XBMC Linux port updates

yuvalt, I greatly appreciate the summary of work completed and current activity as of early October. I tried reading the SVN change logs, but there are hundreds of entries and are very technical, mostly over my head.

It has been more than two months since this thread has been updated. Even though we hate to take a developer's time away from writing code, I'm sure many people would love to see a summary of the progress since then and the current to-do list. I'm subscribed to this thread now in case somebody can spare a few minutes to update it. Thanks in advance.

Me too.. I'd love an summary update on the state of play.

Linux is a great way to go forward and I'm sure there will be a great progression to it, once it moves a bit further forward.

Hi,

Quick update on our progress:
1. We have stable video playback with GL pixel shaders for OpenGL 2.x drivers and specific shader for Intel 965 (probably also 945) drivers. All 720p content that I have tested works smoothly on relatively weak machines such as the Mac Mini (running Ubuntu 7.10). Some 1080p content (depending on bit-rate) also played smoothly on a Mac Mini as well. Many thanks to d4rk, elupus and vulkanr for getting us there.
2. DVD playback is working.
3. We have less and less crashes.
4. Network settings is working for ethernet and wireless. This is used when you want to have a dedicated machine for XBMC without a keyboard.
5. Timezone in the settings is fixed.
6. Most of the warning have been removed from the compile time, still more work to resolve the remaining ones.
7. Fixed crashes when streaming OGG music.
8. Initial support for MMS. This is still shaky but works in some cases.
9. elan has joined the team in an effort to port XBMC to OSX. This is still in very early stages but some nice progress has been made.
10. Removable drives now appears in Add Source.
11. Plugin settings dialog.
12. Display subtitles which are embedded in mkv files.
13. Subtitles now support embedded formatting options (italics, bold).
14. TTF fonts are scaled correctly when resizing the XBMC window.

Issues we are currently dealing with:
1. Resolution change using xrandr. This will take us closer to having a standalone XBMC which does not require GDM.
2. Cleanup of remaining warnings.
3. Credits screen.
4. Continue ironing open bugs.
5. Support for X11 screen savers.
6. Guide to installing XBMC on a standalone machine with no keyboard/mouse.

Still, the SF Tracker is still closed for linux bugs. We will do our best to respond to bugs discussed in the forum. We do encourage you to post patches in SF.

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Wishing happy new year to all XBMC fans,

-Yuval

yuvalt Wrote:Hi,

Here is an update on the XBMC Linux port effort for you who do not read the SVN changelog on a daily bases. SNIP

Awesome - thanks so much. Looks like you guys have really come a long way. I know several people who have HTPC builds on hold just waiting for you guys to put out an official release. Hell, at least the minimum spec for hardware keeps dropping in price.

Happy New Year!

Thanks for the update - it also looks like things are moving on well.. Especially the news on Mac Mini as it's a fairly fixed platform..
(But not fast enough to run 1080p to get me to go buy one yet..)

Thanks so much!

btw with the mac mini you can update the cpu to one of the faster ones and im sure you will be able to play all that 1080p content thats floating around

First off, thank you for the continued updates XBMC team. They are very appreciated to those of us that are craving this release.
And it sounds as if you are really working fast.

second:

gateway69 Wrote:btw with the mac mini you can update the cpu to one of the faster ones and im sure you will be able to play all that 1080p content thats floating around

hate to get off topic, but i gotta know: What socket does the intel mac mini use? and could someone link me (or pm me) a newegg link to a compatible faster CPU for it.

-Ash-

It's socket M. You can do it, but the mac mini is definitely not meant to be user serviceable, they're difficult to open, you'll void your warranty, and those mobile C2D's are very expensive.

Please respect that the Mac Mini discussion (or any other hardware for that matter) is off-topic for this topic thread!

PS! There is already a Mac Mini discussion here => http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=30410

is it just me that gets a 500 server error almost every time they try to load the changelog? could someone maybe host it as a .txt updated every 24hours or something so the server doesn't have to generate it all the time?