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Dune HD Graphical User Interface

GUI
  • New overall main screen design, which makes the available content visible immediately.
  • New main menu at the top of the screen.
  • The content corresponding to the main menu items is shown immediately when the cursor moves through the items.
  • New “Movies” menu: shows “regular” movies (not TV series) from online services and My Collection.
  • New “TV Series” menu: shows TV series from online services and My Collection.
  • New “TV” menu: shows TV channels (supported in some regions), or provides access to the favorite TV app.
  • New “Applications” menu: combines “Android applications” and “Dune HD applications” submenus.
  • The menus “Sources”, “Favorites”, “Recent”, “Setup” are still available and work the same way as before.
Dune HD Trailer

  • New look of poster walls: each category as a horizontally scrollable row.
  • New menu with quick overview of available categories at the left of the screen.
  • Netflix-like view with the information about the currently selected poster at the top.
  • Netflix-like video preview for the currently selected poster.
  • Some of the new features can be configured in “Setup / Appearance / Additional” menu: use Netflix-like view or fill the entire screen with posters, show video preview or not, show the new left menu automatically or not.
  • All previous ways how the GUI can look are still available – just choose another GUI skin in “Setup / Appearance / Main” menu.

My Collection

Dune HD My Collection
  • My Collection is now integrated as a submenu into the new “Movies” and “TV Shows” menus.
  • My Collection settings are available via POP UP MENU / “Collection Management” and “Setup / My Collection”.
  • Various improvements in automatic and manual movie matching, especially with respect to the handling of TV shows.
  • The possibility to manually edit season/episode number (“Edit Movie Information…” / “Choosen association” / POP UP MENU / “Edit Season and Episode…”)..
  • The server part of My Collection has been upgraded, which solves a lot of “can not find a matching movie” problems.
Dune HD My Collection movie
  • The old view of My Collection is available via “Applications / Dune HD applications / My Collection”.
  • Support for “Movie collections” (also known as “Movie sagas”).
  • New categories “Continue Watching”, “Newly added”, “By Name”, “By Year”.
  • Display of watch progress for movies directly in the main menu.
  • Improved handling of TV shows, in particular, when resuming playback of a TV show.
  • Press “A” button in any folder and this folder will be immediately switched into a Netflix-like view (as in My Collection).
  • Movies and episodes in this folder will be automatically recognized and presented correspondingly. Only confirmed matches are shown to avoid showing incorrect matches.
  • Press “A” again to switch back to to the default view.
  • The latest chosen view is remembered for each folder.
  • If the folder contains episodes of a TV series, a special various of this view is used, optimized for TV series.

  • The watching progress for each file is indicated.
  • If some file is not recognized as a movie, use POP UP MENU / “Edit Movie Information” to confirm the matching movie.
  • If some episode has no correct season/episode number, use POP UP MENU / “Edit Movie Information…” / POP UP MENU / Edit Season and Episode…”
  • If the folder is a part of My Collection — this new view is enabled by default.
  • It is recommended to add folders with movies and TV series to My Collection and index them. This will improve the performance of this new view and will help to properly recognize folders and subfolders in the file browser in more cases.

Website https://dune-hd.ca/

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R_volution has launched the new PlayerMini

A compact multimedia player compatible with Dolby Vision and HDR10+, equipped with the Amlogic S905X4-K processor.

R_volution PlayerMini

The R_volution PlayerMini is designed to play movie, concert and series files from a networked NAS or an external hard drive connected via USB. Integrate the popular R_video Media Center application to manage your video library. The R_volution PlayerMini is compatible with 4K video files in HDR and offers excellent picture and sound quality to meet the needs of demanding home cinema enthusiasts.

Main technical characteristics

– Lightweight and compact
– 4K Ultra HD
– Dolby Vision and HDR10+
– Dolby VS10 video processing
– AC-4, Auro3D, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X
– DSD, WAVE, AIFF, FLAC and AAC up to 7.1
– MKV, M2TS, BD ISO, UHD ISO
– Forced subtitles
– Free Media Center R_video (no subscription necessary)
– Multiroom
– Parental control
– High-quality covers
– Animated backgrounds
– Original soundtracks

https://www.rvolution.com/r-volution-playermini