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Looks like they're on it, and that's running Linux not Android, so the privacy concerns are taken care of.
well done dude, Kodi on a laptop will give you the best results... cheap amazon shticks and Raspberry Pis just don't have enough grunt... I recommend Libre Elec https://libreelec.tv/ which is "just enough operating system" that Kodi Needs...
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post more install questions here if you need help...
Hardware yes, software not quite. LibreELEC is working on it https://libreelec.tv/2019/06/libreelec-9-2-alpha1-rpi4b/
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> The 4B hardware is HDR capable, but software support has a dependency on the new Linux kernel frameworks merged by Intel developers (with help from Team LibreELEC/Kodi) in Linux 5.2 and a kernel bump will be needed to use them. Once the initial excitement and activity from the 4B launch calms down, serious work on HDR and transitioning Raspberry Pi over to the new GBM/V4L2 video pipeline can start.
In case anyone has been looking like me, according to the openELEC guys the rpi 4 will also support HDR (in theory, hdr on Linux isn't quite a thing yet)
https://libreelec.tv/ natively supports HDMI-CEC on Raspberry Pi. I run 4 RPi4 on various TV in my setup and some TV remotes require a little key mapping tweaking in Kodi using the KeyMap add-on but they work well.
It absolutely has hardware HDR support.
> The 4B hardware is HDR capable, but software support has a dependency on the new Linux kernel frameworks merged by Intel developers (with help from Team LibreELEC/Kodi) in Linux 5.2 and a kernel bump will be needed to use them.
From: https://libreelec.tv/2019/06/libreelec-9-2-alpha1-rpi4b/
Just don't be a part of it.
Blacklist MAC-address(es) of your Smart TVs in your gateway router for internet traffic.
Build your own (much better than corporate crap) shiny multimedia SmartBox with Kodi: https://libreelec.tv/downloads/ for less thn $50 (free open souce sw).
Enjoy better privacy.
Enjoy better multimedia.
Help others.
I’m not sure what your use-case is, but if the pi is only being used as a media player, I would check out LibreELEC. It’s just Kodi as an operating system, nothing else.
If you use the Pi for other things where you’d like a full operating system like Ubuntu, as you have now, does the official install guides not work?
Something like one of the recent Intel NUC’s would be small if you want to easily hide it and play 4K perfectly fine, along with giving you flexibility to what OS / Software you use to do this.
I have a Raspberry Pi (1080p max) that boots in to Kodi and auto starts playing a random item on a play list I’ve created. I have a remote control setup so our sales guys can stop the video and play a certain video, or view some photos stored on the device with a customer if desired.
Libreelec is good for making a single purpose device that runs Kodi: https://libreelec.tv/
I use LibreELEC with Tvheadend and a 4 tuner HD HomeRun
Getting the program guide setup can take some work but once setup the system generally works without any big issues.
Give it some time. LibreELEC is working on it.
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> The 4B hardware is HDR capable, but software support has a dependency on the new Linux kernel frameworks merged by Intel developers (with help from Team LibreELEC/Kodi) in Linux 5.2 and a kernel bump will be needed to use them. Once the initial excitement and activity from the 4B launch calms down, serious work on HDR and transitioning Raspberry Pi over to the new GBM/V4L2 video pipeline can start.
Or you could check out the Kodi-Disrto type installs like LibreElec, or openelec. Im fairly sure KODI can play DVD's but i dont have a DVD Video handy to check.
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It'll work, but what's the point.. his devices will be looking at different databases and so be out of sync.. Waste of time.
Just upgrade to the latest Openelec, or if they aren't on Kodi 16.1 yet, switch to Libreelec.
Basically I suggest anyone just get any TV they want, slap $100 worth of single board computer on the back of it, install LibreELEC thereupon, and forget entirely about how smart the TV was or wasn't to begin with.
http://releases.libreelec.tv/LibreELEC.USB-SD.Creator.Win32.exe open that on your Windows machine, it will let you choose from different versions of libreelec, but the version for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 should be selected by deafult. It should be pretty straight forward from there.
EDIT: https://libreelec.tv/downloads/ is the page it comes from
Where did you get your distribution from? I just installed Matrix on a RPi4 using LibreELEC. They have a tool that makes it easy to download and install Matrix onto an SD card. https://libreelec.tv/downloads_new/
You've downloaded the wrong image (RPi2 and RPi3 are based on a different ARM architecture).
What should do the trick is here:
It worked under LE 9.2.x.
The LE Team wrote:
Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi codebase has moved from Linux 4.19 to Linux 5.10+ with a huge amount of new driver code (almost a ground-up rewrite) and massive effort from the Pi Foundation.
> -Quel système de rétro gaming choisir ? Je pensais à recallbox que j'ai installé sur le pi 3 de mon frère il y a quelques années. Je crois que ça tourne sous Kodi et qu'il y a moyen d'y intégrer plein de chose en plus du rétro gaming (est ce que je me trompe ?)
