The Xbox 360's processor is PPC. GP was referring to the difficulty of porting XBMC and its underlying codecs to PPC.
On that front, XBMC already runs on PowerPC[1]. It also already has some flavor of Direct3D bindings, since the original Xbox used D3D 8. No idea whether PPC/D3D 9 would be hard or not.
All of the libxenon stuff is linux based, so it has no way to get at the Direct3D code built into the original written by Microsoft OS.
This differs from the original Xbox where most of the "homebrew" was written for the Windows derived OS and ran under it, thus could take advantage of all it's features.
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The Xbox 360's processor is PPC. GP was referring to the difficulty of porting XBMC and its underlying codecs to PPC.
On that front, XBMC already runs on PowerPC[1]. It also already has some flavor of Direct3D bindings, since the original Xbox used D3D 8. No idea whether PPC/D3D 9 would be hard or not.
[1] http://xbmc.org/download/
All of the libxenon stuff is linux based, so it has no way to get at the Direct3D code built into the original written by Microsoft OS.
This differs from the original Xbox where most of the "homebrew" was written for the Windows derived OS and ran under it, thus could take advantage of all it's features.