[Ned Scott]

I could search google for some VC-1 content in an .avi with sanskrit subtitles, but that doesn't make it common. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm saying that most people don't care or need those features yet.

Possible to find != common, let alone necessary.

Even when it becomes common, that still doesn't mean anything to the user who has their own personal library and isn't interested in playing random files from the internet.

The fact remains, the Pi 3 is not "outdated" and is still a damn good recommendation.

Look up some To-r-rent sites and HEVC is the rage - small sizes. x264 is being pushed out slowly.

To that end, wrxtasy - What's the most inexpensive 1080p HEVC kodi box today (with or without 4K upscaling.. maybe 4K TV/Display will do its own upscaling) ?

I'll humor you: If you're going to pirate your videos, and there are just as many (if not more) h.264 files as there are h.265 files to chose from, and you specifically bought a player that only has h.264 hardware decoding, then why the hell would you download h.265? The idea that you need an h.265/HEVC device (in relation to torrenting) implies you have no other options, or are too stupid to understand what torrents are being clicked on.

Being "the rage" does not change what is available, what you can choose from, or what people rip themselves. Casually looking at some random torrents does not give any realistic data about what most people are using. The average joe will download whatever torrent has the most seeds, anyways. The most popular torrents for a given show or movie have god awful quality. Remember YIFY? That was some garbage, and yet more people were downloading those torrents than others. So tell me, how the heck does that data prove anything, one way or another?


Now that we have that out of the way:

This is not the place to talk about the pirate scene's requirements. This is the official Kodi forum. We cater to the user who is backing up their own media on their own hard drives, or who is otherwise using legitimate sources for video. No one should come here looking for advice about what is "all the rage" in the pirate scene.


EDIT: I'm very sorry for the harsh response above. There was no need to be so aggressive and rude. The same basic message is still true, but I should not have said it in such a tone.