J'alterne entre RecalBox et Retropie, qui sont très bons. Effectivement il y a du Kodi, mais je préfère LibreELEC pour Kodi. Pour le retrogaming, manette obligatoire, je recommande les 8bitdo.
Don't know about any specific guides off the top of my head for the entire thing so unfortunately I can't guide you through the ENTIRE thing, but here's some key bits:
Step 1 for anything newer than the Pi 1A you'll need the appropriate cable such as this one to get your video output: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2881 (There exist others out there but you'll want to make sure the pinout is correct. More info on that here: https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2014/07/raspberry-pi-model-b-3-5mm-audiovideo-jack/)
From there, the install of Libreelec is pretty easy with their download page nicely walking through the process of flashing an SD/MicroSD card:
https://libreelec.tv/downloads/
Once done, the Pi will boot straight into Kodi and they have plenty of guides, tutorials, and a good forum over there. First thing I'd probably do is go into settings and verify the display output is configured for 480i/p 4:3. Then you can jump into the addon repo and grab one of the Plex addons (I know two exist, not sure how up to date either one are or what is recommended these days) which dumps you into a very familiar Plex interface on top of Kodi.
You'll likely want some kind of control option. The Pi with Kodi supports a lot including basic keyboard/mouse, bluetooth options, plug-and-play gamepads such as Xbox 360/One controllers, among others. Personally I am a huge fan of the old Windows Media Center remotes. You can probably get them for a song now on eBay and they are 100% plug and play with no configuring with the included USB receivers. It gives you just a plain old remote control ready to use with all the buttons mapped out of the box.
You might have more success with Kodi as implemented with LibreElec. See the Direct Downloads section on the Downloads page of the LibreElec Website. The second item in the dropdown menu is the package for Raspberry Pi v1.
If they like what it does now I'd leave it alone. The new one can afford to do more flashy things, especially if they use it to stream stuff, but for a standalone player why fix what's not broken? You'd just have to teach them more stuff.
But Kodi or LibreElec (was openelec) are the current hot choices. The second one is a whole OS stripped down to just be very good at playing Kodi. https://libreelec.tv/
~~I guess it still takes a couple of months before this lands on OpenELEC, version 7 was just released last month with Kodi 16.~~
Oh I was under the impression that LibreELEC was libre as in Linux-libre, so only free components, less features. But after reading this
> This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project.
it's more akin LibreOffice, so more features and more active development!
And indeed LibreELEC already provides images with Kodi 17!
Well bummer, I just installed OpenELEC on my MediaPC yesterday - but glad I don't have to wait then :D Also no broken (because outdated) Chromium then, which means working NetFlix!
You can't use Kodi on a Roku.
If you're looking for something cheap and simple for Kodi, I recommend grabbing a Raspberry Pi 3 and installing LibreELEC. Just did that for my new living room TV and it works great (other than Pi's being too weak for dealing with HEVC video decoding, but I have very few of those).
Theoretically possible: Yes. Likely: No. I doubt there is really enough demand for this type of thing. A board has to be added to the upstream coreboot before it will make its way to libreboot anyway. Thankfully though, the C201 itself has a micro-HDMI port. You could just libreboot the C201 then plug it into your TV via the micro-HDMI with the lid closed. You can probably get libreelec installed to the machine as well, since it seems to support the SoC. Fail that, just install a simple linux distro (maybe alpine) and then put kodi on top of that.
In the end though, I would go with u/El_Dubious_Mung's suggestion. You'll almost certainly need nonfree codecs to have a useful setup which sort of defeats the purpose of libreboot. If you already have an old machine lying around though, you could do something really interesting.
If you don't mind a subscription based service, get the HDHomeRun Servio for storage plus a Scribe tuner.
If you're a DIYer, you could get a Raspberry Pi 4 plus a USB 3 external HDD, load it up with LibreElec, and keep your Connect Quatro. LibreElec comes with tvheadend baked in for scheduling and recording, plus Comskipfor post-recording commercial analysis (so you can skip commercials while watching). Bonus, with LibreElec you'll be able to pause live TV, schedule shows, and watch any other media you put onto the HDD.
Supported devices here https://libreelec.tv/downloads/
however if you explained what that hardware is to people who don't know every single chip board manufactured on earth then you may get more help.
Or do we have to google H96 plus with XYZ chip?
No TV that uses the Android TV OS supports multichannel lossless audio output. You have to use an external device to output these formats. For Android TV devices only the Shield TV supports lossless codec output. You could also go DIY and setup a LibreELEC or CoreELEC device. If you decide to go the DIY route you'll save money versus the Shield TV but you'll need to do a lot more reading. The DIY route is also really only for local file playback but that seams to be your main interest.
It was just a matter of time. EVERY proprietary, for-profit product will eventually sell its usability for short-term gains.
Use open source software. I highly recomment LibreElec on a raspberry pi. It is easy to set up and a good raspberry pi setup is like $100.
