2008-07-23, 21:03
Soju Wrote:Would a 1 Ghz dual core Arm 11 suffice to run 720p, assuming there is OpenGl 2.0 support on the GPU?Probably not 720p video encoded with H.264 codec, no.
FYI; the OpenGL requirement of the GPU is for the XBMC GUI, (not much at all of the actual video-decoding is of-loaded to the GPU, the CPU practically have to take the whole load of the video-decoding process by itself).
I do not think it is interesting because no one of Team-XBMC developers owns one of these machines them self and as XBMC is a hobby project (with everyone on Team-XBMC working on XBMC for free in their spare time only for the fun of it) they all only code things that they have an personal interest in.
You are most welcome to start porting XBMC to ARM yourself and submit patches to the XBMC project, I am sure that everyone on Team-XBMC would do their best to try to support you in the effort (as much as we can anyway without having access to the hardware), ...which is the same as the deal with XBMC on PowerPC and Cell (which the difference that there are probably a whole lot more people out there who already own or have access to that hardware).