XBMC (Kodi [but really prefer the sound of XBMC as a name itself]) running directly on Vu+ Duo2 hardware will be outstanding and extremely useful especially if it (presumably) brings with it XBMC support for playing back PC/Mac format media files accessed over the network from a file server or even a USB key drive (temporarily) via front USB port.
Also isn't there already an option somewhere in XBMC to use it as a front end for Live TV Viewing, PVR functionality and EPG searching with timers? With either a Satellite STB (a plugin is required within the STB) or satellite tuner expansion cards in a PC providing the backend for that setup.
How about wireless USB RF mouse and keyboard input to Vu+ Duo2 to control XBMC in addition to regular IR Vu+ Remote?
But to have XBMC instead running directly on the Vu+ would be very useful as XBMC could also represent a simplified front end for less experienced family users to access enough functions of STB to not have to ask for help to set timers etc.
Brings the possibility of the Vu+ Box also being a media server (very low mains power consumption) there is a setting somewhere in (PC) XBMC related to that - will have to try & find it when I get back home - consider the possibilities of one 6TB disk inside the Vu+ and another 6TB disk external to the Vu+ connected on its ESATA port (still at full SATA 3.0 6GBPS wire speed) both holding media in the relatively higher compression ratios used on computers for media storage - the number of media files in the library accessed from the Vu+ could be pretty big!
There is also a chance that as XBMC would not be accessing a PC Video card via the massive amount of Hardware Abstraction Level (effectively graphics bloat-ware) imposed by Windows the ability to access the Vu+ Video processing chips directly & natively without a HAL in the way could give very impressive and snappy XBMC performance - what possibilities!
Also isn't there already an option somewhere in XBMC to use it as a front end for Live TV Viewing, PVR functionality and EPG searching with timers? With either a Satellite STB (a plugin is required within the STB) or satellite tuner expansion cards in a PC providing the backend for that setup.
How about wireless USB RF mouse and keyboard input to Vu+ Duo2 to control XBMC in addition to regular IR Vu+ Remote?
But to have XBMC instead running directly on the Vu+ would be very useful as XBMC could also represent a simplified front end for less experienced family users to access enough functions of STB to not have to ask for help to set timers etc.
Brings the possibility of the Vu+ Box also being a media server (very low mains power consumption) there is a setting somewhere in (PC) XBMC related to that - will have to try & find it when I get back home - consider the possibilities of one 6TB disk inside the Vu+ and another 6TB disk external to the Vu+ connected on its ESATA port (still at full SATA 3.0 6GBPS wire speed) both holding media in the relatively higher compression ratios used on computers for media storage - the number of media files in the library accessed from the Vu+ could be pretty big!
There is also a chance that as XBMC would not be accessing a PC Video card via the massive amount of Hardware Abstraction Level (effectively graphics bloat-ware) imposed by Windows the ability to access the Vu+ Video processing chips directly & natively without a HAL in the way could give very impressive and snappy XBMC performance - what possibilities!
