06-24-2016, 02:34 AM
(06-24-2016, 12:27 AM)bonterra Wrote:(06-23-2016, 10:48 PM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: ... The PI has only 1Gb of memory, its not a media center either, it doesn't do Android at all, it has no Euler bus, its blue tooth and serial uart (at this point) are crap, it has no power management IC, its composite video stereo audio plug is useless mostly (the audio is really bad, and the video is ancient history), the boot-up sequence is dumb (and proprietary), and the hardware is a closed PITA. So, you can run Raspbian with 1Gb of memory... and you plan to do what with it, exactly?What do you need Android, Euler buses or a serial uart for on a media player? You need a working graphics driver, a HDMI port and software support, both of which are available for the RPi.
If you have EVER tried to use the PI as a media station, you know that it doesn't work up to expectations either... because of its memory constraint. The PI 3B finally has the speed, but not the memory; so its glitchy.
Allwinner has released the hdmi driver. We are going to have to see what happens now... I suspect that the PineA64 is going to be a great media station... very soon.