home audio system

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 03:57:21PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> On 18 December 2013 12:13, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>wrote:
> 
> 
> > So that's not bad.  I would say the 1.5GHz arm keeps up quite well with
> > the 2.2GHz x86_64.  Sure it's an OLD x86_64, but still.
> >
> > Maybe the ARMv6 in the Pi just is that shitty or VFPv2 versus VFPv3
> > makes that big a difference. :)
> >
> 
> Hi Lennart,
> 
> At the last TLUG meeting I had asked if anyone in the community with the
> CuBox-i <http://cubox-i.com/> as a useful Pi replacement for an XBMC
> client. It has a better case, built-in IR receiver, apparently faster
> processor, and you don't need to pay extra for useful media codecs.
> 
> Do you -- or anyone else here -- have experience with this system?

I have only read about the CuBox-i so far.  I have the original CuBox
on my desk.

Here is a run on the original CuBox running Debian sid armhf:

# lame -V 2 04-Apologize.wav 
LAME 3.99.5 32bits (http://lame.sf.net)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz
Encoding 04-Apologize.wav to 04-Apologize.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=2)
    Frame          |  CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU |    ETA 
  7981/7981  (100%)|    1:11/    1:11|    1:11/    1:11|   2.9134x|    0:00           $<2>                          $<2>
 32 [  34] %$<3>
 40 [   2] %$<3>
 48 [   3] %$<3>
 56 [   4] %$<3>
 64 [   2] %$<3>
 80 [   3] %$<3>
 96 [   2] %$<3>
112 [   4] %$<3>
128 [ 318] %*****$<3>
160 [4169] %%%%****************************************************************$<3>
192 [2736] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%***************************$<3>
224 [ 430] %%******$<3>
256 [ 194] %***$<3>
320 [  80] %*$<3>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------$<3>
   kbps        LR    MS  %     long switch short %$<3>
  176.3       18.7  81.3        95.4   2.4   2.2$<3>
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: -8.6dB

The Cortex-A9 should be faster per MHz than the PJ4 in the CuBox's Marvel
Armada 510, so the CuBox-i should be faster than what I got there.
I don't think I have any Cortex-A9 boards around at the moment.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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