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Hi matt,
i did but only results relating to c1 not this more powerful xu4?

Never heard of ODROID, just looked it up and saw this little beast?
Anyone had experience with these?
Better then PI2?

http://lilliputdirect.com/odroid-c1-quad...odroid-xu4

surely it can't be that hard to type 'ODROID' into the forum search bar

XU4 is based on a Samsung Exynos SoC rather than an AMLogic SoC as the C1/C1+ uses.

AMLogic devices have much better support in Kodi. Whilst the XU4 has a more powerful CPU it has poorer video decode support. There ARE builds of OpenElec (not official) for the Exynos, but they have limitations compared to the AMLogic ones, and are far less supported. Also, the AMLogic supports HEVC hardware decode (albeit 8 bit?), something the Exynos series used by ODroid don't. Also there is no deinterlacing support on Exynos (or wasn't last time I checked). It took a long time for even 50Hz output to be implemented by ODroid/Hardkernel on the Exynos range (at one point Hardkernel were saying it wasn't possible).

The ODroid U2 generated a lot of buzz when it was launched but this came to very little, and not much has changed with the newer Exynos variants.

The XU and U series are great little mini computers for processor intensive applications (like Software Defined Radio), but not really a great fit for video replay applications. Kodi doesn't require huge amounts of processing (unless you are software decoding), but does require excellent VPU video acceleration support, and decent video output support.

My experience of ODroid/Hardkernel is that they are great (with a few exceptions - C1 original CEC support?) at building little boards, but they aren't really experts at video stuff. They are heavily reliant on Samsung and AMLogic for development - and it appears AMLogic are more interested in stuff that is relevant to Kodi than Samsung?

If you are looking at ARM SoC solutions running OpenElec - the C1+ (and possibly the Wetek Core when it launches) and the Raspberry Pi 2 are the only games in town. They have different benefits (C1+ has HEVC and is a little bit snappier in the GUI, but has no 3D MVC and is limited to SPDIF quality audio. The Pi 2 does 3D MVC decode, Framepacked 3D output and will handled 7.1 PCM audio output over HDMI, meaning lossless decode of HD Audio, PCM and FLAC multichannel etc., and clean decoding of multichannel AAC stuff without requiring a further lossy transcode to AC3)