In article , Deloptes   wrote:
>Pancho wrote:
>
>> I gave up on a rpi4. It should work but good HD video depends on
>> hardware acceleration and Raspbian distro software compatibility with
>> acceleration was poor when I tried (i.e. Chrome and VLC didn't support
>> it fully)
>>
>
>This was the case after rpi4 was released.but later it was fixed. Firefox+
>youtube, mplayer, kplayer works fine
>
>> If you just want media try KODI.
>
>I was also after KODI (not for the RPI4, but for the PC, or VM), however it
>was not possible to compile.

If running on the Raspberry Pi, there's not much need to compile Kodi as
it's already available through any number of sources: Raspbian, OpenELEC,
OSMC, etc.  The same mostly applies to ordinary PCs if you substitute other
distros for Raspbian.

That said, I recently replaced a Raspberry Pi 3 that had been running Kodi
(most recently on Raspbian, and on OpenELEC before that) with a Rock Pi X
running Gentoo Linux, and the latest version of Kodi compiled without issue
on that.  (Why the change?  I wanted more streaming sources than just
YouTube.  The LBRY desktop app (an AppImage built for AMD64 Linux) runs on
it, and unauthorized.tv works in Chromium.) The only remaining snag is that
I think video is still timing out when I leave it for a few hours, and when
I switch the TV back on it's running at 1080i with overscan, not 1366x768
(or whatever) without overscan.

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