How to get rid of our RK3188 device.. aka.. is there life after rockchip?

[ADD]

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/prod...818962879.html

"No tech support. New firmware is very unstable and buggy. Seller is not responding for my messages."

"During the first hour of use revealed an inherent bugs. Device hangs and reboots spontaneously. Error messages arising that the application is not responding after each mouse click. LAN port does not work. The new firmware does not solve the problem. The seller refused to bear the shipping fee of return which is expensive. The claim has been resolved, and AliExpress has made a full refund to me with no returning goods."

It's a box version of the Measy U4K and will have all the same issues with XBMC etc. as mentioned above. Also if it sounds too good to be true it usually is and I just don't believe that it will do what it says it does. However, if you get one please post a review as I'm still on the lookout for a decent android box!

I would not make my final conclusion based on a couple of unprofessional and non impartial negative feedbacks out of 64 positive. Besides, it's clear like a day that those guys had bad luck to receive a faulty/defective unit, which is not 100% guaranteed with other brands either.

To my opinion, the best device out there is odroid-xu. Another one which looks very promising is ATV 1800.

[Legitsu]

cedarv = hardware acceleration for the AllWinner A8,A10,A20, chips there are no kernel sources available and nobody wants to work on porting it and since the allwinner chips don't use LibStageFright there is not hardware acceleration to be had at all
it is exceedingly unlikely they someone will take the time to figure-out how to access the gpu on these allwinner chips

[lewy20041]

i have hw accelerated build of xbmc for allwiner a10/a13 device.
i think i posted it somewher here.
i dont know if it wil work on a20 or a30 but you can try
serch in allwiner tab section i think.

[mo123]

Here is the xbmc for Allwinner devices

http://www.4shared.com/android/SZ_QOyNt/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-baso.html

Here is the source code for Allwinner XBMC devices, it also has CerdarX acceleration but from a different user and is more up to date.

https://github.com/rellla/xbmca10/commits/stage/master

[fredphoesh]

cedarv = hardware acceleration for the AllWinner A8,A10,A20, chips there are no kernel sources available and nobody wants to work on porting it and since the allwinner chips don't use LibStageFright there is not hardware acceleration to be had at all
it is exceedingly unlikely they someone will take the time to figure-out how to access the gpu on these allwinner chips

Hi
I dont know too much about that, but do see that VidOn.me is one of XBMC's sponsors, and their main android device is an Allwinner A10 based stick.

[mitchell4you]

i see...
there two versions of the mele a1000g
-Dx sells the one with 'winner a10" with bad feedback
-kim sells the one with 'winner a31"
kim might have a hardtime selling them... if hey doesn't rename his box..

[Legitsu]

i see...
there two versions of the mele a1000g
-Dx sells the one with 'winner a10" with bad feedback
-kim sells the one with 'winner a31"
kim might have a hardtime selling them... if hey doesn't rename his box..

life after rock chip = AMD APU
./thread

[Skarok]

There is life with Rockchip

I dont use wifi I was fortunate to be able to wire my home and not worry about wifi. My MK809III works like a dream for 89 bucks on lan. No complaints.

[mitchell4you]

Ohh...Huawei MediaQ M310 is out... (129 dollar)
The youtube vid... looks cool... checking bankaccount

(nope... still broke ... joke... l wait for user feedback on this device)

[fredphoesh]

Ohh...Huawei MediaQ M310 is out... (129 dollar)
The youtube vid... looks cool... checking bankaccount

1gb ram?
hmmm
Also I wonder about the gpu, wonder if it has been hardware tweaked to playback 1080p from xbmc... probably not.
MediaQ M810 looks a bit more interesting though

[paradoxman]

To my opinion, the best device out there is odroid-xu. Another one which looks very promising is ATV 1800.

I read some dissapointing information about the samsung chip used in these ODROID-XU devices, so I will not wait for it's launch in september anymore

"As Samsung released it with a broken CCI-400, you might want to avoid anything based on the Exynos 5410 (as used by the ODROID-XU) unless you're happy running the SoC only in big.LITTLE "Cluster Migration" mode, which would negate the benefit of half of your available cores."

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=170675

[hispan1c]

Re: How to get rid of our RK3188 device.. aka.. is there life after rockchip?

I have the imito qx1 and with the new leolas/bob firmware it runs really well. I stream a lot of 1080 and 720p from my nas over wifi via Mediahouse Pro. Netflix works like a charm as well after installing a netflix patch in the xposed framework.

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

[paradoxman]

this product might be worth buying, powered by Nvidia Tegra and has UltraHD 4k playback capability

https://www.nuvola4k.com/

[hispan1c]

Re: How to get rid of our RK3188 device.. aka.. is there life after rockchip?

Some nice specs indeed!

[mitchell4you]

That nuvola.. is amazing

But also overkill?
Hdmi has big resolution limit
72 Gpu's and 4 Cpu's sharing 2 gb ram?
can 4 cpu's calc fast enough to use all 72 lanes/gpu's?
How does that work, 72 Gpu's for a res of 2560x1600 ?
anyway..
The specs are really great, but it needs a big ssd... for all the media and games
( i installed 1 game 2.4gb poof gone.. 16 not nearly enough in my opinion)