Ouya Teams Up With XBMC 92
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."
Oh man, not another console (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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I'm running into the same issue. Early on when I got my newest TV I had to get 4 port HDMI switcher. Now that is full up and when the Ouya comes out (which I gave money to in the Kickstarter campaign) I will upgrade that to an 8. It's getting a little crazy with all the stuff that can be attached.
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Between this and clean water, indoor plumbing, and air conditioning I don't know how we manage anymore.
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Re:Oh man, not another console (Score:5, Funny)
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But you need only 1 HDMI on your TV, it only needs to connect to your A/V receiver. What is the point of a nice TV if you're not getting an equally nice surround sound system ?
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Call me crazy, but aren't such consoles meant to replace several of the consoles you're talking about? Like a VCR, DVR, laptop, Apple Mini, Region 1 blu-ray player, Region 2 blu-ray player, etc.
That seems to be the point of such media center consoles...
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Call me crazy...
You're crazy, dude.
With a capital C.
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Not everything is available on the consoles (Score:2)
Call me crazy, but aren't such consoles meant to replace several of the consoles you're talking about? Like a VCR
Let me know when the films Song of the South and Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night are released (legally) in a modern home video format.
DVR
A lot of programs shown on pay television are not available for streaming through Xbox 360 or PS3. Time-shifting them requires a DVR. In addition, most pay television systems require a decoder box to convert encrypted to something a TV monitor can use, and this is often built into the DVR provided by the pay television operator.
laptop, Apple Mini
Not every video game or other application
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legally
torrent
Since when are such torrents licensed by Disney?
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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,
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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
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You should get an HTPC and some emulators. The upsampling some of them do really does wonders for the look of old games on modern displays.
How to get games into the emulators legally? (Score:2)
You should get an HTPC and some emulators.
And copy your cartridges and nonstandard-formatted discs to the HTPC how? The Retrode works for Super NES and Sega Genesis cartridges, but how does one copy an NES cartridge to a PC without soldering together a homemade cartridge reader or copy a Wii disc to a PC without using a Wii?
Yes, I know most people will just go break the law.
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If you own the cartridge already is it still illegal to format shift/download an emulator copy?
Yes, in the United States. UMG Recordings v. MP3.com.
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there is a copyright exception for masked ROMs
The exception as I understand it is that the owner of a copy of a computer program, such as a mask ROM cartridge, may make another copy "as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine" (17 USC 117(a)(1)). The Retrode adapter is designed to do exactly this: produce .sfc and .gen files from Super NES and Sega Genesis cartridges for use with an emulator. But as I understand it, this copy needs to be made directly from the mask ROM, not through a transmission over
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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.
Meh, back in those days (And with the coax connectors as well), most of the video game consoles attached to the tv with switches that you could chain together. So you could easily chain 2 or 3 consoles together with no problems. In the 2600 days, there was a manual switch you had to move to select the atari vs the upstream input. By the NES days, the switching happened automatically.
But either way, it was no problem to chain multiple consoles/home computers together. Once we moved to RCA and other inputs is
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Wii, Wii U, Gamecube--I'm pretty sure they're all back there. I would look closer to be sure, but my entertainment system became self-aware some time ago and it zaps me with some sort of electrical field if I get too close to it.
Which came first: the Wii U or the Ouya? (Score:2)
You have a Wii U already? Because last time I looked it wasn't on sale yet...
Nor is the Ouya. You have a valid point if you think the Ouya will make it to market before the Wii U. Otherwise, crazyjj will plan to own a Wii U by the time the Ouya becomes available.
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My TV only has so many inputs, you know.
Heh, I don't even *have* a TV :P
I suppose I should be happy for things like Ouya and Raspberry Pi for bringing Linux / Android set-tops to "the masses". But I don't really mind spending an extra $100 to get a full Android tablet with about the same or better specs and a touchscreen. I'll put one in the kitchen, a few in the car, one on my bike, one in the bathroom. Maybe the kids could have one to carry around as well, I dunno. Strap one to the dog as well so I can see what he does when he runs off.
Just
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You still have your VCR connected to your TV? Why?
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They can just open the netflix android app if you pick a selection from there.
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Two questions (Score:2)
1. Where can I donate? XBMC rocks and I'm long overdue
2. Where can I get fresh builds of the Android port? I can't wait to fire it up on my Google TV!
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Two Answers (Score:5, Informative)
1. Where can I donate? XBMC rocks and I'm long overdue :)
Here [xbmc.org].
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 [xbmc.org] some porting of libraries may still need to be done but you can clone into their github source for android [github.com] and try to build it for your device (use their wiki to get started). I think all their development has been done for Pivos [pivosgroup.com] which now is an official sponsor of XBMC.
