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

2012-11-23 Thread Grant
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

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

2012-11-22 Thread Grant
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. I'm interested to know whether it would be good as a network appliance. Specifically, a NAT gateway machine

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

2012-11-22 Thread Grant
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 -

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

2012-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:59:28 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2012-11-17 Thread Grant
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

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

2012-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:43:38 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2012-11-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 November 2012 20:03:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: 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. I'm interested to know whether it would be good as a