Port XBMC for Linux to run on NMT (Networked Media Tank) hardware like Popcorn Hour?

**prae5** · 2010-07-19 19:44

No and the author has released very little info about it. There are a couple of threads on it, search.

Hannes The Hun · 2010-08-29 16:03

considering ejp states he's booting xbmc live from an usb stick on the a-100 I'd really be eager to have some details on how that may be accomplished. when you look at the hardware, not even the engineers at sigma designs could pull off such a stunt.
looking at his youtube videos the a-100 is clearly booting the syabas OS, then very fast something is done in the syabas onscreen menu and out of nowhere the xbmc GUI is presented, showing some way too fast browsing through the menu, NOT showing the system info screen.

let's be honest, he has captured the menu action and plays it off from the USB stick. this is the lamest fake I have ever seen. at first I was thinking he maybe just did a skin for the syabas OS but you can clearly see the opengl-accelerated transitions...

blotunga · 2010-09-28 09:41

I think that EJP is a fraud (no offence, but I haven't seen any evidence that he isn't).
Now back to the theory. In theory XBMC could run on the 864x and 865x series chips from sigma, in case someone would write a DirectFB wrapper to run the GUI. On the 8656 (http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products.php?id=121) it wouldn't even need that much, since that one has OpenGL support built-in.
Unfortunately it's a large task making it work on the mips architecture.

danz0l · 2010-09-28 09:51

I gave up waiting, relegated the popcorn hour to the bedroom (its now rarely used) and went fulltime with a Revo and XBMC.

azmin · 2010-11-01 01:56

Is it possible, or do you think it will be possible?

The popcorn hour media player is great, but the interface is way worse than XBMC, so whith PopcornHour hardware and XBMC as interface = 100%

vskatusa · 2011-01-06 05:59

xbmc port from sigma! Wow my post where I had mentioned

Quote:Popcorn Hour C-200 is king of hardware + xbmc is king of UI!
If xbmc can run on Popcorn Hour C-200 -- this will be the best HTPC!

might come true.

Looks like sigma designs do look at our posts Big Grin

Robotica · 2011-01-06 06:14

vskatusa Wrote:xbmc port from sigma! Wow my post where I had mentioned
might come true.

Looks like sigma designs do look at our posts

Check the wikimedia page on XBMC to see how many commercial forks XBMC has. Not to mention all inspiration other projects find on forums like this (or i.e. avs). you would be amazed how many industry professionals hang out on forums like this. Believe me, they didn't need your post to discover that Laugh

azmin Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: Oct 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-11-01 01:56 Post: #105 Is it possible, or do you think it will be possible? The popcorn hour media player is great, but the interface is way worse than XBMC, so whith PopcornHour hardware and XBMC as interface = 100%
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vskatusa Fan Posts: 341 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 2	2011-01-06 05:59 Post: #106 xbmc port from sigma! Wow my post where I had mentioned Quote:Popcorn Hour C-200 is king of hardware + xbmc is king of UI! If xbmc can run on Popcorn Hour C-200 -- this will be the best HTPC! might come true. Looks like sigma designs do look at our posts
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