New Gigablue Quad Plus

celticsfan wrote: »

Lads I need some help.. On the HD channels on the quad,subtitles are always showing for some reason.. they dont show at all on the SD channels.. Ive went in the audio menu on vix,tried to change some settings to no avail.. For the life of me i cant understand why they are only showing on the HD channels... Any ideas?

Update: never mind folks,got it sorted in the end...

What did you do ?

I just got a quad a couple of days ago & started using it tonight.
A sharp learning curve & taking it easy but going well so far.
It has VIX image 032 on it.

What do people think of the blind search on this receiver ?

amdaley28 wrote: »

What do people think of the blind search on this receiver ?

Its very good. If you restrict the symbol rates to 20 instead of the default it will speed up the scan itself. Most of the links will have a symbol rate less than than 20k.

Lads how do people find streaming on the quad plus? If i watch a film or an iptv channel,the picture is always stuttering,laggy or choppy,the audio is broken almost as if someone is pressing the pause button repeatedly every half second which is the best way I could describe it..

Its not my internet,as im on a 13mb connection and the same services work fine on my android devices...

amdaley28 wrote: »

Did you ever get an answer ?

Nope :rolleyes:,box is gone back to seller anyway...getting a replacement in,word direct from gigablue was they were gonna release drivers to improve this.. either way i dont care,ive a different box on the way and it certainly isnt a gigablue...:)

Hi folks, I hate to resurrect an old thread but this seems to be the "go to" thread for Things Gigablue.

I received a Gigablue Quad Plus over the weekend and am generally happy with it so far. I've stuck with the preinstalled OpenMIPS image for now, updated to latest. I've a few questions that search hasn't answered:
* What images are finding stable on this box?
* How are people finding playback quality of AVI/XVID files stored on the internal HDD?
* Is there an on-demand player out there which will allow FF/RW of the RTE or TV3 player? I've tried a couple but they just die when I try to go forward or back.

Re AVI files - I've tried a range of files and the video is all choppy. I think it's a codec issue rather than a storage issue because a) same issue off USB and b) other files MP4/H264 play perfectly.

fullerand wrote: »

Hi folks, I hate to resurrect an old thread but this seems to be the "go to" thread for Things Gigablue.

I received a Gigablue Quad Plus over the weekend and am generally happy with it so far. I've stuck with the preinstalled OpenMIPS image for now, updated to latest. I've a few questions that search hasn't answered:
* What images are finding stable on this box?
* How are people finding playback quality of AVI/XVID files stored on the internal HDD?
* Is there an on-demand player out there which will allow FF/RW of the RTE or TV3 player? I've tried a couple but they just die when I try to go forward or back.

Re AVI files - I've tried a range of files and the video is all choppy. I think it's a codec issue rather than a storage issue because a) same issue off USB and b) other files MP4/H264 play perfectly.

I have one of these receivers which i use to play around with as its not my main receiver.

Seeing your post I said I would try & see if it would play avi files.
I had a small avi file on a usb key which i tried.
I got perfect sound but no picture ?
I'm sure there a plugin somewhere to download but I couldn't see anything obvious.
I'm using the latest OpenMips as well.

I was using Vix but I wanted to use Plex which I couldn't get to work on Vix.
Plex runs fine on OpenMips.
I'm no expert on this which is the reason I haven't done much with the Gigablue as I didn't have time.

It would be great if someone reading this can explain the avi problem.

EDIT:
I just found another film in avi & that played with no problem at all.
Must be just the way my previous avi file was recorded.
It was recorded on an old Samsung camera ?

Rats bouquet plugin does it all for you, also he does a picon plugin, ties in neatly.

stanley1 wrote: »

Rats bouquet plugin does it all for you, also he does a picon plugin, ties in neatly.

Unfortunately Rats stopped his plugin server so the plugins no longer work.
He is still making bouquets and picons but they have to be manually ftped across.

stanley1 wrote: »

Of topic, but what's happening over at WOS ?

Moving server I understand.

amdaley28 wrote: »

Moving server I understand.

Must be a massive job, been down for a week.

stanley1 wrote: »

Must be a massive job, been down for a week.

Might be no harm,the rest of the internet will be free of their propaganda nonsense for a week or so.

stanley1 wrote: »

Working again, plugins are now pointing at new server, just flashed new image on my Gigablue and everything working 100%.

Has someone else resurrected it as Rat has said its discontinued.

amdaley28 wrote: »

Whats the latest & greatest image on the Gigablue HD Quad Plus ?
I haven't used mine in a while as its not my main receiver.
Was thinking of selling it as its a shame to see it not being used.
Have had it for six months & its only been used a handful of times.

Does it have a HDD fitted with preloaded bouquets.
I'm looking to get one but not sure how to load a bouquet list. I was thinking of imaging with Vix?

I dont have a Quad Plus. User fattony does.

I have the UE800 Plus.

Initially I was impressed with OpenATV. I found that Vix is probably the most focussed to my needs and I tried them all.

I run a motorised dish off usals and use a motorised channel list from the plugins which works great and added my fav list to it.

Agreed, Vix is running fine on my GB Quad Plus.