Kodi Playback with Standard V4L2 Stack


Full upstream implementation of Hardware accelerated video decoding (mainly H264) with the generic V4L2 Mem2Mem API, Zero-copy rendering with DRM Atomic kernel Drivers, DMA-BUF transferred from V4L2 to DRM, FFmpeg V4L2 Mem2Mem integration with Kodi, Kodi GBM Display for Atomic Direct to plane rendering.

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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth single chip Unisoc in UCRobotics IVY5661 IoT Edition 96Boards development board


This is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth single chip solution IoT Edition 96Boards, it can be used as a Wi-Fi Repeater, for Bluetooth on-boarding, Bluetooth 5 Mesh Network. It’s an ARM Cortex-M4 dual core, runs Zephyr. You can read more about it here

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$499 Essential PH-1, the first Bezel-Less Smartphone

Posted by – October 29, 2018

Essential‘s PH-1 Smartphone : Display: Resolution: 2560 x 1312 QHD. Aspect Ratio: 19:10.Diagonal Size: 5.71” Material used: Titanium body Ceramic back, Corning Gorilla Glass 5 cover glass. System: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835.CPU: Kryo 280 Octa-core (2.45GHz Quad + 1.9GHz Quad), 64 bit, 10nm processor GPU: Adreno 540, 710MHz, 64bit. Battery: 3040mAh Front Camera: 8MP resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio f/2.20 fixed hyper focal lens 4K and 1080p HD video recording at 30fps.OS:8.1 Memory & Storage: RAM: 4GB Storage: 128GB UFS 2.1. Water and Dust Resistant: IP54
360 Camera for Essential Phone: Essential 360 Camera is the world’s smallest 4k 360° camera and captures 3D spatial audio using four built-in microphones. Model Name: Essential 360 Camera. Dimensions Height: 67mmWidth: 32mmThickness: 12mm (body) Weight: 35grams Audio Microphone: 4x microphones in 3D, ambisonic tetrahedral arrangement Dual Cameras Sensor Resolution: Dual 12MP fisheye imagers Lens aperture: f1.8 FOV: 210° (each) Video Resolutions:360° UHD (3840 x 1920) at 30fps Ports: 60GHz Wireless, Super Speed USB 2x accessory power pins System Architecture OS Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$229 MyKronoz Zee-Time Hybrid Smartwatch, $97 Zee Circle Activity Tracker

Posted by – October 24, 2018

MyKronoz is a Swiss company headquartered in Geneva that designs and develops wearable devices intended to improve our increasingly mobile, connected and digital lifestyles. MyKronoz products in categories: Activity Trackers, Smart watches, Hybrid Smart Watches and Watch phones. ZeTime, the world’s most funded hybrid smart watch.The world’s first hybrid smart watch combining mechanical hands with a round color touchscreen – black silver. With up to 30-days battery for the analog movement*, ZeTime shows you the time even when the screen is turned off. Sphere glass, touch panel, Mechanicals hands, TFT color Display. Optical heart rate sensor, 5 ATM water resistant. Battery 200mAh up to 30 days stand by life. Charging contactor. Display TFT Color touch screen with hole. Andriod 5.0+. https://www.mykronoz.com/uk/en/ (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$150 KONKA Laptop, $40 Tablet, $300 Dancing Robot, $90 Smartphone


