2. Quit player from GUI. At the moment I have to use a serial cable to quit the player and run chroot etc. to get my Debian environment running. Are there any plans to allow this to be done from the GUI on the developers version, e.g. another menu option.

You can exit from the player to shell thru the menu if you add:

[Menu]
quit=1

lines to the /empeg/var/config.ini file. This will work only in the developer version.

Kim