Talk:Supported hardware
Why is it inaccurate?
Please point it out specifically, (I took great care to copy the relevant data especially and exactly especially for AMD uvd2.2 stuff and spoke to wsnipex about legacy cards so idk what you see that I dont!
Also explain why all hardware lists have different data?
This needs to be improved needs to be consistent across wiki, period, however that is done or not.
a long block of text isn't as easy to read follow, and is also Inconsistent, This is for first time Linux users, they hate reading also. I would agree perhaps better way to do it, so here is your change to prove your superiority.
Please do address the the messiness, clearly you hate my style but refuse to show me better.
- Inaccurate and messy work
please point it out and improve it and explain!
Here it is for reference and I would like to see your comments here addressed.
- x86 x86_64 (Intel/AMD) processor computer capable of booting from CD-ROM/USB drive.
- Limited PPC support: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=173287
- Optional is to install to a 8GB (or larger) USB-flash-drive or internal harddrive.
- Larger than 8GB is required, if you have a lot of media as thumbs and art are cached on it.
Desktop
CPU += SSE |
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RAM | Note: For Video playback acceleration, a minimum of 512MB dedicated VRAM is recommended
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Graphics |
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Video decoding |
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HDD SSD USB |
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Optical Drive |
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Ethernet port |
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Note: ATI Radeon cards lower than UVD2.2
, are not supported with Ubuntu & variants 12.10 base system, using fglrx, due to changes in ATI's drivers. Legacy cards that support the minimum OpenGL requirements still can be installed, but you wont get any hardware acceleration playback in XBMC with fglrx and must remain at a specific version to work without bugs..
uNiversal 00:06, 28 March 2014 (EDT)
- For starters, the RAM requirement is wrong. The minimal RAM requirement for XBMC to run on linux hardware, even for v13 Gotham, on x86 systems, is still 256MB. The CPU requirement has been replaced with a recommendation. That recommendation of "dual core" means nothing because XBMC doesn't use more than one core for video decoding, and has only gained the ability to use more cores in v13 Gotham if specifically set to do so, and even that setting discourages turning that on.
- If you want to update the GPU text, please do so, but don't format it using that table. That table is a big step backwards in formatting. -- Ned Scott (talk) 02:45, 28 March 2014 (EDT)
- YEs, things can always be improved, however you have left out the legacy stuff which is a must because the questions will be ask:ed.
- Here. You don't need USB or an optical drive at all (plenty of people have installed directly to the drive and then installed that drive on the other hardware), but you would be hard pressed to find any hardware that is able to run XBMC that doesn't have a USB port. It's virtually impossible, and it's a given that you need some method of installing.
- Same for optical drives. It's completely obvious that if you want to play a DVD then you need something to physically read a DVD. People aren't just setting bare DVDs on top of the HTPC case and expecting magic.
- That being said, I would not object to a mention of USB (and ethernet, for that matter) in the context of being able to playback media. A lot of people do have the mistaken impression that USB 3 or gigabit ethernet is required for HD content, when USB 2 and 100meg ethernet will do just fine. -- Ned Scott (talk) 03:43, 28 March 2014 (EDT
- Yes, unfortunately, we should do the obvious more often, not everyone gets the obvious, no matter how much we want to belive that. Yes ether port mim100meg is ok and usb2 is also ok, unless you streaming over wifi a 50mbit bitrate file, Ive added a few things above lookup from the uvd2.0 page and whatnot to add to the table when your done reformating it again ;)
- The usb port I mean a USB drive you can installinux to a USB drive or Intall to hdd or install to ssd, I didnt means that you need a usb port, though its obvious ;) that most everything has one of those these days.uNiversal 04:34, 28 March 2014 (EDT)