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If you using it for HTPC then beagleboard is useless as it has no hardware based video decoding. That is why the Pi is so popular for HTPC's, built in H264 dec
by the_ancient 13y ago
If you using it for HTPC then beagleboard is useless as it has no hardware based video decoding. That is why the Pi is so popular for HTPC's, built in H264 decoding hardware
- makomk 13y agoThe Beagleboard's probably a bad example in this case, but I've got a Cubieboard with hardware video decode and line-in/line-out that cost me less than the Pi + this board. (I believe it also has SPDIF on one of the pin headers. All of this was essentially free - the SoC it uses has built-in audio DAC/ADC, Ethernet controller, SATA, and a bunch of other neat stuff.) Plus a lot of early Pi purchasers won't be able to use this without buying another Pi, since the original version doesn't expose the I2S interface required by this.