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Glad to hear you got it sorted, I wish more routers would simply include an access point mode as full blown routers often get miss-sold as wireless access points but the terminology for networking is so messed up they usually wind up getting a router which causes all sorts of problems.
XBMC saves it's internal artwork to a database on local storage, so in the case of a PC it saves to HDD, in the case of the AppleTV2 or Pivos XIOS DS it saves to internal flash pool (which is very limited), the R-Pi saves to SDcard.
Don't bother with an AppleTV if just after XBMC, get the Pivos XIOS DS instead, the XIOS is beta but it is steadily improving and has one of the primary XBMC developers (Davilla) working on it.
* more codec support than AppleTV
* XBMC-Linux only firmware (for best performance) or run under Android (the sites above sells the newer M3 version).
* mod to save all data to SDcard instead of internal flash RAM.
The AppleTV, R-Pi and XIOS are low end devices, they are not suited to high end skins with a heavy emphasis on coverart, the stock skin or lightweight skins (like Quartz) are best stuck to.
The R-Pi is not quite as a complete kit as the Xios, you have to buy MPEG-2/VC-1 licenses (only a few quid) on R-Pi website and then you can use Raspbmc or Openelec XBMC distros to run from SDcard. However the R-Pi is more stable than the XIOS.
Other XBMC Android options, well their is the Ouya game console if that ever appears and there are other Android based boxes out there but they don't have anyone from XBMC working on them so it's a gamble for those, you want something that is Amlogic based (same as Xios) or a Rockchip RK3066 device and use the experimental XBMC builds with support for Android hardware decoding. This path is even more unstable than any of the above.
XBMC saves it's internal artwork to a database on local storage, so in the case of a PC it saves to HDD, in the case of the AppleTV2 or Pivos XIOS DS it saves to internal flash pool (which is very limited), the R-Pi saves to SDcard.
Don't bother with an AppleTV if just after XBMC, get the Pivos XIOS DS instead, the XIOS is beta but it is steadily improving and has one of the primary XBMC developers (Davilla) working on it.
* more codec support than AppleTV
* XBMC-Linux only firmware (for best performance) or run under Android (the sites above sells the newer M3 version).
* mod to save all data to SDcard instead of internal flash RAM.
The AppleTV, R-Pi and XIOS are low end devices, they are not suited to high end skins with a heavy emphasis on coverart, the stock skin or lightweight skins (like Quartz) are best stuck to.
The R-Pi is not quite as a complete kit as the Xios, you have to buy MPEG-2/VC-1 licenses (only a few quid) on R-Pi website and then you can use Raspbmc or Openelec XBMC distros to run from SDcard. However the R-Pi is more stable than the XIOS.
Other XBMC Android options, well their is the Ouya game console if that ever appears and there are other Android based boxes out there but they don't have anyone from XBMC working on them so it's a gamble for those, you want something that is Amlogic based (same as Xios) or a Rockchip RK3066 device and use the experimental XBMC builds with support for Android hardware decoding. This path is even more unstable than any of the above.