SoftHub

Key Features:

- 3D Video Format Support: Decodes wide variety of 3D Video formats, including MVC, SBS, Top/Bottom.
- HDD Player: Plays content from any HDD (internal, NAS or USB)
- Network Player: Connect Dune HD player to a local network and play content directly from PC or NAS via UPnP, SMB, or NFS.
- MKV Player: Playback HD and SD video in MKV containers and other modern video file formats, including top quality HD video with very high bit-rates > 50Mbp/s.
- HLS support:: Enjoy adaptive bitrate streaming via industry-standard Apple HLS protocol.
- HD audio: enjoy top-quality audio tracks.
- USB Ports: Conveniently connect HDDs, USB flash drives, USB card readers and other USB storage devices without a USB hub.
- HDD Rack Option with Hot Swap Function: Easily and quickly insert and exchange internal 3.5’’ SATA HDDs for nearly unlimited storage capacity expansion.
- Digital A/V output : Ensures broad compatibility to the very latest 3D TV’s, displays and projectors.
- Full Range of A/V Connectors: S/PDIF Optical and Coaxial Audio outputs, Analog Stereo Audio output, Digital A/V output, Component and Composite Video outputs.
- High-Quality Music Playback: Plays very high-quality (up to 192 Khz / 24-bit) music files in various formats (FLAC, Monkey’s Audio APE, WAV/PCM, etc).
- Playlist Support: Build playlists from folders, use your own play lists with repeat and shuffle functions.
- Video Output Flexibility: Output video in any resolution and format (from SD to 1080p, 24p/PAL/NTSC).
- Video Up-Scaling: High quality up-scaling of DVD and any other SD video content to Full HD (1080p) or other HD resolutions.
- File Browser: Convenient file browser with powerful file management (copy, move, delete, rename, organize, sort).

Fixes:

- 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 firmare 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.

About Media Player Firmware:

Installing a firmware update for your Media Player improves the general user experience by adding new features, fixing bugs, and enhancing the compatibility of your device, in order to play various formats of audio and video content.

By updating your Media Player, you can actually prolong the device’s life because, this way, it will be in sync with the new industry standards for content creation.

However, the process of updating your device is a risky one if not done according to strict instructions, such as: make sure that the firmware you have downloaded is compatible with your device, and don’t interfere with the player during the update process.

The most common method of upgrading your Media Player is by using a USB stick or update DVD. Although this process is very straightforward, each device has certain particularities that you must take into account.

If you consider using this update for your Media Player, feel free to click the download button, install the firmware and enjoy. Check out our website as often as possible to keep your Media Player up to date with the latest software and firmware.