althekiller Wrote:Things that need to be considered...

1. Scarcity. MS no longer makes the Xbox, they are becoming difficult to find.
2. Life Span. It is becoming apparent that the average xbox is reaching end of life. Many people I know are seeing failures and anomalies associated with impending hardware failure. This perpetuates point 1.
3. Usefulness. The age of HD is upon us, and we all know that the xbox just isn't going to cut it much longer.
4. Interested Developers. It is hard to remain interested in a platform when your application is being stonewalled by weak hardware disallowing addition of useful features.

nekrosoft13 Wrote:great post, 70% of my video library won't even play on XBMC, or won't play well.

It also seems that continual xbox support is keeping XBMC down. If xbox support would be dropped maybe we will see propper GPU acceleration?

nekrosoft13 Wrote:great post, 70% of my video library won't even play on XBMC, or won't play well.

It also seems that continual xbox support is keeping XBMC down. If xbox support would be dropped maybe we will see propper GPU acceleration?

digitalhigh Wrote:I don't know that the Xbox has anything to do with the lack of GPU acceleration, other than the fact that it can be blamed for the initial lack thereof. The dev's are aware that the current incarnations are lacking in GPU support and there is development underway into fixing that problem...

It's more a matter of "Everybody's doing this in their free time for FREE." This "HD-era" you speak of is still in it's infancy. The format war was only won a few months ago. Expecting the software to just magically know how to decode your HD library right away is a bit far-fetched.

70% of your video library is HD? What were you using to play it before XBMC? And by 70%, do you mean number of titles, or filesize?

Either way...give it time. XBMC will see GPU support eventually. In the meanwhile, check out the video plugin that allows for an external player to work with XBMC. Might be a workaround until that time.

nekrosoft13 Wrote:what does format war have anything to do with this? HD-DVD and Blu-ray both used the same video codec, with just slightly different audio formats. I know that blu-ray support in XBMC is very very very far off with HDCP, AACS and BD+ I don't see XBMC having native BD support anytime soon.

I greatly appreciate all the work everyone is putting in XBMC, I know it is for free. Wouldn't it be better to put more effort into platforms that have some future (win, linux, mac)? Platforms that will not go away, platforms that are readily available, instead of still developing for dead obsolete platform? I had been using XBMC on xbox for very long time, around the time when Atlantis alpha was released I finally switched to windows based XBMC.

And yes majority of my library is HD now, most is 720p with some stuff in 1080p, what do i use for playback? on main rig WMP11 with ffdshow, DXA HW acceleration, or PowerDVD8 Ultra.

I had upgraded my HTPC from AMD 5600+ @ 2.9GHz dual core to AMD 9550x4 @ 2.53GHz quad core. It can handle 1080p perfectly. 2.9GHz dual core couldn't play certain higher bitrate H264 files.

Quote:In February 2004 Erwin Beckers (aka. Frodo) left the X-Box Media Center project to start a new project, now known as MediaPortal, that would run on the Microsoft Windows platform and not suffer from the limitations of the X-Box hardware. Initially, existing code was reused from the XBMC-project but after several releases and innumerable feature enhancements there has been almost a complete redesign.

junk Wrote:Without having read the thread, I'll state my opiniion: No, I don't. To me it seems the requirements for Xbox (concerning both hardware and software) is setting unnecessary limits for the other platforms.

EDIT: Wasn't the whole Team MediaPortal project started due to a developer leaving the XBMC project because of the Xbox's limitations, or have I got that wrong?