[BigPines]

re the micro-stuttering. Have they fixed or at least acknowledged its a priority fix yet ?
Did you find this happens only on certain file formats/encodings/resolution or affects everything?

I'm reluctant to buy until at least this very basic requirement of a media player is sorted.

Does it have a Source Direct mode or is everything processed forced throu its Imprex engine? (can it be bypassed)

Thanks

Micro-stuttering isn't fixed yet. The behavior on pre-production sample is a little different than what we're seeing in production... so this issue is being re-visited w/HiMedia. The result is same though w/slight speed-ups, microstutters, frame-skips every so often (noticed a dozen or so times in a full movie). On pre-production, it seemed to have a pattern; on production, not sure yet.

On Imprex engine, yes, it can be fully disabled.

I agree with hdmkv above. The stuttering is the most frustrating outstanding issue on the Q10 Pro (well, besides the inability to flip eyes on 3D but I am sure that will be fixed soon). We are trying to find a pattern in the stuttering problem to provide a clue to Himedia.

One thing I should point out is that the external player is always processing the image even after disabling Imprex. I found that both whites and blacks are crushed even with Imprex off and image settings set to standard. So unfortunately, there is no true pass-through available on the device as it is always altering the image. I reported this problem to Himedia during the pre-production testing and I have confirmed the problem exists on the production hardware as well. The work-around I found was to turn off all Imprex options and set Brightness to 66 and Contrast to 43. This eliminates crushing on both blacks and whites. I used a test pattern from Digital Video Essentials to confirm this.