2010-01-11, 17:46
Hi all,
First post and want a bit of general guidance on the direction to head with xbmc. My background is with NMTs - have a PCH A110 and a C200 and pretty au fait with all that...a few kick off questions for xbmc...
1) The Acer Revo seems a good little unit to get started with, will this play anything i can throw at it - BD iso files and BDMV folders at the top end? What spec do i need to guarantee these play smoothly?
Any other solutions in the same cost bracket? Better/worse?
2) PCH skins/jukeboxes are all static html at the moment - from what little ive read xbmc appears to be dynamic and all scanning done from the Revo itself for example - plus 'live' editing of movie info etc? Is this accurate.
3) Can anyone explain the merits of Windows versus Linux for the purposes of xbmc on a device such as the Revo - im fairly good with windows OSs but not really familiar with Linux...I know Linux is generally a less hungry OS but is this going to be a mare to set up with no linux experience?
4) Is there much effort to get xbmc up with say AEON skin for a noob - want to understand the size of the task - not interested in web services, torrent clients of anything like that...I want a network share to my movies and nice pretty skin
5) Are there many pre-requisite programs e.g. java runtime that must be installed for xbmc to run properly? Dont need a list, just an idea, lots or a couple?
Thanks in advance for your help
S
First post and want a bit of general guidance on the direction to head with xbmc. My background is with NMTs - have a PCH A110 and a C200 and pretty au fait with all that...a few kick off questions for xbmc...
1) The Acer Revo seems a good little unit to get started with, will this play anything i can throw at it - BD iso files and BDMV folders at the top end? What spec do i need to guarantee these play smoothly?
Any other solutions in the same cost bracket? Better/worse?
2) PCH skins/jukeboxes are all static html at the moment - from what little ive read xbmc appears to be dynamic and all scanning done from the Revo itself for example - plus 'live' editing of movie info etc? Is this accurate.
3) Can anyone explain the merits of Windows versus Linux for the purposes of xbmc on a device such as the Revo - im fairly good with windows OSs but not really familiar with Linux...I know Linux is generally a less hungry OS but is this going to be a mare to set up with no linux experience?
4) Is there much effort to get xbmc up with say AEON skin for a noob - want to understand the size of the task - not interested in web services, torrent clients of anything like that...I want a network share to my movies and nice pretty skin
5) Are there many pre-requisite programs e.g. java runtime that must be installed for xbmc to run properly? Dont need a list, just an idea, lots or a couple?
Thanks in advance for your help
S