[Chester LUG] Banana Pi review for those interested.

[Stuart Burns]

Thats the issue. The GPU is not the same as the Pi and no one has optimised
it. No hardware accelleration atm.

On 28 November 2014 at 13:23, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>
> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:20, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> What SD card ? ;) I need to buy one actually.
>
> 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.
>
>
> On 28 November 2014 at 13:16, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:
>
>> That's one use for it! Just keep in mind that's my SD card ;-)
>>
>> Are you going to plug a USB/SATA drive into it?
>>
>> On 28 November 2014 13:08:59 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <
>> stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah. I am now going to turn it into an apple time machine backup thing
>>>
>>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:07, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good stuff mate. Glad it's working for you in the end :-)
>>>>
>>>> On 28 November 2014 13:05:30 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <
>>>> stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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!
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/28/banana_pi_review/
>>>>>
>>>>>
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