Xbmc?

[gruso]

Holy shit! Yessss!

[edit] Just a WIP video by the looks of things, so no source or anything available just yet. Still great news though, I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

 

[HackModford]

I'd be extremely interested in XBMC on the Pandora. And I can understand why you'd want it on the pandora since everything else in your house is running it. it's like you go to any device and you see the same interface. How wonderful

 

[fischju2000]

A great, full screen media player is something the Pandora needed, looks like this could be it! Configuring it to 840x480 shouldn't be a problem, and neither should be performance with OpenGL ES.

 

[hells_dark]

great news.

Though it's hard to say if it's usable with the video…

 

[nightwheel]

great news.

Though it's hard to say if it's usable with the video…

Well it's running in SDL at the moment. It hasn't been optimized to work with OpenGL ES yet.

 

[funtasticguy]

Now we're one step closer to making XBMC a reality for the Pandora. This is just fabulous news and will make the Pandora a dream gadget! A portable and pocketable XBMC is just too good to be true. Wow!

 

[Gamester17]

Just a WIP video by the looks of things, so no source or anything available just yet.
The full source code for the XBMC on ARM port is available for checkout in the XBMC's official and public SVN.

Patches are more than welcomed though the XBMC tracker: http://xbmc.org/trac

CODE
# svn checkout https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/xbmc_on_arm

or

# svn checkout https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/xbmc_on_arm/XBMC

read

http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/xbmc_on_arm/XBMC/README.armel
and

http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/README.linux

FYI; XBMC Media Center is no longer called "XBox Media Player", it has been officially renamed to just "XBMC Media Center" since it has been ported to other platforms than the Xbox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC

I think that other as a media player, XBMC for Pandora might be most interesting as a game and emulator 'launcher' (similar to how it could be used on the Xbox). Development have begun on a games library that will enable cataloging and launching of third-party emulators and their ROMS directly from XBMC's interface. XBMC's skinning engine is also noted for being extremely flexible so skins for a small screen such as Pandora could easily be made by anyone who is willing to learn.

Development help is always wanted!
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Development_Notes
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Developing_XBMC_for_Linux
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_submit_a_patch

XBMC has a large and friendly community forum here:
http://xbmc.org/forum

Note! XBMC for Linux does not use MPlayer, (only XBMC for Xbox uses MPlayer), instead it has its own in house developed video player that uses FFmpeg, (it is called "DVDPlayer"), and a separate in house developed audio player (called "PAPlayer").

PS! Off-topic but know that someone other than Michael McGeagh has also volunteered to assist with this porting project to ARM in order to get XBMC working on Android platform as well.

B)

 

[gruso]

I just caught your post on the blog and came here to re-post it. You beat me. Thank you for dropping by to share all this info!