XBMC on a Trusty box

[intelminer]

So, I did an (admittedly skimming trawl) of the forums here, and I noticed nobody has actually done any tests to see if Trusty's 1.4Ghz/128MB boxes run XBMC any better, especially at things like 720P resolution

So, out of curiosity before I delve into picking one up, has anyone else sat down and taken a shot at just that?

[asbo]

professor_jonny has some pics and words about one here
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... ?f=13&t=17

[professor_jonny]

I did bench mark tests with mplayer and dvd player's inbuilt benchmark setting and yes it was better with 720p h264 but still a bit jerky in high intensity scenes.

It would do your head in watching it.

i have not did it since buzz added the new fast mode cut back codec but i guess it would fear the same.

it was perfect speed minimal dropped frames if you did not decode the sound from the stream.

xbxo does not have the cpu power.

[fxmech]

Things like animations, fancy graphics and metadata all get way better with my 1GHz/128MB board. There's more RAM overhead for increased buffer on streams.

I haven't tested video playback much as people generally report disappointing results. But maybe there's a way to get some better results in different codec.