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  • Page 1 Dune BD Prime User manual 2008...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents Key features of DUNE BD Prime Package contents Notes on discs Safety measures Before getting started Remote control Connections System setup Playback Troubleshooting Specifications...

  • Page 3: Key Features Of Dune Bd Prime

    Key features of DUNE BD Prime media player Player features: Blu-Ray discs playback ● BD-ROM (Profile 1.1/2.0), as well as DVD and CD. Media content playback ● Video, Music and Pictures. Network drive operation ● NFS, SMB and some other HTTP clients.
  • Page 4 Function description and Blu-ray disc partition contained in this manual are common and describe potential features of Blu-ray format. The menu configuration, functions set, as well as menu navigation are disc-dependent and may vary. Graphics in the menu of BD-ROM disc: Interactive Video elements...

  • Page 5: Package Contents

    Package contents: 1. Dune BD Prime media player 2. Remote control (batteries not included) 3. Power supply cord 4. AV cable 5. Quick start guide Notes on Discs The regional code of BD-DVD discs is shown on the rear panel of your player.
  • Page 6 Blu-Ray Regions А1 А1 Code Region 1 or A Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, USA 2 or B Europe, Oceania, Africa, Meadle East,, Greenlandia 3 or С Russia, PRC, Central and South Asia, Mongolia DVD Regions Code Region Canada, United States; U.S. territories; Bermuda Western and Central Europe;...

  • Page 7: Safety Measures

    2) To avoid electric shock, do not touch the plugged in device with wet hands and do not allow moisture within the case. If it happened, immediately unplug the device and contact an authorized Dune service center. 3) Clean the device only with a dry soft cotton, or alike, cloth preventing accumulation of static discharges.
  • Page 8 10) Do not place any items on the player. The device needs some space for releasing of heat produced during its operation. DO NOT place any liquid-containing vessels, metallic items and any other materials upon its top enclosure that may disturb the normal operation of the device.

  • Page 9: Before Getting Started

    Before getting started When you start using the media player for the first time, please make sure that the shipping packing is not broken, has no compression or opening marks. ● If the packing was broken, the manufacturer shall not be held liable in respect of the integrity of the package contents.

  • Page 10: Remote Control

    Remote Control (RC) 1) Command indicator (i.e. indicator of remote control response to button pressing) 2) EJECT, MUTE, POWER – opening/closing of disk tray, sound on/off and standby mode on/off, respectively 3) A(Red) - INFO, B(Green) - ZOOM, C(Yelow) - MODE, D(Blue) - SETUP – control menu buttons for setting of internal functions, as well as some playback modes.
  • Page 11 Text entry with RC 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9: Entry of characters to a position pointed by the cursor. First pressing: entry of first character from a set of characters con- nected with the remote control. Each subsequent pressing: you may change the entered character to the sequent one from the list.

  • Page 12: Standby Mode

    Contextual menu MENU – show contextual menu with a list of available additional commands. Through con- textual menu you can copy the edited text line to clipboard and paste the text line from the clipboard (into cursor position) STANDBY Mode Pressing of POWER button switches over the player to STANDBY mode.

  • Page 13: Connections

    10 sec. If after this time there is no picture (DUNE logo) on screen, it shall mean that there are connection errors. Please check Troubleshooting section in such a case.
  • Page 14 Connection to a TV set with component video signal input (Component Video, Y, Cb, Cr) For this connection you should use a 3RCA-3RCA video cable and (optionally) a 2RCA-2RCA audio cable for sound transmission to your TV set. Please note that video cable shall have an impedance of 75 Ohm, i.e.
  • Page 15 HD multi-channel sound in full. For this connection it is suggested to use an original DUNE HDMI-HDMI cable (not included, can be ordered separately). 1) Make sure that the player and the AV receiver are switched off. Do not switch on until the end of connection procedure.
  • Page 16 Transmission of digital audio signal to an AV receiver using an optical cable An optical Toslink–Toslink audio cable shall be used (not included). 1) Connect digital audio output of the player with digital audio input of the AV receiver 2) Select relevant input and sound mode on the AV receiver. Optical ●...
  • Page 17 ● You may send an analog audio signal from your player to the TV set, if you use DVI, Component Video, S-Video or CVBS for video signal transmission and don’t use AV re- ceived for digital audio decoding. In case of connection using HDMI, video and audio signals will be transmitted using a single HDMI cable, that’s why there is no need of ad- ditional analog audio connections in this case.
  • Page 18 Connection to LAN and Internet A standard Cat5 or Cat6 Ethernet cable with RJ45 connectors should be used (not included). Connection of external USB drives Your media player is equipped with a socket for connection of external data stor- age devices with USB interface. There are two standard A-type USB ports for this purpose.

