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XBMC Ported To Android
New submitter TheUni writes with news that XBMC has been announced for Android. Quoting:
"Not a remote, not a thin client; the real deal. No root or jailbreak required. XBMC can be launched as an application on your set-top-box, tablet, phone, or wherever else Android may be found. The feature-set on Android is the same that you have come to expect from XBMC, no different from its cousin on the desktop. Running your favorite media-center software on small, cheap, embedded hardware is about to become a hassle-free reality. And as Android-based set-top-boxes are becoming more and more ubiquitous, it couldn't be a better time. ... We will begin releasing apks for interested beta testers in the coming weeks. But for those who are up to the task, as you would expect from XBMC, the source code is available. We have decided not to push to Google Play until we are satisfied that users with all kinds of devices get the same great XBMC experience."
xbox one gets replaced by a pie.
Let me be the first to say: "Wicked!!!" :)
This is it :)
who do I throw money at to thank them?
When can I put it on my logitech revue?
It's source only, so not quite where end users will be able to use it yet.
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I wonder if it'll run on the Ouya, or Oooh-yah. Or whatever that new console is named.
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Be nice to run this on my sony google tv box. See if someone ever compiles it for the intel chip and gets it on the google tv's version of Play.
The article also does not explain what Android is, or what jailbreaking is, or what source code is.... If you don't know these things already, it either doesn't matter for you, or you should go Google them.
And for the record, it says right in the summary that XBMC is "your favorite media-center software." Seems pretty obvious that it's software that allows you to organize and watch all of your digital media.
I think the possibility of XBMC being extremely portable is awesome. If you have a phone or tablet you can literally bring your entertainment with you to any room in the house.
I plan to try it with my Nexus 7 and Galaxy S phone. The tablet will probably better due to the larger screen. Couple it with the audio dock Asus is talking about and it gets even better!
Being able to browse and view my media content wirelessly anywhere in the house is an excellent idea!
More applications that replicate desktop functionality are a must. Even using my tablet still feels like using a giant phone. Especially when older/poorly designed apps flip orientation and my screen is docked. Awkward. Chrome is pretty nice but asides from some ok games (even the games aren't great yet imo) that look kind of pretty, I haven't found anything all that awesome to do with my tablet. Photo editing software that didn't suck would be nice. Photoshop touch is just too limited. I have a quad core cpu running @ 1.5ghz with 1gb of ram and the most ps can process is a 2048x2048 picture? Lame. The ecosystem is getting there. Final Fantasy III was a nice touch and some of the new games coming out look pretty amazing....its still nowhere near the ipad unfortuantely.
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Seriously... google "xbmc" and click on the first result. Is this your first time using the interwebs?
You didn't even read the summary, did you? They said it's not in the store... You have to download the APK.
What is that little Andriod box that they show in the begining? I can't make out the name.
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set up net-top PC on TV
And there's the problem. The average user (who is not the kind of geek who reads Slashdot) either A. owns an SDTV, B. doesn't know that a PC can use an HDTV as a monitor, or C. isn't aware of the advantages of an HTPC running XBMC over dedicated video streaming hardware such as the Roku. How can each of these three be fixed?
http://dl.miniand.com/miniand/xbmc-android/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-20120714.apk
Why anyone would want/use a "Media Center" that doesn't play/record HD TV is beyond me.
Uh, because you use MythTV for that. Xbmc is a MythTV front-end as well as a media player.
I have to think that while something like Plex would be better for a lot of people, XBMC still gets used on name recognition alone. If you have more than one device that you watch media on (TVs, Roku, tablets, phones, whatever) why wouldn't you want a central server managing the library, downloading metadata, saving watched flags, holding resume times, and serving up video to the devices? I turned a friend on to Plex from XBMC and he's amazed at how often he stops watching in one room and resumes in another. I love it too. I can't count the times that I've started watching something on the iPad in the kitchen while cleaning up and then going into the bedroom to finish on the TV. That's a way bigger feature to me than getting "the real deal" running everywhere I need it.
The people above wanting this for Google TV...check out Plex, it may be exactly what you're looking for.
Sorry to not gush for XBMC, I know it's the best solution for many people and I truly appreciate the heritage and the fact that it's the foundation for Plex, but until they have a centralized server (if ever), I can't even consider it for myself. And no I'm not going to jump through hoops to get it.
Figures. I just spent $400 on an ASUS nettop.
That being said, the Google Nexus 7 is looking pretty damn good at $200.
I hope that XBMC on the Nexus 7 will give Apple some impetus to allow the XBMC app into the appstore.
Of course, knowing Apple, they'll try to litigate themselves out of this. And before you say I'm an Apple basher, my family and I own 4 iPhones and a MacBook. I just don't like this patent litigation route that they've gone recently.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
the real vlc has a beta and it seems to work fairly well with mkv i have had some artifacting on my dvd rip of red-dwarf i dropped on my kindel fire, not sire that is my rip or the beta software though
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...on a platform that's already got a perfectly reasonable browser?
Seriously, it took me the better part of a minute to realize that I wasn't seeing "XKCD" in the headline. I was still puzzled afterward, as I'd never heard of XMBC, but not as puzzled.
Myth, VDR or probably best, TV-Headend which is far better suited for this end.
And for the record, it says right in the summary that XBMC is "your favorite media-center software."
Clearly it isn't. I'd never heard of it either. Considering the submission is obviously product advertising written by a marketing droid, the little detail of what the heck the product is might have been mentioned at some point.
Considering the submission is obviously product advertising written by a marketing droid
Yeah, that's the one thing open source projects are well known for. Advertising and marketing...
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What is this "Recording" of TV you do? What purpose does it serve? My shows just show up 1-2 minutes after they have aired automagically.
Like everyone else I'm going to be stuck waiting for the first build to try out. Key for me will be whether it supports the new 10-bit h.264 encoding. Seems like almost every player has issues - the only one that consistently works for me is mPlayer - and the softsub support support on that player still needs some work to bring it up to a desktop standard. Nice to see a release at least, especially considering that after the announcement that VLC is being ported to Android we're still to see a stable official VLC build on the store.
On a local network, nothing will transcode with a PC/Mac client, nor anything a device supports (and everything does h264 these days, and most do XviD). It remuxes if it has to but leaves the streams alone. Also over a local network the transcoding can have a huge bitrate and look fine. Admittedly it requires a beefy server. Remote streaming obviously gets a lower bitrate but you're trading quality for quantity with the ability to browse terabytes of media.
Look, I'm aware it isn't for everyone. I'm not going to respond to everyone here, but I guess "I know it's the best solution for many people" wasn't a good enough disclaimer.
Well, aren't you the hipster?
Put identity in the browser.
Who has cable or OTA TV anymore? Why would anyone want that? ;)
Put identity in the browser.