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- erhnam - 2011-09-28 s7mx1 Wrote:I am quite excited about this project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi You should talk with Davilla about this ![]() - McGeagh - 2011-09-30 I have played with the Raspberry Pi, and it is frustratingly slow (not surprising based on spec) running ubuntu/lxde I think it would be on par of beagleboard, so dont expect high framerate without a lot of optimisations. This is all guesswork as I have not worked on getting xbmc on it yet. The only good thing is the cost, so cheap, anyone and everyone should pick one up, if only just to play around with it! - topfs2 - 2011-10-01 McGeagh Wrote:I have played with the Raspberry Pi, and it is frustratingly slow (not surprising based on spec) running ubuntu/lxde I think the interesting part is if it has a usable dedicated video decoder and it can handle the interesting content. Because even beagle is enough to display a limited skin of xbmc in 720p with 30fps. So could be a contender (or floss version) of atv2. But yeah, the GUI might need customization, don't buy it and expect every skin to run perfect on it. - s7mx1 - 2011-10-03 McGeagh Wrote:I have played with the Raspberry Pi, and it is frustratingly slow (not surprising based on spec) running ubuntu/lxde According to ebenupton (pi employee) the GPU of Raspberry Pi is about 3 times the speed of an OMAP 4430 in common shader-heavy benchmarks. The GPU/DSP is cable of 1080p 30 fps full HD H.264 Video Encode/Decode. The BCM2835 was designed to have a much better GPU than its competitor's product. I believe someone in the forum is already working on it. Will wait things to unfold in the next month or so. - szemo77 - 2011-10-10 s7mx1 Wrote:For those who are interested in the amlogic development you can have a look at the documents here Some sources for Amlogic 8726M http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/amlogic-based/12031-amlogic-official-arm-gpl-downloads-documentation.html http://openlinux.amlogic.com/wiki/index.php/Arm/Platform_Info/Information_for_8726M/Build_system_for_8726M_Howto May be someone have login and password for that: https://svn-bj.amlogic.com/svn/ - miskol - 2011-10-14 anybody has working RS232 on geniatech ATV2000(Amlogic 8726-M) ? - davilla - 2011-10-14 miskol Wrote:anybody has working RS232 on geniatech ATV2000(Amlogic 8726-M) ? It's not RS232 on the white connector, its 3.3v TTL serial. you need to use a 3.3v serial TTL adapter. Cheap attractive 1080p capable ARM Cortex A8 based hardware that comes with a remote? - RockerC - 2011-10-17 Do you think that you could run Linux and XBMC on-top on Rockchip RK2918 ARM Cortex A8 chipset based hardware? ![]() if XBMC can't be ported to Android yet could this box with Linux still become a cheap 1080p alternative to Apple TV 2? RockerC Wrote:I think I might have stumbled onto a 1080p capable hardware platform that might make an Android port of XBMC worth while. - davilla - 2011-10-17 @RockerC, I already answered that question in another thread that you started, please don't threadjack. - RockerC - 2011-10-17 davilla Wrote:@RockerC, I already answered that question in another thread that you started, please don't threadjack.I have not started any threads about Rockchip RK2918, sorry but I find no answer or reply about it? I see that you have replied to someone else who asked about about a Realtek box that do not support OpenGL ES Could you be confusing this with what that other guy wrote? Rockchip is not the same as Realtek Again, I am asking about the Rockchip RK29xx chipset, a chipset with Vivante GC800 GPU that support OpenGL ES http://www.rock-chips.com http://www.rock-chips.com/upload/image/RK29/29.jpg http://www.rock-chips.com/upload/5%2823%29.jpg - miskol - 2011-10-17 davilla Wrote:It's not RS232 on the white connector, its 3.3v TTL serial. you need to use a 3.3v serial TTL adapter. thx It works with 3.3 TTL adapter ![]() ATV2000 Lets start with port of some distribution latest Ubuntu start support ARM. - McGeagh - 2011-10-17 RockerC Wrote:I have not started any threads about Rockchip RK2918, sorry but I find no answer or reply about it? There is ARM support, and there is Open GL ES 2.0 support (for the most part), so in theory, yes Rockchip is a possible SoC that XBMC can run on. If you do manage to do this, and things needed modifying, etc... we would greatly appreciate patches in order to merge into xbmc. Thanks - RockerC - 2011-10-18 McGeagh Wrote:There is ARM support, and there is Open GL ES 2.0 support (for the most part), so in theory, yes Rockchip is a possible SoC that XBMC can run on.Can you define "for the most part"? Do you think this RK2918 chipset could be good enough for running XBMC at 1080p smoothly? Vivante claim that their GC800 GPU support all these APIs http://www.vivantecorp.com/p_mvr.html
http://www.rock-chips.com/index.php?do=news&id=128 http://www.gizchina.com/2011/04/13/rockchips-rbox-google-tv-android-2-3/ http://cn.engadget.com/photos/rockchip-android-tv-r-box/ McGeagh Wrote:If you do manage to do this, and things needed modifying, etc... we would greatly appreciate patches in order to merge into xbmc.Sorry but I am not going to have time in the foreseeable future to try to begin with a such porting job myself I was just hoping on tipping someone here about this very cheap 1080p capable hardware for a XBMC port This RK2918 platform could maybe be the affordable 1080p hardware we all been looking for? - madmalkav - 2011-10-22 Rockchip is one of those SoC producers that won't provide source code not matter how hard you try, so you better avoid it, or sooner or later you will need to modify something i.e. in the kernel and be totally stuck. That is why I prefer Amlogic, even if they won't give git access to almost anyone, they update sources on their web site every two months or so. - RaGeS - 2011-10-22 Hi, I try to compile XBMC pvr branch on pandaboard. I have this error when make: Code: CPP xbmc/cores/DllLoader/exports/emu_kernel32.o help me plz ... Emanuele |