If you are just going to watch movies with some basic storage, libreelec is a great OS for the RPi4 (libreelec aka just enough Linux to run Kodi aka an OS with an extremely small memory footprint)
https://libreelec.tv/raspberry-pi-4/
libreelec has built in file sharing and Kodi preinstalled. I treat the RPi4's WD USB3 portable HDD as throw away drive where if it dies, I loose nothing. I do this through workflow. Before a file is written the RPi4 portable HDD, it has already been backed up twice. You would do the opposite, sync copy from libreelec to long term backup.
No shame in 1GB...
Unless you're going to have allot of users hitting the RPi4, 1GB is more than enough to run libreelec. As a bonus, the 1GB model is the coolest running RPi4. I have the 4GB model and I regret getting it, it runs several degrees hotter than the 2GB/1GB models. When running libreelec, it never goes above 600mb of RAM usage and as I recall, is far below that amount.
Eu costumava usar um como media player / media center, ligado à TV. Você pode instalar e LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv/downloads_new/raspberry-pi-1) no seu e testar. A interface era bastante lenta mas o playback é uma beleza :-) Se você tiver uma impressora que não pode ser ligada direto à rede, o RPi 1 dá um ótimo servidor de impressão para a rede local doméstica. E assim por diante. Tempos atrás comecei a transformar um aeromodelo de helicóptero velho em um drone usando um ... um dia em termino o projeto.
Just confirms that chromiumos is light weight.
> Intel Celeron 2955U
This is the reason for the lag. I have same CPU for acer c720 chromebook - it is impossible to browse. Now using it as a https://libreelec.tv/
- Download from https://libreelec.tv/
- Stick the image on a USB stick using http://etcher.io
- Reboot your computer and hit F12 or whatever you use to boot from the USB stick
- Follow the prompts
- There is no 5. You now have a computer that boots directly into Kodi. No need for Windows anymore.
EDIT: And yes, you could partition it, but I'd recommend against that just jump head deep into LibreELEC. It's great and so easy and perfect for older hardware.
Kodi, it has some features less and many more than Roku.
Install is easy, everything is explained on libreelec.tv. (LibreElec is an OS to run Kodi)
For Netflix, Amazon and Co google the Addons. For everything that is free, just browse the addons. There are also many tutorials on YouTube.
What can it do that Roku maybe can't (am mobile and can't verify):
Play emulated games, SNES, Lucas Arts...
Play nearly every format of media
Scan and organize local music and videos, looking them up at TVDB and IMDB
and more.
Install Libreelec https://libreelec.tv/downloads_new/. Then go to addons > Program addons > Tvheadend 4.2 and install it. Go to your ip:9981 and configure Tvheadend. https://docs.tvheadend.org/before_you_begin/ Then go to addons > PVR Addons > Tvheadend client and install it.
Check out LibreELEC https://libreelec.tv/
You can easily set it up as a client for NFS, SMB, UPnP shares (probably more), and it has builds specifically for Pi devices. It’s been my go-to for years.
Rock Group has now had a bunch of SBCs, their initial and most famous atleast was Pine64, it was widely viewed as competitor to Rpi from Kickstarter or Indiegogo, which were was their historical funding source. This was regarded poorly from the issues I mentioned in my prior post, I'm not sure what the situation is now... Odroid was and is considered better, deeper community, though Rpi remains chief bar none. There are idiosyncrasies with going with ARM, initially the platform was awkward, a year or 2 ago support was slow, now you have mainline looking more and more promising, especially for the proprietary GPU blobs that are on legacy kernels. It was all a bit hacky and A/B testing worthy, though stable branches were just that...
So, I was trying to give you insight, especially as a programmer you would appreciate the nuance of development. Hardware may be great, but if the software isn't at parity, there's a gap in real world performance.
I would suggest you see the github repos for 3rd party addons. Also, Libreelec runs as root, if you compile you can modify this, I'm not sure what performance implications this may impart though, different thread execution, caching etc. Especially if you start branching applications to certain user profiles.
This is the most recent build, https://libreelec.tv/2018/11/libreelec-leia-v8-90-007-alpha/ it suggests it's ALPHA state, read the blog. Odroid C2 is rock solid and I'm almost a year behind, x86 should be solid as well. 3399 chipset support is new, I would estimate the majority of issues would be in userland Kodi GPU artifacting, unique codecs... Just to be safe, I would look at the issues before finalizing a order.
Raspberry Pi is not an amplifier, so it won't replace an old amplifier.
What it can definitely do, is turn your old setup into a "Smart" connected setup with your TV as a hub.
Check out LibreElec to start.
So you can run linux on ps4 right? (Havent been following the hombrew).
Barebone linux distro for kodi, install would be identical to any other linux distro. So want to send 50 dollars through paypal?
Raspberry Pi3 running Libreelec with USB hard drive and a wireless keyboard or controller is a great solution for what you want.
Get a Pi3, this case: https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-case, and whatever keyboard or controller you want to use.
Libreelec is a great small, mobile Kodi distribution. You can do most OS functions via kodi gui, and even use the GUI to connect networking to your phone's hotspot.
> how to turn a raspberry pi into one?
Just download LibreELEC and stick it on your SD card. That'll get you Kodi, then just add the streams you want to watch to it.
