[Chester LUG] Banana Pi review for those interested.

[Stuart Burns]

Lack of VT flag ;)

On 28 November 2014 at 14:04, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:

> That would work. Vagrant supports Linux, as does VirtualBox, so what are
> you waiting for?
>
> On 28 Nov 2014, at 14:02, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I could always try Vagrant on it ;)
>
> On 28 November 2014 at 13:25, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:
>
>> Oh dear. I think the RPi is winning then in my opinion. That’s a big
>> thing for some people.
>>
>>
>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:24, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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