Q5 PRO FIRMWARE. ANDROID 7. 2.0.0-FUTEKO-EN. HMD-2.0.0 2016-11-18.175905

[Fresk]

i have a problem with IR Remote
combo does not work (for example, quickly press Right-Right-Enter, and Enter did not work). if slow press, all work.
downgraded to 1.08, and IR Remote work perfect.
it's fw bug or anything else?

[eruo1]

Navigation Bar - the square icon on the bottom navigation bar is not working. This icon is supposed to show recent apps. Could someone confirm that they have similar issue?

Thanks.

[luthiensdad]

Navigation Bar - the square icon on the bottom navigation bar is not working. This icon is supposed to show recent apps. Could someone confirm that they have similar issue?

Thanks.

Yes, I can confirm having the same issue.

[futeko.com]

Navigation Bar - the square icon on the bottom navigation bar is not working. This icon is supposed to show recent apps. Could someone confirm that they have similar issue?

Thanks.

I have reported this to HiMedia as a bug, but I suspect they've disabled it on purpose for some reason.

There is another bigger Navi bar bug, and that is that there is no hide button, so once you've pulled the navi bar up with mouse it cannot be hidden. This has been reported as a serious bug, so perhaps they'll look at the app button whilst fixing this.

[raverke95]

Still stuttering with TS2 files in 1080i50 

More info please. Do you mean .ts files? From what source? DVD?

Sorry for late reply, had a busy week...

The TS2 files are the streams and recordings from my satellite receiver.
The set-up is: I use the VU+ addon in Kodi for watching live streams and recordings from my VU+ satellite receiver in my Home Network. Intermittently the picture stutters. Sometimes when the picture stutters its enough to press the OK button on the remote to display Kodi's OSD. In that case, the stuttering disappears for a while.
In the previous firmware (1.0.8 android 5.1) I tried lots of scenarios: using VU+ own app, apps from Dream Multimedia, connecting an USB stick with a TS2 file and playing back in Kodi... all gave the same result. Because android 7 gives the same problems in Kodi, I didn't try the other apps yet.
Only when you chose 1080P resolutions in the setup of the HiMedia box, it doesn't stutter at al. The problem with the progressive setup are the very unsharp movements.

Before buying the HiMedia, I used a unknow Chinese androidbox. The streams were always sharp and fluently in 1080i50. Also less sharp in 1080P.

[Mount81]

Navigation Bar - the square icon on the bottom navigation bar is not working. This icon is supposed to show recent apps. Could someone confirm that they have similar issue?

Thanks.

I have reported this to HiMedia as a bug, but I suspect they've disabled it on purpose for some reason.

There is another bigger Navi bar bug, and that is that there is no hide button, so once you've pulled the navi bar up with mouse it cannot be hidden. This has been reported as a serious bug, so perhaps they'll look at the app button whilst fixing this.

In 1.0.7 fw I have solved somehow to get rid of the nav bar, once it sticked on the screen. I had to use my keyboards touchbad and do some mouse movement and clikcking (gesturung I guess), but won't recall from memory what was it exactly... Maybe theres a similar way with airmouse too...

[futeko.com]

Still stuttering with TS2 files in 1080i50 

More info please. Do you mean .ts files? From what source? DVD?

Sorry for late reply, had a busy week...

The TS2 files are the streams and recordings from my satellite receiver.
The set-up is: I use the VU+ addon in Kodi for watching live streams and recordings from my VU+ satellite receiver in my Home Network. Intermittently the picture stutters. Sometimes when the picture stutters its enough to press the OK button on the remote to display Kodi's OSD. In that case, the stuttering disappears for a while.
In the previous firmware (1.0.8 android 5.1) I tried lots of scenarios: using VU+ own app, apps from Dream Multimedia, connecting an USB stick with a TS2 file and playing back in Kodi... all gave the same result. Because android 7 gives the same problems in Kodi, I didn't try the other apps yet.
Only when you chose 1080P resolutions in the setup of the HiMedia box, it doesn't stutter at al. The problem with the progressive setup are the very unsharp movements.

