Dune Firmware Zone

My Collection

General Information

My Collection is a Jukebox application built-in into the firmware of Dune HD media players for automatic indexing and nice visualization of movies collections.

Also see here: New GUI

Supported Models

My Collection is available on the following Dune HD media player models:

• All 2018+ models.
• Pre 2018 models (based on Sigma Designs media processors): all models starting with Dune BD Prime 3.0 (some models require Dune Plus subscription).

Features

The following features are provided:

• Posters, backgrounds and descriptions for movies and people.
  • Once your movie collection is indexed, you can navigate through all your movies using a convenient and nice GUI including: movie posters, movie descriptions (available in different languages), fanart background images, cast and crew information including people photos, biography, filmography.
  
  
• Local and network drives.
  • You can add to your collection any number of folders with movies, which can reside on either local drives (such as USB HDDs or internal HDDs) or network drives (SMB or NFS) (network drives should be configured in your player as network folders). Movies from all configured folders can be browsed as a single collection, or you can filter by folder and browse only movies from a certain folder.
  
  
• Access to the movie catalog even when drives are detached.
  • All system data about your collection is stored in a special system location, and nothing is stored inside the folders which store video files. So when your folder with video files is not currently accessible by the player (e.g. it is located on a separately stored HDD), you can still work with your collection and browse through all movies, including those located on detached drives. When you try to play the movie stored on a detached drive, the system will inform you about this. Also, if you want, you can browse only for movies located on currently attached drives (or located in specific folders).
  
  
• Automatic indexing and recognition of movies.
  • When you start indexing of a folder with movies, the player automatically searches for all video files inside this folder and tries to automatically recognize all video files found. Video files of all types are supported (including regular video files, DVD ISO images, VIDEO_TS folders, BD ISO images, BMDV folders). Sophisticated algorithms are used in order to try to recognize as many movies as possible automatically, and do it correctly. In particular, the following ways to identify and recognize movies are used: by filename, by folder name, by file content, by BD metadata, by metadata created by ISO grabbing sofware, by other metadata (.nfo files), and so on. The standard conventions for filenames of movies and episodes ("movie name (year)", "SnnEnn") are supported, but even if the files are named in a different way, the system tries hard to correctly recognize the movie and make the best possible automatic match.
  
  
• Manual editing of the movie catalog.
  • After the automatic indexing is done, you can manually review the indexing results and revise the matches (associations) between your video files and movies, using the special File-Movie Matching GUI. The player will automatically mark all matches between files and movies, which require review and confirmation, as "unconfirmed", and propose you to confirm them. You can confirm and revise the associations when and how you want -- review everything immediately after indexing or do it later, do it when browsing your movie collection, confirm the match after you watched the movie, or use the special GUI for editing the matches between files and movies. When revising the wrong match, you can view other potential matches and choose the proper movie from the list, search movie by manually entered or revised movie title, or even search movie by IMDB ID.
  
  
• Smooth GUI with nice animation effects.
  • The GUI is smooth and has nice animation effects. The GUI is rendered with the maximum possible quality using the full resolution of the player menu. The GUI is based on a special rendering engine, highly optimized and tuned for the hardware of Dune HD media players.
  
  
• Information about movies not in your collection
  • The "My Collection" function is based on "Movies" function of Dune HD UI. The "Movies" function is movies encyclopedia with various information about various movies available in the world. It allows you to study the information about movies and related persons (cast and crew) and find interesting movies and persons. For some movies, trailers are available. Extensions (plugins) may provide additional information and functionality, such as integration of streaming services.
  
  
• Cast and crew explorer.
  • For each movie, you can view the list of people (cast and crew). For each person, you can view the list of her/his movies (including movies which are not in your collection), navigate into these movies, view the people, description, trailers of these movies, and so on. This way you can discover additional movies you would like to watch.
  
  
• Similar movies.
  • For each movie, you can view the list of similar movies (including movies which are not in your collection), navigate into these movies, view the people, description, trailers of these movies, and so on. This way you can discover additional movies you would like to watch.
  
  
• Movie collections (sagas). (r20+ firmware versions)
  • My Collection automatically groups movie sagas into movie collections (such as Back to the Future 1, Back to the Future 2, Back to the Future 3).
  
