search for EPG/PIcon/Poster in the background.
.. Downloads EPG for IPTV (Live/VOD/Series) from Portal and Playlist servers.
.. Improved IPTV Posters Mode layout + faster picture loading.
.. Faster Posters/PIcons download from IPTV tables.
.. The EPG/PIcon/Poster received from servers will automatically update the system EPG/PIcon.
- Improved Service Information page:
.. Current event from System EPG will be translated (to the language selected by user in EPG page).
.. Added Video Metadate for local and IPTV movies.

- Improved Movies Browser:
.. Added Resume Points Progress-Bar indicating the last watched position.
.. Added the option "Go to Current Movie" to jump to the playing movie (if listed).
.. Added options to add a movie (or all movies) to a bouquet.
.. Improved layout.

- Improved subtitle:
.. Added progress-bar to similarity-search (stoppable during the search).
.. Changing the delay with left/right arrows will show the changed delay and line time.
.. When start, the Lines Table will point to the current line.
.. Fixed Subtitle similarity search (sometimes shows the message "No event Name").

- Improved Custom Menu:
.. Added a new option to Settings page (to change the default Custom Menu files path).
.. Fixed the issue of encoded non-English text in menu files after changing icons/colors/etc.
.. Disable the option "Delete Current Item" for List-Menus.
- Added new option to "Update Current Bouquet EPG/PIcons (from IPTV Server)" to update both EPG and PIcons (removed old options).
- Added the option "Fix Media Path (for All Bouquets)" to Bouquets Editor to fix "/media/xx/movie/" path for bouquets.

- Improved Screenshot with a menu button to delete the taken screenshot file (during the preview).

- Improved IPTV Channel Name Prefix removal.

- Added Key-0 to jump to first/last item, and Channel-Up/Downs to scroll pages in:
.. Movies Broswer
.. Channel Broswer
.. Plugins Broswer
.. PIcons Manager
.. Custom Menu (Grid Mode)
.. IPTV Posters Mode

- Improved Console window:
.. Fixed the option "Save to File" which was only saving the line "Processing ...".
.. Fixed the menu to return to the previous window when closed with Exit button.

- Fixed "HTTP Error 461:" when trying to access some Playlist servers (or sometimes Error 403).
- Fixed downloading Series Episodes to save the files to a separate directory with Series name.
- Fixed Posters Mode (was not showing PIcons from server with .jpeg files).
- Fixed crash on Dream-Two (newnigma2) when changing the fonts.

v10.1.0 .. 2024-10-14

- Added the option "Export ALL to M3U File ..." to IPTV tables to save channles to M3U file (including PIcon URLs).

- Added a new option to Bouquet Editor to "Export Selected Bouquets to M3U File".

- Added options to add a font to the system (without changing system fonts).

.. Usage Example: to add Arabic font if missing from Images/Skins.

.. The new options in "Color/Font" (Blue Button in Main page):

... 1- "Add Extra Font to System" : Adds a font to the system (no restart requierd).

... 2- "Replace Extra Font" : Replaces the added font with another one (no restart requierd).

... 3- "Remove Extra Font" : Removes the the added font (requires GUI Restart).

... Note: The panel does not provide font files (it uses the fonts in /usr/share/fonts).



- Added a yellow icon to Player Bar to highlight movies with subtitle tracks.

- Added options to download M3U files from servers (with different formats).

- Added an option to download XML-TV (EPG) from from servers.

- Added options to download server resources to browse the server locally.

.. Use the new option "Local Servers & M3U Cache" to access Local Cached Servers.

- Improved "M3U/M3U8 File Browser" to be cached for much faster browsing.

- Improved File Manager to play M3U/M3U8 files.

- Improved the option "IPTV Server Browser (from Playlists)" to read URL/Username/Passwrod from 3 separated lines.

- Added option to Playlist Categories window menu to sort by "Server Default Sorting".

- Replaced "Check & Filter" (Blue Button) in Portal table with two options:

.. "Filter Responsive Servers" (same as previous "Check & Filter").

.. "Find Servers with Playlist Access" (to create Playlist URLs from Portal servers).

- Improved "All to Playlist" in "IPTV Server Browser (from M3U/M3U8 Subscription File)".

.. This option creates a file with Playlist URLs from all the listed M3U.

.. Now runs with a progress bar with the ability to stop at any point.

- Improved Movies Browser:

.. The Player can zap from the Movies Browser now.

.. The option "Change Poster (locate manually) ..." will now open File Manager to (to preview the posters).

.. When the Movies Browser starts, it will move the cursor to the current playing movie.

- Improved frozen-channel auto-refresh.

.. Improved to refresh all types of frozen IPTV Channels (Live/VOD/Series).

.. Fixed the case where System Info-Bar is shown during the refresh process.

- Improved media metadata for portal channels (in INFO page).

- Improved "M3U/M3U8 File Browser".

.. Handles files with satellite channels.

.. Prevents replaying chan if already playing (when clicking OK).


- Improved Player Bar to stop the playing service with Long-Power and Long-Stop buttons.

- Fixed "General Guide" option (show no info).

- Fixed Portal server handling of some server types (which were giving errors).

- Fixed some issues with Movies Resume for slow IPTV servers and Ref. Type 4097 (servicemp3).

- Fixed DreamOS issues:

.. Fixed DreamOS Hotkeys detection by the panel to launch the Player Bar.

.. Fixed Screenshot to use Long-PVR to take scfreenshots (test on Dream-Two / Gemini-4.2).

.. Fixed changing Subtitle font size.

.. Fixed Plugins options which were not working on DreamOS.

... "Download/Install Packages (from image feeds)"

... "Remove Packages (show all)"

... "Remove Packages (Plugins/SoftCams/Skins)"

... "Upgradable Packages"

... "Active Feeds"

.. Fixed DreamOS freezing when AJPanel displays a picture on some screens.

.. Fixed DreamOS freezing when using Bouquet Importer.

.. Fixed a crash on DreamOS when clicking "Audio" Button in Player bar.

- Fixed VTi issues:

.. Fixed changing Subtitle font size.

.. Fixed Player Hotkeys (were not working).

.. Menus wrap-around scrolling.

.. Fixed a crash in Channel Binding/Chaining.