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Product Support => HiMedia Q5/Q10 4K3D => Topic started by: eccles on July 27, 2016, 11:41:06 AM

Title: Are there likely to be any further firmware updates for Q10 4K3D?
Post by: eccles on July 27, 2016, 11:41:06 AM

It would have been nice to have got the white subtitles on white subject material difficulty sorted with the ability to set black borders around subtext, but I guess the answer to this is "no further updates"?

Title: Re: Are there likely to be any further firmware updates for Q10 4K3D?
Post by: futeko.com on July 27, 2016, 12:30:22 PM

HiMedia say bugfixes only, no new features.

So if something happened with Kodi or another key service that made them stop working on 4K3D then they would fix it, but they won't add features.

I asked specifically about borders around subtitles and they said it's not a big enough issue to justify creating a firmware.

Title: Re: Are there likely to be any further firmware updates for Q10 4K3D?
Post by: Motahed on July 29, 2016, 11:04:47 AM

Kodi 17 requires Android Lollipop 5 minimum, maybe even Marshmallow 6 with the final release, that's quite a major key service that won't work don'tcha think ? Gotta just love that built-in obsolescence!  ;)

Title: Re: Are there likely to be any further firmware updates for Q10 4K3D?
Post by: eccles on August 01, 2016, 10:34:38 AM

@Futeko, thanks for the reply. For anyone who also struggles with white-on-white subs there is a workaround, albeit a rather cumbersome one, and that is to convert srt subs to sub/idx, adding the requisite borders.  The free "Subtitle Creator" does it quite quickly. It's ok for a single file but a mammoth task to convert a whole library.