  
• Favorite movies and persons.
  • You can add any movie or person (even for movies which are not in your collection) to Favorites menu.
  
  
• Trailers.
  • For many movies, you can see the list of available trailers and watch these trailers.
  
  
• Integration of streaming services.
  • If an extension plugin which implements an integration with a streaming service is installed, and the movie is available in this streaming service, you can watch this movie in this streaming service by pressing "Play..." button on the movie screen. This function is especially useful for movies which are not in your collection. To see and manage the list of currently installed extensions / streaming services, use the menu "Setup / Applications / Extensions".

How To Use

My Collection functionality is available via "My Collection" item at the top level of the main menu.

Perform the following steps to start using it:

1. Add some folder to My Collection.
   • You can do it in several ways: use "My Collection / Settings / Manage folders / Add folder..." function, or choose a drive or folder and press "POP UP MENU" RC button and then choose "Add to My Collection" action, or just attach a drive with the movies to the player and choose "Add to My Collection" action in the appeared dialog.
     NOTE: If you want to add a folder located on a network share, first ensure that the corresponding network share is added as a "network folder" in "Sources" menu. To add a network folder: press "POP UP MENU" RC button in "Sources" menu and choose "New Network Folder" action, or choose a SMB share in "Sources / Network Browser / Network Places" menu and press "POP UP MENU" RC button and then choose "Add as Network Folder" action.
     NOTE: When you add a folder to My Collection, you can give any name to this folder, which may be different from the original folder name. This name will be used to identify this folder when you work with My Collection functionality.
   
   
2. Index the folder added to My Collection.
   • In the My Collection folder settings screen ("My Collection / Settings / Manage folders / Your Folder Name"), press "Start indexing" button. The player will scan the folder and create the index for this folder in background. You will be able to see and monitor the indexing progress.
     NOTE: On this screen, you can also stop indexing, restart indexing again, reindex the folder after the folder content has been modified, delete indexing results (e.g. to reindex from the scratch). Also here you can remove the folder from your collection (the folder itself and its content will be kept) and rename the folder.
   
   
3. Revise the matches between files and movies (optional).
   • This is not mandatory, but after you indexed a folder, it is usually recommended to review all the files which were added to the index, and matches between these files and movies. Some matches may be wrong and you could need to manually correct them. To do it, in the My Collection folder settings screen, press "Edit matchings between files and movies" button. Then choose for example "Files without confirmed associations" filter and review the movie associated with each of these files. If the associated movie is correct, confirm it by pressing for examle "B" RC button ("This movie" action); if it is wrong, choose the correct movie and confirm it.
   
   
4. All is done -- start browsing your collection.
   • At the top level of "My Collection" menu, use the items "All movies" (all movies in all configured folders), "Available movies" (movies on currently attached drives) or "Movies by folders" (movies in certain folder).

Additional Screenshots

• Download and install the following plugin (press ENTER on the ZIP file in file browser on Dune HD media player): http://dune-hd.com/firmware/misc/dune_plugin_my_collection_dump.v2.2.zip
• Determine the IP address of your Dune HD media player (see "Setup / Information") and open the following page in web browser on a PC: http://DUNE_IP/cgi-bin/plugins/my_collection_dump/do
• If the collection is big, you may need to wait some time (e.g. 30-60 sec).
• You will see a table listing all indexed files and corresponding file-movie associations. This table can be browsed/sorted and exported as CSV or XLSX file (that can be opened for example in Excel) or JSON file.

Information about the file:
• N
• MyCollection Folder
• File Hash (hash of the file, different files have different hashes)
• File Path
• Information about the matching movie:
  • Movie Title
  • Movie Year
  • Season N
  • Episode N
  • Movie ID (identifiers of the movie in various databases)
  • Match Confirmed
  • Association Type
  • Content ID (Movie ID + Season N + Episode N)
  • Count of Duplicates ("duplicates" are files having the same Content ID)
  • N of Duplicate (number of the file among its duplicates)

• Check if file-movie associations are correct: compare columns "File Path" and "Movie Title", "Movie Year", "Season N", "Episode N".
• Search for files without movie associations: search for empty "Movie Title" column or sort by this column.
• Search for multiple files matching to the same movie/episode: sort by "Content ID" column, or use "Show Duplicates Only" button.
• Search for the same files stored in different places: sort by "File Fash" column.