> m9s
I think your box is based on AMlogic S905, so you'll need to use Kzaq's build from here
But yes, this would involve completely deleting all the data on your disk and installing a new operating system. If you use your M9S for anything other than a kodi player this may not be a good idea, as LibreElec is basically a Kodi only based operating system.
If you're unsure how to write the new image onto your disk, LibreElec has a fairly decent installer too.
LibreElec is a minimalist Linux based operating system with kodi pre-isntalled. You won't just need to delete kd player first, you'll need to completely replace your android install with LE.
Isn't hard to migrate at all just go to https://libreelec.tv/downloads/ and grab the 'Manual Update from OpenELEC' .tar file. Once you have it copy it to the shared folder / update directory on the network for your openelec machine. Once done reboot it and it'll update it to libreelec and you're done.
FIXED:
So after a lot of research/changing different settings I was able to connect to my NAS drives simply entering the server (NAS) name manually into the 'Add network location' option.
I am guessing I experienced this issue due to the changes detailed here: https://libreelec.tv/2017/08/libreelec-krypton-v8-1-0-beta/
Hopefully this will be a solution to anyone else with the same problem
Get a Raspberry Pi and install LIbreELEC, which comes with Kodi. You can mount the network share from inside Kodi, without going once to the CLI.
EDIT: I forgot to add that a Chromecast is not what you need. It can be used to stream content from providers like Netflix or Youtube, but can't (without adding other hardware/software elements to the network) stream the content you have in a network share. Kodi is your best option: it's free, it works great and you can put it in any device from a Raspberry Pi to a PC.
Un Raspberry Pi 2 ou 3 (https://www.dealabs.com/search/?q=raspberry&temperature_min=150).
Tu le branches en Ethernet (il y a du WiFi sur le 3 sinon), et tu vas lire les vidéos partagées sur ton PC. Protocole SMB si t'es sous Windows, NFS si t'es un peu plus geek.
Comme distro, tu peux regarder LibreElec (https://libreelec.tv/) si tu veux dédier ta solution au multimédia. N'importe quelle distro desktop fera l'affaire sinon (ex : la Raspbian de base).
T'en auras pour 60€ en tout approximativement (Raspberry Pi + Chargeur secteur USB + carte microSD + cable HDMI).
Use it as a starting point to learn Linux if you are not already familiar. Maybe setup libreelec if that is something you would use.
My last project, I put an IR LED on one and made an Android app to remotely control a window AC unit with my phone.
I've used LibreELEC for my Kodi setups for years to get the fastest possible boot times and most appliance-like experience. It's a tiny linux-distribution made for one thing and one thing only - running kodi.
old pc is OK but will be noisy and use more POWER 24hours a day. Ideally get a raspberry pi and put libreelec https://libreelec.tv/ Just works. (All features like remote or keyboard or gamepad etc.)
See screenshots at https://libreelec.tv/
What you're getting with TiVo is the convenience of the software, guide data, etc. just being maintained for you. If you're a DIYer and don't mind tinkering, you can absolutely replace it with your own setup. You will need to spend some $$ up front if you don't own some of the hardware already, though.
Here's my setup for reference: HDHomeRun Connect (the ollllld model, replacing with an HDHomeRun Connect 4K soon) backed by a Raspberry Pi 4 running LibreElec and a 6 Tb USB 3 external drive. I use tvheadend (built in to LibreElec) for DVR duties and Comskip (also included with LibreElec) for post-recording commercial analysis. The setup is connected directly to my main TV via HDMI, and for secondary devices around the house I've used Kodi to connect to the tvheadend server and the TvhClient app on iOS.
Tvheadend does support transcoding on both recording and playback (and does it reasonably well). It currently does NOT support ATSC 3 so even though there are some 4K broadcasts in my market I can't watch them directly - that should be fixed soon, hopefully.
You could definitely use a NAS as centralized storage for your recorded shows if you've got the bandwidth to support it. The ethernet port on HDHomeRuns is 100 Mbps, primarily because it doesn't need to be any faster. There's only so much bandwidth available for ATSC broadcasts (19.39 Mbps max) so if you aren't transcoding video on recording (I don't) you really just need enough bandwidth to handle multiple streams on recording and/or playback and you'll be fine.
This is the only method I've tried, so there may be better, but it works:
https://libreelec.tv/
Install that on the Pi. I think that's all you need for the Pi to show up as a casting target. If it's not you can jump through a lot of hoops to install the Jellyfin addon for Kodi. I can't vouch for the Jellycon addon.
Don't think that! Pis are for these sorts of projects, and tons more! It's super cheap.
Go this route if you use a Pi. https://libreelec.tv/downloads/
With this and a Pi, you would still use the TV remote to navigate the interface. No special hardware needed.
Could be you are trying to install the wrong update for th pi 0.
Try the very bottom link for pi zero That get command pulls the rpi4 image
Generic LibreElec? I think you meant LibreElec for RPi?
I just tried LibreElec with the steps I said earlier and it works perfectly.
