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I wish to install XBMC onto my LG Nexus 4 smartphone (android) but there are 2 downloads, neon or non neon devices what does this mean and which is mine. I have asked LG in the UK they didn't know.
Thanks in anticipation of a fast response
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We only have one download, neon. Where ever you are looking is not official XBMC builds. You need neon.
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Is there any page in the wiki that explains each chipset technology are (neon, libstage, amlplayer ..) and the version of xbmc suggest you to run at (or if not possible to do so)?
I have a console with amlogic chipset, a phone mediatek, another snapdragon, I'm evaluating to buy a ouya ... is a mess
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2013-09-09, 01:41
(This post was last modified: 2013-09-09, 01:42 by Ned Scott.)
Most everyone should run
nightly builds (wiki). AMLogic is funky and requires it's own build (for now. In the future everything might be in one build, with luck), and the
Pivos XIOS (wiki) unofficial nightly builds seem to work on most AML hardware.
Allwinner is the only one left that doesn't have any official Team XBMC build/work, for now.
In the long run, Android is finally adding a standard hardware video playback API called MediaCodec. Work is already being done by our Android devs to prepare for that as well. That should cover everyone who can run the newest versions of Android, while libstagefright will cover older ICS devices.
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(2013-09-09, 17:55)Hedda Wrote: (2013-09-09, 01:41)Ned Scott Wrote: Allwinner is the only one left that doesn't have any official Team XBMC build/work, for now.
Also Freescale i.MX 6 Series SoC's which is a newcomer so less common hardware, with the code not in XBMC mainline yet
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=161793
http://stephan-rafin.net/blog/
and since wolfgar's code for i.MX6 is similar to the AMLogic implementation in XBMC so it inherits the same issues
Should still work if/when running Android, right? Hardware decoding in a linux-based OS is a different monster.
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That´s what I´m talking about :-P
that is, that I buy or not? (freescale or to apply to any other)
The future is promising, tells us Ned (I believe him), with XBMC running in (almost) any SOC, but right now, the hardware forums, android and even General are full of questions about whether this or that device serves to XBMC and plays 1080p-DTS-3D ...
A page, more or less up to date with the SOC - graphics with hardware acceleration enabled, and if expected future developments, it would be very useful even if only to redirect all those (myself included) people with doubts
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I've been trying to get people to add to this page:
Android hardware (wiki). I only have one working Android device, so I personally don't have anything else to go on except for what other users say.