  • Page 19: System Setup

    System setup This chapter describes a list of settings of different functions of your media player. Setup menu ● Access to the setup menu only in file browser mode WARNING During playback of media files and DVDs any access to the setup menu is disabled.
  • Page 20 Menu: Settings General. In this menu section you may adjust general interface language and time of screensaver activation. Video. In this section you will find settings of video output type (digital HDMI or analog) and adjusting of video resolution on selected output. •...
  • Page 21 Audio. This section of settings allows setting of connection type of relevant audio equipment Analog audio output mode: Stereo mode is designed for connection to a stereo amplifier or similar device. Ref. Transmission of analog audio signal to an external stereo amplifier (or TV set)
  • Page 22 Digital audio output mode: you may switch the mode of digital optical output. PCM (Pulse Code Modulation, forced conversion): a mode in which original track, i.e. Dolby Digital or DTS, is converted in Pulse Code form. It is supported by decoders of virtually any up-to-date audio equipment.
  • Page 23 Network. This section describes main parameters of functioning of media player in LAN or Internet. Connection. You may select a type of connection which will be used by default. It may be Wire (twisted-pair cable connection) or Wireless (Wi-Fi connection; optional). Or you may select a LAN-free use by selecting No.
  • Page 24 Information: includes all system information on your device. Others. This section describes additional settings of your media player.
  • Page 25 Display view: you may select shape and type of the player menu which will be displayed by default. • You may use the menu type that is most suitable for you. It may be icons, or text messages for displaying all functions of your media player. IPTV.
  • Page 26 Internet radio. • List of Internet radio stations may vary depending on programming time. Coding. Display of text information in the menu and submenus of media player.

  • Page 27: Playback

    Playback Blu-ray operations Playing of a standard Blu-ray or normal DVD disc. Before playing any optical discs, we suggest you to refer to the ‘Settings. Other. Optical drive’. In this section you will need to select an operation that will be performed by the media player by default, after inserting of a BD-ROM or DVD- ROM disc, respectively.
  • Page 28 • current disc chapter: Title 1/11 • current disc episode: Chapter 8/27 • current bit rate: Bit rate 34.43 Mbp ZOOM – first pressing: switch to picture zoom mode, display information on current zoom settings. Subsequent pressings: switch to subsequent zoom setting: 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, ZOOM OFF. •...
  • Page 29 DVD-Video playback After starting playback of a DVD disk from external optical drive or a material in a DVD-Video format from a folder on HDD, you will get to the DVD player. ● This interface is only intended for operation of DVD-Video. ●...

