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I think the issues lie not with the XBMC team but with Allwinner paying lip service to better Linux support and hardware acceleration, but doing nothing more than that.
If the hardware is a) poorly documented, b) even more poorly supported by its manufacturer, and c) XBMC devs recommend against it in general, then take your losses and get something that is supported.
Compare Allwinner with Broadcom's CrystalHD - it was supported almost from the get-go with XBMC, thanks to Broadcom providing excellent support and a codebase to build on.
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2014-05-25, 14:48
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-25, 14:49 by ChicagoBob123.)
But isn't the acceleration done through the Mali400gpu? Also why is mxplayer working great on Android? Its hardware accelerated and can play hd. I program do i don't think your complaints are valid but i know little about the ARM/Android code world. To me if mxplayer can do it the XBMC developers should be able to as well, even if they just use open gl es as the basis for acceleration. Lots of support for that.
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Anyone can do it, but no one wants to do it. VidOn.me did some work to start, but it's very messy and needs a lot of clean up for it to be accepted into mainline XBMC, since throwing it in as-is would probably break tons of stuff and just messes things up that someone would be forced to clean up eventually (or just go insane). It's buggy as hell.
There was a time when people wanted to work on A10/A20 stuff, but then Allwinner dicked everyone around, and then two years passed by. So yeah.
If you already have an Allwinner A10/A20 device, you can probably find some of the unofficial builds based on that work floating around. There were a few even before the vidon.me stuff, IIRC. If you don't have an Allwinner A10/A20 device, then don't sweat it. For $60 you can get something better than a Banana Pi.
You guys sound so disappointed to find out that you don't get to ride on the bus with no breaks and no working air conditioning. There's other busses that are much nicer...
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(2014-05-25, 15:53)ChicagoBob123 Wrote: Check out http://edn.com/design/consumer/4426346/P...-OpenGL-ES
That's not about decoding video codecs, though.
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Your comments got me curious so I read a couple of wiksi about the A20. If you can ever overcome the source issues is quite a processor capable of decoding 4K.
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I'm going to try one, hopefully the amount of interest will increase and drive the development.
If it can't be used for xbmc yet then it will good as a little low powered server with its sata connection and 1gb network connection.
I have found it for £49.99 delivered from place here in the UK just waiting for the stock to come in.
Another toy to learn on and is add to my collection lol
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I have got my zotac like that, I've added ram etc nice case the works and it works great.
I like the idea of it being so small and low powered like the Raspberry.
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I was a former user of a RasperryPI XBMC for more than a year myself. I really liked it, the video decoding of 1080p is really great and it pretty much played everything that I've thrown at it. On top of it the huge benefit was the GPIO pins which allowed me to make myself an DIY backlight (Using hyperion) for my TV and a IR receiver system without much hassle and without any extra hardware except the LEDS/IR receiver.The PI was running on stable 1200mhz and the performance was really great. Loved that thing.
That being said I recently moved to a Baytrail Q1900-ITX because I wanted to have a more powerful machine so I could host a local webserver and few extra things together with the XBMC. However, since these mobos do not have GPIO's like the PI I had to get myself Arduino for the things such as backlight for TV, IR receiver, temperature sensor and so on.
IMHO, the rPI was and still is the perfect solution for the beginners who prefer to have something that could be fiddled with (OC'd, interacted via GPIO pins, etc) and want to run XBMC. The heavily OC'ed rPI is is almost as fast in XBMC as the quad core BayTrail.
Now my lovely rPI is resting safely in the box until I think of a use for it. Poor fella has been OC'ed and running at much, much higher clock rates than it was certified for a year and it still never failed me and runs perfectly even today. <3 rPI.