Hello everyone!

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This area will be dedicated to gaming, whether it be retro or current. Feel free to post questions, projects, or your thoughts. I do ask all of you to be kind and mature to one another.

Again, welcome everyone and I cant wait to see what this community can achieve with their new Pine A64!

KryPtAlIvIaN

The Pine64 FAQ mentions that H.264 video *encoding* is supported. How is this achieved? Via an attached camera? Or can it also be achieved via the HDMI port?

I see that HDMI CEC will be supported, but what about some of the other features of HDMI 1.4 such as 3D, the Audio Return Channel (ARC) and the Ethernet Channel?

By the looks of it the Pine64 boards don't support this, but I wanted to bring it up in discussion.

Have you guys thought about having the Pine64 boards be able to interface with a PoE 802.3af/at daughter card?

My hope would be that if the cost of the board can stay roughly the same, but be able to interface with a PoE 802.3af/at daughter card for those interested, this would greatly increase the board's versatility.

I for one would absolutely love this.

By the looks of it, the Pine64 boards don't support Optical SPDIF via the 3.5mm Jack, only SPDIF via the 'euler' bus connector. Is this correct?

The low-cost "Chromecast Audio" device supports optical SPDIF via its 3.5mm jack, so my thought is that the physical component isn't too expensive (if you can find the source for it). It would be nice to have/tout SPDIF support without having to create a daughter card.

What are your thoughts?

What interface type is being used for the WiFi + Bluetooth card? Is it only intended to work with Pine64 manufactured cards, or also 3rd-party cards?

With the Pine64 board having 4K video support, it would be preferable to me to have an 802.11ac + Bluetooth 4.0 BLE option.

For others, Zigbee, 6LoWPAN, AM/FM/DAB etc. might be preferable. What other radios might be possible/will be available?

Greetings, Just wondering if there are any Ham Radio operators here with plans to use this with their station operation.

K5CYA

I sent this to the kickstarter email as well but please consider doing this with POE.  this box would be perfect for a bunch of wired network connected stuff and the ability to power them from the ethernet switches without individual power supplies would be fantastic (and something that the Pi guys have not done)

PoE is not that hard to do and would save people who have powered switches a lot of headache running both Cat5/6 wires and the little USB dongles to power the thing.

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I'm in no way an expert, but on paper they're good, however due to open source practices their GPUs never perform as well as their specs imply. How is this being taken into account? How will this impact my experience with your device?

Can you provide some addition details on the upcoming 7inch touch display such as: 

• Capacitive or Resistive Touch? 
  
• TN or IPS?
  
• Transmissive / Reflective / Transflective?
  
• Viewing Angle?
  
• PPI  (pixel density)?
  
• DSI / LVDS or HDMI interface?
  
• 18bit / 24bit color?
  
• Refresh Rate?
  
• etc..