$150 http://www.konka.com.hk Kogan Ultra Slim Pro laptop. 13.3-inch, matte screen, 2560 x 1440, non-touchscreen IPS LCD; 900MHz-2.2GHz Intel M3-6Y30 processor; 8GB RAM; 256GB SSD; Intel HD Graphics 515; 802.11AC WiFi; 37.1Wh battery; 1.15KG. https://ift.tt/2PYDJkM $40 Tablets MQWG101. With Screen size 9:7”(4:3) Resolution 1024*768, MTK8392 Quard Core A7 1.7Ghz,RAM 512MB ROM8GB,OS Andriod 4.4 with USB, Battery 4000Mah. $300 Dancing robot. Arm featuring 7-DOF + 1-DOF interchangeable gripper hand including tools, 2-DOF torso, 2-DOF head equipped with 3D camera and 5MP 2D camera, 2-DOF base for horizontal and vertical movement, high-performance AI embedded CPU/CGU, 802.11 ac WiFi + Bluetooth, 2.5 kg payload, Aeolus ROS operating system. $40 Konka AR magic guns real mobile games augmented reality smart children’s toy. Size 311*162*46, Battery 2 section 1.5V AAA bettary OS 4.4. https://ift.tt/2D1QYPa $40Android SmartWatches . 2.5 D curved surface KONKA Smartwatch OLED Screen 0.96 display, 60 days Standby IP68 50m Waterproof Swimming Sport Activity Tracker Smart Watch for Android 4.4 IOS.$90 KONKA 711 Fingerprint 4G Smart phone. CPU: MT6737T 1.45GHz, Display: 5.5″ In-Cell FHD Screen, Front camera: 8.0MP, Rear camera: 13.0MP, RAM: 3GB, ROM: 32GB, OS: Android 7.0, Battery:3000mAh.

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Realtek RTD1395 TV Box Android & RDK, RTD1296 for Media Hub, Google Home, Synology DS418

Posted by – October 23, 2018

Realtek recently introduced its new SoC RTD1395 (SoC – single-chip system), which includes support for HVEC 4K @ 60fs, VP9.2, H.264, HDR, HDR10, Dolby Vision, HLG, Technicolor Prime and Dolby MS12 v1 audio certification .3 Config A. Novelty designed for use in new TV set-top boxes, compatible with Android TV 8.1, although it is expected that through . SoC – Realtek RTD1395 quad core Cortex-A53 processor, Arm Mali-470 MP4 GPU.System Memory – 2GB DDR4 (4x 512MB x 16bit).Storage – 8GB eMMC Flash.Video & Audio Output – HDMI 2.0.Video Codec – HEVC 4Kp60+2Kp60, VP9.2 4Kp60, HDR10.Connectivity,802.11 ac/abgn Dual Band 2.4G/5G 2×2, Wave-2 compatible with MU-MIMO (Optional External Antenna Available).Bluetooth 4.1.Power Supply – 5V DC/1A through MicroUSB port Synology: Synology DS418 comes with a new 64-bit quad-core processor, delivering excellent data transfer speed, large storage volume management, and 10-bit 4K H.265 video transcoding on the fly. https://www.dove.co.nz/products/networking-and-adsl/network-storage/16120 (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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20TB Seagate HAMR hard drive, 14TB Iron Wolf NAS drive

Posted by – October 23, 2018

Jason product marketing manager for Seagate introducing new Hard Drive HAMR(Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) volume shipments of 20TB. SEAGATE HAMR Dard (20TB): Manufacturability: Built over 40,000 HAMR drives; pilot volume in 2018, volume shipments of 20TB+ drives in 2019; drives are built on the same automated assembly line as current products Capacity: Achieved 2 Tbpsi areal density; 30% annual density growth on HAMR over past nine years. Reliability: Tests proved single-head data transfers of over 2PB, exceeds real-world specifications. Simplicity: HAMR is transparent to host; passed customer testing using standard code. Cost: Supply chain fully established and ready to launch; projected cost-per-TB path beats legacy PMR technology. Exos 7E8: Generation: V.5; Capacity 8TB With internal NOR flash. Exos X12 and X10: Capacity; 12TB, 10TB and 8TB, Operating Power (SATA/SAS): 7.8/9.3, 8.4/9.4, Limited Warranty; 5 years Iron Wolf NAS Hard Drive: Generation: V.5; Capacity 14TB, Interface; SATA 6Gb/s (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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SEAGATE Nytro 3000 SAS SSD, Nytro 5000 NVMe SSD

