XBMC Port From Sigma
Today Sigma Designs announced(pdf) that they are working to bring XBMC to their popular line of system-on-a-chip models (their new SMP8656 in particular). For those not familiar with Sigma, they are a major player in the set-top box market and their SOCs are the heart of many products from Popcorn Hour and WDTV, as well as countless other consumer media devices
We believe this could lead to many interesting things for XBMC. Not only do we benefit from the source code from their port, but any company interested in developing hardware for XBMC now has another fine choice. Judging by the amount of times we’ve heard the question “does XBMC work on Sigma hardware?”, there is a great amount of interest.
A few of the XBMC developers, myself included, will be checking out their initial port first-hand at CES this week, as well as meeting with some of their developers and project managers. We will keep you updated as details emerge.
@topfs2
and what do you think when such a media player will been released.
And my other Question is there now a possibility to run XBMC at something like a HTPC or a MediaPlayer with the complete Costs of 200€ (dont need 720p or 1080p) or should i wait now.
And when they want to release this kind of devices and which prize?
In a few
Month or mabye longer than a year
Pardon the silly question – but what do Sigma mean by ’supported’?
Have they ported XBMC to their chipset? Does it support the skins, plugins etc? Or does it just do accelerated video with a single XBMC frontend?
Inquiring minds need to know :)
Thanks for the work by the way, XBMC Dharma is finally girlfriend friendly – this is a first for any of my geek adventures :D
Ta,
Sean
@Rob
Plex basically is Xbmc.
Any information how far in the future we could expect a sigma player running xbmc? a few month? a year? cant wait to see that happen.
All I want is a WDTV with XBMC. Fingers crossed it becomes a reality.
awesome news, can’t come soon enough!
AMD Athlon Barton 2500+, 1 gb ddr1 ram, 2 x hdd (80 + 160), Nvidia 7300 gt, XBMC runing as standalone in the Linux Mint 10, Logitech Ultra X Remote working like a charm out-of-the-box, 720p perfect.@isilenced_
what about codecs etc.. they get outdated and new versions need to be added to a system.
One of the reasons I don’t use my divx dvd player anymore is it stopped at version 5.
and paying additional on all the codec patients? what about the name XBMC is it becomes
really popular wouldn’t microsoft take a serious notice and question its name like it did
with lindows?