Self-Compiled XMBC, on the Pi..
Now that I have Fedora 17 running OK, I will try the XBMC stuff… There doesn’t seem to be a complete ‘image’ available yet, so I have got the git repository code from OpenELEC, and (just for fun) am actually compiling it all on the Pi.. Seems to be (roughly) as quick to compile as an old Pentium system from the early-00s… Be interesting to see how long it actually takes! One thing to watch for when compiling, is that you have to have a valid system time… If you don’t have it from the network, you can set it ‘manually’ using the # date … command.. One additional gotcha… I got compile failures with ‘out of memory’ errors, and then discovered that the boot files I had used (from the git repository) were set to the 128/128 CPU/GPU ‘video performance’ setting, instead of the (default) 192/64 CPU/GPU split.. Copied arm192_start.elf over start.elf and rebooted, to fix..
Did it work?
Do you have XBMC compiled for F17 on Rasberry Pi?
Regards,
Rafa.
OpenELEC XBMC is not distro-specific, as it includes its own optimised Linux/ARM operating environment, and the script cross-compiles all of this, on an X86/64 system.
It worked surprisingly well, when I tried it.