Yea but saw H.265 support on their website. It gave me false hope 

http://www.himediatech.com/q8.html

Yea but saw H.265 support on their website. It gave me false hope 

http://www.himediatech.com/q8.html

Hevc or h265 has been around for a few years.
There have been many versions.
Yr box android 4.4 can play older versions of h265, not the current versions.
This applies to many other boxes of same age and android version.

Consider a new box, q5pro or q10pro, they will play anything, afaik.

There's not a current vs old version...just different profiles...they are all current...

On April 13, 2013, HEVC/H.265 was approved as an ITU-T standard.[23][24][25] The standard was formally published by the ITU-T on June 7, 2013 and by the ISO/IEC on November 25, 2013.[7][6]
On July 11, 2014, MPEG announced that the 2nd edition of HEVC will contain three recently completed extensions which are the multiview extensions (MV-HEVC), the range extensions (RExt), and the scalability extensions (SHVC).[26]
On October 29, 2014, HEVC/H.265 version 2 was approved as an ITU-T standard.[27][28][29] It was then formally published on January 12, 2015.[7]
On April 29, 2015, HEVC/H.265 version 3 was approved as an ITU-T standard.[30][31][32]
On June 3, 2016, HEVC/H.265 version 4 was consented in the ITU-T and was not approved during a vote in October 2016.[33][34]
On December 22, 2016, HEVC/H.265 version 4 was approved as an ITU-T standard.[35][36]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding

Hevc or h265 has been around for a few years.
There have been many versions.
Yr box android 4.4 can play older versions of h265, not the current versions.
This applies to many other boxes of same age and android version.

Consider a new box, q5pro or q10pro, they will play anything, afaik.

Yea have to buy a new box if I wanted to play H265.

Anyone here wanna buy my old Q8 

Haha, nice try buddy. Advertise it in the garage sales section. Who knows, someone with simpler needs might just come and grab it. Add to the proceeds and get a better device.. 

Hehe..hopefully got someone out there with simpler needs 

I am not entirely sure of this q8 model which is not common locally.

But i would think it is somewhere between q5ii and q16.

It should playback most files incl bdmv, iso, hd audio.

And ok with all popular apps except kodi17.

Just cant do 4k, 10 bit, hdr, some hevc.

It has KODI. Even though I don't know how to use it 
It can support most of the file except H265, HEVC or 10bit.
Youtube playback is terrible though..super lag even for 720p videos..

kodi will be restricted to version16.1 since 17 will need android5.
it will still work, check out in kodi thread.

youtube... it should work good, u probably have the "bad" version.
just u need to try one by one... there are like a hundred versions, just goggle.

Ohh..I didn't know Youtube got many versions.
I search Play store for Youtube and it says my version is the latest one.
Thanks for the tips bro.

check version.

i hv 12.19.56 on an old box, works very well.

i got icDrama addons for hong kong dramas. but as of yesterday, getting "URL cannot be resolved" error message ... i have updated the URLResolver to the latest version but still to no avail. please help on this. or any other good hong kong drama addons available?

himedia specific, ask here.

general android box issues, ask in android box thread.

kodi issues, read/ask in kodi thread, answer is there.
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3943906/+3340#bottom

btw are there any settings that i should do for q10 pro to make things better? like reduce stuterring while watching movies etc ... i tried using the default media player to play some 4k stuff and i noticed stuterring i am using the  usb 3.0 conection.

read my posts #2561, 2580.

Thanks!