[mythtvnz] Pine64 as a frontend

[Michael West]

Pine 64 is very new and the cpu and gpu may have issues with most
opensource drivers.  Allwinner cpu is not meant to be well supported by
kodi for acceleration.  Gpu is more powerful than pi but the open source
drivers for it is currently a dead end and may only work well with android
os builds and not linux/openelec builds.

So you end up with something theoretically better and cheaper but with very
little that will run on it right now.


-------- Original message --------
From: Austin Green <austin.green at orcon.net.nz>
Date: 20/07/16 13:38 (GMT+12:00)
To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: [mythtvnz] Pine64 as a frontend

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:24:12 +1200
skooobie doo <skooobie at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> More than just for mythtv. Better to handle an overall media system, incl
> media conversion.
>
> Cheaper and faster
> Gigabit ethernet port
> Additional IO pins and options
> 4k Video support
>
> Quad-core ARM Cortex A53 1.2GHz processor, dual-core Mali 400 MP2
graphics,
> support for up to 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM, a microSD slot (which can handle
cards
> up to 256GB), up to gigabit ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports, one HDMI 1.4
> connector offering 4K output and both a stereo mini-jack connector and
> built-in 3.7V Lithium battery charging circuit.
>
> Currently about half the price of Pi2.

I'm very tempted!  Any thoughts as to RAM needed?  Options of 512MB, 1GB or
2GB; makes quite a difference in the price ($38, $45 or $60, incl
shipping)  Is 1GB enough for Ubuntu running mythfrontend?

Price of Pi2 (1GB) is about $67 shipped.

Austin.
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