Linux NVIDIA Jetson TK1 first Tegra K1 a Supercomputer for xbmc ?
#46
(2014-07-03, 22:50)peba Wrote:
(2014-06-29, 05:35)xbmcreallyrocks Wrote: This question reveals my ignorance, but does that mean it does not currently work with xbmc, even with software decoding? We need either EGL or OMX support to start xbmc which we do not currently have? What about OpenGL?

It works with XBMC also in full HD without problems.
The Jetson Tk1 can software decode easily one 720p movie per core and
it got 4 cores.

http://bitkistl.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/e...board.html

Best Regards,
Peter Bauer
http://bitkistl.blogspot.com

I was speaking from actual testing in my post above. XBMC will not play full bitrate (Bluray quality) 1080p with software decoding on the Jetson, in my experience. It does do some 1080p, maybe up to 8 Mbps or so.

Regarding netbooks playing 720p, I also have an Atom netbook, and it will decode video if it's not doing anything else at the same time. But trying to stream 720p is a no go because it doesn't have enough spare cycles to stream and decode at the same time. The TK1 has 4+1 cores, so it has no problem streaming up to its maximum decode rate.

Also, once someone takes the time to get XBMC working with hardware decoding, it will easily do 1080p or possibly 4K. The Cuda cores in the GPU are rated at 320 Gigaflops of performance, which will obliterate a netbook or many desktops.
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#47
(2014-07-08, 17:11)barleyguy Wrote:
(2014-07-03, 22:50)peba Wrote:
(2014-06-29, 05:35)xbmcreallyrocks Wrote: This question reveals my ignorance, but does that mean it does not currently work with xbmc, even with software decoding? We need either EGL or OMX support to start xbmc which we do not currently have? What about OpenGL?

It works with XBMC also in full HD without problems.
The Jetson Tk1 can software decode easily one 720p movie per core and
it got 4 cores.

http://bitkistl.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/e...board.html

Best Regards,
Peter Bauer
http://bitkistl.blogspot.com

I was speaking from actual testing in my post above. XBMC will not play full bitrate (Bluray quality) 1080p with software decoding on the Jetson, in my experience. It does do some 1080p, maybe up to 8 Mbps or so.

Regarding netbooks playing 720p, I also have an Atom netbook, and it will decode video if it's not doing anything else at the same time. But trying to stream 720p is a no go because it doesn't have enough spare cycles to stream and decode at the same time. The TK1 has 4+1 cores, so it has no problem streaming up to its maximum decode rate.

Also, once someone takes the time to get XBMC working with hardware decoding, it will easily do 1080p or possibly 4K. The Cuda cores in the GPU are rated at 320 Gigaflops of performance, which will obliterate a netbook or many desktops.


I tried a full rate 40 Mbps video in XBMC - and yes it wont play currently with software decoding.
http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/ #birds video

For a workaround I would suggest to try mplayer2/smplayer which seems to work much better.
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#48
Has anyone already ported Android to Jetson TK1?
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#49
(2014-07-19, 18:30)xfim Wrote: Has anyone already ported Android to Jetson TK1?

Not that I know of. There is a thread about it on the Cyanogenmod forums, and also one on the NVidia forums, and AFAIK nobody has been successful in getting it working.
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#50
(2014-07-21, 18:26)barleyguy Wrote:
(2014-07-19, 18:30)xfim Wrote: Has anyone already ported Android to Jetson TK1?

Not that I know of. There is a thread about it on the Cyanogenmod forums, and also one on the NVidia forums, and AFAIK nobody has been successful in getting it working.

I read on xda that somebody successfully ported Android using ubuntu kernel in few hours.
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#51
(2014-07-21, 18:39)xfim Wrote:
(2014-07-21, 18:26)barleyguy Wrote:
(2014-07-19, 18:30)xfim Wrote: Has anyone already ported Android to Jetson TK1?

Not that I know of. There is a thread about it on the Cyanogenmod forums, and also one on the NVidia forums, and AFAIK nobody has been successful in getting it working.

I read on xda that somebody successfully ported Android using ubuntu kernel in few hours.

Do you have a link? I'd like to read the thread.
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#52
(2014-07-21, 18:43)barleyguy Wrote:
(2014-07-21, 18:39)xfim Wrote:
(2014-07-21, 18:26)barleyguy Wrote: Not that I know of. There is a thread about it on the Cyanogenmod forums, and also one on the NVidia forums, and AFAIK nobody has been successful in getting it working.

I read on xda that somebody successfully ported Android using ubuntu kernel in few hours.

Do you have a link? I'd like to read the thread.


Here you go. Its a very short thread.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=2750589
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#53
Any progress with Android for Jetson TK1? Any developer willing to build it from source?

http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?o=age (can this help??)

I'm very interested in Android for this board.
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#54
(2014-07-31, 16:31)xfim Wrote: Any progress with Android for Jetson TK1? Any developer willing to build it from source?

http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?o=age (can this help??)

I'm very interested in Android for this board.

AnyoneHuh?
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#55
(2014-08-06, 19:13)xfim Wrote:
(2014-07-31, 16:31)xfim Wrote: Any progress with Android for Jetson TK1? Any developer willing to build it from source?

http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?o=age (can this help??)

I'm very interested in Android for this board.

AnyoneHuh?

Yes, android was ported and working and the Jetson TK1 HERE and also some video of it browsing and playing games HERE

The developer is using the mipads rom as starting point. Nvidia just rolled out the Shield tablet using the TK1 as well, so there is the Rom from that now too.

Looking like the Jetson is about to get fun. Game stream will be great on it as well. My shield Tablet does it great currently.
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#56
(2014-08-23, 18:23)spitefulmonkey Wrote:
(2014-08-06, 19:13)xfim Wrote:
(2014-07-31, 16:31)xfim Wrote: Any progress with Android for Jetson TK1? Any developer willing to build it from source?

http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?o=age (can this help??)

I'm very interested in Android for this board.

AnyoneHuh?

Yes, android was ported and working and the Jetson TK1 HERE and also some video of it browsing and playing games HERE

The developer is using the mipads rom as starting point. Nvidia just rolled out the Shield tablet using the TK1 as well, so there is the Rom from that now too.

Looking like the Jetson is about to get fun. Game stream will be great on it as well. My shield Tablet does it great currently.

I know about Android port. Its newer than my post here. Anyway im really excited about it. Its going to be like your shield tablet when connected to tv. Well, atleast similar consodering developer lucasdai uses Mipad rom as base and Mipad uses Opengl es 3.0 while shield tablet uses opengl 4.4, which is ofc much better.
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#57
I'd like someone to get XBMC working in Linux with hardware acceleration and bitstreaming audio as well. I kind of doubt the bitstreaming would ever happy under android anytime soon as android doesn't have provisions for that stuff. I'd love to replace my HTPC with the TK1 though.
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#58
FWIW, I decided against the TK1 in favor of a fanless Gigabyte Brix 2807 and it makes a fantastic HTPC.
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#59
I'd just like something really low powered, trying to minimize my power use in my house lol. I just recently replaced all my server equipment with a single box that draws at max like 50w, when before I was drawing probably close to 1000w.
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#60
There's a PPA with a beta version of Kodi for Jetson TK1 running L4T which includes HW accelerated video playback: https://launchpad.net/~kulve/+archive/ub...jetson-tk1.

First tests running a 4k@30 h.264 test video on a 1080p display showed a power consumption of 5.4 to 7.6 watts. I've also successfully driven a 3840x2160@24 display with 4k@24 content and it played perfectly smooth. Unfortunately I didn't have a power meter to measure the power consumption during this test.
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