Posted by – October 20, 2018

Up to 3.2 TB Capacity, 1.6 TB, 800 GB, 400 GBEndurance: 3 DWPD Sequential Read 2100 MB/s,SequentialWrite:up to 1,400 MB/s Random Read up to 250K IOPSRandom Write:up to 80K IOPS Warranty 5 years. https://www.seagate.com/in/en/enterprise-storage/nytro-drives/nytro-sas-ssd/ SEAGATENytro 5000 NVMe SSD Hard Drives: Form Factor:2.5 in × 7 mmInterface:PCIe Gen3 x4, NVMe 1.2Capacity:1.9 TB, 1.6 TB, 960 GB, 800 GBSequential Read: 2000 MB/sSequential Write: 1200 MB/Random Read Up to 245K IOPRandom Write:Up to 67K IOPWarranty:5 years https://www.seagate.com/in/en/enterprise-storage/nytro-drives/nytro-data-center-nvme/ (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$179 Pixhawk 4, $300 Pixhack v5 Autopilot Open Source Development kit for Drones and Robots

Posted by – October 20, 2018

Pixhawk 4 is an advanced autopilot designed and made in collaboration with Holybro and the PX4 team. It is optimized to run PX4 version 1.7, suitable for academic and commercial developers.
Main FMU Processor: STM32F76532 Bit Arm Cortex-M7, 216MHz, 2MB memory, 512KB RAMIO Processor: STM32F10032 Bit Arm Cortex-M3, 24MHz, 8KB SRAM.Magnetometer: IST8310.GPS: ublox Neo-M8N GPS/GLONASS receiver; integrated magnetometer. https://www.getfpv.com/pixhawk-4-autopilot.html Pixhack v5 is an advanced autopilot designed and made by CUAV®. The board is based on the Pixhawk-project FMUv5 open hardware design. It runs PX4 on the NuttX OS, and is fully compatible with PX4 firmware. It is intended primarily for academic and commercial developers. Main FMU Processor: STM32F76532 Bit Arm® Cortex®-M7, 216MHz, 2MB memory, 512KB RAM .IO Processor: STM32F100.32 Bit Arm® Cortex-M3, 24MHz, 8KB SRAM.Magnetometer: IST8310.Barometer: MS5611.Interfaces:8-14 PWM outputs (6 from IO, 8 from FMU) Aliexpress (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$170 ROBOBLOQ Programmable Metal Robot Qoopers Kit, $90 Q-Scout and Q-Elephant

Posted by – October 20, 2018

JERRY WANG, CEO talking about products of Robobloq. Which is a new high tech player in STEM* education solution development. Robobloq robot construction platforms are mechanics, electronics and software & application. Robobloq two years old company but this already sales in Australia, New-Zeeland, France, Ukraine, Russia, Canada and United State. Products: Robobloq Qoopers Programmable Metal Robot Kit: Metal body, transformable and drag-and-drop programming: connect with robobloq app and enjoy playing with sensors and electronic modules in a fun way! remote control, line tracking, obstacle avoiding, music playing and rgb lights. drag and drop, and code, explore the metal building platform, cross-subject learning for future talents Robobloq Q-scout Take you beyond imagination: Metal blocks for a smiling robot:the use of aluminum delivers a true feel of robot; big eyes and a smile brings you close to the robotic world.Connect with Robobloq app and enjoy playing with sensors and electronic modules in a fun way! Drag-and-drop, code easily, cross-subject education solution: Robobloq q-scout is a hardware platform designed for stem* education. The future world needs a multi-skilled you. Robobloq Q-Elephant and Q-Dino : With 260+ pieces of metal parts and electronic modules you can build a majestic elephant which seems it travelled through time. The 8-legged structure added to the fun of building and playing! One little surprise – it can transform to a unicorn form with flapping wings. Q-dino strikes you as one of the cutest robot dinosaurs with its wiggling arms and biting jaw. An embedded DC motor driver brings extra fun to coding with it. Q-dino has an crocodile iteration with long tail, enjoy building. https://www.robobloq.com/product/animals (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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DTCO Blockchain for Healthcare phrOS Operating System

