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Revision as of 23:10, 24 December 2012
Dune HD Max
Current firmware: 111122_0159_beta
Official Links:
- http://dune-hd.com/hd_players/current/135-dune-hd-max.html
- http://dune-hd.com/firmware/ (more than just firmwares...)
- http://dune-forum.com/index.php/?index
Forums:
- http://www.hdlandforum.fr/viewforum.php?f=25
- http://www.hdlandforum.fr/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=789 for thread specific to Dune HD Max
- http://mpcclub.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=145 and http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=76
- http://forum.hdtv.ru
News:
Misc Links:
- http://scottjohnson.org/wiki/Dune
- http://www.lundman.net/wiki/index.php/Dune_HD_Center
- http://dunebaseprime.hu
Tuning
DSF
See http://scottjohnson.org/wiki/Dune/Hacking for:
- packing/unpacking DSF
- compile your own software
- make your own binary DSF
See here for misc utilities
optware
Why not being able to do sth like apt-get on the Dune to install many packages? (not tried yet)
Telnet
telnetd binary is already in the firmware, you just need to activate it, e.g. by using dune_service_telnetd.dsf
To start always telnetd at startup:
touch /config/telnetd
You should see now on bottom right of the screen /setup/information: DEBUG MODE
IP control
No UPnP controllable, but much better IMHO, a specific HTTP protocol easy to implement and very complete.
More info on media_url features.
See below for an Android application implementing it for a remote control.
Here is an HTML file implementation for controlling from any browser.
here is a Chrome extension doing the same.
Here is a pretty complete application for Windows.
dune_folder.txt
This is a mechanism allowing easy UI customization.
Third party softwares exporting to that format:
- Zappiti, see specific paragraph below
- MyMovies
- YaDIS, see specific paragraph below
- iDune
- Movienizer
- Musicnizer
- discodune
- Eversion and YAMJ, see specific paragraph below
AAI image format
Official description: AAImageGen-README.txt and tool AAImageGen.exe
It works well with Wine and can even be called in command line:
wine AAImageGen.exe test.aai # and it'll generate a test.png wine AAImageGen.exe test.png # and it'll generate a test.aai
Alternate project: aaimageviewer with read/write support, not working under Wine.
Quick Python script to convert AAI images to any other format
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, sys
import Image
for infile in sys.argv[1:]:
f, e = os.path.splitext(infile)
if e != ".aai":
raise IOError, "Sorry I only accept .aai files"
try:
data=open(infile).read()
size = int(data[:4][::-1].encode('hex'),16), int(data[4:8][::-1].encode('hex'),16)
# No BGRA so we'll take it as RGBA then swap channels
im = Image.fromstring("RGBA", size, data[8:], "raw", "RGBA")
r, g, b, a = im.split()
im = Image.merge("RGBA", (b, g, r, a))
# Just change the extension to save under another format
im.save(f + ".jpg", quality=95)
except IOError:
print "cannot convert", infile
Renaming harddrive
By default the internal HDD gets a name based on a UUID à la DuneHDD_6db00183_3f29_4474_ae8a_6b27fbf24304, which is not easy to handle when you want to access it via e.g. Samba.
Drop a dune_folder.txt file on the root of the HDD with as content the shortcut name you want, e.g.:
storage_name = DuneHDD
Then reboot, the shared drive will now be seen as DuneHDD
Internal storage
Some functions and BD Live require an internal storage. This can be defined on a specific partition of the HDD but it's easier to keep a separate disk for that and be able to swap HDDs without worrying about the internal storage. The Dune HD Max has an extra USB port on the main board under the HDD rack metallic plate so we can plug a small 2Gb flash drive there and forget it.