Things to check:
- Your network speed, 4K video usually needs at least 10MBps (~4.5Gb files), you can use official Speed Tester addon from Kodi repo
- Micro SD-Card speed, again for 4K videos you need at least V10 to cache onto the SD-CARD. By default Kodi doesn't write a lot to RAM, mostly sd-card. Check out advancedsettings.xml Example 4
>wuthout issues
Last version fine, latest just released Matrix based version there's no guarantees, the software is very early release version. There will be lots of updates as issues are found and fixed, and that's straight from the developer Sam Nazarko. I'm holding off on updating my Vero 4k+ for now.
And if you're wondering about libreelec...
https://libreelec.tv/2021/08/26/libreelec-matrix-10-0/
Serious known bugs too.
I'm running 10.0 on a 4Gb Raspberry Pi 4 with no issues. I use mine for watching movies and as a DVR for OTA TV. The official announcement post and this article answer most of your questions about groundbreaking features. Specifically the "good" for me are:
- H264 and H265 HW decoding
- HDR output (HDR10 and HLG)
- HD audio passthrough (Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD) ... this means Atmos and DTS X work now!! (that's groundbreaking for me)
The only downer I've noticed which affects me is there's no deinterlacing with the hardware based decoders. For me that means any HD OTA TV that broadcasts in 1080i (fortunately only 1 in my area).
Yep, antenna + HDHR + DLNA capable player at a bare minimum. You could go one step further and build your own DVR, too. I made mine with a Raspberry Pi 4 + USB HDD running libreelec, using a Harmony Ultimate as a Bluetooth keyboard to send commands. Libreelec includes tvheadend which handles scheduling and streaming to Kodi. The setup is also itself a DLNA player, so you could watch TV/media in other rooms or on a mobile device.
yeah DVI that's why you don't have sound - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/config_txt.html
insert the microsd/USB into a computer and edit the config.txt file to add hdmi_drive=2 to it manually
or if you've got another microsd or usb stick download libreelec https://libreelec.tv/downloads/ and create a new install without noobs...
Você pode instalar e LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv/downloads_new/raspberry-pi-1) no seu alcance enquanto em pé e sentado, seu setup é tudo no seu computador K6-2 desligado desde 2005?
I use LibreElec on my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. It is based on Kodi and essentially exactly the same. You don't install it as a package within Raspbian. You burn the download to a separate SD card and boot off it. I'm not sure which version of Kodi the latest release is based on but it is kept up to date. I've been very happy with it for the past 3 years. Performance is good. Here is the link:
If you install Kodi on the laptop you can then download a remote control app from the play store to control it from the sofa.
I recommend using LibreELEC and installing this to your laptop as it's one of the best experiences for what you are trying to do.
I’m using this librelec image which is specific to the pi 4: https://libreelec.tv/raspberry-pi-4/
It’s working without issue for me.
With docker I meant if you needed to run anything alongside Kodi. You can’t really install anything natively on libreelec like you can with something like osmc.
There are many options check the megathread. I have a server setup with sonarr radarr transmission and jellyfin. Sonarr and radarr automatically download movies and tv shows to my server using transmission. I use jellyfin as the server software to serve and access media like Netflix. once setup it works really well. But if you don't want to set that up I would recommend.
Elementium which is a Kodi add-on to stream torrents media is presented like Netflix. Kodi can easily be installed in multiple devices if you have a spare computer you can install libreelec and elementium https://libreelec.tv/
You can also grab a usb flash disk, burn your favorite linux distro on it with your PC already, and make all the Kodi adjustment you need before boot it on your VCS.
It's not really what you're asking and somewhat of a tangent, but, try and hear me out.
I haven't yet encountered a single "smart" TV that's even half as smart as one of my other favorite projects, LibreELEC.
A bonus here is that it's an excuse to buy another Raspberry Pi (3B is perfectly sufficient unless you want 4K, in which case go for the 4).
LibreELEC supports HDMI CEC, so you can control it with your television remote (though the Kodi Core smartphone "remote" is excellent). The interface is simple and fairly elegant.
It handles all my IPTV, Spotify, YouTube and video streaming needs (there's a plethora of add-ons enabling one to sail the high seas, as it were). Let's just say I don't have a Netflix/Disney+/Whatever subscription, but this is absolutely no problem.
My suggestion would be to disconnect this television from the internet and just use it as a "dumb" display, for a much smarter, free as in freedom and beer, extremely minimal dedicated media operating system you can configure and control to a fine degree.
As a side bonus it's also handling all my emulation needs for MAME and legacy consoles.
I've tried allot of different systems and the best to date I have found is using a Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB, no need for 4GB) running Kodi-LibreELEC and a WD USB HDD. It cold boots in about 20 seconds and is beautiful. Just get a fast 32 SD card, the official power supply, Flirc remote USB, Flirc case, and a WD Elements USB3 HDD. No need for a PC/network/converter/fees/corporate spyware/etc. You only need 1 HDMI slot open on your TV and a few hours to become an expert at Kodi, that's it. Note, I use this setup @ 1080p / x265 and it is 100% excellent at this spec. The Pi4 has a built in x265 coprocessor chip and thus far, I have never had mine choke on any codec @ 1080p. For 4k, you'll have to research at the below site, but I think the Pi4 with libreelec is capable of 4k without transcoding. Oh, and it runs like lightening and is rock solid stable.
