Dune HD Base 3.0
Version "190919_0242_r11"
(the latest stable version)
Changes since 170602_0153_r11:
This version is a small update which includes a few new features,
improvements and fixes.
In particular, this version includes some of the changes previously
implemented in the firmware of newer models (in r13 firmware versions).
NOTE: There were a lot of internal changes, so this version probably
includes some bugs (will be fixed in further versions).
Version "170602_0153_r11"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Changes since 170519_1353_r11:
• Solo Lite: Premium Functions (My Collection/Movies/Music and BD Menu) are
now non-premium, just like on Solo 4K (i.e. available without limitations
and without the need to have Internet access to check license status).
• New feature: Added support for playback of BD4K images.
• Only BDLite mode is supported.
• The player automatically detects BD4K images and automatically starts
the playback if BDLite mode.
• New feature: Improved support for playback of HDR (HDR10) content.
• The player automatically recognizes HDR content and automatically
applies some picture corrections to improve the look of the content on
TVs without HDR support.
• If HDR content is recognized, the corresponding status is shown in the
INFO on-screen-display during playback.
• Automatic HDR conversion can be enabled/disabled by the new setting
"Setup / Video / Advanced / BT.202/HDR conversion" (enabled by
default). When using a TV with HDR support, it is recommended to
disable HDR conversion on the player and force HDR mode on the TV.
• HDR conversion can also be quickly toggled during playback using RC
button "MODE" (on Duo 4K) or "KEYBRD" (on Solo 4K and Solo Lite).
• Improvement: UI animation effects are now disabled by default in video
modes with low framerate (less than or equal to 30Hz).
• This is helpful in particular when connecting to a 4K TV and using a
4K video mode.
• To force animation effects in all video modes, a new setting "Settings
/ Appearance / Animation Effects / Enabled for all video modes" can be
used.
• Bugfix: Playback of MP3 files could crash in some cases (this is a
regression introduced in the previous beta firmware).
• Bugfix: Some DVD images could not be played correctly (playback start
could fail at some point and DVD menu could not be reached).
• Bugfix: When choosing not to search for community extensions, the
installation of non-community extensions (e.g. YouTube movie trailers)
could be skipped in some cases too.
• Bugfix: Video mode setting could be accidentally reset from Auto (EDID)
to some other value in some rare cases.
• Bugfix: When checking of plugins updates on a clean factory box or after
settings reset, if Internet connection was not available, a too long
delay could take place.
• Bugfix: SMB server now includes a fix for the Samba vulnerability
(CVE-2017-7494).
• Plugins SDK improvements:
• Improved the handling of cycle_mode_enabled=yes when num_items<3.
• Updated/improved UI translations.
• Some other minor improvements/fixes.
Version "170519_1353_r11"
Changes since 170519_1351_r11:
This firmware includes fixes for regressions found in the new r11 firmware
versions (170519_1350_r11 and 170519_1351_r11) in comparison with the
previous b9 firmware, and fixes for some other issues.
• Improvement: when starting DVD playback, if shell_ext plugin is required
for DVD playback but is not installed, the system automatically proposes
to install shell_ext plugin (and to initialize system storage, if
needed).
• Improvement: added correct support for adding plugin entry point to
"Favorites" even if plugin has multiple entry points, and even if entry
point is on the main screen. So it is now possible to easily add for
example "My Collection" or "Movies" to Favorites (and enable auto start
for them, if needed).
• Improvement: TTF font setting is now "Regular" by default instead of
"Light", to make text more readable on Movie screen and similiar screens.
This change takes effect after settings reset or when installing r11
firmware over b9 firmware.
• Bugfix: HDD formatting did not work in some cases on the following
models: Dune HD Max, Dune HD Duo, Dune HD Smart D1/H1/B1, Dune HD Prime
3.0, Dune HD Base 3.0
• Bugfix: in some cases Recent main menu item was not included into the
"Dune Plus" subscription.
• Bugfix: wrong PIDs were saved for plugins.
• Some other minor improvements/fixes.
Version "170519_1351_r11"
(BETA version)
Changes since 170519_1350_r11:
This firmware includes fixes for various regressions found in the new r11
firmware (170519_1350_r11) in comparison with the previous b9 firmware, and
fixes for some other issues.
• Bugfix: ZOOM function did not work in some cases.
• Bugfix: My Collection, Movies, Music did not work on some player models
(tv303d2 and base3d2).
• Bugfix: DVB-C did not work on models with DVB-C tuner.
• Bugfix: HDMI audio output did not work properly in some specific cases.
• Bugfix: Verimatrix IPTV DRM did not work in some cases on models with
Verimatrix IPTV DRM support.
• Bugfix: DVB icons loading/updating did not work in some cases.
• Bugfix: High bitrate HD IPTV channels were stuttering in some cases (when
lower_cpu_load media_url parameter was used).
• Bugfix: Zapping between IPTV channels could be slightly slower than
expected in some cases (ss_for_http_ts media_url parameter did not work
properly).
• Bugfix: Stopping playback of TV channel in Kartina.TV application could
be slightly slower than expected in some cases.
• Bugfix: Screen did not darken properly when EPG OSD was shown.
• Bugfix: When playing DVB radio streams, "average bitrate" line was
wrongly shown in INFO OSD.
• Some other minor internal fixes.
Version "170519_1350_r11"
(BETA version)
Changes since 150721_0135_b9:
This is a huge firmware update for old/dicontinuted Dune HD media player
models based on old MIPS Sigma Designs chips.
• This new firmware is based on the same new codebase branch (r11) which
is used in the latest Dune HD media player models based on the new ARM
Sigma Design chips.
• This new firmware includes several thousands of various changes,
fixes, improvements and new changes, which were previously implemented
during the development of the firmware for the new models.
• In particular, this new firmware includes the following new big
features, previously available only on the new Dune HD models: My
Collection, Movies catalog, Music catalog.
The new firmware introduces the concept of "Dune Plus" subscription.
• To use some new functions of the new firmware (currently: My
Collection, Movies catalog, Music catalog), a paid subscription to
"Dune Plus" premium function is required.
• Initially, a promo period takes place and "Dune Plus" premium function
is available for all users for free. After the promo period ends, a
paid subscription will be required (with some limited trial period
still available for free). The current status of "Dune Plus"
subscription can be seen in the new menu "Setup / Premium Functions".
• In this firmware version, the subscription to "Dune Plus" premium
functions is required to use the following features: My Collection,
Movies catalog, Music catalog. The set of features covered by "Dune
Plus" subscription may be extended/changed in future (it is a subject
to change without notice).
• In other words: "Dune Plus" subscription allows the owners of
old/discontinued Dune HD media player models to upgrade their players
to get access to features originally available only on the newer
player models.
The new firmware is supported for all old/discontinued Dune HD media player
models which have 512MB+ RAM.
• This includes the following models:
• Dune HD Base 3D
• Dune HD Base 3D v2
• Dune HD TV-303D
• Dune HD TV-303D v2
• Dune HD TV-102
• Dune HD TV-102 v2
• Dune HD Connect
• Dune HD Max
• Dune HD Duo
• Dune HD Smart D1
• Dune HD Smart H1
• Dune HD Smart B1
• Dune HD Prime 3.0
• Dune HD Base 3.0
• The models with 256MB RAM (Lite 53D, TV-101, TV-301, TV-102p) are not
supported by the new firmware.
The new firmware may require System Storage to get access to some new
features.
• System Storage (e.g. 2GB+ USB flash drive attached to any USB port)
may be required to install additional software components when using
players which do not have enough internal flash memoty or which do not
have enough free space in the internal flash memory.
• When System Storage is needed, the player will automatically inform
about it and will suggest installing the System Storage.
Version "150721_0135_b9"
Changes since 150404_0032_b9:
• Bugfix: Weather widget could show wrong temperature in some cases.
• Bugfix: After returning from playback to a folder with GUI customization
(using dune_folder.txt), in specific cases, a wrong GUI state could be
shown.
• Bugfix: In some rare cases, when when playing a MPEG-TS stream from
multicast or DVB source, playback could crash.
• Bugfix: In specific cases, when switching between different MPEG-TS
streams for a long time, playback could crash.
• Bugfix: For models with DVB-C tuner: DVB-C default modulation mode was
set to incorrect value.
• Bugfix: For base3d2 and tv303d2 models: stability problems could take
place in some cases.
• Bugfix: SDK: when creating too many scheduled recordings, the application
could crash in some cases.
• Bugfix: SDK: in HTML applications, an attempt to modify the callback
function from JS callback handler could lead to application hangup.
Version "150404_0032_b9"
(BETA version)
Changes since 150227_0032_b9:
• The function of formatting a HDD into NTFS filesystem now does not have
HDD capacity limitations and can be used with huge HDDs.
• When a HDD with an EFI system partition is attached, the EFI system
partition is now not shown in the GUI.
• SDK: added new firmware customization possibility: custom firmware may now
use a custom value of signer_id for signed plugins. See more information
in SDK documentation.
• Bugfix: AC3 or DTS audio could be played wrongly in specific rare cases.
• Bugfix: Custom folders based on dune_folder.txt mechanism could be
rendered in a wrong way in specific cases, when an old behavior of
dune_folder.txt mechanism was expected.
• Bugfix: PHP plugins: FWD and REW RC buttons did not work as expected in
some cases.
• Bugfix: GUI could crash in some specific rare cases when icon archive
feature was used.
• Bugfix: when playing very high-bitrate lossless audio files (FLAC,
Wavpack) from an SMB network share, stuttering could take place in some
cases.
• Bugfix: playback of MPEG-TS stream containing a lot of errors could lead
to playback crash in some rare specific cases.
• Added new "adaptive+" deinterlacing mode, which should work better than
the old "adaptive" mode on specific video content.
• Bugfix: when playing a media_url with "dune_params" extra parameters,
playback recovering from a network fault could be handled wrongly in some
cases.
• Bugfix: when playing HLS (and some other MPEG-TS based) content, audio
track switching could work wrongly in some cases.
• Bugfix: for models which do not support full power-off: a request to do
power-off could be handled wrongly in some cases.
• Hungarian UI translation updated.
Version "150227_0032_b9"
Version "140827_0132_b9"
Version "140825_2251_b8"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Version "140815_2111_b8"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Version "140722_1114_b8"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Version "140610_0131_b8"
Changes since 140425_0132_b8:
• Subtitles are now supported during plugin playback.
• Internal improvements in plugins upgrade mechanism.
• HLS playback bugfixes:
• Playlists with blank lines in the beginning were processed
incorrectly.
• Sometimes HLS playback could crash because of too long URLs.
• Bugfix: switching deinterlacing mode during DVD playback did not work.
• Bugfix: in some cases scanning DVB-T with multiple bandwidths failed with
GUI error.
• Rutube application is removed from the set of preinstalled applications.
Version "140425_0132_b8"
(BETA version)
Changes since 140223_0133_b8:
• Internal improvements in plugins upgrade mechanism.
• Updated Videomore preinstalled application (Russian language only).
• HLS playback improvements.
• Bugfix: recording could crash in some rare cases.
Version "140223_0133_b8"
(BETA version)
Version "140223_0132_b6"
Version "131224_0132_b8"
(BETA version)
Version "131213_0131_b6"
Version "130515_2104_b6"
Version "121018_0846"
Changes since 120815_2150:
• NOTE: This is a minor update to 120815_2151.
• Dune HD TV models: Bugfix: Vidimax application could report "error 7" in
some cases during playback.
• Bugfix: fixed problem with the playback of certain MMS URLs (the problem
appeared in the firmware version 120608_1420_beta).
• Bugfix: playback of MPEG-TS streams w/o audio and with temporary audio
dropouts could cause problems. (This includes playback of multicast, HLS,
DVB MPEG-TS streams.)
• Bugfix: playback of media content via HTTP protocol could cause hangup in
some cases (e.g. when the server did not respond).
• HLS playback improvements:
• By default, the initial quality is now chosen based on the previous
statistics (remembered till reboot).
• Various performance and stability improvements.
• Bugfix: too long HLS URLs were refused to play.
• media_url: 'hls_initial_bandwidth' parameter extended with new possible
values: 'auto' and 'auto_high'.
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/media_url.txt
• Improvements in API for PHP plugins:
• Default PHP plugin operation timeout increased to 60 seconds.
• Bugfix: PHP plugin operation was handled in wrong way in some cases.
• Bugfix: EPG OSD column had wrong title in some cases.
• Dune HD TV models: Improvements in API for HTML+JS applications:
• Bugfix: when playing HLS stream, read error events could be wrongly
generated even in the absence of any errors.
Version "120815_2150"
Changes since 120608_1420_beta:
• Improvements for DVB-T: some fixes for Hungarian DVB-T; updated DVB-T
tables for some other countries.
• Updated UI translations for some languages (chinese, estonian, hebrew,
hungarian, italian, swedish).
• Added showing of software license information on the first player boot.
• media_url: added 'deint_mode' parameter for playback URLs (possible
values: 'off', 'adaptive', 'bob').
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/media_url.txt
• Added immediate visual feedback when the player handles standby or
power-off request: the LED on the front panel blinks once.
• Some minor fixes in the PHP plugin mechanism (note: no changes in API).
• Bugfix: framerate detection could work wrongly for MP4 content in some
cases.
• Bugfix: 'rutube' application could not work in some cases.
• Bugfix: when using old RC without "REC" button, it was impossible to
start recording of IPTV stream (the problem appeared in previous firmware
versions).
• Bugfix: dynamic range control feature worked wrongly when playing files
with TrueHD audio tracks.
• Bugfix: HLS streams could start very slowly in some specific cases
(MPEG-TS with specific PMT).
• Bugfix: playback of RTSP streams could cause problems with subsequent
playback of MPEG-TS content.
• Bugfix: pause function could cause crash in some cases.
• Bugfix: playback of MKA files could cause crash in some cases.
• Bugfix: some keys on Dune HD Qwerty keyboard did not work in some cases.
• Bugfix: when entering IP address, the use of leading '0' caused the
entered number to be treated as octal number rather than decimal.
Version "120608_1420_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 120531_2200_beta:
NOTE: This firmware version does not include the new application
archtiecture introduced in 120531_2201_beta. The equivalent firmware
version with the new application architecture is 120608_1421_beta.
• media_url: added 'osd_size' parameter for www:// URLs.
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/media_url.txt
• Bugfix: playback of some MP4 content could cause crash.
• Bugfix: when playing MP4 files, exiting trickplay modes (e.g. fast
forward) could work wrongly.
