Message from @Aerkusa
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*i agree with them too, but having an integrated box w/o worry about psu or getting a separate remote is nice.
yea, would be cool if these kodi boxes were supported by deb but it's like chasing shadows with so many permutations of arm chips
Yea for sure
I have a pine64
ooh
you like it?
Nah not really
Tbh any of the non eMMC ones are shit
Unless you get a Samsung evo sdcard
They're better with Android
Er
Better with linux
But no core support because the chink allwinner arm chip has no core linux support
No hardware acceleration for video under linux
i have a q1900 and i figured it was overkill for kodi, but, not having to worry about this whole ecosystem of nonsense is a nice thing
And SD cards suck for primary storage with android
i should just get a better remote and be happy
Ya I run my Kodi on a big ass htpc
When I setup Kodi all the live streams were terrible quality
But I was trying to build the pine64 to run a projector
I don't use it for live streams
yea the attraction of these cheap devices is being able to stick them on all your extra old displays and give them to your folks or whatever
but the headache potential is just too damn high
Ya and 'cord cutters'
i want banana/orange/pine64 to succeed if only to give the rpifags a run for their money and encourage competition but let's face it there's only so much FOSS mental bandwidth to spare
Tbh if allwinner doesn't release their firmware code, pine is fucked
That's not fair, it's operable
Thanks to one dude named longsleep
Who compiled a working kernel
But he's pretty much given up on hardware video acceleration
So it works great as a headless server
But no usb3.0 so I can't use it for that
So maybe like a VPN or a firewall
But raspi does that just as well
yeah i mean it's like we can spend $20-40 for one of these neato arm dev boards but a j3160 is like what $80 and justworks
Basically pine64 got chinked
There's always some new one that gets me worked up lol
it's hillarious that intel seems like they're winding their efforts down with what their pulling out of tablet/mobile
But ya I think I might give up on an ARM media center
but if they got their stupid shit together they could capitalize on all this ARM fragmentation
Tbh atom always had the best performance/$$$