Author Topic: Pandaboard full media director ???  (Read 10352 times)

swift11

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Re: Pandaboard full media director ???
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2011, 10:25:29 am »
Well they are flooded with orders at the moment and apparently production has been hit badly by the disaster in Japan.

Andrew

Snowball will be an interesting alternative.  ;)
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Snowball

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« Last Edit: April 10, 2011, 02:19:18 pm by swift11 »

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Re: Pandaboard full media director ???
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2011, 12:52:02 pm »
i have found that they can be powered from USB but i still cannot find if it can be powered from PoE, i dont think it can but just that feature would sell me on it

I am powering my (non-PoE) cameras using PoE, made possible with a "poe injector extractor kit" (have a look on eBay).

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Re: Pandaboard full media director ???
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2011, 09:04:11 pm »
Snowball will be an interesting alternative.  ;)
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Snowball

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i dont see hdmi, only rca

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Re: Pandaboard full media director ???
« Reply #18 on: April 11, 2011, 05:00:52 am »
“With its dual-core processor, combined with support for 3D graphics, HD video and HDMI output, Snowball is a multimedia powerhouse.”
http://www.stericsson.com/press_releases/Igloo_Snowball.jsp

full specs in the datasheet (pdf)
http://www.igloocommunity.org/Snowball_Datasheet.pdf

-Olivier
« Last Edit: April 11, 2011, 05:54:47 am by swift11 »

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Re: Pandaboard full media director ???
« Reply #19 on: April 11, 2011, 08:00:41 am »
snowball:
price ~250EUR
availability ~not available now

pandaboard:
price ~135EUR
availability ~not available now

what again is the advantage of snowball over pandaboard?

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Re: Pandaboard full media director ???
« Reply #20 on: April 11, 2011, 08:14:41 am »
244 EUR is the price for the Product Development Kit version; the SDK version, a simple dev board like the Panda, will be cheaper:

Prices announced in February:
PDK version: 300 $
SDK version: 200 $

more info here:
http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/02/15/snowball-new-cortex-a9-community-board-from-st-ericsson/

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« Last Edit: April 12, 2011, 12:34:21 pm by swift11 »

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Re: Pandaboard full media director ???
« Reply #21 on: April 11, 2011, 03:42:07 pm »
the snowball has 4-8 gigs of onboard memory in addition to the sd card it looks like
and the snowball looks like it has to possibility to be POE if use with an extractor, where the pandaboard cannot because of current requirements
i do like the snowball, but i feel like i would be wasting the accelerometer that comes on it