• Bugfix: GUI skin switching using "B" RC button could work wrongly in some
cases.
• Some minor fixes in the PHP plugin mechanism (note: no changes in API).
• Other minor fixes.
Version "120531_2200_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 120329_2012:
NOTE: This firmware version has a lot of changes, is not well tested, and
some things may be broken. If something does not work for you, please
rollback to 120329_2012 version.
* Added a set of preinstalled applications.
• Facebook.
• Twitter.
• AccuWeather.
• YouTube.
• RuTube (Russian language only).
• Videomore (Russian language only).
• TV Rain (Russian language only).
• Horoscope (Russian language only).
• RIA news (Russian language only).
• Poverhnost TV (Russian language only).
• Megogo (for Russia, Ukraine and other ex-USSR countries only).
• Videoprobki.ua (for Ukraine only).
• video.bigmir.net (for Ukraine only).
• Games: chess, four, sudoku, memory, tetris (Russian language only),
snake (Russian language only).
* Web browser improvements.
• A new version of web browser engine is used.
• Browser performance slightly improved.
• Dune HD TV-101 and TV-301: Spatial navigation support is added:
navigate through the elements of the web page using LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN
RC buttons.
• Some other improvements and fixes.
* DVB-T improvements.
• TV OSD is now used during DVB-T playback.
• Added EPG showing.
• Added support for DVB-T channels icons.
• DVB-T buffering and channel switching improvements.
* UI improvements.
• Text fields in the main menu do not require any more to press ENTER to
edit the text: text fields are now always "active" and the text can be
edited immediately.
• RC button "D" in text fields in the main menu can be used to show the
on-screen virtual keyboard. Currently, only English and Russian
languages are supported.
• Animation added in some places where it was missed previously.
• TV OSD improvements:
• ENTER on TV channel which is already played just closes the OSD and
does not restart the playback.
• Navigating to a different TV channel resets the EPG panel to today.
* Playback improvements.
• Added support for HLS protocol for streaming media content. Adaptive
bitrate is supported. VOD and Live TV/radio modes are supported. AES
encryption is supported.
• media_url syntax: http://{host}[:{port}][/{path}].m3u8[?{args}]
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/media_url.txt
• Added support for RTSP protocol for streaming media content. Only MPEG-TS
streams are supported. RTSP+RTP and RTSP-over-TCP modes are supported.
VOD and Live TV/radio modes are supported.
• media_url syntax: rtsp://{host}[:{port}][/{path}]
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/media_url.txt
• Improved multicast IPTV playback support.
• Faster playback startup and faster switch between multicast IPTV
channels.
• Fixed problems which took place sometimes when the user attempted
to switch between IPTV channels too quickly.
• Improved errors detection and handling.
• Added possibility to pause/resume the playback (with picture
freezing).
• Added support for DVB subtitles.
• Added support for teletext passthrough (works with some TV models).
• Improved support for playback of MP4 files via HTTP protocol.
• Autoframerate enabled also for MP4 files played via HTTP protocol
using "http://mp4://" media_url syntax.
• Optimized playback of MP4 files via HTTP protocols w/o the use of
"http://mp4://" media_url syntax.
• Improved support for playback of HTTP/TS streams.
• Performance of playback from SMB shares improved on SMP8670 platform
(Dune HD TV-101 and TV-301 models). Now the SMB performance with Dune
HD TV-101 should be approximately the same as with Dune HD Smart and
Max/Duo models.
* Various new features for application development.
• dune_folder.txt extensions and improvements:
• New parameters:
• paint_details_box_background = yes|no
• help_line_text_color = N
• item_detailed_info_title_color = N
• item_detailed_info_text_color = N
• item_caption_color = N
• item_sandwich_icon_scale_factor = N.N
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/dune_folder_howto.txt
• Added a possibility to specify various playback options in media_url
using "|||dune_params|||" syntax.
• Supported options:
• rtsp_tcp:0|1
• rtsp_seek_via_reopen:0|1
• protocol:hls
• hls_initial_bandwidth:low|high
• hls_key_url_add_query:{string}
• enable_seek:0|1
• buffering_ms:1..60000
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/media_url.txt
• Added a possibility to launch web browser using a special media_url
syntax.
• media_url syntax: www://{HTTP-or-file-URL}[:::{parameters}]
• Supported parameters:
• fullscreen=0|1
• webapp_keys=0|1
• zoom_level={N}
• overscan={N}
• user_agent={string}
• background_color={color}
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/misc/media_url.txt
• Dune IP Control API extensions and improvements:
• New IP Control commands:
• start_playlist_playback
• launch_media_url
• get_text
• set_text
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/ip_control
• Dune FlashLite API extensions and improvements:
• Added support for HTTPS.
• Improved support for USB keyboards.
• New API operations:
• requestPlaylistPlaybackOnExit
• requestPlaylistPlaybackOnExitWithReturn
• requestDVDPlayerOnExit
• requestDVDPlayerOnExitWithReturn
• requestBlurayPlayerOnExit
• requestBlurayPlayerOnExitWithReturn
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/flash
• Dune PHP Plugins API extensions and improvements:
• New GUI actions:
• file_play
• dvd_play
• bluray_play
• playlist_play
• launch_media_url
• change_behavior
• show_black_screen
• show_main_screen
• New GUI events:
• timer
• playback_stop
• New properties in existing data structures:
• GuiAction::params
• PluginInvalidateFoldersActionData::details
• PluginInvalidateFoldersActionData::rate_details
• PluginMovieFolderView::left_button_caption
• PluginMovieFolderView::left_button_action
• PluginMovieFolderView::params
• PluginRegularFolderView::timer
• PluginTvInfo::epg_mode
• PluginVodInfo::initial_position_ms
• PluginVodInfo::advert_mode
• PluginVodInfo::actions
• PluginVodInfo::timer
• ShowDialogActionData::actions
• ShowDialogActionData::timer
• ShowDialogActionData::max_height
• ShowDialogActionData::initial_sel_ndx
• ViewItemParams::item_caption_color
• ViewItemParams::item_sandwich_icon_scale_factor
• ViewParams::paint_details_box_background
• ViewParams::help_line_text_color
• ViewParams::item_detailed_info_title_color
• ViewParams::item_detailed_info_text_color
• New data structures and their properties:
• BlurayPlayActionData::url
• ChangeBehaviourActionData::actions
• ChangeBehaviourActionData::timer
• ChangeBehaviourActionData::post_action
• DvdPlayActionData::url
• FilePlayActionData::url
• GuiTimerDef::delay_ms
• LaunchMediaUrlActionData::url
• LaunchMediaUrlActionData::post_action
• PlaylistPlayActionData::url
• PlaylistPlayActionData::start_index
• PluginFolderViewParams::paint_path_box
• PluginFolderViewParams::paint_content_box_background
• PluginFolderViewParams::background_url
• PluginVodPlayActionData::vod_info
• ShowBlackScreenActionData::post_action
• ShowMainScreenActionData::post_action
• New features related to plugin file structure:
• {plugin_install_dir}/bin/
• The player automatically sets executable permissions on all
files in this directory during plugin installation.
• {plugin_install_dir}/www/{path}
• The player automatically makes these files accessible via
HTTP (locally inside the player, and from the local network):
• http://localhost-or-dune-ip-address/plugins/{plugin_name}/{path}
• {plugin_install_dir}/www/cgi-bin/{path}
• The player automatically makes these CGI applications
accessible via HTTP (locally inside the player, and from the
local network):
• http://localhost-or-dune-ip-address/cgi-bin/plugins/{plugin_name}/{path}
• Other new features:
• Ability to package FlashLite application into plugin and launch
it when the user enters plugin entry point, or when PHP plugin
code decides to call it. Supported via the new "launch_media_url"
action.
• Ability to package HTML page/application into plugin and launch
it in web browser when the user enters plugin entry point, or
when PHP plugin decides to call it. Supported via the new
"launch_media_url" action.
• If the plugin is pure FlashLite or HTML application and does not
need to execute any PHP code, "plain" plugin type can be
specified in plugin manifest instead of "php"; in this case,
there is no need to include PHP program into the plugin and
specify "program" parameter in plugin manifest.
• More details: http://dune-hd.com/support/plugins
* Other minor changes.
• The set of preinstalled UI skins slightly reduced to free some flash
memory for new firmware functions and applications.
• DHCP client sends the information about player model and firmware
version to DHCP server using DHCP vendor specific options.
• Various other minor fixes and improvements.
Version "120329_2012"
Changes since 120202_1544_beta:
NOTE: This is a minor update to 120202_1544_beta.
* Initial video mode setup wizard improvements: EDID information from TV
is now taken into account to automatically suggest the optimal HDMI mode.
Default mode is NTSC instead of PAL.
* Minor improvements related to the support for big and small Dune remote
controls in different Dune HD models.
* Bugfix: false IR signals were detected in some cases.
* Bugfix: playback of files from some huge (>2TB) HDD models did not
work.
* Bugfix: formatting HDD partition did not assign proper filesystem type
in some cases.
* Minor other improvements and fixes.
Version "120202_1544_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 120127_2115:
NOTE: Includes also all changes from 120127_2115 (see below).
* Added "Soft Reset" function:
• Now the "Reset Settings" function proposes two choices: full reset to
factory defaults (the same as took place in previous firmware
versions), and so called "soft reset".
• The soft reset clears the settings only partially and is more
convenient in cases when the user does not need full factory reset.
• The following things are cleared by the soft reset:
• All settings from Setup menu.
• All plugins settings.
• All cached data and data stored by the player for its own needs.
• All bookmarks (remembered playback positions).
• The following things (which may be hard to reconfigure from the
scratch) are kept by the soft reset:
• All configured network folders.
• All favorites configured in the main menu.
• All installed plugins.
* Improvements for the users of big remote controls:
• Added the setting allowing to choose the behavior POP UP MENU RC
button: toggle playlist/TV menu (as took place in previous firmware
versions), or toggle the new functions menu (introduced in the latest
firmware version) (this is the default behavior). The old behavior
(toggle playlist/TV menu) can be convenient for the users used to it.
Enabling the old behavior makes the functions menu unavailable (and
thus it may be reasonable only for users of big remote controls, which
have dedicated buttons allowing to trigger various playback functions
w/o the need to use the functions menu). The setting: 'Playback /
Preferences / POP UP MENU button'.
• On the models which are shipped by default with big remote control,
LEFT/RIGHT RC buttons during playback now trigger the time seek
function (as took place in previous firmware versions), rather then
the volume function (as was introduced in the latest firmware verion).
* Tvigle.ru application improvements:
• Added setting allowing to manually control if the application is shown
or not on the main screen: 'Setup / Applications / Tvigle / Shown on
the main screen'.
* Kartina.TV application removed from the set of preinstalled applications
by demand of the Kartina.TV company.
* Minor other improvements and fixes.
NOTE: Includes also all changes from 120127_2115 (see below).
Version "120127_2115"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Changes since 111122_0159_beta:
* Improved handling of deinterlacing settings:
• Deinterlacing mode choice is now remembered (for file/IPTV playback).
The remembering can be disabled via a new setting: 'Save deinterlacing
mode settings'.
• A warning is shown in some cases when BOB deinterlacing mode can give
better results but is not selected.
• BOB deinterlacing mode is forced automatically for DVD playback when
it is needed (in interlaced video modes).
* Improved ZOOM settings (for file/DVD/IPTV playback):
• Two new full screen ZOOM modes added:
• Full screen with preserved proportions (if video aspect ratio is
not the same as TV aspect ratio, some parts of the picture is
cropped).
• Full screen without preserved proportions (if video aspect ratio is
not the same as TV aspect ration, the picture is stretched to fill
the screen).
• The rest of ZOOM modes are rearranged, better names given to some
modes.
* Plugins improvements:
• Plugins installed into flash memory storage are kept on firmware
upgrade by default now. All other content of flash memory storage is
also preserved. The old behavior (disabling flash memory storage and
reinstalling optional firmware components) can be forced via a new
setting.
• Bugfix: after plugin is deinstalled, some plugin data could be kept.
• Bugfix: Scrolling movie description of movie page using PREV/NEXT RC
buttons did not work for plugins.
* Improved initial video mode configuration for all models:
• The following features are now available on all models (previously
they were implemented for Dune HD TV-101 model only):
• Showing picture on both HDMI and Composite video outputs on first
boot.
• Initial video mode setup wizard.
* Other improvements and fixes:
• Added support for "rtp://@" syntax for media URLs pointing to multicast
streams. (The new syntax is handled the same way as "udp://@" syntax,
including autodetection of RTP and raw-UDP.) The new syntax can be used
in playlist files, applications, etc.
• Bufgix: navigation through dune_folder.txt-based applications was very
slow in some cases (caused by slow loading of AAI image files). (The
problem was introduced in the previous firmware version.)
• Bugfix: Playback of MMS streams were broken. (The problem was
introduced in the previous firmware version.)
• Bugfix: WiFi scan worked wrongly in some cases.
• Bugfix: FlashLite API support for persistent data storage did not work
properly on Dune HD TV-101 and Dune HD Lite 53D.
• Minor other improvements and fixes.
Version "111122_0159_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 110923_1710:
NOTE: Includes also all changes from 110923_1710 (see below).
* Playback improvements:
• Bugfix: POWER RC button did not work correctly during Blu-ray Lite
playback.
• Bugfix: time-seeks in AVI files muxed with OpenDML structure were very
slow when playing from network.
* Various fixes and improvements.
• A new boot splash picture.
• Minor improvements and fixes for Kartina.TV and Tvigle applications.
• Minor improvements and fixes for GUI skins handling.
• Minor fixes for some recently introduced features and changes in
dune_folder.txt mechanism and related functionality.
• DHCP support improvement: "client id" sent by the player to DHCP server
is reverted back from a non-standard value (introduced in the previous
firmware version) to the standard value (0x01 followed by MAC-address).
• Bugfix: WiFi scan produced no results in some cases. Also, added a button
allowing to easily restart WiFi scan.
• Some menu languages updated/improved.
• Some other minor fixes.
* Added emergency settings reset function. In order to use it: put
"dune_boot_reset_settings.flag" file into the root of the only USB flash
drive connected to the player, then the player will reset settings during
boot.
* IP Control API extensions.
• Protocol version changed to 2.
• Improved reporting of current state during playback of IPTV streams.
• Added information about available audiotracks during playback.