Before buying the HiMedia, I used a unknow Chinese androidbox. The streams were always sharp and fluently in 1080i50. Also less sharp in 1080P.

Have you tried the auto-switching addon for Kodi? If you're using Kodi's internal player (and I think you are) this would fix any stutters caused by a mismatch of source fps to output Hz.

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1015.0

And for Android 7 FW: http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1015.msg11260#msg11260

[raverke95]

Still stuttering with TS2 files in 1080i50 

More info please. Do you mean .ts files? From what source? DVD?

Sorry for late reply, had a busy week...

The TS2 files are the streams and recordings from my satellite receiver.
The set-up is: I use the VU+ addon in Kodi for watching live streams and recordings from my VU+ satellite receiver in my Home Network. Intermittently the picture stutters. Sometimes when the picture stutters its enough to press the OK button on the remote to display Kodi's OSD. In that case, the stuttering disappears for a while.
In the previous firmware (1.0.8 android 5.1) I tried lots of scenarios: using VU+ own app, apps from Dream Multimedia, connecting an USB stick with a TS2 file and playing back in Kodi... all gave the same result. Because android 7 gives the same problems in Kodi, I didn't try the other apps yet.
Only when you chose 1080P resolutions in the setup of the HiMedia box, it doesn't stutter at al. The problem with the progressive setup are the very unsharp movements.

Before buying the HiMedia, I used a unknow Chinese androidbox. The streams were always sharp and fluently in 1080i50. Also less sharp in 1080P.

Have you tried the auto-switching addon for Kodi? If you're using Kodi's internal player (and I think you are) this would fix any stutters caused by a mismatch of source fps to output Hz.

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1015.0

And for Android 7 FW: http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1015.msg11260#msg11260

The auto-switching addon doesn't work, because he can't get info about framerate in the streams. At least that's what the error message says while I ran android 5.
I haven't tried this in Android 7. I'll do it and report it back here asap.

Thanks

[Meng]

Mr.Futeko,

i want to discuss about video quality for hevc x265 10bits .mkv. (i pick 4nos of movies for the test)

1. i had done stage 1 and 2 = installation fine android 7 fw 2.0.  Video playback quality = pixels "breaking up" on and off
2. i did factory reset, then downgraded android 7 fw 2.0 to android 5.1.1 fw 1.0.8 . Video playback quality = stutter instead of pixels breaking at the same video scenes.
3. i repeat step 1 = problems still the same.

However, when i played those video files (x265 10bits) at my laptop with media player classic+K lite codec, everything is Perfect.

My opinion, i think my Q5Pro need a good codec.  i just google, there is a k-lite codec apk for android. i plan to try this.


How about the rest of you guys?? any similar problem???

[futeko.com]

Mr.Futeko,

i want to discuss about video quality for hevc x265 10bits .mkv. (i pick 4nos of movies for the test)

1. i had done stage 1 and 2 = installation fine android 7 fw 2.0.  Video playback quality = pixels "breaking up" on and off
2. i did factory reset, then downgraded android 7 fw 2.0 to android 5.1.1 fw 1.0.8 . Video playback quality = stutter instead of pixels breaking at the same video scenes.
3. i repeat step 1 = problems still the same.

However, when i played those video files (x265 10bits) at my laptop with media player classic+K lite codec, everything is Perfect.

My opinion, i think my Q5Pro need a good codec.  i just google, there is a k-lite codec apk for android. i plan to try this.


How about the rest of you guys?? any similar problem???

In my experience Q5/Q10 Pro play pretty much anything without a problem. I don't get stutter or pixellation, even at 250+mbps.

Can you point me to samples for download that demonstrate the problem?

