I saw a lot of bashing in the other thread on this topic so i am going to put my 2 cents in on this:
A media player is not going to tax the system more than a video game does , the GPU goes through a lot more processing and displaying textures etc than it does re-playing a video. Common sense will tell you that , certain games are known for being even worse than others. Consider that it is taking raw data and processing it on screen and also allowing you to interact in realtime with the software using a controller , yea it takes a lot more power to do that than it does to play something back .... it's just that simple.
If you don't think their is any point to it why are you posting? TROLLING!!!
Everyone who was involved with the Xbox 1 scene would love to see something like XBMC on the 360 , with an opensource and working Codec library this can be possible. Without one it's not , opensource doesn't really matter except for other developers to create things with them , whatever a working codec library is a very good thing. This isn't just news it's BIG news.
Yes an Xbox 360 is a "Video game console" ; but let me ask you this , is that what MS markets it as? No not by any means , it also has netflix , a built in albeit shitty media player , and social networking. I have a PC I can play games on it , I can run Netflix or Windows Media Center , social network , word process etc ... the difference is the nice tight package , custom software that works better with a hand held controller on the 360 , and the lack of certain other features which are truly pointless on a media device. When the first game systems came out , the reason they only played games is because that's all they had power to do. It's 2011 get with the damn times.
Now on the point of their being better options for playing media I.E Apple T.V .... that's fine if that is your opinion ... but this is Xbox-Scene we are all here because we have Xboxes and we like modding them, it's not Apple T.V-Scene or Ubuntu Scene. Sure their are those sections down in the forums , but the name says enough. We are all supposed to be here to better the scene , to help it move forward. If you can only contribute ungrateful comments just go away
Ok i'm done ranting; let's hope for a great future for homebrew .... this is a big deal.
Thank you too all those involved in finally making this a reality
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Topic: Codec Libraries, Video Player for Homebrew 360s WIP Update (Read 562 times)