• Added the possibility to configure the following playback parameters
(via "set_playback_state"):
• video_enabled
• video_zoom
• video_fullscreen
• video_x
• video_y
• video_width
• video_height
• volume
• mute
* Additional features and API changes in the mechanism for the integration
of IPTV/VOD services.
Version "110923_1710"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Changes since 110606_1315:
* Added Blu-ray Lite playback function:
• Supports both ISO images and BMDV folders.
• Supports BD images with complex file structure.
• Ensures the minimal gap when transitioning between M2TS files.
• Allows to choose the version of the movie, bonus materials, etc --
both when starting the playback, and during the playback.
• Allows to switch audiotracks and subtitles.
• Allows to navigate across chapters.
• Supports various functions available in the file playback mode (such
as zoom, subtitles shift, convenient time seek, etc).
* Playback improvements:
• Added "Auto" setting for preferred language for audio, subtitles and
disc menu. This automatically chooses the language based on the chosen
interface language. "Auto" is used by default now.
• "Save zoom settings" option is now enabled by default (affects the player
after settings reset to factory defaults).
• "BOB" deinterlacing mode is now used by default in file/TV playback mode.
(The reason for the change is that "adaptive" deinterlacing mode
currently produces worse results than "BOB" for some kinds of
files/streams).
• When playback starts, the information about the used and available
subtitles and audiotracks is not shown any more.
• REW button during playback of MPEG-TS/PS files now triggers time-seek
function instead of ignoring.
• Improved startup speed of MPEG2-TS files when playing them from
network.
• Bugfix: FF->seek->FF caused wrong speed of fast forward.
• Bugfix: wrong audio channels configuration on HDMI output could take
place in some cases during file playback.
• Bugfix: specific DVD-Video discs could not be played correctly.
• Bugfix: specific MPEG2-TS files with DTS streams could not be played
correctly.
• Bugfix: bitstream setting was not affecting S/PDIF for file playback.
• Bugfix: in some cases, audiotracks in specific MPEG2-TS were not
detected.
• Bugfix: video from a Samsung phone could not be played.
• Bugfix: MKV files with specific PCM audio tracks could not be played correctly.
• Bugfix: Switching between MPEG2-video and H.264 streams (e.g. IPTV
channels) could not work in some cases because of video memory
fragmentation. Related massive reorganizations of the playback engine
(a new video memory management architecture).
• Bugfix: autochoice of audio and subtitles was not working in some
cases for MKV.
• Bugfix: some OGG files were stuttering when playing from SMB share.
* Multicast IPTV playback improvements:
• Improved support for playback of very high bitrate IPTV streams.
• IMGP v2 is now used by default (instead of IGMP v3) for better
compatibility with different networks.
• Faster buffering of multicast streams. Also a new setting (in Setup /
Applications / IPTV) allows to manually adjust the buffering period for
multicast streams.
• Faster switching between multicast IPTV channels.
• Added showing of some information (moving across the screen) for IPTV
streams playback (similarly to how it is done for music playback).
• Added support for VC1 video in multicast IPTV streams.
• Added support for EAC3 in private type 6 streams (like those found in
French DVB-T) in multicast IPTV streams.
• Added support for AAC LATM in multicast IPTV streams.
• Bugfix: on some IPTV channels extra non-working BDLPCM and DTS HD MA
audio channels were offered.
• Various other improvements for playback of IPTV multicast streams.
* Various improvements for working with HDDs:
• Improved handling of GPT-formatted HDDs (so handling of 3TB+ HDDs is
more reliable now).
• Added a possibility to format huge HDDs (3TB+) on Dune. For HDDs
greater than 2TB, GPT partition table is created now. For smaller
HDDs, MBR partition table is used as before.
• Added built-in function of formatting into EXT3 file system.
• Added built-in function of formatting into NTFS file system.
• Improved support for formatting of "Advanced Format" HDDs (using 4KB
physical sector size). Partitions created by Dune are now always
aligned to the boundary of 1MB.
• When creating partitions, convenient labels are assigned to them now:
"data" for user data partitions, and "dune_system_storage" for system
storage partitions.
* Improved support for Dune HD Qwerty and USB keyboards.
• Support for entering text not only in web browser, but also in text
fields in the main and setup menus.
• Improved and more complete key mapping (both in the web browser and in
the menu).
• Support for entering non-English characters (both in the web browser
and in the menu).
• Use ALTGR (RIGHT ALT) key to enter characters from "US
International" keyboard layout.
• Use LANG (LEFT ALT) key to switch input langauges (currently only
switching to Russian input language is supported).
* dune_folder.txt improvements and new features:
• Added support for configuring the content of the right panel not only
in List View mode, but also in Icon View mode. The following
parameters are now supported in Icon View mode too:
• paint_item_info_in_details
• item_detailed_info
• item_detailed_info_font
• item_detailed_info_rel_y
• Added support for so called "sandwich" images (icon painted on top of
some base image, cut by some mask, and then some cover image added).
Parameters and example values:
• paint_sandwich = true
• sandwich_base = gui_skin://special_icons/sandwich_base.aai
• sandwich_mask = cut_icon://{name=sandwich_mask}
• sandwich_cover = cut_icon://{name=sandwich_cover}
• sandwich_width = 245
• sandwich_height = 140
• sandwich_icon_upscale_enabled = true
• sandwich_icon_keep_aspect_ratio = false
• Added support for http://mp4:// media_url syntax which enables certain
optimizations helpful for MP4 over HTTP VOD (moov atom prefetch,
improved prebuffering, etc).
• Bugfix: dune_folder.txt: caption_font_size=small usage was broken.
* RC handling changes during playback (needed mostly to support the new
small Dune HD RC):
• "ENTER" RC button in file playback can now be used to show the
playlist menu instead of "POP UP MENU" RC button. To hide the playlist
menu, press "RETURN" RC button.
• "POP UP MENU" RC button in file/DVD playback now shows a new OSD menu
which provides access to the following functions (the new small Dune
HD RC does not have some of the corresponding RC buttons):
• Playlist menu (instead of "POP UP MENU" RC button).
• DVD menu (instead of "POP UP MENU" RC button).
• Audio track selection (as by "AUDIO" RC button).
• Subtitle selection and settings (as by "SUBTITLE" RC button).
• Time search (as by "SEARCH" RC button).
• Zoom (as by "ZOOM" RC button).
• Picture adjustement (as by "SETUP" RC button).
• Deinterlacing mode selection (as by "MODE" RC button).
• DVD angle switching (as by "ANGLE" RC button).
• Audio sync correction (as by "A" RC button).
• PAL sound speed correction (as by "B" RC button).
• NOTE: some of the above functions show their own submenu. Use "POP
UP MENU" to switch from the submenu back to the main functions
menu.
• "SELECT" RC button in file/DVD playback can now be used to switch
between different settings in the following functions (the new small
Dune HD RC does not have the RC buttons which were previously used for
this switching):
• Zoom (as by "ZOOM" RC button).
• Deinterlacing mode selection (as by "MODE" RC button).
• DVD angle switching (as by "ANGLE" RC button).
• PAL sound speed correction (as by "B" RC button).
• "LEFT" and "RIGHT" RC buttons during playback can now be used also to
control the volume in addition to "V-" and "V+" RC buttons. This is
needed because the new small Dune HD RC does not have "V-" and "V+"
buttons. The time-seek function is available for these RC buttons as
well: time-seek and volume control functions can be easily switched by
pressing "SELECT" RC button (the last chosen function is remembered
and is used automatically in future). The default function is volume
control on player models which are shipped with the new small Dune HD
RC by default (such as Dune HD TV-101), and time-seek (as before) on
other player models.
• "LEFT" and "RIGHT" RC buttons can be used to trigger time-seek
function instead of volume control function also in TV/VOD playback
mode (such as Kartina.TV), in addition to "REW" and "FWD" RC buttons.
• "UP" and "DOWN" RC buttons during playback can now be used also to
switch between TV-channels/radiostations and other non-seekable media
streams in addition to "P-" and "P+" buttons. This is needed because
the new small Dune HD RC does not have "P-" and "P+" buttons.
• "PREV" and "NEXT" RC buttons can now be used in addition to "P-" and
"P+" buttons to perform the same function in many cases (e.g.
scrolling in lists). This is needed because the new small Dune HD RC
does not have "P-" and "P+" buttons. In some cases, when "PREV" and
"NEXT" RC buttons are already used for other function (e.g. in EPG
menu), "REW" and "FWD" RC buttons can be used instead.
• "FWD" and "REW" RC buttons can now be used to adjust the "shift"
parameter for custom zoom in addition to "V-" and "V+" buttons. This
is needed because the new small Dune HD RC does not have "V-" and "V+"
buttons.
• "FWD" RC button can now be used to toggle not only fast-forward trick
modes, but also through slow-forward trick modes. This is needed
because the new small Dune HD RC does not have separate "SLOW" RC
button.
• "PLAY" RC button is now handled as PLAY/PAUSE (rather than just PLAY)
not only during file playback mode, but also during DVD and Blu-ray
playback (and also in TV/VOD playback). This is needed for overall
consistency, and also because the new small Dune HD RC does not have
dedicated "PAUSE" button (only combined "PLAY/PAUSE" button).
• "CLEAR"-then-"PLAY" RC button combination can now be used as "quick
play" function (i.e. quickly go directly to the main video, skipping
DVD menus etc) during DVD playback in addition to
"SEARCH"-then-"PLAY". This is needed because the new small Dune HD RC
does not have "SEARCH" button.
• "B" RC button in DVD playback can now be used to toggle
DVD-menu-navigation and time-seek mode instead of "SELECT" RC button.
• "SELECT" RC button can now be used to toggle showing of advanced
technical information in addition to the basic information block
(shown by "INFO" RC button) in TV/VOD playback modes (such as
"Kartina.TV") in addition to "MODE" RC button. This is needed because
the new small Dune HD RC does not have "MODE" button.
* RC handling changes in the main menu (needed mostly to support the new
small Dune HD RC):
• "A" RC button can now be used to toggle the input language in text
fields in addition to "AUDIO" RC button. This is needed because the
new small Dune HD RC does not have "AUDIO" RC button.
• The web browser item in the main menu now shows the dialog allowing to
enter the URL of the web site. This is needed because the new small
Dune HD RC does not have "URL" RC button which could be previously
used to show this dialog.
• "REW" RC button can now be used to generate debug dump in addition to
"PAUSE" button. This is needed because the new small Dune HD RC does
not have dedicated "PAUSE" button (only combined "PLAY/PAUSE" button).
• "REC" RC button can now be used to toggle "safe video mode" function
in addition to "MODE" button. This is needed because the new small
Dune HD RC does not have "MODE" button.
• "POWER" RC button can now be used to generate screenshots (when the
corresponding setting is enabled in Setup / Misc / Advanced) in
addition to "EJECT" RC button. This is needed because the new small
Dune HD RC does not have "EJECT" button.
• Pop up menus in file browser now always include "Refresh" item. This
is needed because the new small Dune HD RC does not have
"ANGLE/ROTATE" RC button which could be previously used to request the
refresh).
• Pop up menus in the root screens of the main menu now include "Setup"
item. This is needed because the new small Dune HD RC does not have
"SETUP" RC button, and in some GUI settings there is no other way to
get into setup menu.
• "STOP" RC button in most dialogs is handled as "RETURN". This in
particular helps to ensure the ability to trigger "safe video mode"
function when there is no picture on TV in any player state: turn the
player off/on, wait for the player to boot, press "STOP" RC button to
ensure the player exits playback mode or possibly shown "Waiting for
..." dialog, and finally press "REC" RC button to enter "safe video
mode" function.
* Web browser improvements:
• Improved highlighting of the focused element.
• Improved handling of authorization dialogs.
• Web browser can now use the flash memory storage instead of the system
storage for storing some important data and settings.
* Integrated "Tvigle.ru" Internet Video service.
• (Russian language only.)
* Kartina.TV application changes and improvements:
• The password is hidden now.
• The max.number of favorite movies is increased from 20 to 100.
• Improved handling of channels/groups lists (fixed ordering etc).
• Added Sleep Timer function (by default is set to 2 hours).
• Improved handling of interruption of VOD streams.
* Added a mechanism for the integration of IPTV/VOD services. If you are an
IPTV operator or are willing to implement the integration with a 3-party
TV/VOD service (and have all the needed information and abilities to do
it) and are interested in getting the SDK for the integration, please
send a request to iptv_integration (at) dune-hd.com, and describe: what
exactly TV/VOD service you want to integrate and what access/control you
have on that service.
* DHCP support improvements:
• Added sending of the following identification information to DHCP
server:
• Host name: "DUNE".
• Vendor class identifier: "DUNEHD".
• Added a possibility to configure time settings via DHCP:
• NTP time server (standard DHCP parameter). In order to use this
feature, time server in player's settings should be set to "Auto",
and DHCP server should be configured to provide this parameter.
• Time zone (vendor specific DHCP parameter, code "4"). In order to
use this feature, time zone in player's settings should be set to
"Auto", and DHCP server should be configured to provide this
parameter.
* Other fixes and improvements:
• Improvements for setup screens (added previously missed animation,
some other minor improvements).
• More robust handling of GUI skins.
• Main menu: the text with details in the right panel has bigger
contrast now in order to better support various backgrounds.
• WiFi: Both "WEP Open" and "WEP Shared" are supported now.
• Bugfix: online firmware upgrade could fail to download firmware image in
some cases.
• Bugfix: firmware upgrade could not start in some cases.
• Bugfix: during firmware upgrade, timezone was not taken into account
and wrong time was shown on the screen.
• Bugfix: GUI crash could occur in some cases after using "Clear flash
memory storage" functions.
• Bugfix: on saving some player settings, writing to flash memory was not
properly flushed in some rare cases (could cause settings loss or
corruption if the player was unexpectedly powered down at this point).
• Robustness improvement: added automatic recovery for flash memory
partition storing player settings (it is now automatically reformatted
on player boot if the settings partition is found to be damaged
because of some previous unexpected player power down).
• Bugfix: minor fixes in DVB-T scanning function.
Version "110606_1315"
Changes since 110511_2007_beta:
* Bugfix: Weather application settings did not work in some cases.
* Bugfix: Specific DVD-Video discs could not be played correctly.
* Bugfix: NTSC/PAL detection could be handled wrongly during DVD-Video
playback.
* Bugfix: Wrong audio channel could be chosen when switching channels
during MPEG2-TS/IPTV playback.
* Bugfix: Playback of video streams from network could hang in specific
rare cases.
