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Install XBMC on my mediaplayer - nixnox2004 - 2011-05-26
I have a mediaplayer on the way that has the following specification:
CPU: ARM Cortex A9 1GMHz Dual 2.5D and 3D GPU processors
GPU: Amlogic AML8726M
Flash: 256 Mb Flash/ 2 GB DDR2 RAM
Can I in some way install XBMC on it? If not with the current drivers can anywone make it work on it and I'm willing to pay (donate) for it. Thanks alot for all you help!
- darkscout - 2011-05-26
ARM fork is still not quite there.
- nixnox2004 - 2011-05-26
Are they working on it? Could any admin, developer contact me on [email protected]? As I said I'm willing to pay for this solution.
Is the ARM powerful enough eventhough it is singlecore and not dualcore like the Tegra 2?
Thanks guys!
- darkscout - 2011-05-26
Follow these threads:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=35139&highlight=ARM
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=71297&highlight=ARM
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=81682&highlight=ARM
- nixnox2004 - 2011-05-27
So it means currently no (I'm not an expert in this but want XBMC)? If you want I can send the mediaplayer to anyone and pay for it to make it work and give me the solution. Please PM me or mail me!
Thanks once again!
- davilla - 2011-05-27
XBMC has not yet been ported to the Amlogic AML8726M. Yes it's ARM and yes it has OpenGLES but running xbmc on embedded boxes is not a 'just compile & go' operation.
- nixnox2004 - 2011-05-31
Thats why I'm offering payment for the work to make it. 1k USD sounds resonable? :S Please mail me on [email protected]
- jhsrennie - 2011-05-31
I can't speak for the other developers, but typically $1k would buy you one day of developer time. Possibly two days if it was a long term contract. Given how much time the developers have put in for free, XBMC is one hell of a bargain.
JR
- davilla - 2011-06-01
jhsrennie is right, 1K does not buy much pro dev time. At my rate, that gives less than an eight hour day and this would take much longer than that.
So far it's taken me about 16 hours over the past two weeks to get the basic uboot/kernel/min rootfs building. Another 4 to hack console access to get to uboot so I can boot an SD flash. But kernel is not running so back to build I go to figure out why. After that it's getting rootfs straight and setup then building xbmc's 40+ external lib depends and that just to get to where one can start building xbmc itself.
Maybe in another month or so, it will be at a point to open up.
- jhsrennie - 2011-06-01
This probably sounds as if we are spurning your offer, but that isn't really the case. The point is simply that unless you're an eccentric millionaire there isn't any way to get the ARM port done faster than it's already being worked on.
JR
- nixnox2004 - 2011-06-01
then if anyone can make it for 3k USD you can contact me....I need it made within two-three weeks. Thanks!
- Chris! - 2011-06-01
This is really strange 3K, which you could buy a system with very very very easily (very).
Do you represent a company or see this as an investment opportunity, how come only 2 - 3 weeks?
Remember that people who work on XBMC often have day time jobs (CEOs, Lecturers, Post graduates etc) and develop in their free time, which is limited.
But remember you can donate however much you like to xbmc:
http://xbmc.org/contribute/donate/
- Hudson_Hawk04 - 2011-06-02
pseudo7 Wrote:This is really strange 3K, which you could buy a system with very very very easily (very).
Do you represent a company or see this as an investment opportunity, how come only 2 - 3 weeks?
Remember that people who work on XBMC often have day time jobs (CEOs, Lecturers, Post graduates etc) and develop in their free time, which is limited.
But remember you can donate however much you like to xbmc:
http://xbmc.org/contribute/donate/
actually they could probably build ten....but something sounds really fishy here.
- Hudson_Hawk04 - 2011-06-02
ding ding ding we have a winner
http://forum.xbmc.org/search.php?searchid=8519664
- Starstream - 2011-06-02
nixnox2004 are you trying to put together some sort of XBMC set top box ? AMD's Fusion embedded G series is probably a better candidate given that it should run XBMC straight away as it's x86 and has a decent CPU/GPU with hardware acceleration for all major codecs.
AMD are trying to sell them to network media player market too although they haven't had any design wins yet, it's still quite new.