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what video/audio and or hardware set up do you have currently, im looking into building something now that things are rolling and would love to test and provide feedback.
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I used the fastest machine I got currently (and it ain't very fast, hehe)
A Dell D620 laptop, has 14" 1440x something display, Intel chipset with Intel GMA950 Gfx + Intel "HD Audio", Intel CoreDuo 1.66GHz, 2Gig Ram all running on Ubunty 7.04
Intel has no HW acceleration in XBMC yet, but maybe when MESA gets updated to 7
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Thank you for volunteering. I just started messing with code a day or two ago, so I might not be qualified to answer this, but...
Your video/audio hardware is probably not that important, as long as you get 3D and audio in Linux. Just buy whatever suits your needs outside of XBMC. Also, as I understand, it will also be a good deal of time before we have an alpha version.
That said, once we have a version for testing, hammering away at all the features, including network shares (of many different types), various file formats, views, thumbnails, etc. would be more than helpful. "Special cases" that only apply to Linux are more likely to be points of failure, such as insertion/removal of a thumb drive, long file names (beyond 41 characters), read-only drives such as NTFS-mounted drives, etc.
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thanks i have access to piles of hardware and a really good av set up at home ill just stick with prob decent nvida and sound blaster cards while i keep my trusty old xbox.
Ubunty (Ubuntu) ? the unix flavor of choice? prob the easiest to set up since it has a nice install/setup.
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(k/x)Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is the environment most of us use, and is the recommended development environment.
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Well I'm running it on an old p4 2.4 with 1 gig of ram and a gforce 7600gt graphics card
Now this plays very well under all tests but I do find that because of the older cpu I can't really do h.264 720p and up encoded videos on it
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Given that the XBOX only has 64 megs of ram, will 256 megs be sufficient for the Linux version?
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Running on a shuttle SB61G2 P4 3.0 GHZ.
Radeon 9600
sblive 5.1 (the internal soundchip (realtek) has issues with xbmc)
By the way sound and pictures are stable from ntfs, video seems pretty good too
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Runing a macbook core duo gma950.
Uppgraded ubuntu to gutsy with mesa 7.
sorry no pixelshaders for video rendring.
updated CFLAGS with -march=prescott sorry those gentoo habits die slowly =)
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None of them "just kick in automatically".
They all require code to set them up and request that stuff gets decoded.
Whether or not anything has support for them is the question. Often these things tend to come with no open source drivers, so we generally can't take advantage of them.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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gateway69: too expensive, sins it is only barbone.