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Hi! Davilla does this mean that, you are developing for iOS XBMC i mean porting the XBMC that in te future will be ATV 2 able to run XBMC?
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No, he was pointing out that XBMC works great on more apple devices than Plex (which is a fork of XBMC specifically for OS X) does, which is primarily due to davilla's work.
This doesn't include the ATV2 (or iOS in general) - XBMC doesn't run on that, and nor do any of it's forks.
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I don't see XBMC coming to a AppleTV 2 near you, the demand isn't there anymore. The Boxee Box is much more powerful than the ATV2 and will run XBMC natively without too much fuss soon enough. Will support all kinds of 1080p and the hardware supports bitstreaming all DTS-MA with TrueHD coming soon.
The demand just isn't there anymore...
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2010-11-30, 18:12
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-30, 18:14 by dan1son.)
Plex is an old fork of XBMC, that only runs on OSX 10.5+. XBMC runs on 10.4+.
Plex is quite different now. The early versions were pretty similar to XBMC but "optimized" for Intel Macs. It has since had some pretty major architecture changes. They run a daemon type server on your mac that hosts the files to a Plex client running on the same Mac or on another box. The server will yank videos from online sites and transcode them into something the client can play. It also has an "App" architecture similar to boxee.
I've installed it and played with it, but I don't run nearly enough Macs to even give it a good test. Too limited for me. My media boxes run Ubuntu (one HAS win7 but it's not used much), my workstation runs ubuntu/win7, and my server runs ubuntu. The only Mac I have is a macbook.
I guess if you live in Apples little closed in world you might find it useful. I can't do it...
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Ideally if someone ever got linux running on the ATV2 maybe a path like ATV1/linux could be followed.
Instead of porting to iOS the XBMC work done on linux/Arm could be used perhaps even dual booting between the two OS assuming that it was technically possible.
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Is there any plans for the new ATV, my first gen one has nearly gong totally tits and I want to know if its worth getting a new one as the are cheaper than old ones.
HD really not an issue for me.
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Well that was as clear as mud. I need to get a boxee box then, which is more expensive than an ATV1