
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Oh dear. I think the RPi is winning then in my opinion. That’s a big thing for some people.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:24, Stuart Burns <<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" class="">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thats the issue. The GPU is not the same as the Pi and no one has optimised it. No hardware accelleration atm.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2014 at 13:23, Michael Crilly <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:michael@mcrilly.me" target="_blank" class="">michael@mcrilly.me</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">It shouldn’t suck as XBMC. The RaspberryPi can handle 1080p via XBMC just fine - given the specs of the BI, it should be able to handle it fine, right? Is hardware encoding supported and is there a hardware encoder plugin/software provided?<div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:20, Stuart Burns <<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">What SD card ? ;) I need to buy one actually. <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apart from that, I dunno what to use it for really. I was thinking XBMC front end but it sucks at XBMC. My mate wanted to try it to test it as XMBC but it looks like its a none starter.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2014 at 13:16, Michael Crilly <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:michael@mcrilly.me" target="_blank" class="">michael@mcrilly.me</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">That's one use for it! Just keep in mind that's my SD card ;-)<br class="">

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Are you going to plug a USB/SATA drive into it? <br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2014 13:08:59 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr" class="">Yeah. I am now going to turn it into an apple time machine backup thing<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2014 at 13:07, Michael Crilly <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:michael@mcrilly.me" target="_blank" class="">michael@mcrilly.me</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Good stuff mate. Glad it's working for you in the end :-) <br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 28 November 2014 13:05:30 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">

<div dir="ltr" class="">I tried it when I got home last night, no issues with HDMI in the end. It was a late night so excuse any mistakes!<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/28/banana_pi_review/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/28/banana_pi_review/</a><br clear="all" class=""><br class=""><br class="">

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