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2014-07-04, 19:10
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great idea. I know the official XBMC dev have decided that they will leave this one out. but the potential of this board is massive. if you can get hardware accelration working on this then it has the potential to be an amazing board and cheap to. I'm interested if anyone Dev if actually working on those new stuff released so we can get hardware acceleration working
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Seriously, if cost is a concern then there are devices more powerful at the same price as the Banana Pi. The Banana Pi is nothing more than an attempt to cash in on the exploding growth of DIY users thanks to thinks like the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Beagle Bone. Buying one for XBMC is a fool's errand. I wouldn't want a Banana Pi even if it was given to me :P
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Forgetting the Allwinner support issue, there are cheaper Allwinner devices with the same specs.
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Having said that if sunxi-vdpau comes to anything, would that make a difference to your view Ned?
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I'm not really familiar with what that is, but we've seen hardware decoding for XBMC work on the Allwinner A10/A20 chips. I'm just not sure there's much to be excited about for the Banana Pi specifically (at least in context to XBMC). The Raspberry Pi has XBMC-related benefits with the increased number of connections/GPIO pins, but a lot of that is only possible with a large support community that is working on a standard set of hardware. I'm guessing things like an LCD info screen on a Raspberry Pi wouldn't work on the Banana Pi without some additional work. That makes the Banana Pi just a case-less remote-less A20 box. There's already a bunch of A20 boxes with cases and remotes in the $50 or less price range.
If you're just looking for something to tinker with for other things besides XBMC, then that's a different story. Allwinner makes some great bang-for-your-buck chips that I'm sure fit a number of needs.
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Thanks for that RockerC, I am on that group too and trying lots of ideas from there.
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So who are you? You clearly don't represent the manufacturers of banana pi as you say you are working "with" them. So who is "we"?
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