Dune Firmware Zone

Dune HD TV 101

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'.

* 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.

* 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.

* Minor Dune HD TV-101 specific changes:
   - Added support for minor hardware changes planned in future player
     batches.
   - Ethernet driver updated to a newer version.

* 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.

* 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.

   - Bugfix: In some cases, user-adjusted volume was wrongly reset to 100% on
     Dune HD TV-101.

   - Improvements for handling of WMAPro, EAC3, TrueHD audiotracks in MKV
     files for Dune HD TV-101.

* 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.