[oktober]

Hi,
installed new version Android 7 FW on Q5 PRO (all ok).
Now i get these problems in HimediaVideoPlayer:
    - When resume a play on a file, it says "Press Back to restart at the beginning". I press Back, but it doesn't restart from beginning
   - When a play stops (by pressing "0" on remote (remapped), or at the end of files-movies, it hilight a different title (not that just played)
        - Sometimes (i don't know when and why), when a 24fps (or 23.976 fps) movies ends, himedia remains on 24P. I have to go to settings and reset to 1080p 50Hz

thanks

[futeko.com]

Hi,
installed new version Android 7 FW on Q5 PRO (all ok).
Now i get these problems in HimediaVideoPlayer:
    - When resume a play on a file, it says "Press Back to restart at the beginning". I press Back, but it doesn't restart from beginning
   - When a play stops (by pressing "0" on remote (remapped), or at the end of files-movies, it hilight a different title (not that just played)
        - Sometimes (i don't know when and why), when a 24fps (or 23.976 fps) movies ends, himedia remains on 24P. I have to go to settings and reset to 1080p 50Hz

thanks

Thanks for the bug reports.

[raverke95]

Still stuttering with TS2 files in 1080i50 

More info please. Do you mean .ts files? From what source? DVD?

Sorry for late reply, had a busy week...

The TS2 files are the streams and recordings from my satellite receiver.
The set-up is: I use the VU+ addon in Kodi for watching live streams and recordings from my VU+ satellite receiver in my Home Network. Intermittently the picture stutters. Sometimes when the picture stutters its enough to press the OK button on the remote to display Kodi's OSD. In that case, the stuttering disappears for a while.
In the previous firmware (1.0.8 android 5.1) I tried lots of scenarios: using VU+ own app, apps from Dream Multimedia, connecting an USB stick with a TS2 file and playing back in Kodi... all gave the same result. Because android 7 gives the same problems in Kodi, I didn't try the other apps yet.
Only when you chose 1080P resolutions in the setup of the HiMedia box, it doesn't stutter at al. The problem with the progressive setup are the very unsharp movements.

Before buying the HiMedia, I used a unknow Chinese androidbox. The streams were always sharp and fluently in 1080i50. Also less sharp in 1080P.

Have you tried the auto-switching addon for Kodi? If you're using Kodi's internal player (and I think you are) this would fix any stutters caused by a mismatch of source fps to output Hz.

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1015.0

And for Android 7 FW: http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1015.msg11260#msg11260

I installed the auto-switching addon for Kodi this evening, following the instructions in the README file. The file seems to be installed, the box rebooted and that's all? Do I have to set-up the addon, or is it automatically setted-up?

[futeko.com]

I installed the auto-switching addon for Kodi this evening, following the instructions in the README file. The file seems to be installed, the box rebooted and that's all? Do I have to set-up the addon, or is it automatically setted-up?

After installing the patch to make it work with Android 7 (the RUN_ME batch file) you then need to install the Kodi add-on.

Follow the installation instructions in the opening post: http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1015.0

The add-on has configuration options where you can control how switching works.

[Mount81]

Mr.Futeko,

i want to discuss about video quality for hevc x265 10bits .mkv. (i pick 4nos of movies for the test)

1. i had done stage 1 and 2 = installation fine android 7 fw 2.0.  Video playback quality = pixels "breaking up" on and off
2. i did factory reset, then downgraded android 7 fw 2.0 to android 5.1.1 fw 1.0.8 . Video playback quality = stutter instead of pixels breaking at the same video scenes.
3. i repeat step 1 = problems still the same.

However, when i played those video files (x265 10bits) at my laptop with media player classic+K lite codec, everything is Perfect.

My opinion, i think my Q5Pro need a good codec.  i just google, there is a k-lite codec apk for android. i plan to try this.


How about the rest of you guys?? any similar problem???

In my experience Q5/Q10 Pro play pretty much anything without a problem. I don't get stutter or pixellation, even at 250+mbps.

Can you point me to samples for download that demonstrate the problem?

But you will... Known problem for -not just, but also- by Q10/Q5 Pro users on other Forums. The problem -appears- to be with the 10 bit colour depth. Himedias hw or sw just doesn't support it correctly. Here are some widely used samples for testing: https://www.koi-sama.net/files/hi10/  I obviously notice the heavy artifacting and the jumping/jamming int the continuity of the playback. Simply unenjoyable and unwatchable.  Hope is not the limitation of the SOC and can be corrected with a firmware update. So would be good (after your confidence), to inform Himedia according the trouble.

Thanks!