Raspberry Pi to get Android 4.0

Post by Lewton » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 9:08 AM UTC

mike-cardwell wrote: post #10

__alexs wrote: post #9

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But the RPi is an awful HTPC, it's way too underpowered and can only barely cope with 720p decoding. It definitely doesn't cope well with having to do composite overlays like XBMC uses to display controls. The FPS you get in the menus is only also only barely acceptable so even if your content does play the experience is choppy. Yes it's cheap, but it still sucks.

I'm waiting for the day when you can get a raspberry pi style machine that will do full 1080p and will transcode anything I throw at it in real time or faster. It can't be that far off in the future can it? A couple of years maybe?

Post by macavity23 » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 9:18 AM UTC

__alexs wrote: post #9

CrazedGeek wrote: post #7

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The ability to run Android apps would be the key. Plus, for an HTPC, Android (tablet UI or Google TV, take your pick) has a much better interface than XBMC, IMO.

But the RPi is an awful HTPC, it's way too underpowered and can only barely cope with 720p decoding. It definitely doesn't cope well with having to do composite overlays like XBMC uses to display controls. The FPS you get in the menus is only also only barely acceptable so even if your content does play the experience is choppy. Yes it's cheap, but it still sucks.

Post by anemic » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 9:28 AM UTC

macavity23 wrote: post #13

__alexs wrote: post #9

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But the RPi is an awful HTPC, it's way too underpowered and can only barely cope with 720p decoding. It definitely doesn't cope well with having to do composite overlays like XBMC uses to display controls. The FPS you get in the menus is only also only barely acceptable so even if your content does play the experience is choppy. Yes it's cheap, but it still sucks.

Do you have a source for this? All the reviews I have read claim that 1080p playback on the RPi is smooth.

Post by macavity23 » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 9:37 AM UTC

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macavity23 wrote: post #13

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Do you have a source for this? All the reviews I have read claim that 1080p playback on the RPi is smooth.

with my pi/raspbmc the 1080p movie playback is indeed smooth but the menus stutter awfully. But the reason for that might be that the menus doesn't fully utilize the opengl es of the pi or something else (bad skin?) so I wouldn't blame the pi yet.

Post by topbanana » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 10:37 AM UTC

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I still don't understand the desire for Android on non-touch devices. At all... The more exciting bit is XBMC being available in Android, in my opinion. I have XBMC on my desktop, laptop, phone, tablet and raspberry Pi. Using a single app, I can play media from any of those devices to another. It's so simple and elegant and it blows my mind everytime I do it.