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I have two questions for the XBMC Android folks:
1. Where can I donate? XBMC rocks and I'm long overdue :)
2. Where can I get fresh builds of the Android port? I can't wait to fire it up on my Google TV!
Google broke?
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Developing_XBMC_for_Android [xbmc.org]
https://github.com/xbmc/android [github.com]
http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/07/13/xbmc-for-android/ [xbmc.org]
My Investigation (Score:1)
No one has explained all the fake in-game footage in their promotional video (They were caught red-handed with Minecraft now weren't they, no wiggle room in that one) or that the dev board (Looks like some mini-ITX thing) featured promotional video doesn't match the pathetically sparse specs (Too many USB ports, no
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That second picture only has some surface mount parts for scale, so it seems possible at least they are the same SOC.
Any pictures with better references for scale?
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Where are these open source omap drivers?
The OMAP in my old D1 sure is not totally open. Hardware acceleration for one uses a closed driver.
I wish intel would get into the ARM game again, at least we could have good open source drivers.
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You know you could just learn Android and Android game programming and not worry about the Ouya.
The developer's tools are free [android.com] and there are tons of tutorials on the web and YouTube.
And it's not like there aren't a few hundred brands of Android smartphones, tablets and, yes, even media boxes [dx.com].
Made me buy (Score:1)
Takes care of my casual gaming wants, my want for XBMC on my home theater, and my want
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If only it could play 480i video without a problem...
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The Pi only decode H.263 and H.264 in hardware. (Well this is not entirely correct, but you need a license to unlock the other formats, and there is no way to get the license...)
Some people are trying to decode MPEG-2 in software [raspberrypi.org].
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Those are aren't really plex. They are thin wrappers to support the proprietary streaming from the plex server.
This is the real deal full code XBMC.
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Regardless of how you feel about Plex "proprietary streaming" is a bit of stretch. Yes, the Plex server code is closed-source (which annoys me), but the streams are MP4-via-HTTP and are accessible via a documented API as well as DLNA.
Which is important, because the "full code XBMC" still doesn't offer server-client operation, or transcoding, which makes it quite difficult to use directly on low-power machines or in any situation with more than one playback device. XBMC was a great start as one of the first
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> embrace centralized (and/or distributed) storage
Works just fine at my house. Is your network broken?
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Cool (Score:2)
Now if the games don't manifest into reality (they wont. It's been tried before), there's till an actual reason to own one of these things. Since I quit cable, my big MythTV box is just overkill. Might be able to replace it with an Ouya and an external HD or NAS.
Not bad for $99 (already have the external HD and NAS)
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I think the games could come for this unlike other consoles simply because it's an Android device. So any Android game dev could basically mod their game to work with a controller and release for this platform.
And it goes the other way. Release for the console, mod the game to work without a console and you can release to the normal Android game store.
But even so this will be a killer XMBC box. Just plug in a large USB drive and go to town. I wonder if we'll see SABnzbd ported to Android for this.
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Well, with few exceptions, I honestly haven't been that impressed with the mobile gaming offerings. Maybe they're targeted at the same demographic as the "facebook" type games that I don't play either, but they all seem more like physics engine tech demos than games. When they first started hyping this thing, people were talking about things like "how to get the AA and AAA devs on board" and other delusional stuff like that. That's what I mean when I say it's never going to happen
Help me, I'm apparently retarded (Score:3)
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!
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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!
XBox Media Center.
It was originally created for the XBox, and was later ported to the desktop; the XBox version, incidentally, has been discontinued..
It is a little annoying seeing the logo on startup: XBMC Media Center. Has no one caught the redundancy?
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Well, that explains it. Thanks. I wondered if I was thinking of a misnomer since it didn't seem to be for XBox when I'd originally researched it to put on there.
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it didn't seem to be for XBox when I'd originally researched it to put on there.
When did you look for it and are you talking about the XBox 360? XBMC was originally developed only for the XBox, the original one. After the 360 came out, and the hacking of it took longer than expected, XBMC was ported to Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Now, thanksfully, they're also embracing Android which I am very happy about.
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Also, it no longer supports XBOX.
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XBMC (was XBox Media Center). Just like...
KFC (was Kentucky Fried Chicken)...
AT&T (was American Telephone & Telegraph)
COLECO (was COnneticut LEather COmpany)
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XBox Media Center
It was named back when it was XBox only. Now that it has many targets, it's pretty much just XBMC. Can you imagine some guy confused "wait, does it turn my Apple TV into an XBox?"