Posted by – October 20, 2018

DTCO (Digital Treasury Corporation) consisting of blockchain experts along with professionals from the fields of finance, ICT, and biopharma industries. DTCO serves as a bridge between business and blockchain for wide range of applications including biopharma, healthcare, e-identity and crypto finance. Through industry collaborations, we are confident blockchain technology can bring great value to society. phrOS https://phros.io is a blockchain operating system designed for the healthcare industry. By integrating the blockchain technology and using the distributed database architecture, the system allows hospitals, care providers, medical device developers, App developers, financial companies and big data analysts to jointly create ecosystem applications for areas such as personal health records, data lakes, disease prediction and monitoring, precision medicine R&D, automatic insurance reimbursement, online health management, long-distance care, clinical data analysis, etc To allow everyone in the society to enjoy the healthcare block chain services and own personal health records which can be accessed worldwide so as to create a healthy and civilized new society. To allow every doctor and researcher to make medical advance by using block chain services and data lakes. To solve the problem of privacy, data security and interoperability, and to promote healthcare industry collaboration. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$120 KXD K30, $26 El W40 Smartphone Retina HD

Posted by – October 20, 2018

KENXINDA Smartphones K30 and EL W40. KXD K30 Retina HD Display 5.7” MTK6750/MTK6757 Octa-Core 1.5GhZ/2.5GhZ CPU.RAM 2GB and ROM 16GB,Display 5.7” HD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1440*720, Android 8.0, Battery 3280mAh.Back fingerprint. http://en.kenxinda.com/kxd-k30/ EL W40 Cheaper in price $26” MTK6580T Quad Core 1.5 GHz CPU .RAM 512MB and ROM 4GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 854*480,Front Camera 2.0mp back camera 5.0mp, Android 6.0, Battery 1500mAh Non Removable, Back fingerprint. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$220 KIEMO S6001 Bezel-less 6″, $26 KIEMO 4062

Posted by – October 20, 2018

KIEMO S6001 6-inch Curved Glass HD 1440*720p IPS Bezel-less Big Battery Fast Charging Smart Mobile Phone: Memory: ROM 64GB+RAM 4GB , Camera5MP+13MP back camera8MP front camera ,MT6757 Octa Core, 6.0″ curved glass HD 1440*720 IPS, Battery 3150mAh,Android 7.0 4G KIEMO 4.0-inch Cheaper Price Smartphone 4.0″ flat glass WVGA 800*480TN Os:Android 7.0, ROM 4GB+RAM 512MB Camera: 0.3MP front camera 2MP back camera MT6580/6737/SC7731/9832 CPU: Battery 1450mAh (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$179 MELE PCG02 PC Stick Fan-less, PCHD26 GML3 with Intel Gemini and PCC65 Video Conference

Posted by – October 20, 2018

MELE Fan-less PCHD26 GML3Computer stick with Intel:
Processor Intel Appllolake N3350:/N3450 with 2.4/2.2 Quad core and dual core. Cache 2MB L2,OS Ubuntu Linux or Windows 10,©/4GB/6GB LPDR, Storage 32GB;Connectivity 100/1000Mbps LAN; HDMI2.0 output 4K@60fpsUSB3.0 at Aliexpress MELE PCC65 Video Conference System: OS; Widnows 10 Pro, Display 1080 FHD+, Zoom: 12X Angle 72.5 degree wide, Speed 1000 mbps 5MP sensor with a 72.5 °field of view , built-in noise canceling microphone that can rotate both vertically and horizontally. up to 8GB of DDR3L RAM and 64GB of eMMC with optional SSD from 128GB to 512GB, most expensive will have Intel Kaby Lake-U chips from 15W with (up to) 32GB of DDR4 memory and up to 64GB of on-board eMMC with optional SSD M.2 in various denominations. at Mele (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

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$500 MELE LumiDiet Fat Decomposing Smart Wearable Diet Belt using Infrared

Posted by – October 20, 2018

Mele decomposing The Fat smart wearable diet belt uses the red led lights and infrared led light together and it’s vibrating. Around 30 minutes you need to wear it’s at once and after wearing the 30 minutes this you need to exercise to less the fat. Charging by magnetic USB charger. (text by flatslap5657 of http://fiverr.com/s2/bb496d0ed0)

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$169 BLUBOO S2, S3 Rotating Camera Bezel-less Smartphone

