[Arm-netbook] A10 server dreamboard

[Vladimir Pantelic]

Peter Steenbergen wrote:
> There are better ARM SoC's out there to be used as server option, but where the Allwinner might come in very handy is
> when the video chip encoding is working.
>
> We can then end up in a very powerfull low energy transcoding machine to h.264. I imagine the chip can do one concurrent
> stream at the time, but then combining multiple boards into one machine gives the answer.
>
> Those transcoding machine are ussually very expensive and consume a shit load of energy. Their might be a nice nich
> market in that area for the Allwinner SoC

Only if you can configure/tweak the h264 encoder properly. Users of
such systems might have a clear idea about how to encode h264 and you'd
have to support that...