Make sure it's empty otherwise the system will refuse to use it for internal storage (you can still erase everything from the UI then try to reconfigure it as internal storage)
Internal storage is mounted as /permanentfs
Video
See http://hdlandforum.fr/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1049
My TV supporting all modes, I've setup mode 1080p 50Hz and auto framerate 24/50/60Hz
FlashLite apps
- http://dune-hd.com/support/flash
- http://dune-hd.com/firmware/flash/flashlite_info.txt
- http://dunebaseprime.hu/letoltes/150-flash-demo-jatekok a few games as examples
Streaming TV
- Hungarian TVs using MMS
- Using VLC to transcode sopcast streams
- IPTV: http://dune-hd.com/firmware/iptv/
To test streams, one can use the IP control protocol:
wget -O - "http://dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=start_file_playback&media_url=http://stream02.gtk.hu/bptv" wget -O - "http://dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=start_file_playback&media_url=http://80.249.172.28/autonomia" wget -O - "http://dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=start_file_playback&media_url=mms://vipmms9.yacast.net/bfm_bfmtv"
One can create a bookmark such as this one to tell the Dune HD device to play the current URL:
javascript:document.location='http://dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=start_file_playback&media_url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)
If you use NoScript Application Boundaries Enforcer, you need to add an exception before "Site LOCAL" in the ABE preferences
Site dune Accept ALL Deny
This will work only if the URL is the direct link to the video file.
If you want it running with e.g. Youtube you need first some URL extractor.
One way is to use a Firefox extension such as Unplug.
So you can use first Unplug to get the media URL then use this javascript bookmark.
Hopefully Unplug is opensource so we can get the sources and patch them to add directly a "Open in DuneHD" method:
diff --git a/unplug@compunach/chrome/content/display/download.js b/unplug@compunach/chrome/content/display/download.js
index 6454d30..af644ab 100644
--- a/unplug@compunach/chrome/content/display/download.js
+++ b/unplug@compunach/chrome/content/display/download.js
@@ -580,6 +580,18 @@ UnPlug2DownloadMethods.add_button("open-tab", {
group : "open"
});
+UnPlug2DownloadMethods.add_button("open-DuneHD", {
+ avail : (function (res) {
+ return (res.download.url ? true : false);
+ }),
+ exec : (function (res) {
+ UnPlug2SearchPage._win.location = "http://dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=start_file_playback&media_url="+encodeURIComponent(res.download.url);
+ }),
+ obscurity : 100,
+ css : "open open-over",
+ group : "open"
+});
+
UnPlug2DownloadMethods.add_button("open-new", {
avail : (function (res) {
return (res.download.url ? true : false);
diff --git a/unplug@compunach/chrome/locale/en-US/strings.txt b/unplug@compunach/chrome/locale/en-US/strings.txt
index 6356ced..b72e0a4 100644
--- a/unplug@compunach/chrome/locale/en-US/strings.txt
+++ b/unplug@compunach/chrome/locale/en-US/strings.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ save_to_directory=Save to Folder
dmethod.open-tab=Open in a new tab
dmethod.open-tab.a=t
dmethod.open-tab.tip=Open in a new tab.
+dmethod.open-DuneHD=Open in Dune HD
+dmethod.open-DuneHD.a=d
+dmethod.open-DuneHD.tip=Open in Dune HD.
dmethod.open-new=Open in a new window
dmethod.open-new.a=n
dmethod.open-new.tip=Open in a new window.
IPTV
To test streams, one can use the IP control protocol:
wget -O - "http://dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=start_file_playback&media_url=udp://@239.255.1.138:2276"
I get the BelgacomTV IPTV via a separate network so the idea is to access it via eth0 while the regular network remains the Wi-Fi one.
Once the Wi-Fi connection is active, we ca do the following to be able to use the multicast IPTV network on eth0:
route del -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 2>/dev/null route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0 2>/dev/null
Streaming radio
Custom GUI skins
GUI skins can be switched via the setting "Setup / Appearance / Skin", or via "B" RC button on the main screen (and also via "ZOOM" RC button on any screen).
Plugins
Multi-region
I didn't try yet but by playing DVD iso files I got the following experience: a first message telling me that the region was not ok, a kind of mini-reboot and then the DVD file played properly. To be investigated.
dune_service_region_switch.dsf, to change: press 4 times on "Mute" then quickly on 1, 2 or 3 for region A, B or C
Zappiti
Done by HD Land
There is an ipad version too, for Android see below for a compatible app.
