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Windows has an active maintainer and you can't compare Windows with AML. But yes, it is the application that counts, not some decayed customisations. We just got an PR from Actions-Semi for a codec. If it really happens that AML is nuked, that does not mean that it can't ever reintegrated. If devs or companies think that code once integrated into Kodi will be maintained by the community, I'll prove them wrong.

Yeah, was the same with crystalhd. We had sooo many ATV distrubutions out there and still have. Before I purged it, I wrote what needs to be done in order to get it back properly ... it has never happened. All the builds out there patch back in the revert from that time (!) and codecs they can't get to work are just disabled ...

But yes, the point is, we need someone to step up and maintain that hw decoder and work with the team to fit it into current architecture.