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HiMedia Q10 Pro, Q5 Pro / Re: Q5/Q10 Pro Custom Firmware
« on: August 26, 2018, 10:42:33 PM »
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Video picture quality is the same using Kodi internal player and HiMediaplayer (wrapper) with Imprex enhancement turned off. Imprex is not essential and many people prefer as little messing with the image as possible. Picture quality with Imprex off or via Kodi player is excellent.No, it's not. The color space (not sure if that is the correct expression) is much lower when using Kodi. The result is that the dark shades disappear and there is only black where there should be details in darker parts of the image. It is very easy to see when using the test patterns of a Blu-ray like Spears & Munsil because most of the boxes with different shades of gray that is used for configuring contrast and brightness just aren't there. They show correctly using the HiMedia player.
How about the subtitles and wrapper, I use the possibilities of Kodi for subtitles which is often synchronize.Unfortunately if you use the wrapper then Kodi will be not much more than a bloated file browser. At least none of the features I use Kodi for works. If you don't use the wrapper you will get mediocre sound and image quality.
How does this all work with wrapper?
Also not necessarily incorrect. Anyway I am not someone who would argue with a lamppost so ill leave you too it.It might do you good to take a look in the mirror.
Thing is the q10 has enough grunt to deliver 60hz 4k. The rendering method can be what ever format it wants as at the end of the day it will just take a software change.That's not necessarily correct. Both because it only supports it through the use of specialized hardware and because it's impossible to know how much "grunt" is needed to support a standard that does not exist today.
I do understand what your saying. I thought the same back in 1981 when I loaded everything onto my zx81 from a tape. If Anyone told me I could have a single disk which could contain a 1080p 60hz movie that my computer could read I would tell them they were living in cloud cook landYou are reversing the problem, but either way having that disk in 1981 wouldn't do you much good if it took 30 years before you could buy a computer that could read it. By the time 4k 60hz movies are commonly available (if ever) there will probably be additional standard requirements which the Q10 Pro won't support.
I formatted it as an external drive on my pc and then put it in the Q10 Pro,I remember having formatted a RAID as external drive in Windows several years ago, but if you have done the same then something has gone wrong. You're supposed to connect it to the internal SATA connection of the PC, partition it using disk management and then format it normally. There should be no mentioning of formatting as an external drive. Doing that creates some kind of special partition which the Q10 probably won't understand. Try connecting it and recreate the partition in the disk manager. Just formatting again won't change anything.
Would be interesting indeed to understand this. I have tried to read about this issue on so many websites, but nowhere it is described how this micro-stutter for 23.976 coding is getting created and how to solve it.It usually happens because the media box is not sending the video stream to the TV at the same rate as it is stored, so once in a while it will have to skip a frame or show the same frame twice to keep the audio in sync. The frequency of the stuttering depends of how much out of sync they are. If 23.976 material is shown at 24 Hz it only happens rarely, but when either is shown at 50 or 60 Hz it happens every second.