The only bemol is that it's a Windows-only program (as all the other alternatives I think) so I'm using it in a Virtualbox with Windows 7.
I had issues with v2.3.1094.0 so I'm currently using v2.1.2735.100
Note that since v2.3.1097 HD Land is restricting its program for French people who didn't buy their Dune HD via HD Land. For others there is a possibility to get licensing key if they prove they live and bought their product out of France. Maybe a good time to start looking at yaDIS...
Config
Some notes on my config (just for myself to remember)
Dossier de configuration: F:\@zappiti\@db (F: virtualbox shared /media/MyBook2/@dune) Dossier de partage: F:\@DuneHDD-mirror ou Z:\ (Z: \\dune\DuneHDD) Nouveau dossier films: F:\@DuneHDD-mirror\films Réécrire en: storage_label://DuneHDD/films
Zappiti works on a local copy of my movies collection and links are rewritten when exported to the Dune HD as the movies are also present locally on its HDD
Exported index
The exported index (_Zappiti/ and Zappiti_Resources/) has then to be copied on the Dune HD and the Android tablet for a faster rendering
Options:
- Install Rsync on Dune HD
Probably the best option. Very easy to install (cf link above) and to use. It's a patched version that creates modules for each mounted resource
To get modules names:
$ rsync dune:: DuneHDD Dune storage named DuneHDD
To push Zappiti data:
$ rsync -av --delete ...DuneHDD-mirror/_Zappiti dune::DuneHDD $ rsync -av --delete ...DuneHDD-mirror/Zappiti_Resources dune::DuneHDD
- via ftp, to be tested with sitecopy
Note that if you try to copy Zappiti indexes from a locally attached drive via the Dune interface you can easily reach the maximum of 9999 files in _Zappiti. Better to initiate the copy via a telnet session.
Using rsync to push indexes to the Android tablet (rooted, using SSHDroidPro & rsync binary):
$ rsync -av --delete ...DuneHDD-mirror/_Zappiti root@tablet:/sdcard/Zappiti/ $ rsync -av --delete ...DuneHDD-mirror/Zappiti_Resources root@tablet:/sdcard/Zappiti/
Mangling database
If you want to move or rename files or folders, Zappiti wants to scrap them again and disregard the old entries.
To avoid that, you can edit directly the sqlite database.
Just a little problem: the database is encrypted by using ASP .NET connectionstrings (cf possible implementation [Using http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki here]).
So we'll follow [ http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-27073.html this howto]:
Open
C:\Program Files (x86)\HDLand\Zappiti\Zappiti.exe.config <connectionStrings> <add name="Entities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/Models.Models.csdl|res://*/Models.Models.ssdl|res://*/Models.Models.msl;provider=System.Data.SQLite;provider connection string="data source=D:\Works\NETil\Works\Companies\HDLand\DuneMediaManager_b1\DuneMediaManager\Data\database.db;password=BLABLA"" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /> </connectionStrings>
Here password is BLABLA.
Get Sqlite2009 Pro Enterprise Manager, again a Windows stuff but no much option to use this .NET encryption (sth with RSA but still using a symmetric password, no idea what this means)
- Open database - select RSA & provide password
Then you can make your SQL queries, e.g.
UPDATE 'Media' set Path=REPLACE(Path, 'F:\', 'F:\@DuneHDD-mirror\'); UPDATE 'TVShowFolder' set Folder=REPLACE(Folder, 'F:\', 'F:\@DuneHDD-mirror\')
To export the DB in an unencrypted SQL dump, press F10.
Exporting pictures & IMDB IDs
After having discovered YAMJ, I decided to move away from Zappiti. Not that Zappiti is bad but having to run it under Windows 7 under VirtualBox and to access remotely all movies in and data out is a real pain.
In the previous paragraph you saw how to export the encrypted DB into plain SQL.
