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IMO this would be a significant effort, and moving away from XBMC's multi-platform nature, but well worth it. XBMC written in WinRT would get many features on Win 8 that will benefit users -
- easy install, automatic upgrade through the Windows store
- promotions and discovery for new users
- settings preserved across Windows reinstalls (Refresh/Reset feature)
- perfectly suited to Metro since it'll be fullscreen
Any thoughts on this?
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2012-02-29, 00:16
(This post was last modified: 2012-02-29, 00:19 by DDDamian.)
Unlikely to happen any time soon. It works just fine using Win32, and also depends on many open-source libraries that would all have to be re-written, so a good chunk of what you propose is not directly in our control.
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I think we can categorically rule that out.
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honestly I'm not sure XCBMC is the right fit for metro, it sounds boss but I think we'd be better off getting a better music app and then building a video app similar to the one shipping with the consumer preview and adding in some xbmc features like movie/show database pulling for information.
TLDR: Different team, different project.
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2012-07-02, 00:40
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-02, 00:40 by AntDelInferno.)
I can actually see this in the future. Having used Windows 8 since the Developer Preview I'm totally planning on using this for my HTPC. I know it's a long shot but there's the slim, thermal-exhaust-port chance that Microsoft (or someone else) might start implementing all these neat features from XBMC into, if not the vanilla apps, then some third party apps. Like if I can just click on the Movie Library icon on the Start Screen and go to all my Movies without needing an XBMC that'd be slick. I'd also love to see Steam make their metro app... Oh! Imagine some SNES emulators that actually collected all the metadata for the games in your collection? That'd be a nice looking UI.
So my only concern is whether or not XMBC will even be necessary for my home theater experience in the future since Windows 8 has, already, the promise of a serious contender.
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Any good news for this task?
I've tried to compile XBMC in Visual Studio 2012 RC by updating VS2010Express projects, and no luck.