[mythtv-users] android sticks

jansenj jansenj+myth at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 16:03:51 UTC 2013


An Android stick != Rasberry Pi.

The listings of products like the following advertise all the required
codecs with 1 GB DDR3, but they conveniently leave out resolutions, so I
was looking for personal experience from someone that has tried using this
PC sticks, not just proliferated hearsay.

http://www.amazon.com/MK808-Android-Rockchip-RK3066-Cortex-A9/dp/B009OX22B4

I'm an embedded engineer that is all too familiar with PCs, ARM,
differences between Cortex A8 and Cortex A9, understand that not even all
A9s are created equal, it all depends on their peripheral set, graphics
engine, and acceleration they have included.


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>wrote:

> jansenj wrote:
> > Has anyone tried to use anandroid stick to just play back recorded TV? I
> don't know if they have sufficient video hw acceleration for 1080i mpg2.
>
> Welcome back from outer space where I assume you must have been for the
> last couple of weeks :D See the threads related to ARM and Raspberry Pi -
> been discussed to death and there are several significant problems to be
> overcome, the scale of which varies with the device specs :
> 1) Many of the ARM devices have limited codec support so may not have
> codecs for required formats
> 2) The API for the video system may not be documented, or may only be
> documented to poeple who can sign an NDA
> 3) The devices often have relatively small memories
> 4) They pretty well all have relatively low CPU power
> 5) ARM is where I recall "PC"s being up until a lot of standardisation in
> the early 80s. Thus it's not like "it's a PC, it'll run i386", it's a case
> of having to build a system specific to a hardware device - with knowledge
> of where they've hidden all the I/O devices etc.
>
> *Some* ARM devices wil be capable of running a Myth frontend, and there's
> some debate as to where the line lies between "not good enough" and
> "acceptable". However it'll need someone to have enough of an itch that
> they sit down and do all the dev work to use the video systems etc.
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