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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.


-------- Original message --------
From: Austin Green <austin.green@orcon.net.nz>
Date: 20/07/16 13:38 (GMT+12:00)
To: mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: [mythtvnz] Pine64 as a frontend

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:24:12 +1200
skooobie doo <skooobie@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.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Michael West <michael@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@orcon.net.nz>
> Date: 20/07/16 13:38 (GMT+12:00)
> To: mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
> Subject: [mythtvnz] Pine64 as a frontend
>
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:24:12 +1200
> skooobie doo <skooobie@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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On Wed, July 20, 2016 4:01 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Michael West <michael@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.

I've got a colleague who's tried Linux and Android on the Pine64. Android
works well as the video is all accelerated, but performance of Kodi etc
under Linux was an issue due to poor support for the Allwinner chipset.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone on list has a better experience.

Steven

--------------------------------------------
Steven Ellis - Technical Director
OpenMedia Limited - The Home of myPVR
email - steven@openmedia.co.nz
website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz

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