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That is what we are working on here yes, my goal is mostly to have the possibility to turn gui rendering on/off. So less about making a pure server edition of kodi but more about having the possibility to run it without GUI.

I see potential value to this for a directfb app I have. Is it primarily a UPnP server/scraper or will it play media too? If there is video playback will there be any skinned UI or a defined layer for the OSD? Same questions for the HIDs will there be input devices during playback or is it all controlled remotely.

Martin

Its the full kodi source, so it will play media too. However, it won't have anything to output the video to (as video is tied to our gui engine, which is why we can do fancy transformations of the video). Sound will be outputted however. And we could possibly look into an API were video is sent over JSON-RPC. I reckon if your doing a directfb app you should probably just fetch the video stream and play it yourself though.

The same answer for input. Most, if not all, input comes from our windowing code, thus input will not be triggered in the headless version. The one exception to this is lirc and json rpc/event server remotes (and possibly gamepads but somewhat unsure on this), these are triggered outside the windowing code. But the vast majority of the input wouldn't be useful in a headless version.

I'm guessing what your asking is if you can just implement rendering in directfb and everything else is handled on the server? So you don't have to map input and video playback? If so, I think that might be a bit outside the scope of my efforts. However, we might accept PRs allowing it.