Ned Scott Wrote:take an Android phone with an HDMI port or HDMI adapter, and you have an OTG XBMC box in your pocket. Over at a friend's house and want to watch a movie or show them XBMC? Bam, it's right there.
This is the exact reason that I want XBMC for Android.
I have a Galaxy Nexus, and I have an HDMI adapter for it.
The only problem is that I have to have 3 different Media Player Apps
(BSPlayer lite, DICE Player Ad., and MX Video Player, oh and sometimes the stock app)
to be able to watch all the the different videos I have.
When I watch a video I have to try all 3(4) apps until I can find which one plays the video the best.
They will play one video perfectly, then go to play another that is encoded the exact same way and it will be jerky/no sound/will do crazy resizing things on my TV.
The reason I use XBMC is that it never has any problems playing anything I throw at it (and also becuase I have used it on my xbox since the beginning so I feel loyal to it).
I don't use it for the GUI (although it is nice), or it's media scraping abilities.
It always plays every video beautifully, it plays them over my network, and it upscales my SD really really really well (the video card obviously does a lot of work here).
So Thank you Team-XBMC for all your amazing work.
Anway, back to the phone.
Hardware wise, I think the Galaxy Nexus will be fine.
If I find a good media player, it will output 1080p videos to my TV perfectly.
It even outputs them at 1080p (everything else 720p or lower is output at 720p, which makes sense I guess as that's the native resolution of the Phone's Display)
Battery Wise, while the Phone is connected to the TV via HDMI the adapter requires a power source to be plugged in (either from the phone's charger, or any other powered USB port). So the phone is actually charged while it's being used.
Right now I use my iPod as my OTG Media Player.
It only has Compoiste Video out (as in Yellow, white, and red cables).
XBMC for iOS doesn't have native video out,
so if I want to use XBMC I have to use display out (another app),
to mirror the screen on the TV, which is very processor intensive (and other hardware parts too I guess),
so the playback becomes jerky etc.
So I have to use VLC to play videos from my iPod to my TV.
It's not jerky at all but can't play 1080p (or even 720p for that matter).
With iOS XBMC I can play 1080p files quite well.
(Although iOS XBMC halves the resolution of the screen becuase of limitations in apple's app coding requirements or something, there's a forum topic somewhere that explains it).
I think that's all I wanted to say.
I would love an Android XBMC,
but I understand it takes time and a lot of work.
So thanks to the people who are working on, goodluck with it.
) but for a longer battery life you better enable <nofliptimeout> ... 
