2012-09-17, 20:27
Hi,
I know few asked about the possible port of XBMC on the BlackBerry Playbook, including myself since I have a Playbook which is now a pretty cheap device with a powerful hardware including a micro HDMI output(only missing good apps such as XBMC!).
I don't want to give false hope to anybody but it seems there are some progress currently made on the port of XBMC and the Playbook and BB10 as discussed on this thread on crackberry forum.
There was a 1st attempt made, but it seems the project is dead since no code have been submitted in few months, you can see the code at https://github.com/asimonov-rim/xbmc
I tried myself few weeks ago and was able to build XBMC but it would fails because of missing graphic drivers when I tried to run XBMC, unfortunately, I don't have enough spare time for now and porting XBMC without knowing the code would take a fair amount of time.
But on the same thread on crackberry forum, aesteral posted that few days ago:
And if you looks at the screenshots of what he did so far, even thus there is no sound yet and video playing freeze, it is amazing progresses.
So nothing sure, but at least some hope to have one day XBMC on Playbook. Not sure if there is a way to contact aesteral and offer to give him a hand and if he would accept it, but so far this is the most promising result in attempting to port XBMC on the Playbook .
You can have a look here at the screenshots made by aesteral
Couple below to make you hungry
I know few asked about the possible port of XBMC on the BlackBerry Playbook, including myself since I have a Playbook which is now a pretty cheap device with a powerful hardware including a micro HDMI output(only missing good apps such as XBMC!).
I don't want to give false hope to anybody but it seems there are some progress currently made on the port of XBMC and the Playbook and BB10 as discussed on this thread on crackberry forum.
There was a 1st attempt made, but it seems the project is dead since no code have been submitted in few months, you can see the code at https://github.com/asimonov-rim/xbmc
I tried myself few weeks ago and was able to build XBMC but it would fails because of missing graphic drivers when I tried to run XBMC, unfortunately, I don't have enough spare time for now and porting XBMC without knowing the code would take a fair amount of time.
But on the same thread on crackberry forum, aesteral posted that few days ago:
Quote:Hi!
So, I've got pretty far into building a working native XBMC port for our PlayBooks It is pretty much broken now, but here are some screenshots of what I have got: XBMC on BB10 and PlayBook - Imgur .
It is running on a Dev Alpha (hence the 1280x768 resolution and weird scaling) but it does not use any BB10 specific API and runs as well on a PlayBook.
There is a lot of work to do, there is no audio and video player freezes, but a lot of stuff works already
And if you looks at the screenshots of what he did so far, even thus there is no sound yet and video playing freeze, it is amazing progresses.
So nothing sure, but at least some hope to have one day XBMC on Playbook. Not sure if there is a way to contact aesteral and offer to give him a hand and if he would accept it, but so far this is the most promising result in attempting to port XBMC on the Playbook .
You can have a look here at the screenshots made by aesteral
Couple below to make you hungry