[Ned Scott]

what are the odds it makes it back into the repo?

About as good as FFmpeg making it back in.

[teeedubb]

Hopefully valves changes (to xpad driver and compositor) will be easily installed on other distros, fingers crossed they will be easier to install than xbmc in Debian.

[rfa31]

Should I not just be able to add ffmpeg? and then xbmc?

[rbalint]

what are the odds it makes it back into the repo?

About as good as FFmpeg making it back in.

Actually the odds are much better, I hope.
If you check the topic I have prepared a package using libav which I would like to upload and can upload (since I'm a DD).
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=177474&page=5

All I'm waiting for is green light from the XBMC development team, since the package is owned by the XBMC team on Launchpad from which I can get no yes/no:
https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc

If FFmpeg gets reintroduced as a separate package to Debian I will happily switch the to it with the packaged XBMC and till then I'll be working on getting libav problems which surface using XBMC fixed.

[haf-blade]

Here some steam greenlight concept can be found with XBMC
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi...=118102362

[tjcinnamon]

Non-UEFI version to any devs that feel like playing and only have BIOS

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/unoffic...25467.html

[natethomas]

Here some steam greenlight concept can be found with XBMC
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi...=118102362

Always fun to see my steam greenlight idea reposted. It appears most of the doom and gloom people have stopped dooming and glooming the idea too, which is nice.

[calibos]

I posted about my hopes for Steam OS and XBMC somewhere on the forums a month or two ago. Cant remember where. Anyway, sufficed to say I will be all over this with all my fingers and toes crossed.

I'm holding off on replacing my NAS Media boxes with a full blown server till next year till I see how SteamOS, XBMC integration and/or Game-streaming pans out.

If it does I'll be building a Haswell-E 8 core server with plenty of Ram and 3 GPU's. WHS 2011, Flexraid for Media Drive pooling and some data protection, NetDVR software. It looks like VM's aren't much closer than a few years ago for transparent GPU passthrough but I am hoping Multiseat sessions in combination with sandboxes and Steam Game Streaming will work.

In other words, not only would the server be feeding content to the 8 or so instances of XBMC on the low power devices in our home but also be capable of turning those low power devices into powerful games machines too.

[teeedubb]

Hopefully valves changes (to xpad driver and compositor) will be easily installed on other distros, fingers crossed they will be easier to install than xbmc in Debian.

Here is a ppa for some steamos packages for ubuntu. Updated xpad driver works well, now the light on a 360 pad doesnt just flash all the time, and acts as it should. Unfortunately the triggers still dont work in with xbmc. Im trying out the compositor now.

https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/+archive/steamos
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/install-s...buntu.html

[tjcinnamon]

Hopefully valves changes (to xpad driver and compositor) will be easily installed on other distros, fingers crossed they will be easier to install than xbmc in Debian.

Here is a ppa for some steamos packages for ubuntu. Updated xpad driver works well, now the light on a 360 pad doesnt just flash all the time, and acts as it should. Unfortunately the triggers still dont work in with xbmc. Im trying out the compositor now.

https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/+archive/steamos
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/install-s...buntu.html

I like your style teeedubb. Keep up the good work.

[benholtby]

I am happy with the way it works currently using teeedub's launcher from XBMC Windows and booting into BPM. If I can setup a host server for the games it would be all I would need; controller games downstairs and keyboard / mouse games in the office. Seems like the ideal setup to me?

[DJ_Izumi]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/st...u-support/

So this has resulted in AMD releasing Catalyst 13.11 for Linux in SteamOS and a stand alone release coming soon. I'd call that a pretty successful move at getting hardware developers off their butts on Linux support.

[bmfrosty]

So, uhm, zoomplayer just got greenlit. - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi...=104194636

I think that if XBMC actually moved to into greenlight, it would get the votes it needed to be in the store.

[theslime]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/st...u-support/

So this has resulted in AMD releasing Catalyst 13.11 for Linux in SteamOS and a stand alone release coming soon. I'd call that a pretty successful move at getting hardware developers off their butts on Linux support.

Just tried it on an AMD Radeon HD 7410m, and - surprise surprise! - it didn't work AT ALL. Like no Catalyst release since 12.6 (the last working driver for my card) has done. I'm interested in trying it with a minimal Ubuntu running the newly fixed OSS Radeon driver, but not interested enough to actually sabotage my setup and try.

Btw, does anyone know why SteamOS uses GNOME3? I'm one of those who actually really likes GNOME3, but it seems a strange choice for a minimal Debian platform where everything happens in the Steam client.

[Budwyzer]

So, uhm, zoomplayer just got greenlit. - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi...=104194636

I think that if XBMC actually moved to into greenlight, it would get the votes it needed to be in the store.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi...=118102362

Just realized it's concept only right now. So yeah, I agree, voting would probably greenlight it in a day.