GiGablue Quad – First impressions

[marty]

Thats good to hear, I orderd mine earlier today

[danivtec]

Can anyone confirm the dimensions of the unit?

[rossi2000]

quick pic of picons on the gigablue quad lcd screen.

picons re-sized to 220x136
all info removed, just the picon only, the screen isnt big enough for other information.


20121017_231235.jpg

[cpistola]

Hi Sicilian
Could you say anything about the tuner's sensitivity of the Quad?
I'm undecided between VU+ Ultimo and Giga Quad. Many say the ultimo's tuner have low sensitivity.
I did not see any informations about the quad tuner's sensitivity.

Also where can I obtain one manual in english?

Thanks

[bobby1]

quick pic of picons on the gigablue quad lcd screen.

picons re-sized to 220x136
all info removed, just the picon only, the screen isnt big enough for other information.


20121017_231235.jpg

How do I change the LCD layout?

[rossi2000]

by editing skin_display220_no_picon in /usr/share/enigma2

altho i think this is a mistake in the image as we shud be editing skin_display220_picon for these changes.

[marty]

AC3 5.1 via optical now working

[alexioemmi]

Can somebody confirm sound working in dvdplayer with iso files. have tried optical,hdmi rca with passtrough on and off, still no sound. have tried openmips and openaaf, nothing helps.vu+duo(blackhole image) plays them fine.otherwise i dont have any issues with sound. Watching tv,divx,mp4 and mkv works with hdmi and optical.

[marty]

Can somebody confirm sound working in dvdplayer with iso files. have tried optical,hdmi rca with passtrough on and off, still no sound. have tried openmips and openaaf, nothing helps.vu+duo(blackhole image) plays them fine.otherwise i dont have any issues with sound. Watching tv,divx,mp4 and mkv works with hdmi and optical.

Just tested mine and get the same results as you. (.ISO file with DVD Player=picture with no sound)
BUT I did try playing a .VOB file with the built in media player and that had sound.

[jerry2]

Hm, I have problems with movies like mp4 ones. THey do not stutter but have some kind of ghosting effect, like the image would not be traveling fast enough, hard to explain. For example, the xtreamer beats the divx, mp4 playing at any time. I know, this receiver is not maily for this, but the player really isn't something, fast forward is a pain and stutters for 20 seconds before resuming, there is no resuming play where you end it. From what the sat/dvb-t part is I would assume the media player could be better. I am not sure if hardware is capable of playing fast enough.

[marty]

I watched two episodes of "Game of thrones" last night after work.
They were .MKV files and they played perfectly

I did find that FF/RWD was crap but that isn't just on the Quad. My Duo was exactly the same.

Where are your movies stored? (INT HDD, USB HDD, Network?)

[jerry2]

My movies are on a network NAS drive.

Is it possible to record to netowrk drive with Quad? I have not found that option.

[Larry-G]

if you mount the networked drive and change the recording paths accordingly yes, but why go to all that when you could just throw a old laptop HDD into the box and record to that ?.

[alexioemmi]

Just tested mine and get the same results as you. (.ISO file with DVD Player=picture with no sound)
BUT I did try playing a .VOB file with the built in media player and that had sound.

OK, Thanks for testing. I will open a new thread for this to see if we can get this sorted out.

[Stanman]

If its the same across images your better off emailing the manufacturer as likely to be driver issue - if its possiable to do.