Hi, Futeko and everyone else reading this.
I have a question/observation about the latest firmware for the otherwise great Q5. I found a video that causes the file manager to freeze, when it used to play fine with the previous versions of firmware.
It's not that the video doesn't play: I can't even check if it does, because what happens is that the second I enter the directory where the video is using the Q5's file manager, it freezes. It does not list any files in the directory, and after a while, the Android prompt about "File Manager not responding" appears; all I can do is to close File Manager. I tried putting the file on different disks, plugging them through the USB2 or USB3 ports, putting the file in the same directory with other videos, or having it in a directory on its own... the result is always the same: the second File Manager "sees" it, it freezes for good.
I'm wondering if there's a way of getting that video to Himedia to check why that's happening. The file is not corrupted, it plays properly in every player there is (and on the Himedia 900, as well as the Egreat R6S), and it's a documentary grabbed off Youtube (the MP4, 360p variant), so it uses their codec.
Most importantly, it played fine on the Q5 with previous firmwares - only now, with 3.0.1(1) did this freezing begin. (Checked with 3.0.1 and 3.0.1.1, and with the custom firmware from Softpedia as well).
By the way, on another subject, I don't assume the Himedia developers are "taking requests"? I do happen miss the three simple features that the older Himedia 900 player had:
- it displayed the file's name for a few seconds after opening it, making it easy to identify the file (especially when playing through many small files in a directory)
- it did *not* display the filename in the upper part of the screen every time the forward/reverse controls were used, unless the user pressed an info button on the remot (so it did not obscure the view)
- the directional "joystick" button of the remote made great use of the up/down buttons: they skipped 1 minute of video forward/back, making it very easy to step-jump through a video.
Topic: With the 3.0.1 firmware, File Manager freezes when finding a specific video clip (Read 5325 times)