* Some interface languages updated.
* Some other improvements/fixes.
Version "110511_2007_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 110225_1222:
* Completely new graphical interface.
• New background image, new icons, more advanced graphics for all GUI
elements (glasses, dialogs, controls, OSD, etc).
• Animation effects.
• NOTE: it is recomended to use 50/60Hz video mode as the default
video mode in order to ensure smooth animation.
• NOTE: animation effects can be disabled in Setup / Appearance.
• Improved text look.
• The space between characters and the width of whitespace character
optimized.
• Ability to create and install custom GUI skins.
• More information: http://dune-hd.com/support/skins
• Ability to switch GUI skins on-the-fly.
• 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).
• Several GUI skins are included into the firmware.
* New tab-based main menu interface.
• All items from the main menu are now grouped into the
following top-level folders:
• "Sources": locally attached storage devices, configured network
folders, and "Network Browser" function.
• "TV": TV services (when available).
• "Favorites": shortcuts to favorite items (previously
known as "items added to main screen").
• "Applications": all other applications and services.
• "Setup": player settings.
• By default, all top-level folders are now represented as "tabs" at the
top of the screen.
• In Setup / Appearance, the user can switch between the following
styles of the main menu:
• "Tabs": the new default menu style ("tabs" at the top of the
screen).
• "Folders": show all top-level folders as regular folders in
the main area.
• "Plain": do not group main screen items into folders (the
same behavior as in previous firmware versions).
* Added widget for showing weather and current date/time information.
• The widget is shown at the top right corner of the screen (in the main
menu only, not during playback).
• The widget can be configured or disabled via "Setup / Applications /
Widget".
• NOTE: When no information is available (e.g. when Internet connection
is not available), the widget shows Dune HD logo.
* Various other user interface improvements.
• Added more predefined icon-based view modes for folders: 3x2, 3x3,
4x2, view modes with right panel.
• "Extended list" view mode is renamed to "List with right panel".
• Added the ability to quickly switch between view modes by pressing "A"
RC button.
• Debug dump function (which was previously available via triple
press of "A" RC button) is now available via tripple press of
"PAUSE" RC button.
• "Add to favorites" function can be quickly called by "D" RC button.
• "Copy" and "Paste" functions can be quickly called by "B" and "C" RC
buttons.
• The help line at the bottom of the screen indicates currently
available shortcut RC buttons ("A", "B", "C", "D", "POP UP") and their
functions.
• When launching the playback, "ENTER" RC button now works as "PLAY" by
default, i.e. builds a playlist consisting of all items in the current
folder and starts the playback of the currently selected item.
Usually, this improves the conveniency when the folder contains
multiple items (e.g. photos, music files, series, links to Internet
radio stations, links to TV channels, etc). The old behavior (do not
build the playlist, play just the selected item) can be restored via
settings (see "Setup / Advanced / File Browser").
• The current folder path at the top of the screen is now always shown
as just single line (with scrolling when the path is too long).
• Bugfix: "TOP MENU" RC button did not work in some Setup screens.
* Added support for CUE-sheet playlist files.
• When playing an audio file, is there is an associated CUE-sheet file
(should have the same filename as the audio file, but with ".cue"
extension), the CUE-sheet file is automatically used.
• "PREV"/"NEXT" RC buttons allow to switch between tracks.
• The OSD menu ("POP UP MENU" RC button) allows to see the list of
tracks and switch to the desired track.
• When the playlist contains multiple audio files, CUE-sheet files are
also detected and used for each audio file (the detection is performed
when an audio file starts to play for the first time). The OSD menu
groups all tracks by the corresponding files.
• Also added support for built-in CUE-sheets in FLAC, APE and WavPack
files.
* Added support for chapters in MKV files.
• "PREV"/"NEXT" RC buttons allow to switch between chapters.
• The OSD menu ("POP UP MENU" RC button) allows to see the list of
chapters and switch to the desired chapter.
• When the playlist contains multiple MKV files, chapters are also
detected and used for each MKV file (the detection is performed when a
MKV file starts to play for the first time). The OSD menu groups all
chapters by the corresponding files.
* New version of DVD engine.
• The new version of the DVD engine adds the support for multiangle
feature and improves the support for DVD-Video discs with advanced
DVD-menu and interactive features.
• If needed, the old version of the DVD engine may be chosen via Setup /
Miscellaneous / System / DVD engine.
* Added settings for preferred languages of disc menu, audio track,
subtitles.
• See "Setup / Playback / Language".
• Supported for BD/DVD-Video discs/images and files.
• NOTE: The default value of these language settings is "English". So,
if there are several audio or subtitles tracks and the "English" one
is not the first one, it will be automatically chosen (instead of
choosing the first track, as it took place previously).
• Also added a new setting (see "Setup / Playback / Subtitles") which
allows to enable subtitles by default not only for files, but also for
DVD-Video discs/images.
* Various playback improvements.
• General improvements for playback of HTTP audio streams (such as
Internet radio stations).
• CD audio playback improvements: faster startup and gapless playback.
• Improvement: for autoframerate function, non-standard framerates
between 23.976Hz and 24Hz are now treated as 23.976Hz (rather than
24hz).
• Bugfix: Viewing photos from a UPnP source did not work (the problem
introduced in previous firmware versions).
• Bugfix: Unsupported REW (fast rewind) command for TS files was wrongly
handled as fast forward rather than ignored.
• Bugfix: Playlist shuffle function could use an already previously used
random sequence in some cases.
• Bugfix: MP3 files with very large embedded covers could not be played.
• Bugfix: MP3 files with specific ID3 tags could not be played.
• Bugfix: ".mts" files were wrongly handled as audio files.
• Bugfix: Pausing M4A files could cause playback stop in some cases.
• Bugfix: .M3U/.PLS playlist files with "UTF8 BOM" header could not be
played.
• Bugfix: specific TS files (such as specific broadcast recordings)
could be played wrongly or with pause/seek not working.
• Bugfix: specific MKV files could not be played.
* Improved handling of RC buttons during playback.
• "PREV" RC button now navigates through the history of the previously
played playlist items only in the shuffle playback mode and only after
normal transitions (selecting an item in the playlist and manually
jumping to it resets the history).
• "TOP MENU" RC button now allows to go to the main screen also from
file playback mode.
* Added new audio output configuration possibilites.
• The setting "Setup / Audio / Audio decoding mode" allows to specify
the number of channels (stereo, 5.1, 7.1), which should be output to
analog audio outputs and HDMI output.
* Improved output of DTS-CD audio streams.
• Removed 14-bit to 16-bit conversion, which is undesired in some cases.
• Added the new setting "Setup / Audio / DTS CD audio conversion", which
allows to revert back the old behavior (enable 14-bit to 16-bit
conversion) when needed.
* DVB-T related improvements.
• Usability improvement: when watching DVB-T channels, "ENTER" RC button
opens the list of DVB-T channels (as "POP UP MENU" RC button).
• Bugfix: DVB-T playback did not work in some cases.
* Added "SHOUTCast" and "RadioTime" applications (free access to thousands
of local and world-side Internet radio stations).
* Added "Russia.ru" application (free access to "Russia.ru" Internet video
service).
* Minor improvements for "IVI.ru" application.
• Added showing some information about listed movies in the right panel.
* A lot of new features and improvements for "Kartina.TV" application.
• Integrated the new "Videoteka" function based on the new "Dune VOD"
mechanism (planned to be used for other VOD services as well).
• Movies can be filtered by categories (including filtering by
multiple categories).
• Movies can be searched by title (with on-screen virtual keyboard).
• When browsing the list of movies, different view modes can be
switched.
• Detailed movie information can be shown.
• Movies with series are supported (including series selection before
and durign movie playback).
• "Dune TV" mechanism improvements:
• Added the possibility to switch different view modes when browsing
the list of TV channels.
• Added hints about the possibilities to use "B", "C", "D" RC buttons
to manage favorite TV channels.
• Added automatic resuming of TV playback after power-off/power-on.
• Added remembering the last played TV channel. When resuming TV
playback (automatically after power-off/power-on, or when entering
the application via "PLAY" RC button), the remembered TV channel is
restored.
• Added showing not only date, but also week day in the EPG menu.
• Increased the font size in the EPG menu; added a new setting
allowing to change the font size in the EPG menu.
• Added support for "Low Bitrate" channels.
• Improved handling of "Time Shift" function in some cases.
• Added "0.5 seconds" buffering option (for people with very good
Internet connection).
• Improved the stability and performance of the communication with
servers.
• Added waiting for the IP address when attempting to start the
application when the IP address is not assigned yet.
* Added new possibilities for UI customization and authors of
applications based on "dune_folder.txt" mechanism.
• Added new dune_folder.txt parameters:
• Animation:
• animation_enabled = yes|no (default is yes)
• Overall item layout:
• item_layout = center|left|right (default is center)
• Badge-based icons:
• paint_icon_badge_box = yes|no
• icon_badge_box_dx = N
• icon_badge_box_dy = N
• icon_badge_box_height = N
• icon_badge_box_width = N
• Selection frame visualization:
• icon_selection_box_dx = N
• icon_selection_box_dy = N
• icon_selection_box_height = N
• icon_selection_box_width = N
• Icon visualization:
• icon_margin_bottom = N
• icon_margin_left = N
• icon_margin_right = N
• icon_margin_top = N
• icon_sel_margin_bottom = N
• icon_sel_margin_left = N
• icon_sel_margin_right = N
• icon_sel_margin_top = N
• Caption visualization:
• item_caption_dy = N
• item_caption_sel_dy = N
• item_caption_width = N
• item_caption_wrap_enabled = yes|no (default is no)
• Item details visualization (in the right panel):
• zoom_detailed_icon = yes|no (default is no)
• paint_item_info_in_details = yes|no (default is yes)
• item_detailed_info = TEXT
• item_detailed_info_font_size = normal|small (default is normal)
• item_detailed_info_rel_y = N
• Marks visualization:
• mark_scale_factor = N.N
• Small icon type (for list view):
• folder_small_icon_name = {small_icon_name}
• item_small_icon_name = {small_icon_name}
• Here, {small_icon_name} can be:
• video_file|audio_file|image_file|folder|disc_folder
• Added a new kind of media_url: "http://audio_stream://...". Enables a
special handling of the HTTP URLs, which is often useful when playing
audio streams (such as Internet radio streams).
• Bugfix: relative paths did not work properly when used with virtual
items in dune_folder.txt.
• When the player communicates with an external application via
"dune_http://" protocol, the application now can determine various
information about the player (product id, firmware version, serial
number, current interface language) using "X-Dune-..." headers in HTTP
requests. Also, a specific "User-Agent" is now used in HTTP requests.
* Added new possibilities for authors of FlashLite applications.
• New operations added to Dune FlashLite API:
• requestFilePlayerOnExitWithReturn()
• requestWebBrowserOnExitWithReturn()
• getFirmwareVersion()
• getProductId()
• Some other minor fixes/improvements.
* Network setup improvements.
• Usability improvement: when submitting network settings, "Waiting for
IP address" popup window is shown and the system waits for the IP
address to be assigned.
• Bugfix: "Auto + manual DNS" network configuration mode could not work
properly in some cases.
• Added the possibility to use empty password for PPPoE network
connections.
* Added support for controlling most player functions via USB keyboard and
USB mouse.
• Various keyboard buttons (such as LEFT, RIGH, UP, DOWN, ENTER, BACK,
PageUp, PageDown, etc) are handled the same way as the corresponding
RC buttons.
• Mouse movements are handled as LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN actions.
• Mouse left button presses are handled as ENTER.
• Mouse right button presses are handled as RETURN.
• NOTE: Text input using a keyboard in text fields in setup and file
browser is not supported yet.
* Added support for "Dune HD Qwerty" device (compact wireless keyboard +
touchpad + remote with a RF USB dongle).
• NOTE: The support is preliminay, although most functions work, some
potential functions do not work yet.
* Improved handling of remote controls and IR signals.
• All IR codes expect codes from Dune HD remotes should be ignored now
in all cases (so, pressing any button on 3-party remote control should
not interrupt the screensaver) (except when 3-party remotes use the
same the same IR codes as Dune HD remotes).
• Added a Setup option to disable the compatibility with old kinds of
Dune HD remotes (Setup / Miscellaneous / Advanced / Old remote
support). (May be helpful if some 3-party remotes use the same IR
codes as old kinds of Dune HD remotes).
• Some other improvements in IR signal decoding and handling.
* Improved output to the front panel display.
• Improvement: when playing content having no known duration (such as
Internet radio stream), the title of the played item is shown instead
of meaningless playback counter.
• Added support for displaying characters from some european languages.
* Added support for working with favorites without system storage.
• When the system storage is not attached, the list of favorites is
stored (without associated icons) in the internal flash memory (the
same memory as used for storing all player settings).
• NOTE: If some favorites are added when the system storage is not
attached, and after that the system storage is attached, the internal
flash memory still will be used to store the list of favorites.
* Improved web browser performance.
• Increased the amount of memory available for the web browser (and
other applications as well). This leads to increased web browser
performance and ability to work with more complex web sites.
* Various other improvements.
• Bugfix: adding shortcut (favorite) did not work when the filename
contained a specific character.
• Some previously missing characters added to fonts.
• Some interface languages added/updated.
• Some other improvements/fixes.
Version "110225_1222"
Changes since 110127_2105_beta:
• Bugfix: Specific M2TS files could not be played.
• Bugfix: Specific MP4 files (such as files from specific video cameras)
could be played without sound on HDMI output.
• Bugfix: DVB-T channels scan failed in specific cases in some
countries/locations.
• Bugfix: icons loading could fail in some cases for some applications
(such as KartinaTV).
Version "110127_2105_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 101201_1626:
* Various playback improvements.
• Bugfix: Specific MP3 files were playing with distortions when played
during photo viewing.
• Bugfix: Specific AVI files with AC3 audio were playing without sound,
and no file with audio could be played afterwards.
• Bugfix: Specific AVI files with H.264 video were not playing, and no
other video file could be played afterwards.
• Improvement: unsupported non-LC AAC audio tracks in MKV are not shown
in the list of audiotracks to avoid confusing the user.
• Bugfix: The setting "HDMI audio = disabled" did not work properly in
some cases with some equipment.
• Bugfix: Specific AVI files with AAC audio could not be played
correctly.
• Added support for playback and recorinding of A/V streams based on MMS
protocol (useful for MMS-based Internet Radio and Internet Video
resources).
