RE: Finally a HiDef Replacement for XBMC?

["Richard" <rich_lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, that's all compiled in by the XDK which is why finding binaries
of
XBMC is never as easy as one would like.



I don't know what it would take to have it compile the exact same thing
except capable of booting on a standard intel CPU, but doing so would make
it more appliance like then having an OS under it which needs its own
maintenance ontop of what you need to do with XBMC.





From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Sam Partington
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:03 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Finally a HiDef Replacement for XBMC?



I'm not particularly up on xbmc, but I would have thought that xbmc is
running atop of the xbox os, which is a very cut down version of win32
(loosley based on 2k I think).

This may be a fairly small OS, but it would be a seriously big step
for the developers to remove this bottom layer completely. There's a
lot more hardware abstraction that goes on in your typical OS than
just the CPU, I'd guess the graphics and sound would be the least of
their worries.

Sam

On 08/02/2008, Richard <rich_lists@xxxxxxx
<mailto:rich_lists%40richms.com>
> wrote:
>
> I would rather see it running natively on the hardware rather then as
an
> application ontop of an operating system. It does that on the xbox
hardware
> which is an intel CPU, so all they would have to do is get it booting
xbmc
> and provide a way to format the drive in a way that's compatible with
xbmc.
> - Sure, there will be graphics chipset issues too but that's all
solvable
> since the apple hardware has an intel cpu just like the xbox.
>





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