vu xbmc preview test

[Ev0]

Looks like animations and xbmc coming soon for SoloSE, Solo2 and Duo2

[Larry-G]

Looks like the beginning of the end for the lower end Vu+ models then, although personally XBMC is not really of any particular interest to me.

[TK4|2|1]

Cool


Sent by pressing the screen on 1 of my Apple devices, cuz that's how I roll..

[duoduo]

For me this is brilliant, so anyone know when and how it will be available or how to find out?

[Trial]

Hi,
personally I do not care about this animations nobody really needs. They should leave it it DMM to make such a nonsense. They should improve the streaming abilities.

ciao

[Larry-G]

Hi,
personally I do not care about this animations nobody really needs. They should leave it it DMM to make such a nonsense. They should improve the streaming abilities.

ciao

Could not agree more, enough of the gimmicks and give us genuine features.


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[s2tephen]

Think this is a brilliant idea.
Being able to do most things under one umbrella should have been done a long time ago.
But can see certain people at the top of a very slippery slide not thinking so.

[Joe_90]

I've used xbmc (now kodi) for about two years now. I find it excellent as a music/video database and in the past 9 months or so it plays all formats of high definition sound on the linux platform (something I can't say of Vix or any of the Open MIPS/ATV images). However, I found that xbmc sucked at sat/terrestrial TV and PVR functions on the linux platform. It would be an ideal solution for me if I could combine my media player requirements and PVR into one platform.

[Rob van der Does]

personally I do not care about this animations nobody really needs. They should leave it it DMM to make such a nonsense.

Exactly; it's all about superfluous nonsense. I wouldn't allow a box in my house with all kind of fun fair 'attractions'.

Being able to do most things under one umbrella should have been done a long time ago.

What do you mean by that?

I've used xbmc (now kodi) for about two years now. I find it excellent as a music/video database and in the past 9 months or so it plays all formats of high definition sound on the linux platform (something I can't say of Vix or any of the Open MIPS/ATV images).

LOL that has nothing to do with an image, but with the hardware. There is no way that video-codecs can be added to the limited hardware capabilities our STB's can offer.

However, I found that xbmc sucked at sat/terrestrial TV and PVR functions on the linux platform.

And that's exactly the point. After all a (satellite) receiver is there for (satellite) reception, and Enigma2 is a very versatile program that (so far) hasn't bene beaten by any other.

It would be an ideal solution for me if I could combine my media player requirements and PVR into one platform.

That can/could indeed be done. Only thing you need is a full blown PC to run e.g. E2 instead of the actual STB's. Downside is a 20 times higher power consumption..... It makes quite a difference running a PC 24/7 or an STB; the latter uses overall only 20W.

Actually best option IMHO is still an E2 box as receiver and a dedicated mediaplayer for playing all kinds of media.

Or even better: stop trying to play all kinds of badly coded files 'found' on the internet. As our STB's are perfectly capable of playing correctly coded files.

[Rob van der Does]

BTW: I have no idea were the title "vu xbmc preview test" stems from; this has nothing whatsoever to do with XMBC, it's just about (horrible) menu animations.

[Trial]

Hi Rob,
put your glasses on and take a second look at the videos:-)

In 1. video you see xbmc launcher and 2. video shows cover flow of xbmc and I asume it is perhaps on a VU.

XBMC is a nice start but without bluray-/dvd-iso (best would be with menu), HD sound and WMV<9 it is no replacement of a real PC/mediaplayer.

ciao

[Rob van der Does]

See

http://www.opena.tv/plauderecke/12154-vuplus-xbmc-opengl-preview-infos-post107312.html#post107312

for some more information.

[Trial]

Hi,
nothing really interesting in this German thread. The changes to XBMC for the "bcm gles api" will most likely be closed source. No ETA yet:-(

ciao

[Joe_90]

I browsed through the xbmc (kodi) forum last night and no serious development seems to be being done for the Broadcom STB platform although there are a number of users trying compiles etc. Any candidates will likely come from higher end STBs with dual core 1.3GHz and > 1GB RAM. Drivers likely to be an issue also. Timeframes uncertain.

[kiwiz]

so this is not available for vu ultimo or vu uno right

from where did you get that info