Posted by – October 20, 2018

Bezel-less Rotating and massive Battery power smartphones by BLUBOOS2,S3.
S2 One Rotation a mega Vision (One Camera 2 modes):
Special Rotating Camera on front for Selfie and Rear 21 MP Sony Camera. MT6763 Helio P23 Octa-Core CPU.RAM 6GB and ROM 128GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1080*2160, Android 8.1, Battery 4050mAh.Back fingerprint.
S3 (Massive Battery power with one week stands by time) comes with:
MTK6750T Octa-Core 1.5 GHz CPU .RAM 4GB and ROM 64GB,Display 6.0” FHD + 18:9 Screen Resolution 1080*2160,Front Camera 13.0mp back camera 21.0mp, Android 8.1, Battery 8500mAh.Back fingerprint. Mobile Power Bank.
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Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 X

Posted by – October 18, 2018

Huawei Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro and Mate 20 X is the fastest phone in the world, with a 7nm Kirin 980 quad ARM Cortex-A76, quad ARM Cortex-A55, Mali-G76MP10 GPU, with Dual-NPU AI acceleration that has 6.9 Billion transistors on the SoC package. It comes with world’s first 1.4Gbit/s Cat.21 LTE Modem, supports 2133Mhz LPDDR4X. Huawei claims to be about 50% faster at loading apps compared with the latest iPhone and Galaxy Note 9, run 38% longer on its 4200mAh battery, enables 140% faster quick charge with its 40W charger, it takes only 30min to charge up 70% of the battery and has 70% faster wireless charging. Up to 120% better antenna performance compared with the new iPhone Xs Max, with its dual-frequency GPS receiver, it can have a 10x better GPS positioning accuracy. Huawei PC Mode now also works by its usual USB Type-C Displayport functionality but it also works wirelessly sending the PC Mode display over to any Miracast receiver they also provide a Huawei wireless dongle. Huawei Mate 20 X is a very large 7.2″ OLED smartphone with 5000mAh battery, world’s first vapor chamber and grephene film based cooling technology enabling higher performance when doing processor intensive tasks for long periods of time such as for gaming.

Huawei HiVision estimates calories in Food on Huawei Mate 20

Posted by – October 17, 2018

HiVision gives information about food, it can give an estimate on food calories by its volume to assist in having a healthy lifestyle. It can recognize landmarks, famous paintings and objects which can then be purchased directly in Huawei’s Smart Shopping feature that can recognize things and launch the purchase procedure directly based on the image or based on the camera. The Huawei Mate 20 comes with not only the world’s most powerful Arm processor in Kirin 980 built on 7nm, with quad ARM Cortex-A76 and quad ARM Cortex-A55, it also has Dual-core Neural Processing Unit offering a vast amount of AI computing performance, making up probably a large part of those 6.9 Billion transistors on the SoC. These algorithms can eventually be trained to offer more and more accurate recognition of things in the surroundings of the smartphone camera.

Bokeh video on Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Posted by – October 17, 2018

The Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro can take Bokeh video, they can blur the background as one of their new video AI modes in 1080p30. I shot here a sample using the phone so you can see the quality of that bokeh effect. Does it look good enough for video-blogging in a way that might have a professional look to it? I guess if the bokeh isn’t by optics it’s better not to shoot with it, right? But then the whole video is flat. This bokeh AI effect does not seem to recognize the things that are at the same distance, it blurs out anything that it considers not to be part of the face. And it might unblur any other faces that it catches in the background too which kind of defeats the purpose of blurring out the foreground and the background. It is possible though that Huawei might still yet improve on their AI algorithms here to perhaps improve their bokeh video effect further.

7.2″ giant Huawei Mate 20 X with Myriam Joire

Posted by – October 17, 2018

Myriam Joire of the Mobile Tech Podcast has been covering tech for over a decade and was previously Engadget’s Senior Mobile Editor, host of the Engadget Mobile Podcast, and co-host of TWiT’s All About Android. The Huawei Mate 20 X is a 7.2″ 1080×2244, Android 9.0 powered high end Android phone running on the new 7nm HiSilicon Kirin 980 quad ARM Cortex-A76, quad ARM Cortex-A55 with Mali-G76 MP10 GPU. This phone is actually targetted at the gaming market, to be launched at 899€.