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> > Which of these would be the best choice for Gentoo? I have a |
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> > Beaglebone but now I'm looking for something with video for HD |
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> > playback. |
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> > - Grant |
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> I'd say none of them (yet). |
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> It doesn't matter what other features in the form of fancy IO and neat |
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> circuitry is put on such boards, they are all limited by what the CPU |
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> can do. If the board has a RealTek chip, it;s limited by what the |
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> RealTek dev software provides. |
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> I have a Raspberry Pi, and doing what it was designed to do is |
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> something it is very good at. It was designed to teach kids how to |
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> program. It was not designed to play full HD video. |
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> The Pi suffers with playback the very same way all the other ARM media |
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> players out there suffer, whether they be AC Ryan, Medi8ter, Xtreamer |
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> or whatever - as soon as you have to run some controlling software as |
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> well as the codec, and especially if you have to decode audio on the |
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> device (as opposed to having the amp do it in hardware), it stutters. |
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> The cpu just cannot cut it. |
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That's too bad. I thought the GPU on at least some of these boards was |
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capable of smooth 1080p playback. The Pandaboard ES claims "Full HD |
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(1080p) multi-standard video encode/decode" but I suppose that doesn't mean |
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it's stutter-free. |
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http://pandaboard.org/content/pandaboard-es |
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- Grant |
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