Dune Club - Community Plugins for Dune HD Media Players

Community plugins for Dune HD media players are created by community of users, using Dune HD Plugins API and SDK. Such plugins extend the media player functionality with additional features. They can implement standalone applications (available in "Dune HD applications" menu), can implement TV applications which can integrate into "TV" section of the main menu, can integrate into "Movies" catalog, and can provide other features.

These plugins are provided on "as is" basis, you use these plugins at your discretion and at your own risk. Plugins authors do not have any responsibility regarding functionality or content available via these plugins. Plugins may change their functionality or stop working (in case of changes on the used 3-party resources) partially or completely at any time. If you do not like these plugins, just do not use them.

Plugins may use "premium" firmware features which may require paid subscription (such as "Dune Extra"). When you pay for such a premium firmware feature, you pay just for extended capabilities of the firmware of your Dune HD media player, and this gives in particular the ability to use such plugins. This does not mean that you pay for the plugin itself or for the functions or content provided by the plugin. Functions and content provided by community plugins are always provided on "as is" basis without any guarantees.

To install a community plugin:

Depending on media player model, software version, settings and region, the media player may have a function of searching for community plugins in Internet with the ability to install found plugins. Otherwise, you can download and install community plugins manually:

1. Download "dune_plugin_...zip" file and store it onto a USB drive.
2. Connect the USB drive to Dune HD media player.
3. In the main menu of the media player, go to "Sources" menu, choose the USB drive, choose the "dune_plugin...zip" file, and press "ENTER" button on the remote control.

To uninstall a community plugin:

• Use "Setup / Misc / Plugins" menu.
• Alternatively, do full settings reset to factory defaults ("Setup / General / Reset Settings").

Provides access to about 20000 IPTV channels from different countries and in different languages.

Download:
dune_plugin_globaltv.zip (latest version: 231012_1417; changes: various fixes)

Features:

• This plugin requires latest r21+ firmware versions.
• This plugin uses firmware features which require "Dune Extra" subscription (as of Sep/2023, available for free due to a promo period).
• Paid access to "Dune Extra" is required, free access (promo or trial period) to "Dune Extra" is not enough for this plugin. This is because this plugin uses firmware capabilities and cloud resources which are available only for paid "Dune Extra" access.
• When using free access (promo or trial period) to "Dune Extra", at the moment, you can watch IPTV channels during 1 day (24 hours). It is a temporary opportunity, it may not work sometimes and it may become not available in future, or access conditions may change in future.
• The set of available TV channels currently includes "18+" "(XXX") channels. It is a temporary opportunity and it may become not available in future, or access conditions may change in future.
• How to use: use "TV" item of the top menu. If it is not configured to "Global TV", press POP UP MENU on "TV" item to configure it. Besides, you can also use "Old GUI" variant of this plugin ("Dune HD Applications - Global TV").
• Channels are structured by sections (mostly corresponding to countries) and categories. When using "TV" item of the main menu, the second line of the top menu shows sections, and the left panel shows categories for the current section. There is section "All" which includes all categories.
• You can mark favorite channels: press "POP UP MENU" or "D" remote button on the channel in the main menu and during playback. Favorites channels are shown in "Favorites" category of "MY" section.
• You can mark favorite categories: press "POP UP MENU" or "D" remote button on the category in the main menu. Favorite categories are shown in "MY" section.
• You can search for channels by name: press "POP UP MENU" remote button in the main menu and choose "Search".
• You can reorder favorite channels: use "B" and "C" (or "POP UP MENU") remote buttons in "Dune HD Applications - Global TV - MY - Favorites" menu.
• Some channels (not all) have EPG (electronic program guide). To access EPG, press "ENTER" remote button during playback.
• Some channels (not all) have archive, allowing you to watch already finished programs during last few days. If there is archive, programs which can be watched are marked by "R" icon in EPG menu.

Extends the functionality of "Movies" catalog. Allows to find and play video streams available in Internet for the given Movie or TV Series.

Download:
dune_plugin_dunemdb_supplier_online_movies.zip (latest version: 231225_0928; changes: various fixes)

Features:

• This plugin requires latest r21+ firmware versions.
• This plugin uses firmware features which require "Dune Extra" subscription (as of Sep/2023, available for free due to a promo period).
• How to use: find any Movie or TV Series in the GUI of Dune HD media player in any way (browse the catalog, use voice search, use Cast and Crew explorer, and so on), press "Play..." button and you will get two new options: "Online Movies and TV Shows (Auto)" and "Online Movies and TV Shows (Choose Video Stream Manually)".
• "Auto" option chooses the best video stream automatically and immediately plays it. For TV series, you can first choose the desired season and episode.
• "Manually" option allows you to see all found video streams and choose the best one according to your preferences. It is also useful if the "Auto" option does not work in the way you want.
• Found video streams typically vary by quality (video resolution and bitrate, HDR, DV, HD audio), availability (how many sources are available to download the video stream; it may affect download speed and thus ability to play this video stream smoothly), audio tracks and translations, subtitles.
• If the chosen video stream fails to play smoothly, the plugin tries to automatically switch to another video stream (of lesser quality/bitrate), preserving the playback position.
• When playing a TV Series and switching to another video stream, the plugin tries to find the currently played season/episode in each tried video stream and skip video streams which do not have the required season/episode.
• You can also manually switch to another video stream during playback: press POP UP MENU and use "Choose Video Stream Manually" menu item. Playback position, TV series season/episode are preserved in this case as well.
• When playing a TV Series, you can view list of episodes and switch to another episode: (a) press POP UP MENU and use "Playlist" menu item; (b) press ENTER and choose the episode in the main menu. You can also use NEXT/PREV buttons.
• When playing a TV Series and switching to another epispode (manually, or when the current episode finishes to play), the plugin tries to play the new episode using the current video stream. If the new episode is absent in the current video stream, the plugin will try to automatically find another video stream which has the new epsiode.
• The Movies or TV Series that have been played are added to the global "Recent" menu. You can resume their playback using this menu. For each Movie or TV Series, the latest played video stream is remembered and is used automatically when resuming the playback.

Plugins targeted for specific regions or with UI in specific langauges.

Screenshoter:
dune_plugin_Screenshoter.zip (latest version: 1.0.6; changes: now supports both new S928X models and old models)

Weather widget extension:
dune_plugin_widget_ext.zip (latest version: 1.5.5; changes: added support for new S928X models)