I use at this time a Raspberry Pi with HifiBerry-DAC and Kodi as music library/player. Due to my audio setup (vintage analogue amp) I cannot use digital audio. The analogue audio output via phone jack on the raspberry pi was very shitty and didn't work for movies at all. So I had to add the HifiBerry. I'm very content with that choice.

May question is now: How good will the audio quality be via the analogue phone jack on the Pine A64? And will there be any hassle with movie playback like on the raspberry pi? And if you'd advice a "pine-dac", when can I expect it to be available?

Thank you!

Hi!
Can I playback on this hardware full hd movie at 24p frame rate?

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but can't find the info here or on Kickstarter.

I just pledged for the $29 tier (on KS) because I don't care about remote controls on the $59 tier.. however I'd like pretty much all the other things that come with the $59 - like the power supply, enclosure, etc.

The Kickstarter campaign says "You can add add-ons such as wifi, screen, case, a la carte, thanks to Backerkit after your pledge." but I'd like to check the specifics..

Will all the things listed on Kickstarter pledges be available to add on/upgrade from BackerKit - like, with the $29 tier, could I add the enclosure, power supply, SDCard with Android, for a similar or same cost as the $59 tier, or a bit less because it doesn't have the remote?

When adding things via BackerKit, will additional shipping rates be added?

Since the backer community is asked to support the development of the product before it's released, is there a tit-for-tat release of the board design back to the community? I'm very hesitant to pledge towards a closed-source product, but delighted to support one that enriches the community by fully embracing open-source principles in its design.

I can't find *anything* either way on the website or FAQ about this issue. Any word from the creators would be appreciated!

I figured I would start this thread to help gather information about the 3d engine within allwinner devices. I currently know that the latest arm driver release to support the Utgard Micro-architecture is r6p0-01rel0. This driver was released around November 10, 2015. The Mali versions that have possible support for this version are as follows...

• Mali-200
  
• Mali-300
  
• Mali-400 MP - This is what is in the Allwinner chips.
  
• Mali-450 MP
  

• Open Source Mali Utgard GPU Linux Kernel Drivers - kernel drivers.
  
• Open Source Mali GPUs UMP User Space Drivers Source Code - libump
  
• Open Source Mali GPUs Linux EXA/DRI2 and X11 Display Drivers - Xorg drivers
  
• Open Source Mali GPUs Android Gralloc Module - This is the open source portion of android drivers.
  

I can see that Pine64 supports himax 5mp camera module. Is it possible to have more megapixels camera option? I saw on himax website they have a 13mp image sensor too (HMD131) can Pine64 support it? I am not able to figure out whats the exact difference between HM5065 and HMD131 as I am not an electronics guy! 

We are please to announce the latest release of Android Lollipop Image Rev 20160112.
At the moment, the file can be downloaded from baidu cloud storage. We are in the process of uploading it to the Google drive and torrent. Once it is ready, we will update it on to our wiki download page.

The download page are as below,


http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6...re_Release

Regards,
KH Goh

Hey,

I think I already know this answer after looking for GPIO differences between RPi and Pine but I will ask anyway.

Will a shield from RPi work in Pine? If not, is planned something to run RPi shields?

If is not possible, why you guys don't make it compatible?

Thanks

This is the third time I've asked this, first in message, then as a comment after the pledge, but still nobody could or was willing to answer me if Android sources will be published or not. Well, the kernel sources will have to be published but I don't know if the AllWinner Android source is proprietary or not. the Mali source is closed source, if I'm not mistaken.

So please somebody tell me if there will be repositories to build Android for then PINE 64 from the AOSP source, or not.

Dear Folks,

I have already managed to get Allwinner president to assign an resource to deal with open source community. His name is Mr. Xiong and software director level. I will start engage with him tonight and explore how to work together. However lets set 3 simple ground rules first:

1. There is no conspiracy theory between Pine 64 and Allwinner. Daniel Kottke, Steve Jobs good pal, passed me an Allwinner A64 web posting (http://www.allwinnertech.com/plus/view.php?aid=527) and ask me to check on this $5 quad core 64-bit ARM SoC, this is how the Pine64 journey begins. During this journey, I discovered the open source community concern towards Allwinner and I ask my China friend (ChipHD GM, Mr. Liu) to introdcue Allwinner President Mr. Teng. We meet, have lunch together on December 2015 at Allwinner HQ. I ask his support on open source community and he agreed. This is the story.

2. We try to collaborate together. This is not a court case, no "witness", no "defender', and nobody should plays 'judge" role.

3. From my selfish role, I will start with A64 SoC support first. Once and if this collaboration goes smoothly, the other board using Allwiner SoC in market will enjoy the benefit.

BTW, I am a system guy. Hopefully somebody from Sunxi can help me up.

Regards,
TL Lim