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steven994
05-14-2010, 11:29 AM
Some guy made a working XBMC port for the Popcorn Hour A100!

I know we have a different chipset, but wouldn't it be awesome if we could run xbmc on the pbo?

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=40300&page=1
aasoror
05-14-2010, 11:51 AM
Some guy made a working XBMC port for the Popcorn Hour A100!

I know we have a different chipset, but wouldn't it be awesome if we could run xbmc on the pbo?

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=40300&page=1

Amen ..
Seriously this is great news, unlike the higher PCH models (which has a mini-ITX board and a computer processor inside it) the A100 has a Sigma 8635 SOC (which is the same one inside WDTV live is I remember correctly), this means a lightweight port of XBMC that would work on a SOC isn't impossible to develop.
steven994
05-14-2010, 12:11 PM
I can't imagine that the wdtv sigma chip has much more horsepower than the realtek chip in the pbo.

Not sure how the port works since xbmc is supposed to work on a completely different arcitecture.
aasoror
05-14-2010, 12:48 PM
I can't imagine that the wdtv sigma chip has much more horsepower than the realtek chip in the pbo.

Not sure how the port works since xbmc is supposed to work on a completely different arcitecture.

It doesn't matter how its done as long as it done.
YAMJ started as an NMT application (for sigma chipsets)... now ACR folks have successfully ported it to Realtek. XBMC port to Realtek shouldn't be hard once the guys at syabas scale it down to a SOC size :)
snappy46
05-14-2010, 03:26 PM
Pretty interesting disscusion going on there; thanks for the link.

For what I can understand from the various post there; it seem like they are talking about an actual firmware build around the XBMC software versus an add-on to the existing firmware. It's too bad really; this would make the port to the PBO quite a bit harder since that new firmware would control the operation of the sigma chip. Well at least in order to do that they will still have to compile the XBMC source code as mips bins which is good news. XBMC is a pretty awesome piece of software.