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> There are no decent drivers/api to get accelerated video decoding on AMD<br>
> GPU's in Linux. Coupled with an Atom CPU that is to slow for HD decoding,<br>
> and your stuck with a box that won't play modern content (when running<br>
> Linux). These devices would be fine in Windows, which is what they were<br>
> intended for.<br>
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</div>Right. But these particular boxes were being sold as "XBMC appliance"s.<br>
I'm presuming that meant Linux. Does XBMC have a Windows port?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Yep: <a href="http://xbmc.org/download/">http://xbmc.org/download/</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Does that mean that these were being sold as "sucky" XBMC appliances,<br>
maybe only capable of SD content?<br></blockquote><div> </div><div style>Never used XBMC, but I'm sure it works well on all platforms it has been developed for.</div></div></div></div>