* Added support for MMS audio/video streaming protocol.
• Useful for MMS-based Internet Radio and Internet Video resources.
• Both playback and recording of MMS streams is supported.
• Usage: launch playback of MMS URL ("mms://...") via .M3U playlist file
or in any other way supported by Dune.
* Volume control improvements.
• Added a new setting "Audio / Volume control" with the following
possible values:
• "Off". Volume control is completely disabled. The volume level is
fixed at 100% (0dB) and the player does not perform any
modifications of the digital audio signal.
• "Best quality". The default setting. The user is allowed to control
the volume in the safe range till 0dB (ensuring no audio
distortions on all audio content). When needed for specific files,
it is also possible to temporarily overcome the 0dB limit by
pressing and holding "V+" RC button for several seconds (the
increase volume level takes effect only for the current playback
session and is automatically reset to 0dB when the playback session
finishes).
• "Allow overload". The setting corresponding to the behavior taking
place in previous firmware versions. The user is allowed to set the
volume to values greater than 0dB. Depending on played content,
this may lead to severe audio distortions and thus is not
recommended.
• Added a new setting "Audio / Volume indication" with the following
possible values:
• "Percents". The default setting. The volume level is shown as
[0..100%] (corresponding to [-48..0dB] range). When the volume
level is set to 100%, the player does not perform any modifications
of the digital audio signal. Overloaded volume level is shown as
(100..150%] (corresponding to (0..+24dB] range).
• "Decibels". The setting corresponding to the behavior taking place
in previous firmware versions. The volume level is shown in
decibels.
• Volume control for background audio during photo viewing is
implemented in the same way as for regular file playback.
• NOTE: As in previous firmware versions, the player can apply volume
control only to PCM audio signal (i.e. when playing PCM audio tracks
or audio tracks which are decoded by the player itself); when using
"bitstream" audio output mode and playing audio tracks supporting
bitstream output, the volume control does not take any affect. When
A/V receiver is used, it is recommended to control the volume using
the A/V receiver.
* Other OSD improvements.
• When performing time navigation using LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN/P+/P- RC
buttons (in file/DVD playback mode), the OSD does not only show the
selected playback position, but also shows the offset from the current
playback position.
• Certain notification OSD elements, such as volume control and certain
information messages can now be quickly hidden by pressing any
non-relevant RC buttons (no need to wait for autohide timeout).
* Added IP Control possibilities (control the player from iPhone etc).
• A simple HTTP protocol allows to control the player from network
(start/stop playback of the given media resources, control the
playback, check current player status, emulate RC button presses,
etc).
• Applications for various devices can be created based on this IP
Control procotol. Several such applications are already announced /
provided (e.g.: applications for iPhone/iPad, integration with
Control4 smart home systems).
• More information: http://dune-hd.com/support/ip_control
* Added new possibilities for authors of FlashLite applications.
• Added ability for FlashLite application to store persistent data in
the flash memory of the player ("persistent SharedObjects").
• Added support for showing specific text message on the front panel
display (for player models having front panel display) on startup of
FlashLite application.
• More information: http://dune-hd.com/support/flash
* Added new UI customization possibilities (for "dune_folder.txt"
applications).
• Added a possibility to load icons shown in the right panel of the
"extended list view" asynchronously. When this feature is enabled,
navigation in such folders becomes much faster.
• Syntax:
• async_icon_loading = yes
• Added "icon_archive" feature, allowing to download a collection of
icons/images from an HTTP server once when entering certain folder,
and cache it in the player (in System Storage), that allows to
significantly improve the performance.
• Syntax:
• icon_archive.{n}.name = {name}
• icon_archive.{n}.url = {HTTP-URL-to-TGZ-archive}
• icon_path = icon_archive://{name}/{file-path-in-archive}
• When a new version of the icon archive is deployed on the HTTP
server, a modified URL should be used for it, then the player will
automatically reload the icon archive next time when the user opens
the folder.
* Setup usability improvements.
• When the user tries to exit "Video" or "Network" setup screen with
unsaved changes, a warning dialog is shown. The user is asked to
either apply the changes, discard the chances, of cancel the action.
• When selecting WiFi network connection type, the WiFI settings dialog
is shown automatically.
• When selecting PPPoE network connection type, the PPPoE settings
dialog is shown automatically.
• Online firmware upgrade function does not require an attached storage
device (such as USB flash drive) any more.
* Added built-in functions for management of System Storage.
• New Setup page "Miscellaneous / System Storage" provides the following
functions:
• "Initialize System Storage": allows to initialize the system
storage if it is not configured yet. Two possibilities are
provided: create the system storage on an empty storage device (USB
flash drive, SD card, an already existing HDD partition), or
partition an empty HDD into system storage and user data
partitions. Usage instructions:
• The system lists all found empty 1GB+ storages.
• Select the desired storage.
• If the selected storage's capacity is less than 100GB, the
entire storage is initialized as the system storage.
• Otherwise, if the selected storage is 100GB+ storage device, it
is partitioned into two partitions, the first partition is
initialized as the system storage, and the second partition is
kept unformatted (to format it, select it in the file browser
and press ENTER).
• "Deinitialize System Storage": allows to deinitialize the system
storage if it is already configured.
• "Clear System Storage": deletes all data stored on the system
storage. This, in particular, includes Blu-ray cache, main screen
shortcuts, content of Internet Radio and IPTV folders.
• "Clear Blu-ray Cache": clears Blu-ray cache (also known as "Blu-ray
local storage").
* Added support for "Flash Memory Storage" - an area of main flash
memory that can be used to store data instead of System Storage in some
cases.
• Flash Memory Storage currently can be used to store the following
data:
• Data cache for dune_folder.txt applications utilizing
"icon_archive" function (graphics packages downloaded from
Internet).
• Data cache for KartinaTV application (graphics and some other
information downloaded from Internet).
• For all other kinds of data that can be stored in System Storage,
Flash Memory Storage can not be used, and System Storage is still
required. This includes, in particular: Blu-ray cache, main screen
shortcuts, content of Internet Radio and IPTV folders.
• In future, it is planned to allow to use Flash Memory Storage for more
player functions.
• The purpose of Flash Memory Storage is that it makes it easy to use
the corresponding player functions for the users not having System
Storage attached. When System Storage is available, Flash Memory
Storare is not used (System Storage is used instead).
• Flash Memory Storage availability and capacity depends on a particular
Dune model.
• Dune HD Max, Dune HD Duo: Flash Memory Storage is always available
and its capacity is ~100MB (due to total 256MB of main flash memory
in these models).
• Dune HD Base 3.0, Dune BD Prime 3.0, Dune HD Smart D1/H1/B1: Flash
Memory Storage can be enabled/disabled (disabled by default) and
its capacity is ~16MB. Enabling Flash Memory Storage is performed
automatically when it is needed for the first time, or can be
performed manually via Setup. When Flash Memory Storage is enabled,
some optional firmware components (asian fonts) are removed from
the flash memory. When firmware is reinstalled/updated, Flash
Memory Storage becomes disabled again and these optional firmware
components are restored automatically (until Flash Memory Storage
is required again by some application). If these optional firmware
components are required, Flash Memory Storage can not be used
(System Storage should be used instead).
• Dune HD Lite 53D: Flash Memory Storage is always available and its
capacity is ~16MB.
• Setup section "Miscellaneous / System Storage" allows to see the
current status of Flash Memory Storage and provides the following
functions:
• "Enable Flash Memory Storage": allows to enable Flash Memory
Storage (only for Dune models where Flash Memory Storage is
optional, other Dune models have Flash Memory Storage always
enabled).
• "Clear Flash Memory Storage": deletes all data from Flash Memory
Storage.
* Improved "Reset Settings" function.
• The confirmation dialog includes the information that player reboot
will be performed.
• Added clearing of all user-related data stored by the player in System
Storage (including main screen shortcuts and cached icon archive
data). NOTE: the content of Internet Radio and IPTV folders is not
cleared automatically (since these folders may contain files important
for the user); if needed, these folders can be cleared manually.
• Added clearing of all data in Flash Memory Storage.
* Integrated "KartinaTV" Internet TV service.
• More information: http://dune-hd.com/support/kartina_tv
* Integrated "IVI.ru" Internet Video service.
• More information: http://dune-hd.com/support/ivi_ru
* Various other improvements.
• The function of quick video mode choosing now provides feedback using
the LED on the front panel of the player:
• When the function is activated: the LED blinks once.
• When the user cancels the function: the LED blinks once.
• When a new video mode is chosen: the LED blinks 2 times.
• When the user confirms the new video mode: the LED blinks 3 times.
• Some interface languages added/updated.
• Some other improvements/fixes.
* Includes also all changes from 101201_1626.
Version "101201_1626"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Changes since 100916_2027_beta:
* Various playback improvements.
• Improved support for PGS subtitles during file playback.
• Improved support for playback of very high bitrate MPEG TS/PS files
and streams in specific cases.
• Improved support for recording of audio-only TS streams (implemented
more precise start of the recording).
• Improved support for playback of audio-only TS files (added duration
detection and current playback position indication).
• Improved playback of Internet Radio streams.
• Improved playback of MP3 audio files via UPnP.
• Improved compatibility with some Internet Video services accessible
via UPnP servers such as PlayOn Digital Media Server.
• Bugfix: stopping MKV playback with enabled subtitles could lead to a
crash in some cases.
• Bugfix: specific files could not be played smoothly from network in
some cases (the problem introduced in the firmware version
100630_2131_beta).
• Bugfix: switching between DVD chapters could cause audio problems (in
bitstream mode) (the problem introduced in firmware version
100916_2027_beta, because of a new Sigma SDK).
• Bugfix: bitstream audio output did not work correctly on some Blu-ray
discs in some cases (especially when 12-bit HDMI colorspace was used)
(the problem introduced in firmware version 100916_2027_beta, because
of a new Sigma SDK).
• Bugfix: some user actions during playback of certain Blu-ray BD-J
discs/images could cause green screen (the problem introduced in
firmware version 100916_2027_beta, because of a new Sigma SDK).
* Added support to play background music during photo viewing.
• Instruction: just launch a playlist consisting of both photos and
audio files, e.g.:
• Press PLAY on a folder containing photos and audio files.
• Put .M3U playlist file with links (paths) to audio files into the
folder with photos, press PLAY on this folder.
• Press SELECT to manually mark photos / audio files (or folders with
photos / audio files), and press PLAY. (Note: marking files works
only within single parent folder.)
• The following RC buttons are available for controlling background
audio playback in photo viewer:
• MUTE, V+/V-: mute and volume control.
• PAUSE/PLAY: pause/resume audio.
• NEXT/PREV: go to next/previous audio file.
• REW/FWD: the same as NEXT/PREV.
• NOTE: To navigate and pause/resume the photo slide show itself,
LEFT/RIGHT/ENTER RC buttons can be used.
• Notes:
• Limitations: WMAPro audio file format is not supported for this
feature; all other audio file formats should work (including MP3,
FLAC, OGG, APE, WAV, WMA, etc).
• All audio files are played sequentially (in the original order) in a
loop.
• Audio files using the same or compatible audio codec are played in
gapless mode.
* Other photo viewer improvements.
• ENTER RC button in photo viewer allows to pause/resume the slide show
(and LEFT/RIGHT, as before, allow to go to next/previous photo).
• Bugfix: specific huge panorama photos were handled wrongly in photo
viewer.
• Bugfix: photo viewer could crash in specific rare cases.
* Added support to play music w/o using TV, using the front panel display.
• The name of the currently selected item of the file browser (e.g.
file/folder) is shown on the display.
• When playback of a file/audiotrack starts, its title is shown on the
display for a few seconds.
• The currently selected playlist item (when playlist browser is
activated by pressing POP UP MENU RC button during playback) is shown
on the display.
• Long names/titles are scrolled through the display.
• The new features can be disabled via settings in "Setup /
Miscellaneous / Built-in Display".
* Added support for ALAC (Apple Lossless) audio files.
* Added support for WavPack lossless audio files.
* Added 24/50 and 24/60 autoframerate modes.
* Added "dynamic range control" support.
• Added "Setup / Audio / Dynamic Range Control" setting, with possible
values "Off", "Medium", "High", "Auto". Allows to specify the desired
DRC behavior for audio tracks supporting DRC.
* Volume control improvements.
• New graphical volume indicator during file and DVD playback, with a
special warning (red color) about possible overload (volume level more
than 0dB).
* Zoom improvements.
• Added a new zoom preset for file playback: "full fill screen" --
similar to "fill screen" but with filling the entire screen both
vertically and horizontally.
• Bugfix: remembering zoom settings could work wrongly in some cases.
* Blu-ray INFO OSD improvements.
• Added showing of the total playback time in INFO OSD during Blu-ray
playback.
• Added showing the information about secondary video and secondary
audio tracks in INFO OSD during Blu-ray playback; some other related
changes/improvements.
* Improved handling of RC buttons during playback.
• CLEAR RC button allows to restore the default vertical position of
subtitles in subtitles setup mode.
* Improved handling of RC buttons in file browser.
• PREV and NEXT RC buttons are handled as P+/P- in file browser (allow
to switch to next/previous page in large directory listings) (the
feature requested by some users of universal remotes).
• Added a possibility to quickly toggle interface language: AUDIO RC
button on the main screen shows a dialog for choosing the language.
* Improved handling of front panel buttons in file browser.
• PREV and NEXT front panel buttons now allow to navigate both when icon
view is used (handled as LEFT and RIGHT, with ability to go from one
row to another) and when list view is used (handled as UP and DOWN).
* Added support for Hebrew (Right-to-Left) filenames.
* Added clock on front panel display in standby.
• Clock is shown automatically when time is synchronized (i.e. time
synchronization option is enabled and Internet connection is working,
or a time server in the local network is used); when time is not
synchronized, clock is not shown.
• NOTE: Time synchronization is automatically enabled after upgrade to
this firmware version. If not needed/desired, it can be disabled via
"Setup / Miscellaneous / Time synchronization".
• Clock is shown in "software standby" mode only.
• Clock showing can be disabled via "Setup / Miscellaneous / Built-in
Display / Show time on display".
* Added new UI customization possibilities (for "dune_folder.txt"
applications).
• Added dune_folder.txt feature: possibility to specify the default
sorting settings for the folder. Syntax:
• sort_field = name|size|atime|mtime|unsorted
• sort_dir = asc|desc
• Added dune_folder.txt feature: paths in the definition of virtual
items can be relative paths.