  • Page 30: File Browser

    Using of player. Playback of media content. File browser  File browser allows browsing of all files and folders available. Browsing starts from the Main page, which includes sub-divisions corresponding to connected drives, including network resources Up: select previous file/folder from the list. Move the cursor to the area of indication of the current path (in case of selection of the first element from the list).
  • Page 31 … or start playback of all files in selected folder, including files in subfolders, in alphabetical order. … or start playback of all files selected (one time, in the same order as displayed). MENU: show contextual menu with a list of available additional commands for the file/folder selected and the current folder.
  • Page 32 Selection of files and folders. To execute operations with several files/folders at the same time, you may select these files/folders. Use SELECT button on your RC or commands of contextual menu.  You may select files/folders only within the current folder. In case of switch to another folder, the information on selections will be reset.
  • Page 33 ● To copy or relocate several files/folders at once, you should select these files/folders.  In case of moving of files/folders within one section of a drive, there is no physical copying thereof (only the drive catalog is refreshed), files/folders are moved to the new location instantly.
  • Page 34 Left/Right/Up/Down Page-Up/Page-Down. First pressing: switch to playback item change mode. ● Subsequent pressings: change desired playback item: Left/Right: backward/forward by 10 sec. Up/Down: backward/forward by 1 min. Page-Up/Page-Down: backward/forward by 10 min. ● To exit the item selection mode and switch over to selected item, press ENTER button (or wait until automatic switch to selected item after a short idle time).
  • Page 35 Following RC buttons are enabled in the mode of picture parameters setting: Up/Down: select previous/subsequent proportion parameter. Left/Right: decrease/increase parameter value (proportionate). CLEAR: reset to default value. ● To exit from picture parameter setting mode, press ENTER (or wait until automatic exit from the mode after short idle time).
  • Page 36 When the playlist browser is displayed, following RC buttons are enabled: MENU, RETURN: hide playlist browser. UP, DOWN, PageUp, PageDown: cursor moving. PLAY, ENTER: start playback of selected item. CLEAR: delete selected item from the playlist. REPEAT: switch on/off the loop playback mode of the current playlist. PREV, NEXT: start playback of previous/next item.
  • Page 37 mal bitrate (statistics for the current file playback session), average bitrate (statistics for the current file playback session), current bitrate (playback statistics), duration. AUDIO: first pressing: display information on current sound track, subsequent pressings: switch to the next sound track. SUBTITLE: first pressing: display information on the current subtitles, subsequent press- ings: switch between available subtitle versions.
  • Page 38 Network disks operation You may connect to your player network disks with SMB and NFS protocols.  ВIt is possible to connect any number of network disks. Each network disk connected is displayed in root directory of the file browser (Main page) as a special folder or an icon. Warning: current firmware version does not support network disks, if they are only ac- cessible with UPnP/DLNA or HTTP/ HTML protocols, and if using of SMB or NFS is impos- sible.
  • Page 39 4) In Name area enter any name which you like. This name will be displayed in the file browser for this external resource. 5) In Type area select SMB or NFS, depending on protocol supported by your network disk.  If you wish to connect to a Windows-operated PC and do not know what is NFS server, the easiest way is to use SMB protocol: in this case, you do not need installation of ad- ditional software, standard Windows tools will be sufficient (2000, XP or Vista).
  • Page 40 2) Start Windows Explorer and enter in address line \\IP-address-of-the-player\internal_ hard_disk (e.g.: \\10.0.0.3\internal_hard_disk). ● You can also address to your player as follows: \\IP-address-of-the player\\dune\in- ternal_hard_disk and \\dune.  If you fail to get access to the player from the network, please refer to Troubleshooting...

  • Page 41: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting General: TROUBLE: the device does not switch on. SOLUTION: check, if the media player is connected to AC mains. TROUBLE: the device is properly connected to the mains, but works improperly. SOLUTION: a) it is possible that the temperature requirements were not observed, and there is con- densate on internal parts.
  • Page 42 Check for deep scratches and dirt on the optical data carrier. Check the media content, it is possible that the media player does not play back this type of media or materials. Please refer to ‘Key features of DUNE BD Prime’ and ‘Notes on discs’ sections for full list of discs and AV codec types.
  • Page 43 SOLUTION: set of functions, as well as internal menu of BD-ROM disc may vary. Try play- ing back of another disc. Cf. ‘Main features of Blu-ray discs’. TROUBLE: the default language of the media player menu is not displayed in the subtitles or not sounded.
  • Page 44 PC players, the DUNE player may not do this (since the HW decoder of the player and/or player software are not designed for playback of such ‘exotic’ files).
  • Page 45 nection of network cables). Make sure that the player’s network parameters are set correctly (Setup menu, please check the “Network setting” section). Enter the player setup menu, System information section, and make sure that the IP- address line displays correct check the IP-address and that to the right of the IP-ad- dress it is displayed: “On”.

  • Page 46: Specifications

    DUNE BD Prime specifications Optical discs BD-ROM, BD-R (RE), DVD-ROM, DVD-R (RW), CD, CD-R (RW) MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, ASF, WMV, Video file formats DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS Video compression MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, XVID, WMV9, VC1, H.264 algorithms DD: AC3 (DD), EAC3 (DD+), Dolby True HD [lossless];...
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