[mythtvnz] Pine64 as a frontend

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Michael West <michael at iposs.co.nz> wrote:

> 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.
>

Indeed, and that makes a strong contrast to RPi, one of the kodi devs is an
RPi Foundation employee and knows the chipset backwards and inside out.
That is why kodi performance on an RPi is so good.

Pine64 is a nice platform, but nowhere near as mature as a pi.



>
>
> -------- 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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