• Image/icon files can now have also special extensions .djpg, .dbmp,
.dpng (helpful e.g. to allow Movie Collections PC applications to
prevent indexing of the files by OS for better performance).
* Various DVB-T improvements.
• Included a newer improved version of DVB-T drivers, which improve
DVB-T reception quality and fix some problems.
• Improved support for national characters in DVB-T channel names.
• Added a possibility to use DVB-T w/o system storage (support for nice
channel icons is disabled in this case).
• Added a possibility to specify the location (country and city) when
scanning for the channels (speeds up the scanning process and also may
improve the results of the scanning). The location can also be
specified in Setup / Applications / DVB-T.
• Added showing of progress information during scanning and a
possibility to stop the scan process.
• Added a possibility to launch the scan also from the settings page
(Setup / Applications / DVB-T).
* Torrent client improvements.
• Maximum number of torrent client peers is set to 50 by default (to
prevent problems taking place in some cases, as reported by some
users).
• More correct reporting of errors by torrent client in some cases.
• Bugfix: torrent client did not support working with partition-less
storage devices.
* Network setup improvements.
• Added a new network configuration mode: "Auto (DHCP), manual DNS",
allowing to use DHCP for automatic configuration of basic network
settings, but specify DNS settings manually (as needed for some
Internet providers).
• Improved indication when the player is waiting for IP address.
* WiFi setup improvements.
• Added an ability to choose WiFi network from the list.
• Setup / Network / (WiFi) Settings -> Scan for networks...
• Added autodetection of the best possible WiFi security method when
choosing WiFi network from the list.
• WiFi password is shown as normal text to make it easier to
enter/validate it.
* Added PPPoE support.
• Added PPPoE network connection kind (i.e.: Dune connected via Ethernet
cable directly to an Internet provider which uses PPPoE connection,
with login/password-based authorization).
* Added SMB server settings (Setup / Applications / SMB Server).
• Server name.
• Workgroup name.
• Server description.
• Ability to disable SMB server.
* Time zone setup improvements.
• Time zone configuration (Setup / General / Time zone) is made more
convenient: for each listed time zone, the current time taking place
according to this time zone is shown.
* Added built-in "Reset Settings" function.
• No more need to use a DSF file for this.
• Usage: "Setup / General / Reset Settings".
• Resets all player settings to default values and also clears all other
user-related data stored by the player in main flash memory (such as:
file/DVD bookmarks, configuration of network folders, etc).
• Also clears Blu-ray cache (also known as Blu-ray local storage) in
System Storage (when System Storage is attached).
* Various other improvements.
• Changed indication of "AC3" and "EAC3" audio tracks to "Dolby Digital"
and "Dolby Digital Plus" (as required by Dolby).
• Bugfix: pressing POP UP MENU on main screen shortcuts pointing to a
non-accessible network resource could cause a lockup for several
minutes.
• Other minor fixes.
Version "100916_2027_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 100828_0034:
• Added a possibility to adjust the vertical position of subtitles during
Blu-ray playback.
• Added a possibility to adjust the vertical position of PGS and VobSub
subtitles during file playback.
• Improved handling of PGS subtitles in MKV and TS files.
• Improved "Audio / HDMI audio = Disabled" setting, which should now work
more correctly with various HDMI equipment. Now, it only disables passing
audio through the HDMI, but does not force DVI mode with RGB colorspace
on the HDMI output any more.
• Added a new setting "Video / Advanced / Force DVI output", which allows
to force DVI mode on the HDMI video output. This allows to achieve player
behavior which took place previously when using "HDMI audio = Disabled"
setting. (Note, as previously, this does not affect Blu-ray playback.)
• Added a new setting "Video / Advanced / Output colorspace",
which allows to specify the desired colorspace on the HDMI output.
• Supported values:
• Auto (use BT.709 for HD video modes and BT.601 for SD video modes)
• BT.601.
• BT.709.
• RGB-Full.
• RGB-Limited.
• The default value is Auto.
• Note: does not affect Blu-ray playback (for Blu-ray playback, "Auto"
is always used).
• Note: in previous firmware versions, the actually used setting was
BT.601; if you think that you had a better picture quality during file
or DVD playback in previous firmware versions, you may try to set this
setting to BT.601 (see also the new setting "Video / Advanced /
Default decoder colorspace").
• Added a new setting "Video / Advanced / Default decoder colorspace",
which allows to specify the default colorspace which should be assumed
for files having no explicit indication of the colorspace actually used
when encoding these files.
• Supported values:
• Auto (use BT.709 for files using HD resolution and BT.601 for files
using SD resolution).
• BT.601.
• BT.709.
• The default value is Auto.
• Note: affects only file playback.
• Note: in previous firmware versions, the actually used setting was
BT.601; if you think that you had a better picture quality during file
playback in previous firmware versions, you may try to set this
setting to BT.601 (see also the new setting "Video / Advanced / Output
colorspace").
• Improved Audio CD playback startup speed.
• Improved compatibility with specific models of eSATA HDD enclosures.
• Implemented improvements/fixes for Avatar Blu-ray playback.
• Added automatic clearing (when needed) of Blu-ray Local Storage after
firmware upgrade in order to prevent possible Blu-ray playback problems.
• Added a new setting "Misc / Playback / Save zoom settings", which allows
to remember the choosen zoom mode even after stopping playback and
switching off the player.
• Added a new setting "Misc / Playback / Show recording indicator", which
allows to enable on-screen indication (blinking red circle) during
recording of IPTV / Internet radio / DVB-T streams.
• Back-ported the new possibility of switching on/off the fan (originally
introduced for Dune HD Max model). See a new setting "Setup / Misc /
System / Fan". NOTE: fan disabling is not recommended unless you are sure
in temperature conditions. If unsure, do not use this new feature.
• Improved the firmware recovery procedure: the LED indicator on the front
panel is blinking during firmware recovery process.
• Improved handling of specific unsupported files (such as GMC-encoded
AVIs): information about this is reported to the user.
• Bugfix: HDMI color depth and HDMI CEC settings could be set to wrong
values when using "safe" video modes (triggered by MODE + 1..6 RC
buttons).
• Bugfix: very high-birate IPTV channels could be played with artefacts and
picture distortions (a problem introduced in firmware version
100630_2131_beta).
• Bugfix: specific MKV files could not be recognized and played at all.
• Bugfix: ".djvu" files wrongly considered as supported.
• Bugfix: creation of debug dumps did not work in specific cases (when the
current folder path contained whitespaces).
• Some interface languages added/updated.
• Some other improvements/fixes.
Version "100828_0034"
Download:
N/A (is not available / is not recommended for this player model, the listed changes are included into next firmware versions)
Changes since 100706_1032_beta:
• Integrated a new version of Sigma Blu-ray SDK:
• This improves compatibility with new Blu-ray discs.
• Integrated commercial NTFS read-write driver from Tuxera.
• All kinds of write access to an NTFS HDD should work, including:
• Copying/moving/deleting/renaming files via file browser.
• FTP access from network.
• SMB access from network.
• Torrent client.
• Recording of IPTV, Internet Radio, DVB-T.
• NOTE: If you do not plan to use your HDD both with Dune and with PC,
it is still recommended to format the HDD to EXT2 or EXT3 filesystem
(as these filesystems are better tested, and as this may provide
better performance in some cases, e.g. when using Torrent client).
• Included Korean fonts.
• Added a workaround for MKV lipsync problem (a small A/V desync when
bitstreaming AC3 through S/PDIF or HDMI, noticeable by some users on some
A/V equipment).
• Bugfix: 192kHz/24-bit FLAC audio could not be output to HDMI TV.
• Bugfix: audio could be absent during playback of specific MPEG files.
• Bugfix: audio could be lost after specific user actions (such as SLOW ->
PAUSE -> PLAY) on specific files.
Version "100706_1032_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 100630_2131_beta:
• Bugfix: removed misleading setup option "Cinema mode".
Version "100630_2131_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 100413_1555:
• Much faster start/stop of playback of video and audio files, w/o video
output reinitialization.
• NOTE: If autoframerate feature is used, video output reinitialization
may still be performed.
• NOTE: Playback of DVD/Blu-ray discs/images still requires video output
reinitilization in any case.
• Added support for launching Flash applications (Flash Lite 3).
• To launch a Flash application, just launch ".swf" file in file
browser.
• More information: http://dune-hd.com/support/flash
• Added Web Browser feature.
• The web browser is based on WebKit engine and supports HTML4, CSS,
JavaScript (including DHTML and AJAX). Flash and Java are not
supported.
• Various Internet web sites can be viewed, even rather complicated ones
(e.g. Google Maps is working).
• To launch the web browser, use "Web Browser" item on the main screen
or press "URL" RC button.
• A new Setup section (Applications / Web Browser) allows to control
various web browser related settings.
• The web browser can be controlled via RC, USB mouse, USB keyboard. USB
mouse/keyboard should be connected to the player before the web
browser is started.
• It is recomended to run the web browser with System Storage attached
to the player (in such a case, the web browser will create and use
"swap" file on the System Storage); the web browser can work w/o
System Storage, but complicated web sites requiring a lot of memory
may work worse w/o System Storage.
• There are some limitations and issues; it is not guaranteed that all
Internet web sites work or work properly; sometimes, there are some
• Added a support for DVB-T TV (using Dune TV USB dongle). Supported
features:
• A new "DVB-T" item on the main screen (can be disabled via the setting
"Setup / Applications / DVB-T / Show on main screen").
• Scan for available frequences/channels (is started automatically when
the accesses "DVB-T" item on the main screen for the first time).
• Rescan frequences/channels: press MENU on "DVB-T" item on the main
screen, choose "Scan".
• View the list of available channels and start watching: open "DVB-T"
item on the main screen, choose a channel, press PLAY.
• Switch between DVB-T channels when watching: use MENU, P+/P-,
PREV/NEXT RC buttons.
• View EPG and other information about the current program: use INFO RC
button.
• Record the currently watched channel: press PLAY to start/stop
recording (ensure there is a storage attached).
• Background/concurrent recordings (when two Dune TV USB dongles are
attached): press "C" RC button to start/stop background recording of
the current channel; the background recording uses the second Dune TV
USB dongle, and you can concurrent watch or record any other DVB-T
channels using the first Dune TV USB dongle.
• Each recording is saved into its own file inside "DVB_recordins"
folder in the main storage.
• Added a possibility to record Internet radio stations (HTTP/MP3 and
HTTP/AAC).
• Recording of Internet radio works exactly the same way as recording of
IPTV: ensure there is a storage attached, and press PLAY RC button to
start/stop recording during playback.
• Each recording is saved into its own file inside "InetRadio_recordins"
folder in the main storage.
• Added a special support for watching (and also recording)
network/Internet video streams which use HTTP protocol and TS format,
with improved buffering approach.
• To start watching such a video stream, launch a special
"http://ts://......" URL in the player (e.g. using
dune_folder.txt/media_url).
• During watching, press PLAY to start/stop recording (ensure a storage
is attached).
• Each recording is saved into its own file inside "MTS_recordings"
folder in the main storage.
• Added a possibility to sort files in the file browser.
• Usage: press MENU, choose "Sorting", choose sorting criteria and
direction, press "OK".
• NOTE: Saving the sorting setting is not supported yet.
• Added support for APE ("monkey audio") audio files.
• Added support for OGG/Vorbis audio files.
• Added support for Vorbis audiotracks in MKV files.
• Added support for external OGG/Vorbis audiotracks.
• Added support for PGS subtitles in MKV files.
• Added support for VobSub subtitles in MKV files.
• Added support for WMA audiotracks in MKV files.
• Added support for correct playback of specific 120fps MKV files.
• Added support for external SSA/ASS subtitles (file extensions ".ssa",
".ass").
• Added support for playback of TS files with ".mod" and ".tos" extensions
(used by some models of digital camcoders).
• Added support for specific TS files which were previously unsupported
(audio-only files, files with certain information missing, etc).
• Added a new zoom preset for file playback: "fill screen" (convenient for
watching 4:3 broadcasts with nonlinear stretching to 16:9).
• Added support for simplified chinese, traditional chinese, and japanese
characters (fonts extended).
• Added support for BIG5 and GB2312 encodings (in all places -- subtitles,
playlists, etc).
• Added dune_folder.txt feature: a possibility to specify the initial
playback position in the playlist for media_url pointing to a playlist.
• Syntax:
• media_url = /path/to/playlist-file
• media_start_index = index
• NOTE: This feature is useful for implement series support in
movies-collection management solutions.
• Added dune_folder.txt feature: a possibility to specify scale factor not
only for the primary icon, but also for the selected icon.
• Syntax:
• icon_sel_scale_factor = ...
• NOTE: This feature allows to implement the "selected icon has bigger
size" effect w/o need to prepare two different icons.
• Added dune_folder.txt feature: a possibility to force "list" and
"extended list" view modes for a folder.
• Syntax:
• use_icon_view = list
• use_icon_view = exlist
• Added dune_folder.txt feature: a possibility to specify what to do when
media_url refers to a folder: open the folder for browsing, start
playback of folder content, or ask user.
• Syntax:
• media_action = browse|play|ask_user
• Added dune_folder.txt feature: support for showing "virtual" items on the
screen.
• The dune_folder.txt in a folder can define a list of virtual items,
which are shown in addition to the files/subfolders actually residing
in this folder (if any).
• Syntax ({N} is the index of the virtual item: 0, 1, 2, ...):
• item.{N}.caption = ...
• item.{N}.media_url = ...
• item.{N}.icon_path = ... (NOTE: HTTP links to images can be used)
• item.{N}.{...} = ... ({...} is any parameter affecting the look and
behavior of the media item)
• Added support for working with external catalogs of resources ("virtual
filesystems") in the file browser.
• When dune_folder.txt/media_url points to a HTTP URL using
"dune_http://..." syntax instead of the normal "http://..." syntax,
such a HTTP URL is handled by the player as a "virtual folder", which
can be opened and navigated similarly to how local and NFS/SMB folders
can be opened/navigated.
• The "dune_http" HTTP URL should return dune_folder.txt describing the
content of the virtual folder using the mechanism of "virtual items".
• Each virtual item can be either a reference to a particular media
resource, or a "dune_http" reference to a nested virtual subfolder.
• Extended support for VBR MP3 files (added duration detection and seek
possibilities).
• Extended the lists of supported encodings for EXT2/EXT3 and NFS (added
all encodings supported in other places).