Here are very ugly notes (when job is to be done only once I tend to write ugly bash/sed/awk oneliners)
To recover matches between movie names and IMDB IDs:
cat database-2.1.2735.100.sql |recode latin1..utf8|egrep '(<name>|<imdb_id>)' |sed 's/^.*<name>//;s/<\/name>//'|awk '/^[^[:space:]]/{title=$0}/<imdb_id>/{imdb=$0; print title imdb}'|sort|uniq > imdblist
To recover anonymized images from Pictures/ (which are all Jpeg BTW)
Get matches between movie internal ID and fanart ID and cover ID:
egrep -i "insert into groupe values" database-2.1.2735.100.sql|recode latin1..utf8 > database-2.1.2735.100.groupe.sql awk -F, '{sub(/INSERT INTO Groupe VALUES\(/,"",$1); print $1, $4, $5}' database-2.1.2735.100.groupe.sql|sort > database-2.1.2735.100.groupe.small
Get matches between movie internal ID and movie filename (and transcode Windows path to local unix path)
egrep -i "insert into media values" database-2.1.2735.100.sql|recode latin1..utf8 > database-2.1.2735.100.media.sql awk -F, '{sub(/INSERT INTO Media VALUES\(/,"",$1);id=$1;sub(/.*(.)F:\\@DuneHDD-mirror/,"\"");sub(/. (NULL|[^A-Za-z0-9][A-Z][A-Z]).*/,"\"");gsub(/\\/,"/"); print id,$1}' database-2.1.2735.100.media.sql |sed "s/''/'/g"|sort > database-2.1.2735.100.media.small
Join those two based on movie internal ID
join database-2.1.2735.100.groupe.small database-2.1.2735.100.media.small > database-2.1.2735.100.small
Let's see on which entries it could break:
egrep -v ".(avi|AVI|Avi|mpg|MPG|Mpg|mkv|MKV|Mkv|iso|ISO|Iso|mp4|MP4)\"$" database-2.1.2735.100.small
Ok we can remove them
egrep ".(avi|AVI|Avi|mpg|MPG|Mpg|mkv|MKV|Mkv|iso|ISO|Iso|mp4|MP4)\"$" database-2.1.2735.100.small > database-2.1.2735.100.small2
Recover fanarts
grep -v "^[^[:space:]]\+ NULL" database-2.1.2735.100.small2|awk '{id=$2;gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/,"",id); $1="";$2="";$3="";sub(/[[:space:]]*"/,"\".");sub(/.(avi|AVI|Avi|mpg|MPG|Mpg|mkv|MKV|Mkv|iso|ISO|Iso|mp4|MP4)\"$/,"");system("mkdir -p \"$(dirname "$0"\")\"; cp Pictures/" id " " $0 ".fanart.jpg\"")}'
Recover covers
grep -v "^[^[:space:]]\+ [^[:space:]]\+ NULL" database-2.1.2735.100.small2|awk '{id=$3;gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/,"",id); $1="";$2="";$3="";sub(/[[:space:]]*"/,"\".");sub(/.(avi|AVI|Avi|mpg|MPG|Mpg|mkv|MKV|Mkv|iso|ISO|Iso|mp4|MP4)\"$/,"");system("mkdir -p \"$(dirname "$0"\")\"; cp Pictures/" id " " $0 ".jpg\"")}'
Find art not linked to a file (e.g. sets)
join -a 1 database-2.1.2735.100.groupe.small database-2.1.2735.100.media.small > database-2.1.2735.100.smallext cat database-2.1.2735.100.small database-2.1.2735.100.smallext |sort|uniq -u > database-2.1.2735.100.groupe.small.uniq mkdir others cat database-2.1.2735.100.groupe.small.uniq |awk '{gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/,"",$2);gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/,"",$3);if ($2!="NULL") print "cp Pictures/"$2" others/"$2".jpg";if ($3!="NULL") system("cp Pictures/"$3" others/"$3".jpg")}'
Some fanart were not flagged as such, find covers with wrong ratio:
find . -name "*.jpg" -exec jpeginfo -l {} \;|grep -v fanart|awk '{if ($1 > $3) print }'
yaDIS
- On Forums
Eversion and YAMJ
This is entirely different from the other approaches:
- frontend / backend: Eversion is one of the compatible frontends, YAML is one of the compatible backends
- frontend with flashlite
- both are open-source
- runs under Linux but not only, YAML is actually a Java CLI
On the dark side, things are not very well documented or to be more exact documentation is quite scattered...
