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Have a question about the Next-Gen BeagleBone? Ask it here!

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There is a lot of excitement about TI's Next-Gen BeagleBone. If you have a specific question about its performance characteristics, tech specs, or anything else, post it as a reply to this thread. We are working closely with TI and will make sure to respond to your questions.  Thanks everyone!  Sagar

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  • We are looking at replace 8-10 old XP machines. We purchased a Raspberry Pi to try but it doesn't stream video very well at all. I was recommended by a friend that the Arduino would work better for us but I was just recommended BeagleBone Black. We will basically be using them online using Google Docs, YouTube and other educational sites. It would also be nice if they had VGA output as that is the equipment we have. Do you know of a single board computer solution that is reasonably priced that would work for us?

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    BeagleBone Black doesn't have the sort of hardware acceleration needed to be good at streaming video. 

    The Raspberry Pi should be a lot better for video, but it will depend on what compression method is in use. You may need to buy some codec licenses for it from here http://www.raspberrypi.com/license-keys/

    It's also likely that you need to use omxplayer on the Pi to get the best out of it's video capabilities as other players may not be optimised for the Pi

     

    VGA output is problematic, most of the current boards have HDMI outputs which means DVI or using an HDMI-to-VGA converter. Some working converters for the Pi are listed here http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#HDMI-.3EVGA_converter_boxes

     

    Other things to look at are Sabre-Lite (but cost of these is encroaching on a cheap Intel Atom based PC), Wandboard, or perhaps Minnowboard (which is a cheap Atom PC)

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    selsinork wrote:

     

    BeagleBone Black doesn't have the sort of hardware acceleration needed to be good at streaming video.

     

    For rendering, you are likely limited to 720p video (vs. accelerated 1080p video) and more practically probably about 480p when looking at streaming+rendering situations. Streaming video is a lot more than just video rendering. As a capture endpoit, BeagleBone Black's USB performance is far superior and has been shown to be quite capable streaming 1080p video streams (see OpenROV and Derek Molloy videos) from USB over Ethernet. Much of the R-Pi problems with streaming come down to other bottlenecks outside of rendering.

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    selsinork wrote:

     

    BeagleBone Black doesn't have the sort of hardware acceleration needed to be good at streaming video.

     

    For rendering, you are likely limited to 720p video (vs. accelerated 1080p video) and more practically probably about 480p when looking at streaming+rendering situations. Streaming video is a lot more than just video rendering. As a capture endpoit, BeagleBone Black's USB performance is far superior and has been shown to be quite capable streaming 1080p video streams (see OpenROV and Derek Molloy videos) from USB over Ethernet. Much of the R-Pi problems with streaming come down to other bottlenecks outside of rendering.

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