I used to have a Dune Base unit (gifted it to a family member) and for my purposes this is how subtitles were handled (both forced and wanted full subs) since only the movie was wanted not the ISO. Simply include ONLY the wanted sub track withing the movie. Set the player to always play subs. What was involved was video + HD audio stream + wanted sub in the same file and nothing else. Photoshop cs6 portable google drive.
This might not be a fit for everyone but sure makes life easier. I find that Clown is a great tool for this along with tsmuxer stand alone.
All foreign films contain English subs, all films with forced subs include only that sub in the file etc. Life is good. I used to have a Dune Base unit (gifted it to a family member) and for my purposes this is how subtitles were handled (both forced and wanted full subs) since only the movie was wanted not the ISO. Simply include ONLY the wanted sub track withing the movie. Set the player to always play subs. What was involved was video + HD audio stream + wanted sub in the same file and nothing else.
This might not be a fit for everyone but sure makes life easier. I find that Clown is a great tool for this along with tsmuxer stand alone. All foreign films contain English subs, all films with forced subs include only that sub in the file etc. Life is good. No need to do this.
The Base models handle forced subs with ease when in an ISO, ripped or full. Most want full subs on demand and forced subs to play automatically. See post # 3 for 303D and Base 3D. No need to do this. The Base models handle forced subs with ease when in an ISO, ripped or full. Most want full subs on demand and forced subs to play automatically.
While simply having an ISO may save time up front, you have to store all the commercials, bonus material, audio language streams, etc. It adds up quickly in terms of space/volume needed. I do agree with what you say but when you own a fairly large library of discs, archiving takes up quite a bit of space and it can add up doing simply ISO (though I admit it is tempting at times). Take a typical popular title and figure out the ISO size then the size of the 'main feature' with only the video, required audio track and a single sub. When you have over 50 movies consider the difference in the amount of space required to house the archive on the drive. Last - with the stripped down file, you simply leave the subtitle option 'ON' with Dune. Any file that has a subtitle included will play and no need to turn it on per a movie (as in the case of foreign films).
While simply having an ISO may save time up front, you have to store all the commercials, bonus material, audio language streams, etc. It adds up quickly in terms of space/volume needed. I do agree with what you say but when you own a fairly large library of discs, archiving takes up quite a bit of space and it can add up doing simply ISO (though I admit it is tempting at times). Take a typical popular title and figure out the ISO size then the size of the 'main feature' with only the video, required audio track and a single sub.
When you have over 50 movies consider the difference in the amount of space required to house the archive on the drive. Last - with the stripped down file, you simply leave the subtitle option 'ON' with Dune. Any file that has a subtitle included will play and no need to turn it on per a movie (as in the case of foreign films). You are missing the point. The Base plays forced subs with no issues. It has a BD license.
The Base 3D doesn't so we need a work- a- around. The Dunes allow for separate internal and external subs to be played automatically as I stated in post 3. Having full subs on all the time is annoying to most people. My method solves the issue completely and allows the option to toggle full subs. You are missing the point. The Base plays forced subs with no issues.
It has a BD license. The Base 3D doesn't so we need a work- a- around.
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The Dunes allow for separate internal and external subs to be played automatically as I stated in post 3. Having full subs on all the time is annoying to most people. My method solves the issue completely and allows the option to toggle full subs. I understand what you are saying and agreed with what you said but wanted to offer an alternative that fulfills the same need to handle subs plus the advantage of saved space.
Leaving subs 'on' in my scenario is not a burden but quite the opposite. Leaving subs on with your schema certainly would be a bother. Let's just say there is more than one means to an end. Just glad people in general enjoy their Dune units and all they have to offer. Btw, I do at times miss my Dune but my files play well with my Blu-Ray player via my NAS (and direct storage at times).
I may opt for a Dune again for another room next year. While I patiently wait for my Minix Neo to cross the ocean on a slow boat from China, I might play around with my Dune303 and see if I can make it more likeable. I have over 2,000 movies and shows, on my server, and have some issues with Zappiti. 1) After scraping, a few shows have main cover art, but no episodes show up in the jukebox folder. (no years or episodes are listed in zappiti, the folders are empty). 2) Is there a way to have the title text show up in the jukebox? I have over 2000 movies, I don't visually recognize most of the cover art.
Some title names are very difficult to read from the cover art alone. 3) Does zappiti have any sorting capabilities or features that can be enabled?
Example, I would like to be able to select the letter F, and it jumps to all titles starting with F. Another example, sort by newest release date. 4) Is there a trailer feature that can be enabled? I really have been pleased with the performance and reliability of the Dune player itself, but find zappiti to be extremely basic and lacking in features required for browsing through a large collection.
Failing solutions to the above issues, can anyone suggest a better jukebox, or is Zappiti the best in the Dune offering? Any help would be much appreciated.