PS: After installing LibreELEC, be sure to update the RPi's firmware, this is mandatory for cooler running. Also, disable everything you'll not use, possibilities are WiFi, Bluetooth, one of the two audio outputs, samba server, ssh, chron, etc... Just keep on what you will use.
I've tried allot of different systems. The best to date I have found is using a Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB, no need for 4GB) running Kodi-LibreELEC and a WD USB HDD. It cold boots in about 20 seconds and is beautiful. Just get a fast 32 SD card, the official power supply, Flirc remote USB, Flirc case, and a WD Elements USB3 HDD. No need for a PC/network/converter/fees/corporate spyware/etc. You only need 1 HDMI slot open on your TV and a few hours to become an expert at Kodi, that's it.
PS: After installing LibreELEC, be sure to update the RPi's firmware, this is mandatory for cooler running. Also, disable everything you'll not use, possibilities are WiFi, Bluetooth, one of the two audio outputs, samba server, ssh, chron, etc... Just keep on what you will use.
Long page with detailed explanation.
https://libreelec.tv/2017/10/libreelec-krypton-8-2-0-release/
Scroll down to !!! SAMBA / SMB CHANGES !!!
TL;DR Kodi uses smb v3 by default, smb v1 is disabled. Browsing only works with smb v1 so browsing no longer works.
There's multiple ways to do this. You can use a NAS to host all your files and use something like a Raspberry Pi with https://libreelec.tv/.
I use that setup.
I run Emby on the NAS to make a video/music and picture library.
On the Pi I run Kodi (using Libreelec) and the Emby AND Embyconnect addon. If I upload a video or whatever on the NAS, it's instantly available on the Raspberry PI.
My TV (and Raspberry Pi) supports CEC so I can use my Tv's remote to control Kodi.
If you don't want to run a setup like this, you'll have to build a custom PC or maybe an expensive NAS with hdmi output.
I have had two Intel NUCs for over 2 years.
One is an i3 based machine running LibreElec as a PVR. The other is an i5 based machines that is my father's desktop machine running Debian.
Both machines are incredibly reliable
Not sure I understand what you mean by "set the OS files on to the SD card". The best way to install LibreELEC is with the autoinstaller on their website, as it copies bit for bit the .img file onto your USB device.
https://libreelec.tv/downloads_new/
You shouldn't have to touch any of the files after you perform the installation unless you want to override something. After the installer finishes, put the SD card into the Pi and hook up tv/power and it should auto-expand the installation to fit the size of the SD card and you should be good to go.
Came here to say this. I've been using it for a year and love it.
Also, I would recommend LibreElec instead of OSMC. It uses less resources and has been much more stable for me. https://libreelec.tv/
If all you're going to use it for is videos and emulation then I would probably restart and use BerryBoot to set up dual boot situation with libreelec and retropi
https://berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot
If that seems too complicated there should be a way to get VLC working in raspbian, and you can install retropi within raspbian as detailed here:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-retropie-app-raspberry-pi/
The distribution I use is https://libreelec.tv "‘Just enough OS" purpose-built for Kodi. I keep it clean in its dedicated purpose, to minimize maintainance... So, for example, while my remote Pulseaudio sink to pipe sound from my office to the livingroom could be aboard the Kodi host, I put it on its own old first-generation Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
If you are only planning using it for kodi you should use this https://libreelec.tv/raspberry-pi-4/
It offers much better playback performance, and is much easier to set up for, I have used it with a external disk, it is just plug and play
https://libreelec.tv/2019/11/libreelec-leia-9-2-0/ (released Nov 2019)
>Raspberry 4:
>It would be nice to have the 4B running the latest mainline kernel as other devices in LibreELEC 9.2, but adding support for an all-newSoC chipset is a huge effort and the Pi Foundation needed to align initial 4B software with the current Raspbian release to maximise compatibility with existing software and to keep the workload sensible. Generic x86/64 devices are running Linux 5.1, while Raspberry Pi devices (0/1/2/3/4) are using Linux 4.19 with some new/extra code.
>In this initial release 1080p playback behaviour and performance on the 4B are broadly on-par with the previous 3B/3B+ model, except for HEVC media which is now hardware decoded and massively improved. New 4K video capabilities still have plenty of rough edges to be smoothed out, but the Pi Foundation developers have been pushing fixes to the test team at a phenomenal rate over the last month and that will continue as the userbase expands.
>The 4B now uses SPI flash for the bootloader. Current firmware supports SD card boot only – Network and USB booting are still on the Pi Foundation to-do list. Also on the list is HBR audio (current audio capabilities are the same as the 3B) and 3D video. The 4B hardware is HDR capable, but software support has a dependency on the new Linux kernel frameworks merged by Intel developers (with help from Team LibreELEC/Kodi) in Linux 5.2 and a kernel bump will be needed to use them. Once the initial excitement and activity from the 4B launch calms down, serious work on HDR and transitioning Raspberry Pi over to the new GBM/V4L2 video pipeline can start.
