Hi Stephan,
Your iMX6 VPU HW decode implementation for XBMC should in the future also build for Android support too right?
As asked in this other thread
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=172974 ?
Thanks again for working on iMX, and hope to see a pull request that will be accepted into XBMC mainline soon!
(2013-09-05, 22:37)wolfgar Wrote: Hi Hedda,
You seem to be really disappointed by the original cubox. I cannot tell as I don't know about it nor about solidrun support...
On the paper at least the cubox-i seems to be an interesting product and solidrun seems to prepare a SDK and to open their box.
Of course it is not a substitute for a ready to use solid software offer but it is, at least, appealing for developers who like to hack with such products...
Yes I was seriously disappointed by SolidRun's support as a company for the original CuBox, however it could be mostly due to that SolidRun did not marketed it as purely a development kit, which they should have done instead with the poor support that they offered.
But I was initially not disappointed by the hardware of the original CuBox, as at the time it was announced the original CuBox looked really impressive on paper, just as the new CuBox-i looks great on paper today.
At the very least I hope that SolidRun as a company just does not make the same mistakes with the new CuBox-i as they did with the original CuBox, and that they realize that they have to step-up with Linux-kernel and Android-kernel development themselves to add full support for all its hardware features, and sooner rather than later.
They should really ONLY marked it as a development kit at first, and not solely rely on their community to add Linux-kernel and Android-kernel support for their hardware, because that simply takes to long.
And if and when they are ready to market the new CuBox-i to none low-level developers and non-developer consumers after it has mainline code support upstream, then they should get proxy warehouses within Europe and USA/America for local shipping so people do not have to pay hidden custom fees and high shipping charges.