What to expect from Duo V2 operating system ?

jj69 wrote:
Setting aside the Plex case, do you think we would end up to have an AirPrint add-on ?

I already have the AirPrint functionality ready for x86 and I don't think it would be too hard to port that over to the ARM boxes.

jj69 wrote:
Would I be able to compile a decently "fresh" revision on vlc (obviously cli) to handle mp4 stream recording ?

While you may be able to compile VLC for ARM I doubt you'll be happy with the performance. I also doubt it would be able to handle mp4 in real time. Together with the Plex team I tried and built a version of FFmpeg (which in most cases is what VLC will use to encode/decode). Transcoding a 2hour 1080p movie on ARM took roughly 23hours so no chance for live transcoding there. Didn't test pure streaming of content that doesn't need to be transcoded, though. Either way, there may be a solution to that but I don't know the current status of that so I won't go into any details right now.

From the technical side the major problem here is that the ARM architecture is lacking any enhanced support for math routines. So no SSE, MMX, 3DNOW and that's what really puts the breaks on any encoding/decoding you try to do on that platform.

-Stefan