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Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by smoldesu »

thrusong wrote: post #3

Longtime Kodi user here. Bought an M1 MacBook Air in the spring and Kodi barely works. Video won't display even though the sound works fine, and instead the mouse will multiply thousands of time. You can move the mouse around and just leave trails of mouse cursors everywhere. It's like one out of every four times it will work as expected, but requires quitting and re-opening it over and over.

That's really curious considering how Kodi treats ARM targets as a first-class citizen. I'm guessing it has to do with Apple's own underlying systems?

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by psychstudio »

Been using Kodi (XBMC) for nearly 20 years. The piracy FUD surrounding XBMC a few years ago really disappointed me.

We use Kodi for streaming tv (Australia) and internet radio and it is perfect for this.

That's all I wanted to say really. The piracy FUD has been disappointing.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by don-code »

I used Kodi in its very early days as Xbox Media Center. XBMC turned the original-generation Xbox into a cheap and very functional media center PC - I actually didn't stop using mine until I upgraded to HD in the early 2010s.

More recently, I've been running it on a Raspberry Pi 3A in my kitchen. It interacts with my DVR upstairs, so that I can pause TV there and pick it up downstairs. I credit the fact that it was originally designed to run on the Xbox as the reason it works as well as it does on even the original Raspberry Pi.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by 3np »

StockHuman wrote: post #9

For your consideration, Jellyfin. [0] [0] https://jellyfin.org/

They work very well together. There are two different Kodi plugins that make Kodi into a Jellyfin player.

I personally prefer JellyCon as it’s more lightweight and works smoother for low-resource devices. Jellyfin-Kodi has more features and deeper integration with the library.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellycon

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by danachow »

smoldesu wrote: post #11
thrusong wrote: post #3

Longtime Kodi user here. Bought an M1 MacBook Air in the spring and Kodi barely works. Video won't display even though the sound works fine, and instead the mouse will multiply thousands of time. You can move the mouse around and just leave trails of mouse cursors everywhere. It's like one out of every four times it will work as expected, but requires quitting and re-opening it over and over.

That's really curious considering how Kodi treats ARM targets as a first-class citizen. I'm guessing it has to do with Apple's own underlying systems?

Kodi targets low cost ARM SBCs as a first class citizen. ARM is (a family) of instruction sets - for something like a media player it is down near the least important aspect of providing support. Kodi targets a boat load of low cost embedded SoC ARM devices but these bear little resemblance to an M1 based MacBook except for the instruction set. Kodi will run fine on typical x86 PC setups because this hardware is commonly available.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by smoldesu »

danachow wrote: post #17
smoldesu wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's really curious considering how Kodi treats ARM targets as a first-class citizen. I'm guessing it has to do with Apple's own underlying systems?

Kodi targets low cost ARM SBCs as a first class citizen. ARM is (a family) of instruction sets - for something like a media player it is down near the least important aspect of providing support. Kodi targets a boat load of low cost embedded SoC ARM devices but these bear little resemblance to an M1 based MacBook except for the instruction set. Kodi will run fine on typical x86 PC setups because this hardware is comm…

I'm aware of the difference, I just haven't quite seen the effects of ARM ISA variations in action quite yet. I was kinda under the impression that v8 would be back-compatible with v6 and v7 ARM.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by colordrops »

psychstudio wrote: post #12

Been using Kodi (XBMC) for nearly 20 years. The piracy FUD surrounding XBMC a few years ago really disappointed me. We use Kodi for streaming tv (Australia) and internet radio and it is perfect for this. That's all I wanted to say really. The piracy FUD has been disappointing.

Can you elaborate? Are you saying there is FUD against Kodi or XBMC or BY them?
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