[Sjonnie]

Hi All,

New firmware for Base and Prime available at dune-hd.com/firmware.

Changes since last:

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'.

* Minor other improvements and fixes.

Changes in 120127

* 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.

Note: Download currently at around 5 KB/sec

[Sjonnie]

Base 3.0 users use this link:

http://files.dune-hd.com/firmware/hdbase3/dune_firmware_hdbase3_120202_1544_beta.dff

Downloads a bit faster

Greetz,

Sjonnie

[Fred-L]

HDI opened already a thread for the new firmware

http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28327

[Sjonnie]

Hi Fred,

Just looked around this forum a bit and you are right, they did. But not in the Base/Prime section.

And to be honest, I only visit a number of sections on this board. So if they post in the Max/Duo section I tend to miss it. As would other Base/Prime owners I'd imagine.

Greetz,

Sjonnie

[Fred-L]

Indeed I did not pay attention to the section

[kegobeer]

It fixed the network browsing slowness. Now MyMovies doesn't take forever to move from page to page.