2008-07-23, 22:04
Hmm. I actually do have some access to coders , although I'm not myself one (I do work in tech sector professionally). The thing is, I'm trying to identify an ARM SoC platform that will at least in theory can be successful. Based on both of your replies, it seems there are a few serious dependencies:
1. Processing power
-Arm11 vs x86 performance per core, per cycle.
2. Future GPU codec/etc off-loading schemes
-Whether XBMC advancement in offloading processing to GPUs in the future will be generic enough to work on PowerVR varients, the usual GPU ARM coprocessor.
-Specific case of Nvidia (rather than PowerVR) Purevideo decoders becoming available for Linux generally, and Arm bytecode specifically. At present Tegra only supports MS OSs- which may or not present a target for the windows XBMC as a potential target as well.
3. Picking a Linux distro,
-potentially the MIB Ubuntu- as a candidate OS, so it has general compatibilities with the rest of the Linux effort for XBMC linux port.
If anyone is interested in joining the effort, perhaps I can acquire and contribute a target device, once identified, for it.
1. Processing power
-Arm11 vs x86 performance per core, per cycle.
2. Future GPU codec/etc off-loading schemes
-Whether XBMC advancement in offloading processing to GPUs in the future will be generic enough to work on PowerVR varients, the usual GPU ARM coprocessor.
-Specific case of Nvidia (rather than PowerVR) Purevideo decoders becoming available for Linux generally, and Arm bytecode specifically. At present Tegra only supports MS OSs- which may or not present a target for the windows XBMC as a potential target as well.
3. Picking a Linux distro,
-potentially the MIB Ubuntu- as a candidate OS, so it has general compatibilities with the rest of the Linux effort for XBMC linux port.
If anyone is interested in joining the effort, perhaps I can acquire and contribute a target device, once identified, for it.