Comments on: XBMC running on ARM

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:48:12 +0000

@Karl

The ‘example’ image you have is either not HD, or you reduced the size of the png. Its only showing up as 1263×528.

By: PinkFreud

PinkFreud — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:09:11 +0000

I’m using the $199 Aspire Revo 1600 single-core Atom + ION with XBMC as my bedroom media center. It’s been flawless. :)

By: Falloutboy

Falloutboy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:58:14 +0000

I would like SATA too

and to add DVB-S2 Tuner would be nice, best would be a DVB-S/S2/C plug and play Tuner, like them from DMM, changeable, that would be nice

DVB-S2 USB Devices don’t have hardware decoding, and i don’t think that they will work with the Beagleboard.

would be a nice , cheap Receiver, when a smartmouse/Phoenix Cardreader is added via RS232

By: Reeve

Reeve — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:11:51 +0000

It’d be awesome if he could make a sata cradle instead of a flash card one, then u can make a mini case with a pair of small fans and have a neat XBMC box

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:48:40 +0000

Nokia’s N900 port please! :D

By: fartface

fartface — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:09:28 +0000

This rocks because XBMC is the absolute best media center interface and setup that exists. It blows anything from Microsoft out of the water HARD.

By: lwatcdr

lwatcdr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:34:30 +0000

The Beagle Board is more than powerful enough for HD video. The one thing it is missing is Flash. I would buy one in a second if I could use it to watch Hulu and CBS.com. Now if we could just get a hack to allow it to playback “protected” blue ray and get NetFlix and Amazon streaming on it you would have an almost perfect media center PC.

By: BLKMGK

BLKMGK — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:21:59 +0000

I use an ASROCK 330 which is an ION machine. Max 40watts usage, plays 1080P H.264 video at high bitrates VERY well including the BBC “Earth” clip that everyone uses to abuse systems – Killa’ Video.

I have NO doubt that this ARM would run cooler and use less juice but the ASROCK is fine by me and is now also handling my Torrents with ease. For about $349 it’s the best XBMC box I’ve seen yet and it runs off a wall wart :-)

By: tj

tj — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:32:47 +0000

The OpenGL ES correction is kind of frivolous…

By: Chris winter

Chris winter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:52:27 +0000

Nice work the xbmc crew need god status.

By: GSV Ethics Gradient

GSV Ethics Gradient — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:31:15 +0000

*OpenGL ES

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:27:41 +0000

Loved seeing this and really looking forward to what might come of it. i just wanted to say, it is possilbe to play HD content on XBMC on an orignal xbox, http://k-world.me.uk/?p=468 here is my write up on what has to be done, imcluding a sample video for you to test on yours.

Thanks

By: tehgringe

tehgringe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:38:19 +0000

By the way you guys need to try and watch Micro Men, a docu-drama-comedy thingy that the BBC did a few weeks ago. Its pretty interesting, showing the rat race between Sinclair and Curry (founder of Acron and the primordial origins of the ARM chip).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n5b92/Micro_M

Its no longer available i iPlayer but where there is an Internet…

By: nrp

nrp — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:51:43 +0000

Overo is nice, but more expensive once you take into account needing a $50 I/O board to really use it.

By: tj

tj — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:44:11 +0000

The Overo boards are hands down the best implementation of the ARM cores to date. They basically blow the beagleboard away and have the same price range, some cases less, and have a drastically better support system and community.

The beagleboard has the TI OMAP3530, which is the fastest ARM core you can get without special licensing and/or at least bulk purchasing. I’d still go with Overo boards for the same price range. 2/4 of them have the OMAP3530 with OpenGL support.

Also I think the 3530 has a 256MB address limit on DRAM and flash, beyond that requires a external controller. The Overo boards max it, and I think the latest Beagleboard REV did too.

FYI the really well designed partitioning and bootrom security combo known as TrustZone is in no way open to the public or documented anywhere. So, if you’re a security researcher don’t bother, most consumer electronics don’t even use it(probably why they are all reversed.)