XBMCbuntu

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I was wondering, Since we have an alpha of Ubuntu, and an Ubuntu installer, anyone try setting up XBMCbuntu? When I get the chance I'll see whats needed to run regular Ubuntu and see if theres enough support in it to run the XBMCbuntu

There isn't. You might be able to kludge it to the point it boots XBMC, but it's pointless. The GPU isn't working in Ubuntu so video acceleration is non-existant. The audio doesn't work either, so you'd be able to lag through low-res videos without sound. Not a great experience. Ubuntu right now is NOT for multimedia, it works great for office, productivity, and programming but not multimedia.

The XBMC guys are focusing all their ARM dev into the Raspberry Pi at the moment. Would be kinda cool, though especially if the TP had HDMI out.

I believe they're working on a xbmc for Android, so hopefully we will have one soon

The current version (which you have to compile from source as no APK has been released to the non-dev community) runs pretty decently on the Touchpad. I haven't tried playing any videos with it, yet. I'll check and report later.

You can find unofficial builds of the Android XBMC build online and it actually seems to work fairly well. The XBMC interface has been adapted a bit to work with touch interfaces and overall it's quite nice. I had issues playing music, but had limited success streaming DVD ISO's from my server and playing other types of video content.

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