Talk:Supported hardware

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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
x86 or x86_64 processor such as: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Pentium M, AMD Athlon XP/64, AMD Opteron, or newer CPU. Anything made in the last few years does.).
  • If your GPU/VPU does not support hardware video decoding then you will require a fast modern processor is required to decode some videos (H.264, VC-1, etc) in 1080P. Editor note: Hard to quantify this, but maybe we can get a rough benchmark score in here?
  • There is very limited Power PC (PPC) support: [Linux] How to install on Linux-ppc
RAM Note: For Video playback acceleration, a minimum of 512MB dedicated VRAM is recommended
  • Minimum: 256MB
  • Recommended: 1GB.
Graphics
XBMC will run on most graphics cards made in the last few years, including hardware video decoding support. This includes most cards from ATI/AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA which support OpenGL 2.0 or later.
Video
decoding
For hardware video decoding, which may be necessary on various low-performance CPUs to playback 1080P content, make sure your GPU or VPU supports either VAAPI, VDPAU, or CrystalHD.
HDD
SSD
USB
Internal or External
8GB or larger
Optical
Drive
Optional
CD - DVD - BD
Ethernet
port
  • Minimum: 100MBit
  • Recommended: 1000Mbit

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)
I apologize, I see that dual-core comment is in the old text as well. Sill, that table was a mess and just took up more space without being any clearer about the requirements. -- Ned Scott (talk) 02:48, 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.
You also left out the hdd/usb and add optional optical drive, you needs a usb a hdd or ssd cannot do without either, and in case you want playback optical media that should also be there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by uNiversal (talk • contribs)
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)
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