How do you guys think Pine A64 will hold up as a plex server? 
I guess the 2gb ram version would be the best for this...

How about developing software for the board?

I'm curious if the board would be any good for system development and prototyping. Most of the site focuses on "end user" applications and systems, while I'm only interested in the board as a basis for combined hardware/software development. A few detailed questions that come to mind here:

Can I get the sources for the images and compile them myself?

Is there support for Yocto and OpenEmbedded?


If I configure and build my own mainline kernel for this board, will I still be able to decode video in hardware?

I was just wondering what the dimensions for the board are, so I can work towards making an enclosure. I have looked and I haven't been able to find it around here.

will the Pi-2 bus be memory mapped to the same addresses as the original?  it would be a killer feature if you could use unmodified code for the Pi-2 on the pine 64.

hi
is it possible to discuss to get more memory such as 4GB (or more). I think a lot of people would appreciate this.
There are a lot of days left in Kickstarter but i think for now almost everyone goes to the 2GB (because there is not more to buy).
thx for thinking about that
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Hi
In the presentation video, we can see 4k content. The Android dev is more advanced  and you said in Kickstarter page that Kodi run on Android so i imagine that Android is used on Pine for this 4k video. But on Kodi official page : http://kodi.wiki/view/Android_hardware we don't know what codecs A64 SoC can HW decode.

Do you have any details on codecs currently supported by Kodi on Android (even if they are not fully optimized yet, i totally understand that !) ?

Thanks for all !

Does MS Office work on Android?

Many boards which claim to be have a gbit nic connect it over the usb bus on the PCB, thus automatically limiting it to 480mb with no other USB activity.  When using the USB device as well it drops even further.  So when trying to use this as a simple file server to serve files off a USB drive... the speed is cut again.

So the question remains... does this gbit nic actually provide gbit speeds or is it limited due to how its wired onto the board?

Lastly, do you have any iperf output that shows this?

Does anyone here (not associated with Pine A64) think there would be a way to run OS X on Pine A64 via a microSD?

I plan to use it to analyze data (using R).

Anyone else plan on trying their Pine64 for retrogaming?

I hope to get EmulationStation on it, and make an image for it.