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Wondering what the current state of this is.
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2017-03-30, 08:50
(This post was last modified: 2017-03-30, 16:20 by teki4u.)
Disregard i misread title. Android Kodi app in Chromebooks is possible and can run from selected Chromebooks with Google Play Store pre-installed but depending on the usage and how picky and technical the end user is, he/she might prefer to dual boot to a dedicated Kodi install like LibreElec.
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If you own a Chromebook that has Google Play Store (and therefore Android apps) support then you can install and run Kodi from there. There have been reports of this working quite nicely.
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I do this on the new Samsung Chromebook
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How about hardware acceleration?.
Kodi for one side is linux native, then for Android is kind of a port but not Android native and a miracle already with all they have accomplished so far and now running as an Android app on top of limited ChromeOS (linux).
Gee how odd. While for average user that would be the easier way to have it running in the selected Chromebooks, it will not be the ideal.
Am i right?
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2017-03-30, 10:13
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Looks like Asus CN62 is the cheapest Chromebox that supports/will support this. (apart from the weird looking CXI2 from Acer).
Probably all future Chromeboxes will support this. If this supports refresh rate switching, then this would be an ideal setup for most people. Espescially since Chrome is accelerated and supports widewine, flash, etc without any tinkering.
Only thing is that ChromeOS doesn't support autologin, so it's not quite ideal...but close.
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Thanks you 2 Team-KODI Members that's what I was asking. Glad to hear its working.
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For ChromeOS devices with Play Store access, ARM-based devices seem to be running Kodi a bit better than x86-based ones. But both will still lag far behind running natively via LibreELEC (at least for the demanding user), simply because it's using ChromeOS' older kernel/drivers, likely won't have refresh rate switching, HD audio passthru, etc.