I have an OUYA with XBMC running. Aside from some audio decoding issues that ought to be worked out by the official launch, it works pretty well. It's *very* snappy, just as responsive as on my beefy desktop PC, and much better than it is running on a Nexus 7 tablet. Video playback (1080p H.264) is fine.
One concern I have is that the user interface has not been customized at all for the OUYA controller, so navigating the UI is somewhat awkward. I get around this by using the Android remote control app on my phone, rather than the OUYA controller. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]>wrote: > There are probably dozens of videos on YouTube demonstrating XBMC > running on the Ouya, but "Before You Buy" (ep#72) demos it as part of > their Ouya review: > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=onSp39FKtXY#t=1790s > > They show it doing 1080p playback from a BlueRay rip. XBMC had to be > download from a web link and "side loaded," but is expected to > eventually be available in the Ouya app store. > > (After having used XBMC on a laptop for about 3+ months, I've become > less enthusiastic about it. The UI is pretty and playback pretty much > always performs flawlessly, which is great, but the UI is inconsistently > unresponsive. It isn't something that can merely be blamed on a slow > machine, as most times the identical operation will perform well. Plus > I'm using a laptop that likely outperforms most set-top-box hardware > that XBMC should be designed to run on. I'd be a little more forgiving > if it at least consistently displayed the "working..." message during > the hangs, but it doesn't, indicating things are stalling in places the > developers didn't anticipate. > > So far the MythTV client (MythTV PVR add-on) has also been a > non-starter. Although based on the cmyth library, which comes from the > mvpmc project that I've been using since 2006, in their fork of cmyth > they gutted its ability to deal with older versions of MythTV, so it > won't talk to my older back-end. One of the great strengths of cmyth was > that it wasn't tightly version coupled, unlike the official MythTV > front-end. The worse part is that the developers seem to be unresponsive > on the designated MythTV PVR add-on forum.) > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >
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