Can anybody share their experiences with XBMC 11 on an Acer Revo L70?
I started using XBMC on my 1st generation Xbox and have been running XBMC v9 (Camelot?) on my Acer Revo R3610 for a few years. It runs amazingly well but I'd like to upgrade it and have pretty much decided on the Revo L70 (the one with the AMD CPU/GPU). The thing is, I've read quite a few things regarding getting XBMC running properly on an L70, especially the video hardware acceleration...there's a page in this very forum (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996) with (what seems to me, at least...I know next to nothing about Linux, etc.) pretty complex and specific instructions for getting XBVA running on AMD hardware. Other forum posts suggest that the only thing needed to get everything working (including smooth 1080p playback) is to up the amount of RAM given to the graphics hardware from 256Mb to 512Mb.
A simple BIOS change prior to install is fine, but I'm not sure I like the thought of having to follow everything on the XBVA thread just so I can have the L70 work as well as my several year old R3610.
Any advice or observations will be much appreciated.
I started using XBMC on my 1st generation Xbox and have been running XBMC v9 (Camelot?) on my Acer Revo R3610 for a few years. It runs amazingly well but I'd like to upgrade it and have pretty much decided on the Revo L70 (the one with the AMD CPU/GPU). The thing is, I've read quite a few things regarding getting XBMC running properly on an L70, especially the video hardware acceleration...there's a page in this very forum (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996) with (what seems to me, at least...I know next to nothing about Linux, etc.) pretty complex and specific instructions for getting XBVA running on AMD hardware. Other forum posts suggest that the only thing needed to get everything working (including smooth 1080p playback) is to up the amount of RAM given to the graphics hardware from 256Mb to 512Mb.
A simple BIOS change prior to install is fine, but I'm not sure I like the thought of having to follow everything on the XBVA thread just so I can have the L70 work as well as my several year old R3610.
Any advice or observations will be much appreciated.