Many combinations are possible but to get it running on Dune, apparently Eversion + YAMJ is the proper way to go.
My scrap notes, ongoing as everything is rather new to me...
Resources
- Eversion wiki with a page specific to Dune
- mpcclub
Installation
Get both tools in a combined archive from Eversion download page. I took aio_eversion_yamj_r0179c.zip. See also Github downloads page.
Unzip
Before you run yamj the first time, edit the dune_folder.txt file found in yamj/skins/eversion/interface to adjust the path. the path will be swf://(dune compatible path )/Jukebox/eversion.swf
apt-get install mediainfo
Edit moviejukebox.properties
- uncomment mediainfo.home=/usr/bin
- Add a link to the file where we'll describe sources: mjb.libraryRoot=library.xml
- Add a link to the directory where we'll output the generated data: mjb.jukeboxRoot=/media/nas/Share/
Copy and adapt example-library.xml => library.xml, e.g. for a nas folder mounted locally and to be accessed by Dune over Samba:
<path>/media/nas/Share/video/</path> <playerpath>smb://user:pwd@nas_ip/Share/video/</playerpath>
Usage
Now we can run the tool:
./MovieJukebox.sh
Warning when editing XML files: if you get the following error when running the tool "The reference to entity * must end with the ';' delimiter" it's because URI must be html-escaped, e.g. replace & by &
Quick way to test out the generated stuff:
wget -q -O - "http://dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=launch_media_url&media_url=swf://smb://user:pwd@nas_ip/Share/Jukebox/eversion.swf"
It works but it's pretty slow on DuneHD
YAMJ alone
Actually I almost never use the remote control to navigate the media library directly on the DuneHD.
I prefer to do it either from the PC or from the Android tablet.
We've seen eversion but it doesn't work on the PC neither on DMC for Android so it doesn't really fit my need...
YAMJ produces directly HTML which is ok for the PC as we can control the DuneHD by HTTP requests and it's also ok for the tablet via a web browser or via DMC as there is a script to convert YAMJ output to dune_folder structure as we'll see later.
Installation
I downloaded moviejukebox-2.8.zip from here
Some installation notes here
YAMJ Tuning
I'm using several setups for parents & kids, here e.g. I'll create a "foo" setup
library-foo.xml
Trick is to use Dune IP control in the URL
Example:
<libraries> <library> <path>/media/nas/video/</path> <playerpath>http://ip_of_dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=launch_media_url&media_url=smb://user:password@ip_of_nas/video/</playerpath> <exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/,/._"/> <description>Movies</description> <prebuf></prebuf> <scrapeLibrary>true</scrapeLibrary> </library> </libraries>
categories-foo.xml
It's a copy of categories-default.xml where I disable most categories, e.g. to keep it simple for my kid
Just change "<enable>false</enable>" into "<enable>false</enable>" for each category to suppress
moviejukebox-foo.properties
The main tuning file
Major stuffs:
# This is the skin property, you will need to change this if you want to change the look of YAMJ mjb.skin.dir=./skins/default # new yamj feature to enabled directory hashing layout for image storage. Results in more speed on larger jukeboxes mjb.dirHash=true # Unix/Linux/Mac users will need to install Mediainfo on their own and remove the # from the front of this setting mediainfo.home=/usr/bin/ # Set to true to have YAMJ monitor your settings and adjust overwrites as needed automatically for you. mjb.monitorJukeboxProperties=true # Create TV show Boxsets automatically (group all tv show seasons together as 1 show) mjb.singleSeriesPage=true # threading for speed mjb.MaxThreadsProcess=3 mjb.MaxThreadsDownload=3 mjb.MaxDownloadSlots=.*=2,.*imdb.*=3,.*google.*=3,.*yahoo.*=3,.*themoviedb.*=4,.*thetvdb.*=2,.*apple.*=1
Personal settings
mjb.jukeboxRoot=/media/nas/Jukebox mjb.libraryRoot=library-foo.xml mjb.detailsDirName=Movies mjb.xmlCategoryFile=categories-foo.xml
Reduce further indexes
# Comma-separated list of indexes to generate. Valid indexes include: # Other, Genres, Title, Certification, Year, Library, Cast, Director, Writer and Country mjb.categories.indexList=Other,Title,Library,Set
IMDB/TVDB languages
imdb.site=fr thetvdb.language=fr #mjb.internet.plugin=com.moviejukebox.plugin.AllocinePlugin
MovieJukebox-foo.sh
Just MovieJukebox.sh with the proper options
#!/bin/sh java -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -classpath .:./resources:./lib/* com.moviejukebox.MovieJukebox -p moviejukebox-foo.properties -c "$@"
TODO
One broken thing is the "play all" button for series.
