Michael Drons wrote: > The chipset (Realtek) which controls the video drivers is not open > source. The only thing open source about it is Linux. > > Read this: > http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1158205&page=11
I see. Makes you wonder 1. if the company really wanted to do open source development, why did they settle for closed hardware, and 2. what exactly do they expect third party developers to contribute, if you can't even modify the GUI? Seems like a disingenuous way to market the device, as others in that thread pointed out. Someone in that thread wrote: XBMC is the best media frontend on any system at any price, and it's free and open source. If one of these streamer manufacturers would just use that, nobody would buy anything else. I guess porting something like that is just too much effort for these small time manufacturers. I wonder the same thing. I can't imagine that porting would be any more effort than building a whole media player UI from scratch. I can only speculate that these media player appliances rely so heavily on hardware video acceleration, that their weak CPUs wouldn't be able to render the XBMC UI adequately. Or that there isn't enough Flash storage to contain it. > I have a mvix to sell if you are interested... Sorry, but the above pretty much kills my enthusiasm for it. You do, however, have my appreciation for playing lab rat and trying it out. You should be able to find a non-hacking buyer that will value the device for its stock functionality. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
