2010-09-21, 18:41
Many people around here talk about their hardware, but XBMC is able to run on a lot of platforms now and even runs well on some older systems, so my concern is getting the perfect XBMC software setup. I am unfamiliar with writing scripts and incorporating them in an XBMC Live install and I would like to do the following.
1. I want to have XBMC as my hub, obviously.
2. I want to be able to Launch Hulu Desktop from within XBMC (select Hulu, preferably from the main menu in the skin, which would close XBMC and Launch Hulu Desktop. When I exit Hulu Desktop, XBMC would relaunch)
3. I would like the same for Boxee as with Hulu Desktop.
4. Has anyone successfully setup a Rom library? I am looking to turn XBMC in to my media hub for movies, tv shows, netflix(through boxee), hulu(through Hulu Desktop), and classic gaming(nes, snes, genesis, mame, n64, and ps1)
5. As stated before, I would like for XBMC to shutdown when it launches Boxee or Hulu Desktop to save on CPU power.
This setup is not restricted to XBMC Live. The reason I said XBMC Live is because I am looking for the smallest possible Linux install underneath to save on BLOAT.
Thank you in advance for help in this area. I have read around the forum for the past few years, but have not seen a very effective way to do these things. I have used the Launcher plugin, but had issue with it keeping proper focus and it didn't close XBMC when launching another program. Also I know the emulation is possible, but I have not seen any clean way to integrate this with XBMC, so if anyone with a successful rom setup would show me a solid starting point I would greatly appreciate it.
1. I want to have XBMC as my hub, obviously.
2. I want to be able to Launch Hulu Desktop from within XBMC (select Hulu, preferably from the main menu in the skin, which would close XBMC and Launch Hulu Desktop. When I exit Hulu Desktop, XBMC would relaunch)
3. I would like the same for Boxee as with Hulu Desktop.
4. Has anyone successfully setup a Rom library? I am looking to turn XBMC in to my media hub for movies, tv shows, netflix(through boxee), hulu(through Hulu Desktop), and classic gaming(nes, snes, genesis, mame, n64, and ps1)
5. As stated before, I would like for XBMC to shutdown when it launches Boxee or Hulu Desktop to save on CPU power.
This setup is not restricted to XBMC Live. The reason I said XBMC Live is because I am looking for the smallest possible Linux install underneath to save on BLOAT.
Thank you in advance for help in this area. I have read around the forum for the past few years, but have not seen a very effective way to do these things. I have used the Launcher plugin, but had issue with it keeping proper focus and it didn't close XBMC when launching another program. Also I know the emulation is possible, but I have not seen any clean way to integrate this with XBMC, so if anyone with a successful rom setup would show me a solid starting point I would greatly appreciate it.