I'll have to convert the .jsp into proper .m3u playlists
and change in e.g. myserie.html
href="myserie S01E01.playlist.jsp"
into sth like
href="http://ip_of_dune/cgi-bin/do?cmd=launch_media_url&media_url=smb://user:password@ip_of_nas/video/myserie S01E01.m3u"
Meanwhile we can remove that button:
--- a/skins/default/skin-options.xsl
+++ b/skins/default/skin-options.xsl
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@
<!-- Detail Option #3: Where to show Play All link on the details page -->
<!-- Valid values are: top, bottom, false/none, where top is now the default for movies -->
-<xsl:variable name="skin-playAllMovie">top</xsl:variable>
-<xsl:variable name="skin-playAllTV">bottom</xsl:variable>
+<xsl:variable name="skin-playAllMovie">none</xsl:variable>
+<xsl:variable name="skin-playAllTV">none</xsl:variable>
Force to fetch again default covers
We look for the default covers (well detection only based on filesize for speed reasons, use sha1sum if you want something more robust) in Jukebox and remove the corresponding movie XML file:
find . -size 20524c|awk '{sub(/.jpg/,".xml");sub(/\/.\/..\//,"/"); system( "rm \""$0"\";\n")}'
Pydun
Converts a YAMJ structure into a dune_folder, useful for Android DMC
Quite rough
YAMJ libraries need to get a name (description)
Misc
- YAMJ Wiki is quite useful to start, especially
- YAMJ Basics
- Properties Configuration
- Skin Configuration
- NFO Files
- File Naming
- TV Series Naming and you'll get automatically nice sets
- Boxed Sets to make additional sets
- Artwork
- Some notes on proper filenames for movie detection
- Yayman is a GUI for YAMJ but it's not clear what it does, it already renamed all my versioned files in lib/ :-(
Video notes
To identify video files: Mediainfo, available in Debian as mediainfo & mediainfo-gui
MKV tools (mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract): mkvtoolnix & mkvtoolnix-gui in debian
I had issues to play some 1080p mkv. Remultiplexing them with a newer version of mkvmerge seems enough to fix the issue:
mkvmerge -o new.mkv old.mkv
Dune HD has no problem handling latest mkvmerge versions with metadata compression, the problem seems to be specific to some older versions of mkvmerge.
Still, there is one type of video codec apparently not supported, flagged as "VfW compatible" (Video for Windows) by mkvmerge, mediainfo tells us it's actually codec V_REAL/RV40 == RealVideo 4.0 aka RealVideo 9
To merge 2 avi files (e.g. if the movie was splitted in 2 CDs), use avimerge:
avimerge -o new.avi -i old-cd1.avi old-cd2.avi
Android
- Dune Media Controller, supports the IP control protocol and the dune_folder.txt structures, a perfect complement to Zappiti.
Can work on remote index but much better if it has a local copy of the index (Zappiti indexes are huge)
- Dune Control, basic IP control protocol support
Tests
Read tests
Internal HDD: 79MB/s External HDD USB: 21MB/S (write to internal: 13MB/s)
HDNetwork
It is available only if the player license includes “HDNetwork” option; this can be checked in the player menu Setup > Information. If the “HDNetwork” option is purchased, all the basic player functionality remains available.
This looks like what could be found in conference centers, controlling many screens at once. IMHO you can already achieve the same with the IP control protocol. Probably it's sold as an expensive bundle for those specific customers.