Ouya Teams Up With XBMC

New submitter JG0LD writes "The team behind open-source media platform XBMC announced yesterday that it would be working with the developers of Ouya to make sure that XBMC works on the still-developing but widely hyped Android gaming console." From XBMC: "Regardless, we are delighted to announce that XBMC will be working with Ouya to ensure that XBMC works well on the Ouya platform. Ouya's Android underpinnings and XBMC's work on Android (soon to be merged into master, pending final sign-offs!) will dramatically speed up that effort, as will early XBMC dev access to Ouya prototypes."

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Oh man, not another console

[crazyjj]

My TV only has so many inputs, you know.

I already had to add an extra power circuit in my living room to accommodate my Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, OnLive console, Valve console, Atari 2600, Region 1 blu-ray player, Region 2 blu-ray player, Laserdisc player, VCR, DVR, POW, laptop, Apple Mini, 100-speaker sound system, and 300" 4D TV.

Last week my dog disappeared and I'm pretty sure he's somewhere behind my entertainment center. If anyone has some mountain climbing gear and a Jaws of Life, I would very much appreciate a hand.

Re:Oh man, not another console

[Anonymous Coward]

Between this and clean water, indoor plumbing, and air conditioning I don't know how we manage anymore.

Re:Oh man, not another console

[Zocalo]

But apart from the clean water, indoor plumbing, air conditioning, and the HDMI switchers... What have the Romans ever done for us?

Re:Oh man, not another console

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pretty sure he was pulling your leg a little, since there are no Valve consoles yet and "VCR", whatever that is, sounds made-up.

Re:Oh man, not another console

[Nyder]

My TV only has so many inputs, you know.

I already had to add an extra power circuit in my living room to accommodate my Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, OnLive console, Valve console, Atari 2600, Region 1 blu-ray player, Region 2 blu-ray player, Laserdisc player, VCR, DVR, POW, laptop, Apple Mini, 100-speaker sound system, and 300" 4D TV.

Last week my dog disappeared and I'm pretty sure he's somewhere behind my entertainment center. If anyone has some mountain climbing gear and a Jaws of Life, I would very much appreciate a hand.

Welcome to life!

Back in the day, like that Atari 2600, you had 2 screws you hooked the video game console thru, and god forbid you had 2 or 3 or so of those type of consoles. And we were happy for it.

Then they made the screw type that is most common with Cable TV. Still only had 1 input on the TV, but by then we had more consoles, shit, we were getting knee deep in the consoles by then. But still only 1 input. And yet, it was so much better then the previous arrangement, we loved it.

Then came the RCA jack inputs, Video and Audio (L & R). Now you had a choice. The old school screw connector, or the new composite video connector! woot!!! Still took years and years before they started including more then 1 of those composite inputs though. Shit, VCR's usually had 2 of them on them.
Great improvement, plug and play baby!

Then came component, which for for SD TV's usually only had the 1 input, of course, it still had the other 2 common inputs also. Great Quality, sometimes plugging it in could be a pain if there was still a bunch of composite plugs (which there usually was).

Now, with LCD HD TV's I find on my TV, a Samsung, 6-8 different inputs. some of them can't be used at the same time, but most can. Not sure if my TV is special or not, but from what I've seen, most modern TV's have more inputs then older TV's. Oh, and the types of inputs? composite, S-Vid, Component, 15pin VGA, DVI, HDMI. Even got a usb plug somewhere.

And oddly enough, you can buy video switchers. For example, I have a commodore 1902 monitor that I connect my old consoles to. It has a split luma/chrom input (S-Video, but using 2 rca jacks). I use a GameStop video switcher for that. It lets me hook up, composite, s-vid, and component and network cables. So, it works great with my TV, since my TV has component inputs. But I don't use it with the TV. Old consoles look like shit on a 1080p 40" TV. Hence the Commodore monitor. Not sure if they make HDMI switchers, and not going to google it either.

But you make a good point, we are drowning in stuff we need to plug in for power, plug into TV's, plug into the Internet.

And I'm jealous, I only can afford a 12" 4D TV.

Re:Oh man, not another console

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like you need the ultimate remote control. It will take a few years to make but it will last for many years. It's called having Children. That will take of the problem.

Two Answers

[eldavojohn]

1. Where can I donate? XBMC rocks and I'm long overdue :)

Here.

2. Where can I get fresh builds of the Android port? I can't wait to fire it up on my Google TV!

According to their wiki some porting of libraries may still need to be done but you can clone into their github source for android and try to build it for your device (use their wiki to get started). I think all their development has been done for Pivos which now is an official sponsor of XBMC.

Re:The Killer App for them

[h4rr4r]

They can just open the netflix android app if you pick a selection from there.

Re:not Plex? guess xbmc is finally thinking light

[0100010001010011]

> embrace centralized (and/or distributed) storage

Works just fine at my house. Is your network broken?

Help me, I'm apparently retarded

[PPalmgren]

What in god's name does XBMC stand for?!

I see these stories all the time with no disambiguation of the acronym, and I go to their website and can't even find it there. For the longest time I thought it stood for XBox Media Center.

Save me from this nagging question please!

Re:Not everything is available on the consoles

[Dishevel]

73 years of copyright protection is theft.
Legally it should have been in the public domain long ago.
Disney has been buying protective laws for a long time now.
Morally...Fuck Disney,