[HH] Ouya running XBMC

[Jon Evans]

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 <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com>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
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