Hi Graeme,
On 08/21/2012 05:12 AM, Graeme Russ wrote:
I have a Mele A2000 (http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/04/04/mele-a2000-android-2-3-media-player-p...)
This looks promising at ~ AU$100 with USB, SD/MMC, VGA, HDMI, SATA, Ethernet, WiFi, Sound w/ Optical Out
which fancier in the Android department (JB4.1 available) and have Linux images, but needs extra dongle for serial. Could "just about" be a mediaplayer for locally attached media (maybe) but once you add network play and a greater selection of codecs, it moves into "not ready to be a full mediaplayer".
How far off would it be? If I put a really trimmed down Linux xmbc, do you think it could handle it?
Also not in mainline u-boot, but the u-boot available is less hacky.
I've seen some comments on a few review sites mentioning U-Boot
Neither run XBMC enough to be useful.
Oh :( - just how far off do you think?
See Jorgen's mail on this. I also followed this XBMC thread closely, as I'm looking for a low-power ARM box to replace my Atom based HTPC running XBMC. Fortunately I waited with buying an AllWinner device. My interest is now also moving to AMLogic now (see below).
The general "mood" of the embedded dev community seems to be, to me, to move away from these Companies, as the promised source releases has not been sufficient. The current interest seems to be AM.logic's dualcore board. (http://ao2.it/en/blog/2012/08/10/amlogic-aml8726-mx-linux-kernel-code-releas...)
Seems to be more tablet oriented - can't find any 'media players' based on this
There seem to be plenty. Check here for an overview:
http://www.j1nx.nl/xbmc-amlogic-8726-m-pivos-xios-an-initial-investigation/
Cheers, Stefan