| 00:21 | Coburn | Did a huge transcode of videos for my cubox yesterday |
| 00:21 | Coburn | Going to see if they'll work |
| 00:21 | Coburn | 720p High Profile. |
| 00:21 | Coburn | GeeXbox... |
| 00:22 | Coburn | If they fail, well, I'm disappoint |
| 00:22 | dotarray | good luck, Coburn :) |
| 00:25 | Coburn | High Profile 720p is OK on the CuBox, isn't it? |
| 00:25 | Coburn | 1080p High profile was shaky, wasn't it? |
| 00:26 | dotarray | i've seen mixed reports. |
| 00:26 | dotarray | but yeah, 720p "should be" fine :P |
| 00:27 | Cobur | 00:27 * Coburn gulps |
| 00:28 | Coburn | well, the encodes took around 30 mins each |
| 00:30 | _rmk_ | wouldn't sensibility suggest doing a small test first? |
| 00:31 | Coburn | but you guys said the cubox does everything but the kitchen sink!!!!1111111 |
| 00:31 | _rmk_ | "you guys" ? |
| 00:31 | dotarray | sssssh, _rmk_ - Coburn is Australian. "sensibility" doesn't come into it :P |
| 00:32 | _rmk_ | ah yes, my mistake :) |
| 00:32 | Coburn | We're all insane |
| 00:32 | Coburn | :P |
| 00:32 | _rmk_ | well, I have 7h10 of christmasy music of various types on the cubox now :) |
| 00:33 | Coburn | Christmas music, if it's crappy old stuff, makes me lose my sanity |
| 00:33 | Coburn | No offense, but I don't want to hear really old music |
| 00:33 | Coburn | If it's fairly old or modern, it's ok |
| 00:33 | Coburn | but if it's old old old, bzzt |
| 00:34 | _rmk_ | it covers a wide range |
| 00:34 | _rmk_ | from classical, choral all the way through to dance stuff too |
| 00:35 | _rmk_ | and no, I don't expect anyone else to like it :) |
| 00:35 | Coburn | ! |
| 00:35 | Coburn | Classical? |
| 00:35 | Coburn | Fine by me, I go to bed with ABC Classic FM on sleep mode on my alarm clock |
| 00:36 | _rmk_ | strangely they were Classic FM CDs |
| 00:37 | _rmk_ | cubox playing oggs is a lot kinder than shuffle play on the CD multiplayer |
| 00:37 | Coburn | heh |
| 00:37 | Coburn | Well, load time |
| 00:37 | Coburn | milliseconds for cubox |
| 00:38 | Coburn | seconds for CD |
| 00:38 | _rmk_ | I was thinking more of the wear on the mechanism |
| 00:38 | _rmk_ | already had one flexi-strip to the laser fail |
| 00:38 | Coburn | also, dotarray, does CuBox have a mascot? |
| 00:39 | Coburn | May sound weird, but Japan had a mascot for Windows 7 |
| 00:39 | Coburn | And it wasn't a bad idea, since she was "promoting" the OS |
| 00:40 | _rmk_ | as the cubox is a development platform, I don't see how a public mascot would make sense |
| 00:41 | _rmk_ | your average member of the public won't be able to make much use of the ubuntu 10 which comes on the cubox |
| 00:43 | Coburn | I was thinking of doing CoburnOS |
| 00:43 | Coburn | Coburn's Operating System |
| 00:43 | Coburn | Which is pretty much, well, preconfigured lounge room OS |
| 00:44 | dotarray | Coburn - i've been thinking about a mascot. |
| 00:44 | dotarray | we don't really have a logo much either, which i think we should rectify. |
| 00:44 | Coburn | CuBox <- do that in Apple font |
| 00:44 | Coburn | You know, the sleek round curved one |
| 00:45 | Coburn | Best thing about the mascot, is then you can use it in ads |
| 00:46 | Coburn | Saying "Hey, I'm CuBox/insert-mascot-name-here. I'm a sleek looking PC.... etc" |
| 00:47 | _rmk_ | shall I repeat my experience with the crappy dovefb driver with various HDMI devices total fail story? |
| 00:47 | Coburn | summarise it |
| 00:48 | _rmk_ | the -you must boot it with the HDMI device turned off to get output- story on _four_ devices - plasma tv, hdmi monitor, and two lcd tvs ? |
| 00:48 | Coburn | .... |
| 00:49 | Coburn | that's messed up |
| 00:49 | Coburn | what does XBMC use then? dovefb? |
| 00:49 | Coburn | Because it uses Xorg |
| 00:50 | _rmk_ | I _never_ found a HDMI device that the original cubox install would produce output at bootup with it connected/turned on |
| 00:50 | Coburn | I plugged it into my mum's 42" Samsung LCD while it was booting |
| 00:50 | Coburn | and it worked |
| 00:50 | Coburn | Well |
| 00:50 | Coburn | Plugged it in before swithcing CuBox on |
| 00:50 | Coburn | Got a penguin and text I think |
| 00:51 | _rmk_ | Never saw a penguin... ever, and that was after rebooting it quite a number of times on each device... before we figured out that we had to boot it in a disconnected state |
| 00:52 | Coburn | what version is your CuBox? |
| 00:52 | _rmk_ | no idea |
| 00:53 | Coburn | The CuBox I'm using is the v2 prototype, not the first one (dbsx has that) but mine's the one after that |
| 00:53 | Coburn | Not the "golden retail" one |
| 00:53 | Coburn | the one before it |
| 00:53 | Coburn | v2 Engineering Sample |
| 00:55 | _rmk_ | if I wanted to provide an embarrassing show, I could've also taken it over to my local TV shop and tried it on about 20 on-show TVs to prove the point |
| 00:56 | _rmk_ | but I didn't want to show how crap Linux stuff can sometimes be |
| 00:57 | Coburn | Could have gone up in smoke |
| 11:05 | rabeeh | _rmk_ / Coburn: there is no difference functionality wise between v1 and v2 except using an FTDI usb-serial instead of the Prolific chip. |
| 11:06 | rabeeh | _rmk_ : try using the GeexBox - i plug HDMI before and after booting without issues. |
| 11:10 | sraue | rabeeh, .... |
| 11:22 | rabeeh | sraue: hey |
| 14:26 | NotRelevant | https://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/a13-olinuxino-comparison-to-rpi-apc-and-cubox/ |