Click to expand.Mate., I can't even begin to imagine what it has to be like not being able to tell what a great number of Dune users have been longing to hear for the best part of 2012. It has to be even more frustrating when the people from Syabas are displaying a player that is fully functional with a processor that many, many people thought would never see the light of day.
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Am I correct to believe that the still current Smart models will never be affected by Cinavia, or will/can that be added via a firmware release? Are you able to comment on that? FYI: i installed the remote control.dsf and ran the RC app yesterday. Result = pure BS. You can only browse the dune internal or USB attached drives (no network drive available), you can't launch everything from here (only simple files like avi, vob.), you can't launch structures (videots or bdvm, i don't have any ISO so couldn't test), mkv are not visible when you browse from the app, playback title is still the full folder path and not just only the file name, iOS device can't send anything to the dune screen (got an error message). Version '1' - NOTE: This is a minor update to 1.
Dune HD TV models: Bugfix: Vidimax application could report 'error 7' in some cases during playback. Bugfix: fixed problem with the playback of certain MMS URLs (the problem appeared in the firmware version 1beta). Bugfix: playback of MPEG-TS streams w/o audio and with temporary audio dropouts could cause problems. (This includes playback of multicast, HLS, DVB MPEG-TS streams.) - Bugfix: playback of media content via HTTP protocol could cause hangup in some cases (e.g. When the server did not respond). HLS playback improvements: - By default, the initial quality is now chosen based on the previous statistics (remembered till reboot).
Various performance and stability improvements. Bugfix: too long HLS URLs were refused to play. mediaurl: 'hlsinitialbandwidth' parameter extended with new possible values: 'auto' and 'autohigh'.
More details: - Improvements in API for PHP plugins: - Default PHP plugin operation timeout increased to 60 seconds. Bugfix: PHP plugin operation was handled in wrong way in some cases. Bugfix: EPG OSD column had wrong title in some cases.
Dune HD TV models: Improvements in API for HTML+JS applications: - Bugfix: when playing HLS stream, read error events could be wrongly generated even in the absence of any errors.
Hi I'm looking for a steer on whether to head down the htpc/xbmc route. I've spent most of the weekend tinkering with my dune and zappiti as a result of adding a second NAS. I'm not 100% sure what my issues in getting it working we're, the most likely explanation being some curious behaviour of the dune when connected via a gigabit switch to a gigabit connected NAS but who knows. It's working now but I'm 48 hours older and already have enough grey hairs. Anyhow this got me googling for alternatives and looking again at xbmc. I'm not looking for a new hobby, ie a lifetime of setup and tweaking, I'm just looking for something to play my iso ripped blurays at the highest quality video and sound in a home cinema, ie 24fps + the normal set of lossless audio decoded by the amp. I'm not looking for the cheapest solution, just something that's reliable.
So is there a 'good' route to a painless xbmc setup? Is it better to use a windows 7 and something like TMT for playback or a stripped down openelec? Does the v1 Apple TV running openelec with a upgraded graphics card really deliver 24p hd audio? Are the latest generation of NUC's a foolproof way to go?
With cinavia it seems like media players like the dune are ultimately doomed and are going to be starved of investment and htpc's provide a better long term option. So I'm interested to hear from anybody who's gone this route, and what they would recommend based on their experiences. I went through almost exactly the same dilemma just recently. I have switched from a Dune (which I love) to a NUC with OpenELEC. I did loads of research and asked as many questions as possible before spending any money. I was nervous about it being difficult to set up the way I wanted it and I heard lots of stories about frame rate problems and various playback issues. Having used the NUC for a week now I have to say it was the best decision I ever made.
It took a little tweaking to get it right and the remote setup was tricky until I got my head round it but XBMC is an absolute dream to use.SOOO much better than Zapitti and Yadis. The watched/unwatched markers were the main thing I wanted and they work really well. It's also much quicker to update. I used to run Yadis and everytime I added a new movie I had to manually scrape it and change the images that it selected and then manually export the interface. Now all I have to do is copy the file to my NAS and everything else is done automatically when you fire up the NUC. It even chooses the correct art 99% of the time.
You won't regret it! No lip sync issues at all but there are settings to adjust if you do experience a problem. I don't play ISO's (seems like a waste of space as I never watch any of the extras) - my files are all MKVs. I have the i5 Haswell NUC because there are a few improvements over the previous model. Integrated IR receiver and the ability to play 23.976 fps files perfectly. I added 8gb of RAM and a 30GB SSD. The processor and RAM are overkill but I bought the higher spec because I was nervous about using OpenELEC so I wanted the option to install Windows if necessary.