• Improved detection and handling of files which have unsupported file
format or can not be opened.
• Now, when encountering such a file, the player shows a message for a
several seconds before skipping the file. Fixed some other bugs with
handling of unsupported file formats.
• Improved DHCP client behavior: when the player send a DHCP request, it
announces it as "Dune" (instead of using an empty name).
• Improved compatibility with some Blu-ray discs.
• Improved seek performance in specific MKV files.
• Improved LPCM output over HDMI when playing TS files (some issues fixed).
• Improved zoom handling for file and DVD playback: pressing CLEAR resets
zoom settings to the defaults.
• Improved online upgrade function: more robust deletion of temporarily
downloaded files.
• Improved TOP MENU RC button handling: it now allows to go to the main
screen also from Setup.
• Improved antialiasing algorithm used for text rendering.
• Improved file browser responsiveness and performance in specific cases.
• Included the fix for the problem with media playback/reading pausing for
several seconds.
• Improved handling of low-bitrate audio (less than 32Khz) during file
playback (some issues fixed).
• Improved autoframerate: allow to switch to 23.976/24p from interlaced
video modes when 24/50/60 autoframerate mode is used).
• Improved Internet radio playback: implemented more robust handling of
HTTP connections.
• Improved component video output (prefering "SMPTE" standard instead of
"M2"; should fix the problems with bad colors when component video output
is chosen in Setup).
• Improved support for output of high quality PCM audio though digital
audio outputs (S/PDIF and HDMI):
• Relaxed software limitations on the sample rate (to the level allowed
by the hardware).
• Introduced a new setting allowing to limit maximum sample rate for
compatibility with particular S/PDIF cables and A/V receivers.
• NOTE: For compatibility with all S/PDIF cables and A/V receivers, the
limit is set to 48 Khz by default.
• Bugfix: in Blu-ray playback, 1921x1081 scaling was wrongly used, leading
to slightly decreased picture quality.
• Bugfix: huge BD ISO could not be played properly (problem at ~40 min).
• Bugfix: network folders of different types (e.g. SMB and NFS) and having
the same names did not work properly.
• Bugfix: some PCM WAV files were playing with a slight noise in the
beginning.
• Bugfix: opening SMB share using guest account could not work in some
cases.
• Bugfix: when reading/playing content from a SMB share, an error could
occur in some rare cases.
• Bugfix: default choosing of internal audiotrack in TS files could not
work (manual audio track switching could be required).
• Bugfix: external subtitles could be not available when starting file
playback in specific ways (e.g. via network browser).
• Bugfix: UTF16-encoded external subtitles could be handled wrongly in
specific cases.
• Bugfix: wrong information about audiocodec could be displayed when
playing ASF/WMA file in specific cases.
• Bugfix: AC3 audiotracks in TS files could be decoded wrongly in specific
cases.
• Bugfix: FIP button presses could cause duplicate actions in specific
cases.
• Bugfix: loading invalid/corrupted user-created icon files (via
dune_folder.txt) could be handled wrongly.
• Bugfix: during file playback, if specific zoom settings were used,
switching to the next file in the playlist could cause wrong zoom
settings/handling.
• Some menu languages added/updated.
• Various other minor fixes and improvements.
Version "100413_1555"
Changes since 091023_1444_update1:
NOTE: This version has very few differences (mostly bugfixes) from the
previously released 100307_2100_beta version. This firmware version is
considered to be the most stable and bug free version in comparison with
any previously released firmware versions, and thus is recommended to
everyone. New big features and further improvements will be included into
future beta versions.
• Some menu languages updated/improved.
• Minor improvements in the player boot procedure; popup dialog for
choosing menu interface language is now shown when booting the player for
the first time (when player settings are not initialized yet).
• Bugfix: white vertical line consisting could be visible on the right side
of the screen in some cases.
• Bugfix: switching to another item in the playlist could lead to playback
crash (e.g. when switching between IPTV channels).
• Bugfix: picture adjustments could be handled in a wrong way during file
playback when autoframerate was used.
• Bugfix: specific TS files could be handled wrongly.
• Also includes the changes from 091023_1444_update1 (ensuring
compatibility with the latest Dune player batches, shipped starting with
Aprile, 2010).
Version "091023_1444_update1"
Changes since 091023_1444:
NOTE: This version is exactly the same version as 091023_1444, but adopted
to the minor hardware changes taking place in the new player batches. This
version is shipped by default with Dune players starting with Aprile, 2010.
NOTE: it is not recommended to install any previous firmware versions to
these new player batches; this is the first firmware version compatible
with and recommended for these new player batches.
Version "100307_2100_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 091229_1411_beta:
NOTE: This firmware version includes quite a lot of internal code changes,
and, despite a lot of preliminary testing performed, there are good chances
that some functions may not function correctly under specific
circumstances. The most probable areas where things may be broken are:
• File browser (working with network shares, "dune_folder.txt"
mechanism, and any other file browser features).
• File playback.
• DVD and BD playback (especially when autoframerate is switched on).
• USB WiFi.
• Improvements for autoframerate:
• Implemented autoframerate also for DVD-Video and Blu-ray content (in
addition to autoframerate previously supported for files only).
• Supported for both optical discs and disc images.
• For DVD-Video, supports switching between 50 and 59.94 framerates
(no support for switching to 23.976 on NTSC pulldown content).
• For Blu-ray, supports all framerates (including 24p).
• If a disc consists of multiple fragments with different framerates,
framerate switching is automatically performed also when switching
between disc fragments.
• Bugfix: autoframerate did not work for specific TS files.
• Improvements for HDMI output:
• Added a new Setup option (Video / Advanced / HDMI color depth)
allowing to switch between 8-bit / 10-bit / 12-bit HDMI output signal.
8-bit is now used by default to ensure the best compatibility with
various HDMI equipment and cables (this solves the problems with noise
on HDMI output).
• Added a new Setup Option (Video / Advanced / HDMI CEC) allowing to
enable/disable HDMI CEC. HDMI CEC is now disabled by default to ensure
the best compatibility with various HDMI equipment (this solves the
problems such as unneeded messages shown by TV on HDMI
reinitialization, wrong switching of HDMI input, etc).
• Bugfix: The setting "HDMI audio = off" could cause severe problems with
HDMI output (such as wrong picture/colors, no picture at all). Now, these
problems are fixed. NOTE: For file and DVD playback, using this setting
still, as before, may enable DVI output mode for HDMI output (with RGB
colorspace) instead of HDMI-native output mode (with YUV colorspace),
that may have some effects on the picture, depending on a particular used
equipment; this issue will be addressed in future firmware versions.
• Bugfix: Blu-ray playback could hangup when disconnecting/reconnecting
HDMI cable, switching off/on the attached HDMI equipment, or switching
HDMI input on the attached HDMI equipment.
• Improvements for subtitles support:
• Added support for PGS (Blu-ray) subtitles in M2TS/TS files. It is now
possible to use Blu-ray subtitles not only playing full BD-images, but
also when playing individual M2TS files.
• Added support for external subtitles in SUB/IDX format.
• Added support for UTF-16 encoding in SRT and SUB (MicroDVD) external
subtitle files.
• Improvements for USB WiFi support:
• Finally fixed the support for USB WiFi adapter D-Link DWA-140 rev.B2
(in addition to the previously supported rev.B1).
• Included WiFi driver for RALink RT3070 chipset (the latest available
version 2.1.2.0), and allowed the use of all USB WiFI devices
supported by this driver (31 USB-IDs in total).
• Upgraded WiFi driver for RALink RT2870/RT2770 chipsets to the latest
available version 2.3.0.0, and allowed the use of all USB WiFi devices
supported by this driver (66 USB-IDs in total).
• See here for more details on the
supported USB hardware.
• Improvements for working with network shares:
• Added a new function "Add to Main Screen" for SMB shares in SMB
browser. Allows to easily add a new network folder corresponding to a
SMB share to the main screen. NOTE: Supported for the SMB shares only,
not supported for other items in SMB browser (SMB workgroups, SMB
servers, or folders inside SMB shares).
• Implemented a better scanning for available SMB workgroups and hosts
in SMB browser. Now, there are more chances that SMB resources are
found immediately, w/o the need to wait or restart network components.
(This should fix the problems such as certain SMB workgroups sometimes
visible, and sometimes not visible.)
• In SMB browser, all printer shares are now excluded from the list of
SMB shares (previously, some printer shares could be shown).
• Added showing drive information (total/used/available space) in the
"Information" dialog for network shares (the network share should be
in the "connected" state).
• Added a possibility to explicitly "disconnect" (i.e. unmount) a
mounted NFS or SMB share. Press INFO on a connected network folder, or
on a connected SMB share in SMB browser, and then choose "Disconnect".
• Bugfix: Iw was impossible to access SMB shares on a SMB server after
deleting some files from another SMB share on the same SMB server.
• The Setup option "Fast SMB Access" (introduced in the previous beta
firmware versions) is now disabled by default (since some users
reports problems when using this options with some SMB servers).
• NOTE: When upgrading to this firmware version from one of two
previous beta firmware versions, the value of this option is kept.
If you experience any problems with SMB access from the player,
please manually disable this option.
• NOTE: Even w/o this option, on Dune 3.0 models, playback of any
content via SMB should work w/o any problems under normal
circumstances, so it is safe to keep it disabled (unless you have a
specific setup/requirements.
• Improvements for bookmarks:
• Reenabled a simple support for bookmarks when using playlists (the
initial version of such a support introduced in 091211_1311_beta was
disabled in 091229_1411_beta, and now a more reasonable implementation
is provided):
• When starting playing a playlist (e.g. by presssing PLAY button on a
file in a folder containing several files), the bookmark is
checked/used for the initial file in the playlist.
• When stopping playing a playlist, the bookmark is saved for the
current file in the playlist (so, by pressing PLAY on this file, the
playback can be later resumed from the saved bookmark).
• When switching between files in the playlist, bookmarks are neither
checked/used nor saved (as in the previous firmware version).
• The Setup options for disabling autoresume for video/audio files
influence both individual files and playlists.
• NOTE: Full-fledged support for playlist bookmarks (remember
bookmark for the entire playlist) is still absent; will be
addressed in future firmware versions.
• Improvements for IPTV support:
• Added support for viewing the list of audiotracks and switching
between them when watching IPTV (multicast UDP) channels.
• Added online firmware check/upgrade function:
• A new Setup section "Miscellaneous / Firmware Upgrade" allows to
conveniently check for the presence of new firmware version directly
from the player, and, if a new version is available, automatically
download and install it (w/o the need to use a PC to download the
firmware upgrade file).
• Also, if the player is connected to Internet, the player periodically
automatically checks for the new firmware updates, and when one
becomes available, informs the user about it and proposes to
download/install it.
• System Storage or any other attached storage can be used as a
temporary location to download a firmware from Internet; if no
writable storage with enough free space is found, the user is prompted
to attach one.
• When downloading a firmware from Internet, progress is indicated, and
a possibility to stop/cancel the download is provided.
• Advanced users can fine-tune various online upgrade settings via Setup
menu: enable/disable checking for non-stable (beta) versions,
enable/disable automatic checking.
• "dune_folder.txt" mechanism improvements:
• Added support for "smb://...", "nfs://...", and "network_folder://..."
media_url values, allowing to reference media content on SMB and NFS
network shares.
• Syntax:
• "smb://[user[:password]@]host/share/path"
• "user" and "password" are optional.
• "host" can be IP-address, DNS-name, or SMB-name of SMB server.
• "share" is SMB share name.
• Example: "smb://10.0.0.1/MYSHARE/folder/file1.avi"
• "nfs://host[:/export-path]:/path"
• "host" can be IP-address or DNS-name of NFS server.
• "export-path" is optional; when omitted, the player tries to
automatically deduce it from the specified "path" (by
analyzing all NFS-exports of the NFS-server). For better
performance and correct working, it is recommended to always
explicitly specify "export-path".
• Example (w/o explicitly specified "export-path"):
"nfs://10.0.0.1:/MYSHARE/folder/file1.avi"
• Example (with explicitly specified "export-path"):
"nfs://10.0.0.1:/MYSHARE:/folder/file1.avi"
• "network_folder://network-folder-name/path"
• "network-folder-name" is the name of network folder
econfigured in the player.
• Example: "network_folder://MYSHARE/folder/file1.avi"
• So, it is now possible to use "dune_folder.txt" to organize links
(e.g. Media Collection Indexes) pointing not only to any locally
attached storage devices, but also to any network resources
accessible via NFS or SMB.
• Network URLs are supported for all kinds of content: regular media
files (video, audio, photo), DVD-images (VIDEO_TS, ISO), BD-Images
(BDMV, ISO).
• Such network URLs are also supported in playlist files (M3U, PLS).
• The network shares are automounted by the player on-the-fly as
needed; when using "smb://" and "nfs://" URLs, there is no need to
manually configure the corresponding network folders.
• When playing a playlist consisting of items pointing to different
network shares, the player automatically unmounts/mounts network
shares as needed (in particular, it correctly unmounts a SMB share
before accessing another SMB share pointing to the same SMB server,
in order to avoid the limitation that Linux kernel can not work
with multiple SMB shares of the same SMB server simultanesouly).
• Added the following new "dune_folder.txt" parameters:
• "system_files = {pattern1}[,{pattern2}...]".
• Allows to specify which files should be treated as system and
thus hidden (when "Hide system files = Yes" option is enabled in
Setup).
• Each "pattern" can be the exact name of file/folder, or a
pattern including wildcards ("*" means any sequence of
characters, "?" means any single character).
• "media_url_check = (yes|no)" (default is "no").
• Allows to specify whether the player should try to check if the
"media_url" is valid and points to an existing file when
painting the item corresponding to this media folder, and also
determine a suitable icon to show (e.g. video file, audio file);
if the "media_url" is not valid, the item is painted in the
"dimmed" way. Such a check may reduce browsing performance, so
it is now disabled by default, and this new parameter allows to
reenable it.
• Added support for specifying "dune_folder.txt" parameters which affect
not just the current folder, but also subfolders.
• This allows to provide custom look for the entire folder
hieararchies (e.g. all folders on a HDD) just by creating a single
"dune_folder.txt" file in the root of the folder hierarchy.
• Almost any "dune_folder.txt" parameter can now be prefixed in the
following way:
• "direct_children.{parameter} = {value}"
• "level2_children.{parameter} = {value}"
• "all_children.{parameter} = {value}"
• When "{value}" is a relative path to some file, the following
syntax can be used to specify how the relative path should be
resolved:
• "rel_path://{relative-path}": treat path relatively to each
particular subfolder (default).
