2008-12-23, 04:06
Gamester17 Wrote:I am not a developer myself but IIRC davilla and althekiller said that it would probably be time consuming however XBMC should be very 'portable' to open hardware platforms as long as it runs Linux and graphics drivers supports OpenGL and GLSL (as otherwise you might have to write a DirectFB renderer for XBMC), other than that all that is needed is an ARM cross-compiler under Ubuntu on any x86 computer to compile ARM binaries (however Ubuntu apparently doesn't package a ARM cross-compiler by default but is easy enough to build yourself)...
Also... Thanks for the Links and keeping the idea alive here.
Question, is there anyway to combine this effort with hardware accelerated decoding (OpenCL)? I think (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong) that the usual PowerVR kit wouldn't be up to snuff, but with Nvidia recently making noise in the netbook/MID spaces we may indeed see some interesting developments come to market latter half of next year.
Furthermore, if I get it functionally coded I'd like to understand the limitations of its use per existing and alternative purposes. Please PM/email me at your leisure to discuss/clarify.