Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle vs. Panda vs. Raspberry on Gentoo

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

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> > Which of these would be the best choice for Gentoo?  I have a
> > Beaglebone but now I'm looking for something with video for HD
> > playback.
> >
> > - Grant
>
> I'd say none of them (yet).
>
> It doesn't matter what other features in the form of fancy IO and neat
> circuitry is put on such boards, they are all limited by what the CPU
> can do. If the board has a RealTek chip, it;s limited by what the
> RealTek dev software provides.
>
> I have a Raspberry Pi, and doing what it was designed to do is
> something it is very good at. It was designed to teach kids how to
> program. It was not designed to play full HD video.
>
> The Pi suffers with playback the very same way all the other ARM media
> players out there suffer, whether they be AC Ryan, Medi8ter, Xtreamer
> or whatever - as soon as you have to run some controlling software as
> well as the codec, and especially if you have to decode audio on the
> device (as opposed to having the amp do it in hardware), it stutters.
> The cpu just cannot cut it.

That's too bad.  I thought the GPU on at least some of these boards was
capable of smooth 1080p playback.  The Pandaboard ES claims "Full HD
(1080p) multi-standard video encode/decode" but I suppose that doesn't mean
it's stutter-free.

http://pandaboard.org/content/pandaboard-es

- Grant

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