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What do you think guys? Has an A10 Allwinner cpu (or a similar >1Ghz ARM) enough power to downmix all kinds of audio formats (including DTS-MA, Dolby TrueHD)?
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I think the RPi is a great entry in the XBMC world, as they have a huge community. People will try it and then maybe look for an even better hardware to run XBMC.
I'm not a developer, so I have no clue how much better / worse the RPi is compared to the A10 devices. XBMC for the RPi is amazing, keep up the great work !!!
Personally I (I have both devices, the RPi here and the Mele on the way) would prefer the Mele devices as they are a more complete package, including case, remote and SATA.
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It is not about RPi, it is not about Allwinner, A10, Mali-400, yes, no, left or right. It is about ARM taking over the world!!!
ARM is fun, the RPi is nice to play with and easy to start with, the Mele A1000 is nice to play with and start with as it has easy UART access, but in the end this two devices might not be even the end product.
But they do give us all the tools to play with new stuff and learn about new CPU / GPU combos. To have enough fun in our spare time to work on XBMC.
Gimli, you are doing a good job.
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It's interesting how divisive these devices are proving on this thread today. I think choice is great and, right now rather selfishly, I'm glad gimli is still focusing in the Rpi as I'm having quite a bit of fun testing the various xbmc distros and builds on mine. Does this mean I'm in one camp over the other, no not at all. I'll probably get Pi's for some tv's, A10 boxes for others and maybe that to be released box :-) when available.
All this will be based on my requirements for each tv I intend to connect them to.
I think this is a very exciting time for xbmc and I just don't think other media solutions come close on a cost, functionality, user experience and extendibility.
Rob
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Anyway, why doesn't a manufacturer port the xbmc? All of them are thinking about Android. I think the first would be a big winner.
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yet they have some of the most advanced coders in the world making malware & viruses, go figure......lol.
Anyway back on topic........it wont be long before we see a driver out in the wild as we have Mali Developer & lima who have released source code, so it;s only a matter of time waiting patiently.
Would also be nice in the meantime to maybe see some something like the Mele a2000 out there but with 1gb ram and maybe more gpu cores, basically like the FXI cotton Candy but in a Mele set-top box format. That would be my dream HTPC.
Rich.