Hi Chris, thanks for your advice. You're right, Chinese manufacturers are generally not supportive to open source, which is a pity as they are designing and producing most of the hardware today.
Katja On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:43 AM, chris clepper <cgclep...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:41 PM, katja <katjavet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> If further experiments are promising enough, I would try this board for >> the receiver: >> >> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino-WIFI/ >> >> > I have been running Pd on this board for a few weeks now. In general, it > works OK, but the ADC is not so good and adds a lot of latency. Just DAC > output can be 10ms latency with passable sound. All of the Pd example > patches run fine with the FFT ones topping out around 50% CPU load. That's > with nothing else running. Any network activity will cause dropouts even > at large buffer settings though. > > The WiFi works with a few tweaks to the settings for your network. > > The drawback with the Allwinner based chips is you have to take whatever > the chip maker gives you for documentation and drivers (slim and none > basically). The Chinese SoC makers have zero interest in orders less than > a half million units and they mainly make those under $100 7" tablets and > bad set top boxes. If something doesn't work, then it likely won't ever > work - don't hold out for improved ALSA drivers for example. > > I would see what the new BeagleBone looks like too. It's supposed to be > cheaper and improved plus TI does support open source better than most. >
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