(09-13-2016, 02:33 PM)psychedup Wrote: I just looked over the kickstarter page here and couldn't find anything about kodi. Where is all the false advertising I keep hearing about?
Not to start off any arguments about 'misrepresentation', as that simply isn't needed, here are some of the sorts of info that would have confused people looking at this board during the kickstarter period:
There was also a kickstarter update which spoke about running Plex on the pine64 as well. I believe most of the confusion as resulted from the oversell of the pine64 as a supercomputer and media center device. It is indeed capable of playing videos and doing light-duty media center playback (which is to be expected, as the lower spec Raspberry Pi 2 can also do that). I wouldn't be expecting it to play 4K videos any time soon though!
The software and documentation is also not quite as ready as would have been hoped, in comparison to other projects such as the Raspbery Pi, Odroid, etc. However, it's still early days for this board, and it needs to be remembered that the Raspberry Pi support and documentation was nowhere near as good as it is now when it was first released...