On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Rüdiger Leibrandt <rleibra...@uni-bremen.de> wrote: > First of all: > Thanks alot! > > I thought that there was a library missing or it'd be some setting i'd need or > forgot, but, okay. > Omxplayer does not show up in my apt-cache search output. Then again I > modified > the sources list to use my apt-cacher on my homeserver. Maybe there something > blew up. > That I have to pay extra to use the hardware i paid for ( buying licenses for > the decoder to be activated ) is making me think of "defective by design"
defective by design: yes, but it's actually mis-selling, pure and simple. were you advised, when you bought this product, that you would be forced to purchase proprietary video CODECs in order to do something as simple as watch a film? if the answer is "no", that's mis-selling, which is a serious criminal offense. > and > thus I'll take part of Luke's recommendation to heart ( buying a cubieboard > next ), but I won't send them back. I'll just use them to replace my old NSLU > 2. As a webserver with USB plug-drives they work nicely. > > I'll try to see where in Germany ah you're in germany - you *definitely* have 14 days, legally, in which to return product without question and obtain a full refund. > I can get a cubieboard. cubieboard [*1], hackberry [*2], hmmm, maybe cpcinc's A10 COM module isn't what you need [*3] but i mention it for completeness. actually just look at the main page of the linux-sunxi community there's a ton more [*4]. pcduino doesn't have SATA, so wouldn't suit you. the marsboard [*5] does. love the way those guys can't spell :) but, they released schematics at least [*6]. a10-olixino doesn't look like it's ready yet. [*7]. overall i'd say the cubieboard is your best bet - the marsboard guys i think they've cloned the cubieboard and haven't really engaged with the sunxi community, whereas tom (cubieboard) has been working with them since the early days. > With it's SATA > connector and its pricetag it looks most like what I want. yeah. tom and his team have done really well to get that board out, and they picked a damn good chip too. it's getting a little long in the tooth, but even so it's still price-performance-wise f*****g good value, i haven't yet come across anything that has as big a community behind it [*4] despite it being a china-based SoC. so, yeah, cubieboard will run debian armhf [cortex a8], the sunxi community will be able to get you set up, there's plenty of pre-built images, oodles of instructions... you can't go wrong with it, really. l. [*1] https://www.miniand.com/products/Cubieboard%20Developer%20Board [*2] https://www.miniand.com/products/Hackberry%20A10%20Developer%20Board [*3] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2013-February/006802.html [*4] http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page [*5] http://www.marsboard.com/ [*6] http://linux-sunxi.org/File:MarsBoard_Schematic_V1.3.pdf [*7] http://olimex.wordpress.com/tag/a10/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDxNjV=rtV3XGekktCiY=LvLY8=pjnfzqfrg9rwjrws...@mail.gmail.com
