Posts: 1
Joined: May 2009
Reputation:
0
2009-05-05, 19:20
hey all
would it be possible to create an headless xbmc build? with headless i mean, run only tge xbmc core (with web frontend) but without any gfx output...
why you may ask... I use a mips "workstation" (openwrt distro) and want to use this machine as AUDIO server. currently i use mpd, lcd4linux, smpc.. etc. and i works fine - but i think xbmc itself would be a better solution. and i would access my xbmc server with my iphone.
thanks in advance
michu
Posts: 12,706
Joined: Nov 2003
Reputation:
129
spiff
Team-Kodi Member
Posts: 12,706
possible? sure.
if anyone want to waste their time on this? doubt it.
not to mention that xbmc doesn't run on mips
Posts: 26
Joined: Dec 2008
Reputation:
0
0rca
Junior Member
Posts: 26
I too would love to be able to install and run XBMC without ever going to use the GUI. Is there maybe an easy way to circumvent the OpenGL driver version query?
I could then just install and start it and use the awesome xbmc remote to have a nice audio server.
Posts: 26
Joined: Dec 2008
Reputation:
0
0rca
Junior Member
Posts: 26
Would this be difficult? Is it doable at all? If so, could someone point me in the right direction?
I feel that XBMC is the best media center/server/client software out there and I would love to expand it somehow to multiroom capabilities. Without ANY programming knowlegde the XBMC remote controlling several XBMC clients is the only solution I can manage myself, but for audio only I would love to strip down the server to the absolute minimum (with regards to powerr consumption).
Or does anyone have a different idea how to do this?
Posts: 639
Joined: Feb 2004
Reputation:
0
Clumsy
Team-XBMC Forum Moderator
Posts: 639
If you have no programming experience - I say: forget it, the devs aren't likely to be interested at all.
Posts: 4,997
Joined: May 2004
Reputation:
12
My full system is <45W decoding 1080p. I'm not sure you're going to get lower than that with any current technology, certainly not by ripping out the GUI. The only valid reason to create an xbmc "server" edition, would be for unified db management. But this is far from a trivial task and no one has showed any real interest in actually doing it.
Posts: 699
Joined: Sep 2004
Reputation:
0
I believe pulseaudio supports this type of behavior. You could install linux with pulseaudio and xbmc and setup another machine on the network to pickup the audio. I'm not sure of the specifics of how it would work.