| |||||||||||||
The Boxee Box: too free to live?The Boxee Box: too free to live?Posted Oct 22, 2012 19:00 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: The Boxee Box: too free to live? by dashesy Parent article: The Boxee Box: too free to live?
Beagleboard $150
600MHz Cortex A8 chip
Raspberry Pi $35
700-1000MHz ARM6 chip
are you sure the beagleboard is 'much more powerful' than the pi?
it's possible that the video acceleration of the beagleboard is better than the pi. I don't know a good way to look that up.
(Log in to post comments)
The Boxee Box: too free to live? Posted Oct 22, 2012 19:30 UTC (Mon) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]
Maybe the additional DSP+GPU may help:
TMS320C64x+ DSP for accelerated video and audio decoding, and an Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX530 GPU. It also says (520 MHz up to 720p @30 fps) for DSP but then a combination of CPU+DSP maybe able to handle higher resolutions.
The Boxee Box: too free to live? Posted Oct 22, 2012 20:26 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
The GPU on the pi is able to drive a 1080p@60hz display. You can play video at this resolution if you are using the hardware codec support.
Unfortunantly this does require a binary blob driver loaded by the boot process to work, but while this isn't good, it's no worse than anything else in the space.
The Boxee Box: too free to live? Posted Oct 22, 2012 20:06 UTC (Mon) by GhePeU (subscriber, #56133) [Link]
IIRC the original BeagleBoard can't even drive a monitor at that resolution. There's a newer Beagleboard version, the BeagleBoard XM (149 USD):
1 GHz Cortex A8
And it still doesn't support 1080p video, at best it can do 720p.
A Pandaboard ES can play 1080p video (I've got one on my desktop now), but it costs ~180USD. It's a wholly different board, however, dual-core Cortex A9 1.2GHz with 1 GB LP-DDR2, 802.11 b/g/n, 10/100 Ethernet, Bluetooth v2.1 EDR, HDMI, DVI-D... it's also very well supported for now, the latest drivers release supports Wayland (!).
The Odroid-X is another alternative, it costs about 50 USD less than a Pandaboard (no WiFi or Bluetooth however) and has a quad-core Exynos4412 Cortex A9 1.4 GHz, but I don't think HD video acceleration is working on Linux at the moment.
|
|||||||||||||