SMARTQ7: firmware 5 VS .92 firmware 5.1?

[wwang]

I have firmware 5. It seems to be working well.

I see that there is the Umbutu .92 version 5.1. Any one have info if this is a worthwile update?

I was also looking for the AVI play to support the hardware decoder. Regretfully I have not even tried playing AVI's back in the 5.0 firmware update. I was wondering what people's experiences are.

I really like the utility of the SmartQ7 so far. I would love to be able to do video playback though. And while I have not tried it since reading it would be nice to know it works if someone else has already tried it.

[wwang]

Another thought, Any one have or know of where to find the change list on the updates?

[Nation.A.List]

Originally Posted by wwang

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I see that there is the Umbutu .92 version 5.1. Any one have info if this is a worthwile update?

Umbutu .92 version 5.1 ??? Can you post a link to this as I do not recognise this version

Originally Posted by wwang

I was also looking for the AVI play to support the hardware decoder. Regretfully I have not even tried playing AVI's back in the 5.0 firmware update. I was wondering what people's experiences are.

The supplied version of 'mplayer' does support hardware acceleration but only for the following codecs; MPEG-4/H.263/H.264 (up to 30fps@SD and decoding of VC1 video up to 30fps@SD)

Originally Posted by wwang

I really like the utility of the SmartQ7 so far. I would love to be able to do video playback though. And while I have not tried it since reading it would be nice to know it works if someone else has already tried it.

I have played video on mine since day one, granted only avi's (divx/xvid) with video @ approx 1000bps and audio @ 96bps but perfectly watchable (not HD quality, but who wants 6GB movie files!).