To the Linux Dev team, and others interested in success stories. Thanks for this Linux port. Had switched to Windows MCE for HD content, after being a user of XBMC on the XBox for years! And I read the other week that XBMC was being ported to Linux in Alpha mode (yeah yeah, come on this is way better than Alpha
) Taken me two weeks to sort things out, and find the time, but now it's done!
Well I now have XBMC working on an AOpen MiniPC 965-DR, 2GB DDR2 RAM, T7700 (2.4GHz) Intel Duo Core CPU, on Ubuntu Linux i386 (32bit) 7.10 (Gutsy), connected to a 40inch Samsung 1080p HDTV.
I did have a few problems with getting overscan corrected (simple in the end, with changing the zoom setting on the TV to Just Scan!). Also I had originally installed the amd64 version of Ubuntu which caused problems.
But now... Wow, it streams x264 very high bitrate 1080p content over the network without issue. Audio works fine through SPDIF to my AMP, and music works just as XBMC used to. I've had a smile on my face for the last few hours, I just wanted to say how happy I am you guys have done this, thanks a lot.
Pictures crash after I select one over an SMB share (samba on another linux box), and I haven't got the remote work yet (not put too much effort in yet, anyone know which driver to use with the MiniPC 965DR?), but I love it. Keep up the good work!
Also as an aside, adding Changelog.txt to the SVN repository will stop a number of issues being raised, build.sh failed, until I'd read through the script, and found the bit that caused that to fail, and I just touched a changelog.txt!
Anyways, thank you very much. Nice to have success stories! (Oh an thanks for the iPhone style music album browser... nice!)
This is a 1.5 Open GL card (apparently), but it's soooo smooth, quick and responsive, way better than the other XBox, so dunno why others don't try the 965, it's a VERY quite, very small, and cheap box to use (£400).