I have a Dell Optiplex 3020 small form factor PC which has LibreELEC installed on it. That device is great for media playback but it uses more electricity than a Nexus Player does. Can you elaborate on what makes the Nexus Player a "terrible" option for seeding torrents? Is it the 1 GB of RAM? I have been able to connect to a VPN server and download a torrent at high speed with tTorrent on this device.
- YouTube is fine, Netflix and Amazon Prime aren't due to DRM.
- Should be fine as long as the media files are the correct format (h.264) -- note that you cannot tell from the file extension, as mp4 is a container for multiple formats.
- Kodi has numerous remote control apps
That's what I use! LibreELEC has an easy image installer, then once you set up kodi you grab the Jellyfin plugin install the repo in kodi and log in. You'll be able to pick what jellyfin libraries to sync to kodi and you'll have access to all your stuff.
Others are mentioning Raspbian because you mentioned desktop use, and if you plan to use it for a desktop this is the best option, but it honestly sounds like you're mostly looking for a media frontend, in which case I would recommend libreElec. This is not the best choice if you genuinely need a desktop distribution, though.
Kodi would be the best client I think for a RPi device, you can simply install libreelec on the Pi and hook it up through HDMI. Download the Jellyfin for Kodi plugin and set it up that way, shouldn't even need to transcode through Kodi.
I use LibreELEC with a HDHomeRun 4 tuner. For hardware I use an older GIGABYTE Brix. Been using this for a while. It works great.
Kodi headless? Since it's a front-end player, I'm not sure what this could be used for. You probably want to build a plex or emby server. Both are available as dockers.
For kodi, try this. https://libreelec.tv/
If you don't need anything else, then LibreELEC is your friend.
EDIT: Personally, I like naming my videos correctly and use dmenu+mpv, but it'll take a bit more to set up :)
> You could easily argue that Raspberry Pi was already the perfect media PC – why get excited for a Raspberry Pi 4-compatible version of LibreELEC/Kodi, then? One of the many improvements to Raspberry Pi 4 was the inclusion of hardware H.265 decoding – also known as HEVC. This means it can support 10-bit colour, as well as the 4K output of the new Raspberry Pi 4.
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>And we can say right off the bat that with H.265 encoded media, it’s noticeable immediately. Colour tearing and glitches are completely gone, with media running at full speed without it seeming to struggle. 4K works fine as well – not great, just fine – at 30Hz.
https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/libreelec-on-raspberry-pi-4-review
H265 is fully supported, HDR10 is not (yet, but will be).
I wish I could give you gold for such a write up. Thank you - let this be a pin for everyone else out there. I should have been more detailed in my original post.
I am a little broke, so I was able to score this TV via black friday - 65in 4k TV
I was running my synology NAS before for content, but was CPU bound and couldn't handle Plex. So then, I was using it just as storage (just had it mapped within windows as a network/shared drive), then using my main PC as the server to push to different devices. Since then, synology NAS has died and what could be saved is currently being stored on my 1TB mechanical drive in my main PC (+/- 650gb of "data").
The TV does have apps, including Plex, So for all my subscription services, I have that covered (in a sense at least).
My appeal for the Pi4 though was using it as a player for supported addons and 4k content. What made it more appealing though is with the more updated LibreELEC, the latest update which can be found here, says
>Change for Raspberry 4:
>
>With LE 9.1.002 and later you need to add “hdmi_enable_4kp60=1“ to your config.txt if you want to use 4k output at the RPi4. Before you needed “hdmi_enable_4k=1“ that is now deprecated.
So now that its still being very much updated, and the hardware is there to actually support HDR, and 4k 60, it made sense to consider it as I don't really Need the "app support", if that makes sense?
As mentioned above I like the idea of the Odroid N2 as it gives that functionality, but I would very much like to know your thoughts in which direction I should go.
I do not know about netflix, but youtube and kodi can be had for sure with a super lightweight and purpose built os called libreelec and give it a whirl. There is no way software wise you should be having these issues.
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IF you have have to have a desktop, shop around for something built on ubuntu, but without the bloat. A good easy to use one would be mint with xfce. That would be pretty similar usage to what you are using now.
Some report it being addressed by 9.1.502 (9.2 beta) that just has been released.
But you could also wait out a couple of weeks before the 9.2 final version is released together with kodi 18.5.
https://libreelec.tv/2019/10/libreelec-leia-9-2-beta-2/ > If no serious bugs appear that the final version > of LibreELEC 9.2 should be available with the > release of Kodi 18.5 in approximately 2 weeks.
but documentation does not appear to be updated as https://libreelec.tv/2019/02/libreelec-leia-9-0-0-release/ states:
"Changeable SSH passwords!"
