Hi,
I am interested in getting Kodi working on a new hardware platform. Android already runs on this platform and Kodi works on top of Android. However, I would like to run Kodi standalone.
What does it take to get this working? Does Kodi developers accept donations of HW platform in exchange for support? :-)
Please PM me.
Thanks.
If it runs Android then you (hardware manufacturer) must provide codecs for Google's MediaCodec API
http://developer.android.com/reference/a...Codec.html
Kodi 16.x and later will access hardware video decoding via this new de facto standard on Android OS.
http://bigflake.com/mediacodec/
When a manufacturer provide proper hardware codecs for this API then no changes in needed in Kodi.
(2016-02-08, 01:07)lucky_user Wrote: [ -> ]However, I would like to run Kodi standalone.
Edit: Wait a minute; what do you mean "run Kodi stand-alone"? Kodi is an application and not an operating-system, so it does not run directly on bare-metal if that is what you mean. You always need an underlying operating-system.
Maybe you mean to run Kodi on-top of a JeOS (Just enough Operating System) style OS distro? If so then try OpenELEC, OSMC, or EmbER. There are several others as well the formerly mentioned are known to contribute back upstream and collaborate with team Kodi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...i_and_XBMC
(2016-02-08, 16:49)Hedda Wrote: [ -> ]If it runs Android then you (hardware manufacturer) must provide codecs for Google's MediaCodec API
http://developer.android.com/reference/a...Codec.html
Kodi 16.x and later will access hardware video decoding via this new de facto standard on Android OS.
http://bigflake.com/mediacodec/
When a manufacturer provide proper hardware codecs for this API then no changes in needed in Kodi.
(2016-02-08, 01:07)lucky_user Wrote: [ -> ]However, I would like to run Kodi standalone.
Edit: Wait a minute; what do you mean "run Kodi stand-alone"? Kodi is an application and not an operating-system, so it does not run directly on bare-metal if that is what you mean. You always need an underlying operating-system.
Maybe you mean to run Kodi on-top of a JeOS (Just enough Operating System) style OS distro? If so then try OpenELEC, OSMC, or EmbER. There are several others as well the formerly mentioned are known to contribute back upstream and collaborate with team Kodi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...i_and_XBMC
What I meant is that I want to boot Arch Linux and then start Kodi (kodi --standalone) without a desktop environment. It may be that this already work as long as the xorg video drivers are working on this HW?
Thanks.
(2016-02-08, 18:39)lucky_user Wrote: [ -> ] (2016-02-08, 16:49)Hedda Wrote: [ -> ]If it runs Android then you (hardware manufacturer) must provide codecs for Google's MediaCodec API
http://developer.android.com/reference/a...Codec.html
Kodi 16.x and later will access hardware video decoding via this new de facto standard on Android OS.
http://bigflake.com/mediacodec/
When a manufacturer provide proper hardware codecs for this API then no changes in needed in Kodi.
(2016-02-08, 01:07)lucky_user Wrote: [ -> ]However, I would like to run Kodi standalone.
Edit: Wait a minute; what do you mean "run Kodi stand-alone"? Kodi is an application and not an operating-system, so it does not run directly on bare-metal if that is what you mean. You always need an underlying operating-system.
Maybe you mean to run Kodi on-top of a JeOS (Just enough Operating System) style OS distro? If so then try OpenELEC, OSMC, or EmbER. There are several others as well the formerly mentioned are known to contribute back upstream and collaborate with team Kodi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...i_and_XBMC
What I meant is that I want to boot Arch Linux and then start Kodi (kodi --standalone) without a desktop environment. It may be that this already work as long as the xorg video drivers are working on this HW?
Thanks.
Openelec is probably a good choice? Is your hardware amlogic based?
OpenELEC (multiple platforms) or OSMC (RPi2) is what the Original Poster (OP) should be looking at if he wants a very slimmed down version of Linux that boots directly to Kodi.
If you want to run a Hedless / Non Desktop, full monty Linux then the ODROID C1 already does that, with a whole bunch of Distributions to choose from:
http://forum.odroid.com/viewforum.php?f=110
Something that will get a lot of development in this area is the new AMLogic S905 ODROID C2 device from HardKernel, this is already running Ubuntu. There are some knowledgable Linux guys over on the HardKernel forums as well:
http://forum.odroid.com/viewforum.php?f=134