Posts: 110
Joined: Jul 2008
Reputation:
0
Soju
Senior Member
Posts: 110
My problem with it is- it's just not as economical as far as next gen platforms go.
What do we want? We want something as cheap as the original xbox with HD and it being small and quiet. Well The apple TV is much more interesting in that regard, if the community is going to do any hacking. Google TV appliances even more so long term.
And look at the cost benefit vs a offtheshelf ION box. Its not as if $180 is a huge improvement on $220 or whatever the specials you can get these days. Not with all the potential hacking involved. At $100, now we're talking.
Posts: 1,165
Joined: Jan 2009
Reputation:
2
CrashX
Posting Freak
Posts: 1,165
2010-12-13, 23:17
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-13, 23:23 by CrashX.)
New Firmware released and root access blocked again ...
Apple TV 2 can only handle content up to 720P. It terms of hardware alone + remote, Boxee box is worth the $200 you are paying for it, just wished the software was as good. It is slowly getting better and better though.
The normal XBMC log IS NOT a debug log, to enable debug logging you must toggle it on under XBMC Settings - System or in advancedsettings.xml. Use
XBMC Debug Log Addon to retrieve it.
Posts: 4,549
Joined: Dec 2007
Reputation:
17
topfs2
Team-Kodi Developer
Posts: 4,549
the boxee box does look tivo'ed, which atv is not (not even running linux underneath)... you can't compare them. Up to this point it looks like boxee is actively against any attempts to use the box, we can't support breaking into it then. Besides, you think that the dev team is really happy and wants to support with having to hack into a box essentially running our software already..
If you have problems please read
this before posting
Always read the
XBMC online-manual,
FAQ and
search the forum before posting.
Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the
forum rules.
For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you
read this first.
"Well Im gonna download the code and look at it a bit but I'm certainly not a really good C/C++ programer but I'd help as much as I can, I mostly write in C#."
Posts: 1,483
Joined: Aug 2010
yerbabie27 was arguing that teamXBMC has no interest in porting closed platforms since it is done with ATV before. Both ATV and Boxee are closed platforms al be Boxee tivo'ed (= restrictions against the spirit of GPL).
For XBMC-lovers it would be great to give Boxee, who raised lots of money out of XBMC code, a hard time, anywhere, anyhow and anytime. But it looks like teamXBMC threats Boxee as a business partner, rather than a competitor.
Posts: 1,483
Joined: Aug 2010
Robotica Wrote:yerbabie27 was arguing that teamXBMC has no interest in porting closed platforms since it is done with ATV before. Both ATV and Boxee are closed platforms al be Boxee tivo'ed (= restrictions against the spirit of GPL).
For XBMC-lovers it would be great to give Boxee, who raised lots of money out of XBMC code, a hard time, anywhere, anyhow and anytime. But it looks like teamXBMC threats Boxee as a business partner, rather than a competitor.
But since Boxee is closed it is no option to hack it.
Posts: 1,483
Joined: Aug 2010
thnx poofyhairguy for your valuable info and clear vision.
@topfs: Boxee missuses flaws in GPL v2 to restrict the User Freedoms. This is not the spirit of GPL.
Posts: 1,483
Joined: Aug 2010
2010-12-14, 05:30
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-14, 05:48 by Robotica.)
I think this is the route to hack the boxee box and have the cheapest XBMC solution:
1> Jailbreak Boxee
2> PowerVR closed source drivers should be wrapped into a OpenMax IL decoder component. That’s an Open API which XBMC can use to access video hardware to decode.
3> Upgrade VAAPI-support to the level of Boxee, Mplayer and/or VLC Player.
I even think 2 + 3 can be backported from Boxee. All by all I don't think this is rocket science. Knowledge already is available (even in this community!).