I tried to play fullhd movie using xbmc and i find it to be very lag. Anyone face this issue? I have the Q5II. But if I use back the normal way, then its all fine and smooth.

nope. its playback from local media via wireless connection. using the built it browser it works ok, but on xbc lag. normal non hd video is ok.

what should i do? is it some setting in xbmc i set wrongly? or maybe the firmware version is old?

coz i wan to use the xbmc feature to pull down movie/tv info for that file..

do you what is the latest english firmware version for Q5II ?

Mine is show in setting as xxx1.0.3xxxx

Thanks. Is there instructions on how to flash this firmware?

I put the latest firmware in a usb drive, go to settings and under system upgrade i click and get the message "no upgrade package" wtf

i try to put under C directory, same thing happened.

i open the zip file and look at the build prop it has a slightly newer version then show on the Q5II

I wonder will it make a diff between eng n chinese firmware.. can they be flash between each other.

Balls... so annoying. Finally found out why it doesnt want to upgrade. It is looking for a file name exactly as follows :

update_dualcore_Q5.zip

The downloaded file is name "update_dualcore_Q5_en.zip"

Updating now. It might be a good idea to put a notis info regarding this at front page.

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.

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

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

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

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

/system/app

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

diff GUI

but for me the biggest diff for china firmware, you have the option to set an app to boot at launch. its an option that is not available for english firmware (afaik). this is important for me as I want to launch xbmc at start of the device automatically.

you need to go xbmc.org and download the android version of the xbmc. but currently to play 720p & 1080p vid u need external media player. default xbmc player cannot support video hardware acceleration.

this should be fixed by the next xbmc release, but god knows when that will be. I download the latest xbmc 13 alpha10. fixed most of the bug but introduce new one... always crash & still buggy...

This post has been edited by WhitE LighteR: Dec 10 2013, 04:12 PM

For those that are not aware, there is a new firmware for q5 II. Firmware version is 1.0.4

I use the online update function inside Android settings

Stay english

After using HiMedia Q5II just over a month, here is my review. Keep in my that my use case is limited to playback via Synology NAS and online streaming via XBMC

- Firmware 1.0.3, XBMC 12.2

Unstable playback using the default HiMedia player when I stream from my NAS. I experience an unacceptable level of crash when watching via NFS. When watching movies via Samba, the crash is lesser but still happening. The frequency is about once every 2 movies. Crashes are random. The OS will freeze and stop working. To recover I have to restart the HiMedia. I notice the issue is only when playing 1080 or 720 movies. File type is mkv.

Original XBMC 12.2 is also buggy. Native hardware video acceleration is unavailable for HiMedia. The work around is to use external player but 12.2 has a bug that make that not possible. But for my use case, I only stream tv shows in sd format which can be played by the default xbmc player with "no problem".

Depending on luck, XBMC 12.2 will sometimes crash and exit while playing. Quite annoying as you need to go back in and redo all over again to get back to the show I am watching. Also it will crash on a specific point in the show. I suspect its a quirk in the video that XBMC cannot handle. Changing source makes no diff as far as I can tell.

Another issue with XBMC is that after 2-3 show, the sound starts to crack. A restart of XBMC makes no different. I suspect its a HiMedia problem because after I restart HiMedia, its ok again. I also tested the speaker by restarting it just in case the issue is with the speakers, but its not.

- Firmware 1.0.4, XBMC 12.3

I didn't test with NFS yet. But with Samba, no crash so far.

XBMC 12.3 doesn't crash out of the app anymore. Instead it just return back to the source server list. Which is a much better type of crash imho. Haha. At least I don't need to dig thru all the menu over again. The frequency of crash is also slightly less. But the support for external player is stil not fixed. I guess I will need to wait for XBMC 13 for it.

The cracking sound from XBMC is almost gone. I heard it a few times here and there but its not as bad as it was before.

Root is broken when upgrading from 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4. I haven't try to re-root it again.

The interface seems to be slightly smoother now. Boot up is still slow as it was. Take about 1 min+

This post has been edited by WhitE LighteR: Dec 30 2013, 03:37 PM