06-24-2016, 07:50 AM
(06-23-2016, 09:27 PM)diofantos Wrote: So i've been thinking about getting one of these Pine64 2gb version .. Looking at Pine64.com they say "PINE64: WORLD’S FIRST $15" - "Supercomputer" , "Gaming machine" etc..
Everything looked great since I'm just looking for a SBC to run a mediacenter (basicly just run Kodi),
Just forget about the official Kodi support. Kodi developers have some sort of grudge against Allwinner and are effectively sabotaging it. But unofficial Kodi ports exist for Allwinner H3, which just demonstrates that there are no fundamental technical problems.
Still if you don't want to get dragged into political games, then it's best to consider some other media player application for video playback. Or if you are strictly interested in the Kodi application and nothing else, then this is a good reason to use some other board.
Quote:specs tells us Pine64 is more than capable, so i started researching user experiences with Pine64, and there is where everything goes to crap , so to speak ..
Seems to me like the problem is all software related, like no drivers for the GPU so it's pretty useless as a mediacenter, specially if you want to go 4k..
Not sure about 4K, but hardware accelerated decoding of 1080p H.264/HEVC works on the Pine64 board with fully open source drivers - http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=424
For comparison, this stuff (H.264 only, without HEVC) is handled by a proprietary blob in the Raspberry Pi 3. But if you don't care about having open source drivers, then just get the Raspberry Pi 3 and be happy.