Dizzy49 94 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 (edited) I found a kickstarter for the Pine A64 which is a small, cheap, powerfull 64bit board for ~$25 It will run Android 5.1, and I am wondering how you think it would do with Emby installed on Android (vs something like a Matricom which has it's own thing, then Kodi, and Emby on Kodi). Any thoughts? I'm thinking about getting a couple if they will work decently. Edited January 21, 2016 by Dizzy49 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I'll be receiving one in April. Though I bought it for OpenHab and IOT, I was thinking of getting the Android SD card as well just to play with it. Should work at least as well as the Raspberry Pi. I'd recommend the Pine64+ with 2GB of RAM ($29 plus shipping) though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 I'll be receiving one in April. Though I bought it for OpenHab and IOT, I was thinking of getting the Android SD card as well just to play with it. Should work at least as well as the Raspberry Pi. I'd recommend the Pine64+ with 2GB of RAM ($29 plus shipping) though. I'm totally getting the Pine64+ with 2GB That's why I said ~$25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n64OmrIZI6g if you go to about 3:00 minutes in this video it shows Plex. So either Emby Android client will probably work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 Good call, Plex is very similar to Emby. I didn't want to have to install Kodi and THEN Emby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffo 3 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 The Kodi guys are quite down on the chipset used in this board -> http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=251413&highlight=pine64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Personally, wasn't planning on using Kodi at all myself. Not really a fan of the platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 Emby on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 runs great as my server does the heavy lifting. My Matricom has superior tech stats and runs like crap and I'm pretty sure Kodi was the issue. The only reason I'm still running Kodi on my HTPC is for the direct passthrough which Emby doesn't support so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffo 3 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Personally, wasn't planning on using Kodi at all myself. Not really a fan of the platform. Get that, but the thread claims that the driver support from the chipset MFG is woeful, and thus there is no hardware decode support on Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 (edited) Get that, but the thread claims that the driver support from the chipset MFG is woeful, and thus there is no hardware decode support on Linux. Will have to see how it goes. Android would be the primary OS that I would use for video playback. That would be secondary anyway or even a second board. If it doesn't work, I am out a few dollars for an SD card as I have other uses for the board itself. Edited January 24, 2016 by Koleckai Silvestri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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