"Changeable SSH passwords and a default firewall configuration have been added to combat the increasing number of HTPC installs that can be found on the public internet. The increase is partly due to simple maths; our userbase has grown so the number of users inappropriately exposing their HTPC to the internet has also grown. The static password for libreelec is present on most/all password dictionary lists so it’s important we start encouraging users to change it (the first-run wizard will prompt when SSH is enabled)."
Once you've successfully installed LibreElec from here
https://libreelec.tv/raspberry-pi-4/
(Latest beta, burn to an SD Card with Rufus / Win32DiskImager)
Then you go through the menus to deploy docker - the "Libre Elec approved" docker - it works fine - try under addons? - you'd need to be Kodi fluent.
Then, enable SSH on the device.
SSH in to her.
Paste this in
docker run -d \
--name pihole \
--dns=127.0.0.1 \
-p 53:53/tcp \
-p 53:53/udp \
-p 56133:80 \
-e DNS1=8.8.8.8 \
-e DNS2=208.67.222.222 \
-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime \
-v /storage/.config/pihole/:/etc/pihole \
-v /storage/.config/pihole/dnsmasq.d/:/etc/dnsmasq.d \
-v /storage/.config/pihole/html/:/var/www/html/html/ \
-h $(cat /etc/hostname) \
-e ServerIP=$(ip route get 9.9.9.9 | awk '{ print $NF; exit }') \
-e WEBPASSWORD=REPLACEME \
--restart=unless-stopped \
pihole/pihole:latest
.
NOTE: if you know your docker, you'll see, I remap the web interface to 56133 (it's a habit, don't ask) - so I can now access my PiHole webUI at
.
HTTP://IP.OF.MY.HOME.THEATRE.LIBREELEC/KODI.PC:56133/admin
.
Easy - I can't recommend LibreElec enough - I fucking hate the name but it's astoundingly good. "KodiNux" or "LinKodi" a far more appropriate name. It's efficient, it works well, it's Kodi, on top of a very slick linux - it works damn well.
Redo your Pi3 with LibreElec. Simple as that. Otherwise you're wasting precious CPU with the Raspbian Graphic interface, not to mention storage space.
And use a high-end MicroSD
In any case, Kodi 18.4 has shown some slowness and stuttering in specific cases, myself included (Kodi on a FireTV). Hope 18.5 fixes that.
the pi 4 will work for - retro gaming, playing videos from local storage, attached or NAS - smaba share not so much., a very good libreelec player (https://libreelec.tv/)
casting is a no as far as I know. But a hdmi cable would be better anyway for that.
If my Sony KDL-40BX420 from 2011 can handle them, I'd say it's very likely that a newer one will.
If you're too broke/cheap to buy a new TV, maybe get a Raspberry Pi for ~$40 and install libreELEC
Yo tengo 2, una par un proyecto personal que la hago mierda a cada rato. La otra le instalé Kodi, un par de servicios y nunca estuvo offline salvo falla de mi ISP.
No me acuerdo qué carajo habrá pasado hace 45 días, pero te puedo asegurar que vi uptimes más largos sin dudas:
λ ssh 's password: ############################################## # LibreELEC # # https://libreelec.tv # ##############################################
LibreELEC (official): 9.0.1 (RPi2.arm) LibreELEC:~ # uptime 16:39:28 up 45 days, 5:06, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.09
ne koristim KODI na Android-u jer ima previše ograničenja za ono što meni treba
instaliram ovo https://libreelec.tv (moraš da guglaš i nađeš za tvoj specifičan Android box šta kako gde)
Onda podesim da gleda na file share sa računara gde su mi svi snimci i on napravi biblioteku od toga i onda samo biraš šta ćeš da gledaš i on vuče sa file share-a preko mreže i pušta na TV-u. Poželjno je da ide preko kabla a ne WiFi, naročito ako su neki high-bitrate filmovi u pitanju.
naravno nije sve tako jednostavno i sigurno ima dosta čačkanja da sve proradi onako kako ti hoćeš. Mnogo je lakše samo instalirati KODI direkt na Android od box-a
I wish this was useful... as someone who has a Raspbbery pi 4, and attempted to do everything you just said....
I can assure you that it does not work as you might expect.
1) The generic image is for a 64bit OS, which the raspberry pi does not support... Raspbian Buster (which is basically the only linux OS that supports the new pi4 CPU at the moment, is 32bit OS). So getting PMP to run on a Raspbian Buster... is not going to happen....
2) If you try to load their embedded image for the pi2/3 (or even the latest build 2.37.x It still will not work, because the boot drivers are not supported for the new hardware.
The best option for the pi4 at the moment is LibreELEC 9.2 (Leia) + Kodi 18.3. You can download the image here: https://libreelec.tv/raspberry-pi-4/
Burn it to an SD card, add the official Plex add on, and you will be using it as a player in no time.
Note it does not support HDR (it plays it, but hardware can't push it out... so HDR content will appear washed out badly) It also can't play H.264 4k files (HEVC 265 stuff works pretty good though) The pi4 tends to overheat by itself, so a heat sink + fan is strongly recommended if you plan to go this route.