2011-07-21, 23:18
Malard Wrote:Can I ask why you are arguing all of these points with no real factually backing behind any of your arguments? and to add further woe, you have just protested that you have no interest in CEC, from what I can gather you've never used it, nor understand the benefit.
To say I dont use it personally is correct, to say I have no experience of its use or dont understand the benefit is somewhat presumptuous, no offense but I do feel slightly vexed by that.
Malard Wrote:At no point have I mentioned the NYXboard remote in this thread as it is largely unrelated to what we are developing. and regarding native support. I would gladly work to make XBMC source code support a native implementation of CEC if a graphics driver exposed it on any platform. The fact of the matter is, they don't and that's generally because of the flaky support across various hardware vendors of ION chips.
No, perhaps I jumped the gun since I didn't see any related projects on pulse eights website but the board, tbh I didn't look so hard, sorry about that.
Yes support is flaky not just on ION vendors Actually manufacturers like Pegatron who made all IONgen1 and manufacture a large amount of Asus, MSI, Nvidia, Asrock and many other Vendors Hardware... Rare are the vendors who actually manufacture their own stuff. And they answer no Q's and vendors have mostly no clew... unless you speak to engineers.
Malard Wrote:What we are creating is a common platform, where we know the capabilities of the device and then can really start to expand XBMC to talk with the rest of the hardware in your home theatre instead of being isolated.
Yes I believe that I understand that and why its easier then going the otherway since support for various manufacturers is flaky or non existent in some cases. Specially in this case.
Malard Wrote:I hope that this will address all of your concerns, if anyone has a question about what this device will do or how it will work with XBMC then this is the topic for it, if however it turns into a slinging match about native/non native support when native support isn't an option. I will lock the thread
No slinging match, I made a comment based on the sweeping statements that nothing bar a laptop or two support CEC. And hardly any proof was presented to support that except ters is no proof?! Then I made the mistake of mentioning IONS and here we are.
close it if you like, no complaints from me...
