2012-01-04, 17:36
Keep in mind that a maxed cpu while in GUI is not necessarily that bad on an embedded platform. The CPU drops to almost nothing while playing video as that is all handled via hardware video decoders.
davilla Wrote:Keep in mind that a maxed cpu while in GUI is not necessarily that bad on an embedded platform. The CPU drops to almost nothing while playing video as that is all handled via hardware video decoders.
microler Wrote:Really great work, XBMC on the Pi is awesome. Will it support HDMI CEC commands (libcec) so it can be controlled by the TV remote?
Atomic Zombie Wrote:That's down to what you put on it (Live/openELEC) so yes.
davilla Wrote:Keep in mind that a maxed cpu while in GUI is not necessarily that bad on an embedded platform. The CPU drops to almost nothing while playing video as that is all handled via hardware video decoders.
Bram77 Wrote:Just stubled across this device. Very similar to the Pi, but a bit more powerful and with IR and eSata support. 99 euro is a bit too much too my taste, especially compared to the Pi. But it's great to see several alternatives popping up. We will have integrated XBMC in future TV's in not time :p
Khivar Wrote:Is it intended to support the hardware decoding on the Raspberry PI ?
On their forum they said "We will be providing a player whilst a decent library is developed to link with the standard players out there " So It could be cool if there was a way to include their library to mplayer in order to have hardware decoding on XBMC
Khivar Wrote:I read somewhere that this was an ARM7 processor and the Raspberry is ARM11 so the architecture is different so are you sure it is more powerful ? On the GPU side does someone has more infos to compare it to the Raspberry Pi ? It seems to lack hardware video encoding while Raspberry Pi doesn't. Well not that usefull for XBMC I guess but for many other things.
davilla Wrote:what's mplayer we use dvdplayer inside xbmc and there's something different inside for use with this platform.
davilla Wrote:arm specs can be confusing, Raspberry Pi is armv6, the other is armv7.