It totally ISN'T necessary, OpenELEC is great. Click to expand.I've also got a couple of NUCs (latest i5 and Celeron N2820 based units) running Windows (7 and 8.1) and XBMC. These will NOT play Blu-ray ISOs OOTB. I do play these using a combination of Virtual CloneDrive (to mount the ISO) and Arcsoft's TotalMedia Theater 6.5 to play the Blu-rays.
In theory it should be possible to get XBMC (I've been using V12.3) to use TMT as an external player for BD ISOs, but I've not managed to configure this yet (although I've not spent a serious amount of time on this yet). If anyone has the magic config files to do this I'd appreciate a copy Otherwise the NUC + XBMC makes a fine HTPC - it plays MKVs and DVD ISOs natively without problems. I've even got it to correctly catalogue and play my TV series on DVD ISOs. I guess you have grown tired of Dune's complete lack of customer focus as well. Yes pretty much seamless for both folder and ISO rips. There's a slight delay as TMT opens up but it's only a few seconds. I mainly use folder rips for my movies and MKVs for BR TV series which for the latter, the XBMC internal player works just fine.
It's easy to set up TMT (or PowerDVD) as an optional player for movies. If there just one movie stream and no forced subtitles, then XBMC's lite player option is perfectly adequate. If you want to see the menus then the exterrnal player can be selected. Most of my issues with TMT have been with the audio and it took a bit of work to get it to pass 6 channels of uncompressed LPCM (my Meridian processor can decode hires audio). Other than that I'm happy with my HTPC at the moment.
I've just set up live TV but I'm going to leave the PVR options until they become mor refined. Well as I started the thread I felt I should give an update (and ask for help!). So getting xbmc installed, scanning media and playing was pretty straightforward. I hit a couple of issues but a quick google found others who had hit the problem previously with a solution at hand. I hadn't realised when you download openelec it actually includes xbmc so is very simple and quick to install.
Xbmc is very slick, and zappiti and the Dune feel 10 years out of date by comparison. But, (you knew there was one coming), despite what most people say I'm struggling to get 24p working without having to insert a significant delay into the stream when by all accounts this was all sorted in the last release. Can I ask those who posted saying 24p was working on i5 NUC's just to confirm (a) that it's definitely 24p being received by the receiver and (b) that they haven't had to add a manual delay. As I understand the most recent releases whilst the problems have been fixed you actually have to include a 175ms delay as they have left the original work around present in advanced settings.xml. Just in summary I get lip sync issues when playing 24p to my receiver and projector AND if I connect straight to a tv which supports 24p. Forcing either config to 50Hz cures the problem. I've posted in openelec and xbmc forums without any solution.
I notice that duffbeardrinker and cjed are on i5's and I'm using an i3 which does have a different graphics processor so maybe that's related??? Well as I started the thread I felt I should give an update (and ask for help!).
So getting xbmc installed, scanning media and playing was pretty straightforward. I hit a couple of issues but a quick google found others who had hit the problem previously with a solution at hand. I hadn't realised when you download openelec it actually includes xbmc so is very simple and quick to install.
Xbmc is very slick, and zappiti and the Dune feel 10 years out of date by comparison. But, (you knew there was one coming), despite what most people say I'm struggling to get 24p working without having to insert a significant delay into the stream when by all accounts this was all sorted in the last release. Can I ask those who posted saying 24p was working on i5 NUC's just to confirm (a) that it's definitely 24p being received by the receiver and (b) that they haven't had to add a manual delay. As I understand the most recent releases whilst the problems have been fixed you actually have to include a 175ms delay as they have left the original work around present in advanced settings.xml. Just in summary I get lip sync issues when playing 24p to my receiver and projector AND if I connect straight to a tv which supports 24p.
Forcing either config to 50Hz cures the problem. I've posted in openelec and xbmc forums without any solution. I notice that duffbeardrinker and cjed are on i5's and I'm using an i3 which does have a different graphics processor so maybe that's related??? Click to expand.AFAIW a delay of 175ms is already included in all openelec builds to account for the issue (they actually polled on xbmc forums to see what the consensus was on delay timings). If you have sync problems, it may be that your system doesn't need that delay and this is what is causing your issue. Try deleting the delay setting from the advancedsettings xml and see it that helps.
There are threads over at openelec forums which will help you to locate and change. Just got an i5 nuc and will be setting up over the weekend will let you know if I encounter any similar issues. So bear in mind I've about 1 days experience of this so anything I say might be less than optimal.
You need to log onto the box using ssh which means you need to have this service enabled which is one of the questions you are asked during the install. I believe you can enable the service later but it's not easy and by this stage I was getting real quick at doing installs so I just installed from scratch. I logged on using an application called putty running on a windows PC. The username is root and the password is openelec by default.
You then need to cd to.xbmc/userdata and use the editor nano to create the file by typing it in. If you get stuck let me know and I'll expand on any points which don't make sense.
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