arduino
April 27th, 2009, 03:53 AM
hello, i was wondering for some time now, what device could be the anticipated <200 Dollar boxee box.
so i stumbled across the beagle board, but because i know jack about linux, i wanted to ask you guys if it was possible to run boxee on this device.
it seems that is got some graphic acceleration (needed for the boxee menu i was told):
OpenGLŠ ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics accelerator capable of rendering 10 million polygons per second
http://beagleboard.org/hardware
It is HD capable and had an HDMI out
HD video capable TMS320C64x+ DSP for versatile signal processing at up to 430MHz
it got network capability and external drives could be mounted via usb.
some more specs:
The Beagle Board is based on an OMAP3530 application processor featuring an ARMŽ Cortex™-A8 running at up to 600MHz and delivering over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS of performance via superscalar operation with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB of L2 cache. Focal to Beagle Board experience is the high-speed USB 2.0 on-the-go (OTG) port that can be utilized to provide power to the board or to deliver highly flexible expansion. Standard PC peripherals can be connected to Beagle Board using the USB with a mini-A to standard-A cable adapter, DVI-D using an HDMI to DVI-D adapter, or through the MMC/SD/SDIO connector enabling a complete desktop experience.
i don't really know what it takes to be "the boxee box" but it seems people have installed ubuntu on the beagle board:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard
So the big question: does boxee run on the beagle board?
PS: you still had 50 USD left to make a nice box :)
so i stumbled across the beagle board, but because i know jack about linux, i wanted to ask you guys if it was possible to run boxee on this device.
it seems that is got some graphic acceleration (needed for the boxee menu i was told):
OpenGLŠ ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics accelerator capable of rendering 10 million polygons per second
http://beagleboard.org/hardware
It is HD capable and had an HDMI out
HD video capable TMS320C64x+ DSP for versatile signal processing at up to 430MHz
it got network capability and external drives could be mounted via usb.
some more specs:
The Beagle Board is based on an OMAP3530 application processor featuring an ARMŽ Cortex™-A8 running at up to 600MHz and delivering over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS of performance via superscalar operation with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB of L2 cache. Focal to Beagle Board experience is the high-speed USB 2.0 on-the-go (OTG) port that can be utilized to provide power to the board or to deliver highly flexible expansion. Standard PC peripherals can be connected to Beagle Board using the USB with a mini-A to standard-A cable adapter, DVI-D using an HDMI to DVI-D adapter, or through the MMC/SD/SDIO connector enabling a complete desktop experience.
i don't really know what it takes to be "the boxee box" but it seems people have installed ubuntu on the beagle board:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard
So the big question: does boxee run on the beagle board?
PS: you still had 50 USD left to make a nice box :)