[mythtvnz] Anoter media player

[Noel & Diane]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Francois Pirus <jfp at clearfield.com>
Reply-to: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Anoter media player
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:39:58 +1300


For the AK802/MK802

I have a couple of those, I would not recommend them as a myth frontend right now.
- The GPU driver is not open source, there is a work ongoing to get Xbmc  ported to it, but progress is slow. (There is a binary android driver)
- You can run Lubuntu on it and it works well, but no GPU, only framebuffer video.
- The android version it comes with is hardcoded to some weird resolution/frequency, only 1 of 3 monitor I have will display any picture (all 1080P)
- The HMDI ouput has no ESD protection, so you have to be carefull with static.
- Remote wise, best would be a usb cheapo that emulates a keyboard/mouse.

Here's what I cam up with when I was researching it.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.143431 AK802 Mini Android 4.0 Network Media Player Allwinner A10; Cortex A8, 1GB DDR III
http://rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=90 Linux for MK802
https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/2/topics/1
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/kernel_compile/
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Mele_A1000#Mele_A1000
http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/
https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner
https://github.com/iainb/open_cdxalloc
https://github.com/iainb/CedarXWrapper
http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page
http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=28&sid=50bc60c3ee139cec1669545e29936f03
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Allwinner_A10
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=126995 Allwinner A10 : Is XBMC ported to MALI-400MP ?
http://projects.doozan.com/a10/
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/
http://www.j1nx.nl/
http://liliputing.com/2012/06/how-to-re-install-mk802-firmware.html
http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142&p=877&hilit=KEgg#p866 Install ClockworkMod Recovery on the MK802
http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=449#p2518 THE MK802 II Recovery How to, Tools, Firmware and Benchmarks
http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142 CWM Recovery Installation + CM9 + CM10 Preview
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31665443&postcount=191 CM10
http://liliputing.com/2012/11/early-builds-of-xbmc-for-linux-ported-to-allwinner-a10-devices.html


Thanks Jean-Francois

That was the information I needed!

A little more refining and it may be good for myth.  At the moment it
appears to be just a "tablet-on-a-TV" device.

Regards
Noel Claydon
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