2018-04-07, 20:41
Regarding BD-J support on platforms without a JVM.
Keep in mind, the Blu-ray specs were created back in 2001. The first player came on the market in 2003.
This means Blu-ray Disc Java is very old. And this means that the JVM necessary to run BD-J is very small.
Take a look at phoneME: 1,4 mb to run JavaME stuff. That's considered nothing in this day and age.
So to me, it sure looks like Kodi could/should simply embed its own JVM, and then BD-J would work on all platforms without having a JVM installed. Even Android and AppleTV.
Obviously not a full latest JVM. That would be way too big. But just one that contains the necessary API's.
Java gamedevs do it all the time. There's no reason why Kodi couldn't do it too. And it would absolutely rock!
Keep in mind, the Blu-ray specs were created back in 2001. The first player came on the market in 2003.
This means Blu-ray Disc Java is very old. And this means that the JVM necessary to run BD-J is very small.
Take a look at phoneME: 1,4 mb to run JavaME stuff. That's considered nothing in this day and age.
So to me, it sure looks like Kodi could/should simply embed its own JVM, and then BD-J would work on all platforms without having a JVM installed. Even Android and AppleTV.
Obviously not a full latest JVM. That would be way too big. But just one that contains the necessary API's.
Java gamedevs do it all the time. There's no reason why Kodi couldn't do it too. And it would absolutely rock!
