[mythtv-users] Android stick, HDMI interface, claims to do 1080p, $36

[Joseph Fry]

>  > There are no decent drivers/api to get accelerated video decoding on AMD
> > GPU's in Linux.  Coupled with an Atom CPU that is to slow for HD
> decoding,
> > and your stuck with a box that won't play modern content (when running
> > Linux).  These devices would be fine in Windows, which is what they were
> > intended for.
>
> Right.  But these particular boxes were being sold as "XBMC appliance"s.
>  I'm presuming that meant Linux.  Does XBMC have a Windows port?
>

Yep: http://xbmc.org/download/


>
> Does that mean that these were being sold as "sucky" XBMC appliances,
> maybe only capable of SD content?
>

Never used XBMC, but I'm sure it works well on all platforms it has been
developed for.
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