[Astromation]

Just to assuage those who have questioned the authenticity of my posts, I snuck out to the lab and found some old CE5315 samples that weren't being used...
http://www.astromation.com/ce5315_for_xbmc.jpg

and hey, why wait for our version when there is already one WITH NAS available:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Asustor/AS-302T/

Note the issues with Dolby in the base Intel distribution, and the difficulties working with the multiple graphics planes... they possibly just have the Z-order wrong...

Buy it here for only $318!
http://www.amazon.com/Asustor-AS-302T-1-...B00E1BTO38

[Dougie Fresh]

I apologize if you are offended. [..]
Again, I didn't mean to offend you. I thought we were simply having a good-natured discussion comparing the relative merits of each platform.

Well, you didn't until that post.

I think I did a pretty good job of making my point without it becoming personal. I've made no comment about you personally. I've expressed why I don't consider this a product I would be interested in, in answer to your original post, and nothing else. I know my customers as well and what their interests are and it's not this technology and not at that price point.

So, don't go making it personal all the sudden with comments like these. That's a cop-out.

[Cocom]

I think CE53xx Berryville series of Media system on a chip has had a bad press in these posts. It’s the only Intel Chip specifically developed over 4 generations to be the best dedicated STB / HTPC system on a chip. It has the best video quality decode I have seen from any decoder, flies thru the HQV video quality tests. Has dual 1080P60 decode can encode up to 16 SD stream or 2 HD streams at once with less than 10% CPU usage. The other CPU is asleep or soft decoding HD H265 / VP9. A high end i5 would have troubles doing all of this without a stutter. The CE53xx has internal STB hardware that standard processors do not ie 5 Video / graphic planes ; CEC ; IR input ; IR Blaster ; Multi Transport Stream in / out ; HDMI in Out 1.4a ; 3D ; Security Processor for DRM / CAS ; Multi Audio DSPs ; HW Video Encoder low latency H264 L4.1 CBR/VBR. We have developed a lot of the products mentioned in this post, and been working with XBMC for 3 years since Meego TV !.. We have CE53xx XBMC 12.3 on Linux 3.4 LTS with ffmpeg using hardware encode and decode or rolling over to soft decode on the 2nd CPU if the hardware encoder / decoder is busy or its H265 / VP9 / one of the other 100 soft codecs. XBMC is truly great, keep up the good work team xbmc. CE53xx is a great but miss understood part. If you want to download the source to our previous XBMC code releases , register and download for free http://shop.cc-e.eu/SDK keep on XBMCing..

[RockerC]

Other than the XBMC port for D-Link's (Intel CE4xxx) Boxee Box, is anyone still actively developing XBMC for Intel CEx hardware platforms?
https://github.com/quarnster/boxeebox-xbmc
https://github.com/cigamit/boxeehack/

We have developed a lot of the products mentioned in this post, and been working with XBMC for 3 years since Meego TV !.. We have CE53xx XBMC 12.3 on Linux 3.4 LTS with ffmpeg using hardware encode and decode or rolling over to soft decode on the 2nd CPU if the hardware encoder / decoder is busy or its H265 / VP9 / one of the other 100 soft codecs. XBMC is truly great, keep up the good work team xbmc. CE53xx is a great but miss understood part.

MeeGo TV stack did provide a GPLv2 compatible "OBS Light" based SDK (OBS = openSUSE's Open Build Service) appliance client image that used XBMC as reference software for Intel CE4xxx and Intel CE5xxx based embedded appliance devices before, as described here
http://www.madeo.co.uk/?p=947
http://xbmc.in/2012/06/20/meego-tv-tizen-obs-light/

It looks like Tizen is still being developed for OBS Light, but not sure if the MeeGo, Tizen, or Mer projects is still using XBMC as reference media center software or even if any or those projects TV stack SDK branch continued with active development under their Smart TV projects?

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OBS_Light
https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/HOW-TO_build..._OBS_Light

[Cocom]

We are continuously working on XBMC for all the Intel media chips. There are lots of products out there with XBMC v12.3 on Berryville
the NAS boxes are doing well on it. See http://youtu.be/csgC2E7-o2M We had a demo large demo with Berryville CE5300 last week
and everybody was impressed. The number 1 comment is the quality of the decoded HD picture compared to other products.

[RockerC]

We are continuously working on XBMC for all the Intel media chips. There are lots of products out there with XBMC v12.3 on Berryville
the NAS boxes are doing well on it.

Are there then any reasons for Intel SMD and GStreamer (gstplayer) CEx players code not being submitted upstream into XBMC mainline?

It would get more developers of development if done as Intel SMD / CEx player or CEx codec in master https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/


I'm thinking similar to how either the OpenMAX (OMXPlayer) player is implemented and developed upstream in mainline today

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master.../omxplayer

Either that, or how AMLCodec was now recently implemented in upstream mainline for AMlogic

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master.../DVDCodecs

[Starstream]

Ah so your the guys responsible for XBMC on the CE5300 I was wondering where those came from.

Most of the CE5300 units have been NAS so far but Lenovo have the Beacon which is more media player like, we could do with one or two more of those as NAS tend to cost more and most people buying an XBMC box likely already have a NAS.

Cocom does the CE5300 do things like HD audio bitstreaming and 1080@24hz match resolution to frame rate ? I know various videophiles on other forums have not jumped on commercial XBMC boxes yet as the various Arm XBMC products don't do one, the other or both.

[unmesh]

We are continuously working on XBMC for all the Intel media chips. There are lots of products out there with XBMC v12.3 on Berryville
the NAS boxes are doing well on it. See http://youtu.be/csgC2E7-o2M We had a demo large demo with Berryville CE5300 last week
and everybody was impressed. The number 1 comment is the quality of the decoded HD picture compared to other products.

Very nice demo. Do you know if there are IR codes available for the Logitech Harmony remotes for the ASUSTOR unit?