[RockerC]

Yeah with the release of there new SMP8672 SoC we can maybe finally get some news about Sigma Designs and their OEM's future plans for XBMC

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/uploads/libr...20604c.pdf

The SMP8672 also fully supports the XBMC middleware, which is available royalty free as a turnkey release. The XBMC middleware along with additional OTT plug-ins can enable a custom high-end media jukebox experience. In addition, there is full support for the OpenGL-ES 2.0 to enable new 3D user interface capabilities as well as future applications with WebGL.

SMP8672 will be available mid-July. More information about the SMP8672 can be found here www.sigmadesigns.com

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products.php?id=152

The SMP8672 provides a highly-integrated, high-performance, low-cost solution for mainstream media players. The Secure Media Processor architecture offers advanced content protection, supporting a wide variety of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Conditional Access (CA) solutions.

Additional features over the SMP8670 include support for:

• 60% faster host CPU with L2 cache improves browser and OTT performance
  
• DDR3 memory support lowers BOM cost
  
• H.264 1080p60 and MVC decoding
  
• Two audio DSPs to support audio transcoding
  
• 3D graphics processor

The high-performance 3D graphics available on the SMP8672 enables dynamic and customizable user interfaces by supporting the flipping, rotating, warping, and moving of images.

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/media_proces...erview.php

Sigma Designs' Secure Media Processors™ offer a complete, high-performance SoC solution for a wide variety of consumer products. Featuring high-quality audio/video decoding, powerful audio/video processing, and commonly-used peripheral interfaces, our SoCs and software enable rapid product development and lower manufacturing cost. In addition, our Secure Media Processor™ architecture offers advanced content protection, supporting a wide variety of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Conditional Access (CA) solutions.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/arti...894617.htm
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sigma-l...2012-06-04
http://world.einnews.com/pr_news/9924916...ia-devices

[Robotica]

.....

Who did the heavy lifting to port XBMC to MIPS architecture?

atek3

Mostly, Davilla is doing these commercial works. Like with Apple and Broadcom. But I'm not sure..

[BORIStheBLADE]

Yes!!!

[T800]

Would you go back to PopcornHour BORIS?

[BORIStheBLADE]

Would you go back to PopcornHour BORIS?

If it ran XBMC I probably would.

[pszab]

I have still concerns with the cooperation with Sigma. I my experience they take everything and they give nothing in return. I signed an NDA with Sigma for a Jukebox development for the PCH A200 / C200.
They gave absolute no information back and sucked every bit of code.

I would not wonder, if they release a device based on xbmc, and they hide every change they made.

Sounds bad...
Any news since then?

[Jönke]

"A demonstration of the SMP8656 running XBMC can be seen at IBC Booth BM7/BM8 at RAI, Amsterdam
September 6th to September 11th 2012. For more information on Sigma Designs and the SMP 8656
processor, visit www.sigmadesigns.com"

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/news.php

[CK1one]

"A demonstration of the SMP8656 running XBMC can be seen at IBC Booth BM7/BM8 at RAI, Amsterdam
September 6th to September 11th 2012. For more information on Sigma Designs and the SMP 8656
processor, visit www.sigmadesigns.com"

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/news.php

This will become interesting

[Ned Scott]

Sigma joined us yesterday for the first day of the 2012 XBMC DevCon (wiki). We'll have some great info for your guys in the near future.

[voochi]

The key is going to be stability. When you purchase a set-top player you have a different set of expectations compared to someone building something from scratch and installing free software. When you pay for something you expect rock-solid stability.

If Sigma can achieve that im sure it will be something great. But honestly it seems like a tall order, I am not very optimistic. A lot of the set-top media players have tonnes of bugs and issues despite very simple UIs and featuresets. Adding the complexity and hodge-podge code of XBMC into the mix seems like a recipe for disaster.

[Starstream]

Well it's been a good while since it was announced so hopefully they have been applying the necessary spit and polish.

I'm guessing this is going to be a more canned xbmc experience, compared to say then more open Pivos xios. Still very interesting stuff indeed.

[CK1one]

Xbmc-Devcon-liveblog

Sigma Designs: As you may be aware, Sigma has been working with a few developers to make XBMC available on their SMP8656 (available now) & SMP8672 (port in progress, being demoed at Computex 2012) chipsets. Because these chipset CPUs are so limited, Sigma had done extensive work to totally separate the video decoding process from the CPU, so now any video playback XBMC lose hardly any CPU cycles. To put it simply, XBMC’s UI running on top of video playback works pretty well. Adddons (particularly scripts like PseudoTV) tend to be fairly slow, but to some extent that’s because Python in XBMC is always fairly slow. Plugin Addons (i.e. addons that let you watch online video and listen to online music) work well.
Where these chipsets get really exciting is in two categories. First, they’re MUCH cheaper than x86 processors and easy to implement in just about any system. Second, because the player is totally separate from XBMC, the Sigma player can do fully licensed DVD and Bluray navigation.

[BORIStheBLADE]

Any news on XBMC working on the new A-400 that was announced this weekend? Any Devs want to chime in?

[natethomas]

Any news on XBMC working on the new A-400 that was announced this weekend? Any Devs want to chime in?

To my knowledge, the only currently (and future) compatible Sigma chipsets are those listed in the live blog. The A-400 appears to be using an SMP8911, which was not discussed and isn't listed in any of the Sigma press releases regarding XBMC that I know of.

[jjd-uk]

Since the player being used is separate to XBMC, does that mean it will be closed source? is it handled like an external player?

Just wondering if any of this work will be fed back into XBMC mainline, or does the way they've gone about it mean there are no GPL requirements for providing the Team with the code.