• "cur_path://{relative-path}": treat path relatively to the
parent folder (i.e. the folder where "dune_folder.txt" file is
located).
• Other improvements and bugfixes:
• Improvement: Windows 7 Recycle Bin folder is considered to be system
file and is hidden by default.
• Minor improvement for the "Hard Disk" icon.
• Improved progress indication when preparing to play and building large
playlists.
• Bugfix: Audio could be absent when playing specific TS files.
• Bugfix: When accessing Dune from a Windows PC via SMB, "dir" command in
Windows shell could work wrongly (filename case sensitivity problem; now
Dune's SMB server treats all filenames w/o case sensitivity).
• Bugfix: Photo viewer could hang up in specific rare cases.
• Bugfix: Optical disc eject was wrongly allowed when running file read
test on a file located on the optical disc.
• Bugfix: JPEG images (assigned via dune_folder.txt) could be displayed
wrongly in the right panel of the file browser (when using "Extended
List" view mode).
• Bugfix: screensaver could become non-functioning after using photo
viewer.
• Added Thai characters into fonts (adds support for Thai language in
filenames and subtitles).
• Added more menu languages: Greek, Danish, Czech. Some other languages
updated/improved.
Version "091229_1411_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 091211_1311_beta:
• Bookmarks improvements:
• File bookmarks are disabled when playing playlists, they are used only
when playing individual files (press ENTER on a file).
• The setting "Miscellaneous / Playback / Autoresume video files" allows
to completely disable bookmarks for video files.
• The setting "Miscellaneous / Playback / Autoresume audio files" allows
to completely disable bookmarks for audio files.
• The setting "Miscellaneous / Playback / Autoresume DVD" allows to
completely disable bookmarks for DVD discs and DVD-folders/ISO-images.
• Added a support for tags in audio files (MP3, FLAC, WMA, M4A).
• When tags are detected, they are automatically shown for the currently
played file during music playback. The supports tags include: title,
artist, album, track, year, comment.
• The setting "Miscellaneous / Playback / Audio file tags" allows to
disable reading and showing the tags (could be helpful e.g. if it does
not work properly for some files).
• Both Unicode and 8-bit tags are supported. The setting "Miscellaneous
/ Encodings / MP3 tag encoding" allows to force the specified encoding
for tags in MP3 files.
• When music playback starts, a hint about INFO and MENU buttons is
displayed (INFO -- show details about the current track, MENU -- show the
playlist).
• Added preliminary (untested) support for USB WiFi adapter D-Link DWA-140
version B2 (previously only version B1 was supported). UPDATE: according
to user's feedback, this firmware version still does not work with
DWA-140 version B2.
• Added full support for discrete power-off and power-on IR commands.
• IR hex codes:
• DISCRETE-POWER-ON: 00 BF 5F A0
• DISCRETE-POWER-OFF: 00 BF 5E A1
• The DISCRETE-POWER-ON IR command is handled exactly as POWER RC button
when the player is in the standby mode, and is ignored when the player
is turned on.
• The DISCRETE-POWER-OFF IR command is handled exactly as POWER RC
button when the player is turned on, and is ignored when the player is
in the standby mode.
• If the player is configured to perform full power-off instead of
entering software standby, the DISCRETE-POWER-OFF and
DISCRETE-POWER-ON commands perform full power-off and power-on.
• Added a possibility to easily format a non-initialized drive (e.g. HDD)
just by pressing ENTER of the drive item on the main screen.
• "dune_folder.txt": "background_order" parameter now supports the
following set of values (instead of "first" and "last" as took place in
the previous firmware version):
• "before_all": the same as "first" in the previous firmware version.
• "before_icons": the same as "last" in the previous firmware version.
• "after_all": a new option, allowing to paint the custom background
after everything else (including file icons).
• "dune_folder.txt": added a possibility to hide file icons (w/o using
dummy fully-transparent icon). Syntax:
• "paint_icons = no" (default is "yes").
• Added more menu languages: Hungarian, Polish. Some other languages
updated/improved.
• The configuration of built-in FTP server adjusted to allow "FXP"
transfers.
• Added support for playback of video files with ".trp" extension (no more
need to rename them).
• Improved the speed of startup of specific MKV files, which previously
could take too long to start (that could even be considered by the user
as hangup in some cases).
• Bugfix: playing a file with an unknown length (such as MP3 with VBR
bitrate) caused playback crash (this bug was introduced in the previous
beta firmware version).
• Bugfix: playing/reading files from SMB share could crash in some cases
(the bug introduced by SMB optimizations in the previous beta firmware
version) (plus some other SMB-related bugs fixed).
• Bugfix: returning to file browser (e.g. after playback) caused crash if
current folder had dune_folder.txt with custom background image.
• Bugfix: specific Blu-ray images could not be played in some cases.
• Bugfix: after switching to TrueHD audiotrack in MKV file, stuttering
could take place in specific cases.
• Bugfix: "dune_folder.txt" / "paint_captions = no" did not work properly
in some cases (when the filename was too long and scrolled, it was shown
despite this setting).
Version "091211_1311_beta"
(BETA version)
Changes since 091023_1444:
• Added more conveniency for working with subtitles and audiotracks during
file and DVD playback:
• Added the setting "Misc / Playback / Enable subtitles by default for
files" which allows to choose one of the following settings:
• "No" -- do not use subtitles by default.
• "Yes" -- always use subtitles by default if any subtitles exist
(internal or external).
• "Internal only" -- if internal subtitles exist, use them by
default.
• "External only" (default) -- if external subtitles exist, use them
by default.
• Added the setting "Misc / Playback / Default subtitles preference"
with choices "Internal" and "External" (default), which controls which
kind of subtitles have priority if "Enable subtitles by default for
files" is set to "Yes" and both internal and external subtitles exist.
• Added the setting "Misc / Playback / Quick toggling of single
subtitles" (enabled by default), which enables special behavior of
SUBTITLE RC button when there is only one subtitles track: instead of
showing the usual subtitles menu, the SUBTITLE RC button allows to
quickly toggle this single subtitles track (select / deselect it). To
enter the subtitles setup, press SUBTITLE and then SETUP.
• Added a new possibility to conveniently and quickly show/hide the
currently selected subtitles track (even if there are multiple
subtitles) just by pressing the RC button "D" (blue).
• When a subtitles track is selected, the "D" RC button toggles the
visibility of the currently selected subtitles.
• When selecting a subtitles track from the subtitles menu, the "D"
RC button allows to select the subtitles track but hide it
initially (until the "D" RC button is pressed during playback to
show the subtitles).
• Added the setting "Misc / Playback / "ENTER" closes subtitles/audio
menu" (enabled by default). When enabled, selecting a track from the
menu of available subtitles/audio tracks (by pressing "ENTER" RC
button, or also "D" RC button for subtitles), automatically closes the
menu (instead of keeping it shown).
• Added bookmarks functionality also for file playback (previously worked
only for DVD playback).
• Bookmarks work similarly to how they work for DVD playback: when
stopping playback of a file, the current position is remembered and
then automatically resumed when the file is played again; the bookmark
is automatically deleted when the file is played till the very end;
bookmarks are remembered for up to ~200 files.
• NOTE: you can press "0" (jump to 0%) to quickly start file playback
from the very beginning, if bookmark was used.
• NOTE: there is no yet ability to disable bookmarks or confirm bookmark
usage, possibility to review recent bookmarks, etc.
• NOTE: still no support for generic Blu-ray bookmarks (only standard
bookmarking possibilities provided by some Blu-ray discs on their own
are supported).
• Added zoom functionality for photo viewer.
• Instructions:
• Use P+/P- to zoom-in/zoom-out.
• Use arrows to scroll through the zoomed picture.
• Use ZOOM to toggle through "fit to screen", "pixel to pixel", and
"custom" zoom modes.
• NOTE: Any zoom action shows ZOOM information box, which is
automatically hidden after some period of user inactivity. Press
ENTER or RETURN to hide it immediately.
• NOTE: Any zoom action pauses the slideshow. To resume the
slideshow, press PLAY.
• NOTE: When working with photos having very high resolution (much
bigger than FullHD 1920x1080), photo viewer initially loads photos
with a reduced resolution (minimal resolution which is enough to
ensure excellent photo quality on FullHD display, in order to speedup
things); after zooming into the picture, photo viewer initially shows
the already loaded version of the picture (with reduced resolution),
and then automatically loads and shows the version of the picture with
full resolution in background (so it may take some seconds to show the
best quality photo in zoom mode).
• Added time search (go to HH:MM:SS) functionality also for file playback
and DVD playback (previously was provided only for bluray playback, while
for file/DVD playback it was only possible to use +/-10sec/1min/10min
navigation).
• Instructions:
• Press SEARCH, enter HH:MM:SS, then press ENTER.
• When entering HH:MM:SS, the following RC buttons are available:
ENTER, RETURN, CLEAR, LEFT, RIGHT.
• NOTE: the "Quick Play" feature is still available, the same way as
before: quickly press SEARCH, then PLAY.
• Added more font sizes for text subtitles (file playback) in addition to
"small" and "medium": "large" (+25%), "x-large" (+50%), "xx-large"
(+100%).
• NOTE: This feature is intended primarily for relatively small screens
(or for relatively big viewing distance).
• Added a possibility to switch between Internet Radio stations, IPTV
channels, or other streamable media (where time search is not supported)
via P+/P- buttons. Instructions:
• Launch the playlist with streamable media sources in the usual way,
then use P+/P- buttons instead or in addition to the usual NEXT/PREV
buttons.
• Various playback and file format compatibility improvements:
• Performance of network playback from SMB servers further improved
(effective data transfer rate is now up to 20% bigger, and may be even
comparable to NFS, so even playback from problematic SMB servers
should work better now).
• Bugfix: specific Bluray images could not be played properly.
• Bugfix: specific DVD-Video discs with MPEG audio streams could not be
played properly.
• Bugfix: specific DVD-Video discs could not be played properly.
• Bugfix: playing TS files in a loop (more than 40 repeats) could cause
playback crash or hangup.
• General/miscellaneous improvements:
• Added more menu languages: Italian, Romanian, Spanish. Some other
languages updated/improved.
• Added a warning when the user attempts to choose non-recommended
settings in the "System" setup section.
• Improvement: FTP server and SMB server applications running on Dune
consume less processing power during playback now (their "nice" level
increased).
• Improvement: switching directly to the main menu in file browser (via
RC button STOP/REPEAT/TITLE/TOP-MENU) works slightly faster now.
• Change: "IPTV" and "Internet Radio" items are now always shown on the
main screen when they are enabled in the "Applications" setup section
(even if their configuration is missing). To remove these items from
the main creen, disable them in the setup.
• Bugfix: setting "HDMI audio" to "off" caused wrong colorspace on HDMI
video output (purple/absent/distorted picture).
• Bugfix: after playing a video/music file from UPnP server and then
returning to file browser, an empty folder content could be shown in
specific rare cases.
• Bugfix: initialization of System Storage during firmware update could
not work for partitionless USB flash drives.
• Bugfix: system storage could not work properly in some cases after
putting the player into standby.
• Various "dune_folder.txt" mechanism improvements:
• Added support for images files not only in Dune-specific AAI file
format, but also in BMP, PNG, JPG, and GIF formats.
• NOTE: For BMP and PNG formats (as well as AAI), transparancy and
alphachannel are supported.
• NOTE: The performance of reading images from various file formats
may differ, depending on the exact file format, image resolution,
and media source kind (e.g. local or network disk). In most cases,
AAI and BMP are the recommended formats having the best
performance. If you need a standard and widely used image file
format with tranparancy/alphachannel support and good performance
on Dune, use BMP.
• Added progress indication during loading of custom background image
when image loading takes a while (could take place e.g. when loading
FullHD 1920x1080 background from a network media source).
• Added a possibility to show just icons w/o captions (filenames) below
them. Syntax:
• "paint_captions = no" (default is "yes").
• Added a possibility to hide the "path box" (the box showing the path
to the current folder at the top of the screen). Syntax:
• "paint_path_box = no" (default is "yes").
• Added a possibility to hide the scrollbar. Syntax:
• "paint_scrollbar = no" (default is "yes").
• Added a possibility to hide the "help line" ("CONTROLS: ..." text at
the bottom of the screen). Syntax:
• "paint_help_line = no" (default is "yes").
• Added a possibility to hide the "icon selection box" (a frame around
an icon indicating that the icon is selected).
Syntax:
• "paint_icon_selection_box = no" (default is "yes").
• Added a possibility to not paint the shaded background for the
"content box" (the area listing icons). Syntax:
• "paint_content_box_background = no" (default is "yes").
• Added a possibility to alter the location and internal padding for the
"content box" (the area listing icons). Syntax:
• "content_box_x = ..." (>=0, -1 means default = auto).
• "content_box_y = ..." (>=0, -1 means default = auto).
• "content_box_width = ..." (>0, -1 means default = auto).
• "content_box_height = ..." (>0, -1 means default = auto).
• "content_box_padding_left = ..." (>=0, default = 20).
• "content_box_padding_top = ..." (>=0, default = 20).
• "content_box_padding_right = ..." (>=0, default = 20).
• "content_box_padding_bottom = ..." (>=0, default = 20).
• Added new options for altering the way custom background is painted.
Syntax:
• "background_order = first/last". Here:
• "first" means paint custom background before "path_box",
"content_box", and "help_line" (i.e. under these elements).
• "last" (default) means paint custom background after these
elements (i.e. over them).
• "optimize_full_screen_background = yes" (default is "no"). "yes" is
reasonable to specify in order to slightly improve the performance
in the following cases:
• Custom background image is full-screen (1920x1080) solid image
(w/o transparent pixels).
• "background_order = first".
• Added a possibility to paint a custom scrollbar using a user-defined
image file. Syntax:
• "scroll_path = {image-path}"
• "scroll_x = ..." (>=0, -1 means default = auto)
• "scroll_y = ..." (>=0, -1 means default = auto)
• "scroll_height = ..." (>0, -1 means default = auto)
• Added a possibility to paint custom "mark" icons (icons used when
marking files via SELECT RC button, e.g. to select items for the
playlist) using a user-defined image file. Syntax:
• "mark_path = {image-path}"
• "mark_dx = ..." (-960..960)
• "mark_dy = ..." (-540..540)
Version "091023_1444"
The first official version ever shipped with production players.