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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:43:38 -0800 |
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Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > neat circuitry is put on such boards, they are all limited by what |
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> > the CPU can do. If the board has a RealTek chip, it;s limited by |
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> > what the 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 |
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> > media players out there suffer, whether they be AC Ryan, Medi8ter, |
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> > Xtreamer or whatever - as soon as you have to run some controlling |
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> > software as well as the codec, and especially if you have to decode |
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> > audio on the device (as opposed to having the amp do it in |
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> > hardware), it stutters. 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 |
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> was capable of smooth 1080p playback. The Pandaboard ES claims "Full |
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> HD (1080p) multi-standard video encode/decode" but I suppose that |
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> doesn't mean it's stutter-free. |
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> http://pandaboard.org/content/pandaboard-es |
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> - Grant |
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I had the same disappointment. I suppose 1080p is a rather variable |
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quantity - a konsole in 1080p is not exactly the same thing in terms of |
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computing requirement as Transformers3 :-) |
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But what the heck, get yourself a Pi anyway and run OpenElec on it. |
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Improvements are constantly being made to the code, you might find it's |
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acceptable for your needs. And besides, it's always a thrill getting |
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that tiny little pcb running something useful. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |