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XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID

Posted by timothy on from the to-watch-programs-made-by-other-acronyms dept.

reborn writes "Someone's got XBMC running on one of those MIDs. This one is a Compal Jax10. It runs Linux and is powered by an Intel Atom processor clocked at 800Mhz along with Intel's GMA500, which is basically a licensed PowerVR SGX GPU. Except for the better GPU (and its screen and keyboard, of course), it is similarly specced as some of the lower-end netbooks. XBMC would make a great portable media player, given its ability to play media off the network and virtually all file formats, but in the end it depends on the price-point of these MIDs. Here's the video."

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  1. It can't do HD.Fail. by timmarhy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if it can't do proper HD then it's not interesting. there are plenty of tiny low res video players on the market now.

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    1. Re:It can't do HD.Fail. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You miss the point. SD on an 8-inch screen or whatever will be every bit as crisp and beautiful as HD on your home television set, if not far, far more so. It's overkill.

    2. Re:It can't do HD.Fail. by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's also non news.

      I had XBMC running under ubuntu on my Acer aspire one already.

      it's just not impressive to see someone get a Intel based program port running on a intel processor.

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  2. Re:I don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The big deal is that the MID has enough juice to run XBMC at a usable framerate, which requires OpenGL acceleration, something not very common in devices of this form factor. Of course, that'll change once the Ion and GMA 500 get more popular (if at all).