On Wednesday 23 March 2005 12:21, Michal Dobrzynski wrote:
Using the XBox for watching DVD's and xvids has well as listening to music has been a revelation. It starts up quickly, it turns off with the press of a button. If anything locks up you can turn it off, then on and reload the interface faster than a PC would take just to turn off.
AFAIK LinVDR starts in 25 seconds, shuts down in 10. Still not that fast, but I could live with that.
If digital TV (including recording) could be made this easy and combined with the other features great features of XBMC then it would be unstoppable and only lacking in the HDTV department (next XBox for that I guess).
The so called killer application. It has only one problem: its proprietary. There will always be people who will work on an open solution.
To sum things up I'm not asking for VDR to change into something else (unless that's necessary for this sort of thing to even be possible but I doubt that). All I really want to know is if any work on an XBMC frontend to VDR ("My TV" anyone?) is being done by anyone anywhere. Is it possible? Why or why not?
To sum it up: you got yourself a proprietary solution and now you are frustrated that VDR does not support it?
I do not know if any VDR to XBMC exists. You probably already asked Google for it I assume. Somewhere rings a bell, but probably because this XBMC question was asked before.
Besides that I wonder if the XBox is really that much cheaper than an epia board with small harddisk plus dvd rom.
Kind regards, Stefan