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#61 Post by John Roe »

snayak wrote:I see, we have many such mini PCs based on x86. But can they run conventional linux distros? Like all arbitrary puppy linux...
Or they just run some special linux customized for those boards?
That is a very good point. If it cannot run Puppy or BSD, not for me.

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#62 Post by don570 »

Finally some good news for the A20 chip. A team has created the Cedrus fully-GPL-compliant accelerated video encode/decode libraries.

This allows 1080p video to be shown without worrying about licenses.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micr ... tes/cedrus

http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus/libvdpau-sunxi
http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus#Current_status

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