[xbmcg]

Hi there,

I found at Pivos Technology - Product - XIOS DS Media Play, that beside the Android xbmc app there is a native xbmcbuntu image for
the arm cortex cpy / gpu and I wonder, if other cortex based android sticks with more recent hardware (dual-core cpu, quad core gpu with 3d)
can also be flashed to a native xbmcbuntu distribution to get best performance on video playback and advantages of a linux backend
combined with a hdmi-stick small form factor. I would prefer to have a dedicated xbmc device instead of a bloated android OS + xbmc App...

Any experience so far with this kind of devices and linux with hardware acceleration for the decoding? (e.g. Rikomagic MK802 III or similar)

Which sticks (brands, chip-sets) are known to work with HW-acceleration and linux so far?

[xbmcg]

Hi, any Information on that? Is it planned to support ubuntu on arm architecture too?

[un1versal]

XBMCBuntu is based on a Ubuntu derivative (lubuntu) and Ubuntu is for x86 only and Ubuntu arm is only supported on a small amount of derivatives, IIRC this is likely never going to happen. Unless someone comes a long and decides to customize a Ubuntu derivative with arm support and offer to maintain it long term. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu

Developers already have their hands full feel free however to provide unoficcial custom lubuntu arm builds that do the same job as XBMCbuntu which is to provide a OS base for XBMC.

uNi

[nickr]

Pivos have the advantage 0f an employee who is also an xbmc developer.

[Ned Scott]

Pivos have the advantage 0f an employee who is also an xbmc developer.

Two, actually. TheUni and Davilla.

[xbmcg]

XBMCBuntu is based on a Ubuntu derivative (lubuntu) and Ubuntu is for x86 only and Ubuntu arm is only supported on a small amount of derivatives, IIRC this is likely never going to happen. Unless someone comes a long and decides to customize a Ubuntu derivative with arm support and offer to maintain it long term. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu

Developers already have their hands full feel free however to provide unoficcial custom lubuntu arm builds that do the same job as XBMCbuntu which is to provide a OS base for XBMC.

uNi

well, maybe you are right, maybe not. I have seen ubuntu and xface running on a mk808 stick in a alpha version, and there was a ubuntu smartphone announced to the public, so it is very likely that there will be support for the arm plattform from canonical in the near future...

[un1versal]

Its not about Ubuntu supporting the platform or Ubuntu phone, it is about someone customizing a ARM based Ubuntu distro and to do what XBMCbuntu does, and TBH I dont see that happening any time soon. Canonical does not develop XBMC.

You are free however to download a Ubuntu or a derivative of Ubuntu like I posted links to and install it and then install XBMC on it in meanwhile.

uNi