himedia android is primarily for streaming, playback as media player is a useful secondary purpose, imo.

i dun know any other android incl higher himedia models, but i can tell you the q5ii video output for playback is inferior to the ac ryans with few year old 1073dd and 1073dd c+ chipsets.

maybe it's not all about old or new chipset but many other things, but that's my experience.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Nov 29 2013, 10:24 PM

I realize something.

Chinese language firmware version : HMD-1.0.3 2013-10-23.192033

English language firmware version : HMD-1.0.3 2013-10-24.100314

Any they both have totally different GUI...

Full HD XBMC support on Himedia Q5II.. unknown firmware.

Thank you for checking. The 'HZ' above means the same thing as FPS. Too bad no setting for 1920x1080 24Hz.

Most movies are at 24 fps so when you play at 1080p 60hz for example, it will repeat some frames like so: frame1, frame1, frame1, frame2, frame2, frame3, frame3, frame3, frame4, frame4, .....

This 3:2:3:2 repeat is not as smooth as on players that support 1080p 24hz where it displays each frame once without repeats: frame1, frame2, frame3, ....

Does your TV support 24 Hz mode with other players like your AC Ryan? What model TV is it?

This post has been edited by wizziwig: Nov 30 2013, 04:44 AM

Anyone experience problem when using XBMC on Android with error message "external player active, click ok when playback has ended'
. Happen only on live stream like sports etc.
But works fine on movie streaming and all Navi channel.

thanks for ccomments.

i hv played with all kinds of setting combinations with my tv, acryan, bd player and himedia.

tv is a sharp 42" lcd, capable of 1080p 24hz.

on acryan and bdp, 1080p 24hz makes no diff compared to 1080p 60hz - to my eyes.
trouble is everytime the xx hz changes with a diff file, the display (correctly) will be flashed, screen goes black for a second or 2 - i find this irritating.
so, i usually set all players 1080p 60hz, turn off the 24hz option. perhaps video quality diff notiecable only on larger tvs?

himedia q5ii does not have a setting for 24hz, so the tv with this machine is always on 1080p 60hz.



my original question remains: anyone able to watch all 720 and 1080 material smoothly with q5ii streaming, no jerks? am i missing some setting or 10mbps unifi lan too slow or something else?? tq for any comment.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Nov 30 2013, 01:39 PM

Thanks for your sharing. looks like i keep Himedia q4 for time being & consider upgrade another dedicated media player.

When you play via online stream, is the interface of the player looks different?

not sure wat u mean....

i hv nova launcher as desktop, others prefer himedia launcher.

xbmc can look diff if change skin, etc....

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Dec 1 2013, 03:29 PM

just bought himedia q5 ii yesterday and installed xbmc..

but all my hd mkv file stutters when i play it via xbmc..how do i resolve this problem?

xbmc 12.2 has no hardware video acceleration for our q5II.

this is suppose to be fixed in gotham with libstagefright

solution is use external player. but this is a hit and miss also..

This post has been edited by WhitE LighteR: Dec 2 2013, 07:18 PM

looks like xbmc version firmware will be released in mid december

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=641143532595012

what is Q5-II eMMC??

He made a custom firmware?

Abit of digging and I found this :

http://ka8.hk/shoprm.asp?action=show&id=99&class=1

Seems there is another version of the Q series which has a higher spec GPU, use a newer chipset and using eMMC instead of NAND.

The firmware definitely cannot go into our lower end Q5II

q5ii n q5ii emmc diffierent is just change nand flash to eMMC flash, eMMC version boot time n R/W speed will be faster, but CUP still is dual core..

Dec batch stock for Q3II, Q5II, Q6II all will change to eMMC version, the firmware is different de between q5ii n q5ii eMMC de

This post has been edited by ccs221: Dec 4 2013, 12:12 PM

It also has a Mali 400 Quad core vs the normal Q5II is only Mali 500 dual core

eMMC version also is upgrade to Hi3718 chipset. The old one is using Hi3716CV200ES

Boot up is now 25sec vs 50 sec

hope to get some help here...

those apps installed, as seen in the apps page, where do I find them to copy and save in usb drive as backup, so that I can install back quickly anytime?

i checked file manager, the folders one by one but dun seem to see them. where are they located?

thanks for help.

/system/app

when i click file manager, i get usb c. click c, showed mnt/flash, many folders inside named android,
alarms, data, dcim, etc. and sub folders.

but can't see system or app or any folder with .apk inside.

there is one folder named apks but is empty.

am i looking at the right place?

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Dec 5 2013, 10:00 AM

u cant use file manager

file manager lowest directory u can go is /mnt/flash or /mnt/sdcard (both are the same folder)

you need to install ES File Explorer which can bring you to the root (/ directory)

only from there you can go to /system/app