2014-04-30, 07:58
(2014-04-30, 07:38)Knocks Wrote:Yeah good on you, enjoy your lack of any framerate other than 30/60, lack of deinterlacing and other limitations of android.(2014-04-30, 03:33)thefrog Wrote:(2014-04-30, 02:37)tential Wrote: Summary: No one on the XBMC team wants to dedicate their coding time to removing features to please Amazon.
Great response (the whole thing, snipped for brevity in reply) should be on the Wiki, it was very explanatory.
[edited for mixed up posting]
The reality is that the announcement and release of Fire TV is going to change the landscape of Android set-top boxes quite significantly. You can't ignore the fact that it costs $99 including remote. That makes it extremely competitive even with OpenELEC-based systems. I am a long-time XBMC user, and as soon as this thing was announced and people confirmed XBMC running on it, I passed on buying an OpenELEC system (which I strongly considered before) and ordered a Fire TV. Amazon is selling these things at a loss, and it's poised to become the dominant set-top box in the U.S., and then very possibly everywhere else where Amazon is present.
So pleasing Amazon to get on that little box may not be a bad idea after all. Again, if it's sold at a loss, open-source based hardware will never compete with it on price, by definition. And removing features is not a big deal. It's not like you'd be removing a whole lot of features anyway, and it can be almost automated.
You are entitled to your opinion, but XBMC is not going to neuter itself to run there. But you are entitled to fork the project, neuter it, and submit it to amazon. But please, FFS change the name so that XBMC is not embarrassed by the cutbacks.
And would Amazon even want it in their store? I doubt it, they don't want to let you install something to compete with their own video offerings.
Not that sideloading (to get the full XBMC experience) is even that hard.