Hi all, (first post...)
Sorry to harp again on the everlasting kodi requests, this time not regarding A20 but S905/Odroid C2 .
I own a banana pi (original) for some time now and came to run armbian headless on it after at some point it was clear, how things were going with A20 video drivers and hardware accelerated Kodi is not likely to happen on these devices. But with the AMLogic boards it seems to be a different story...
So i got my C2 3 weeks ago, and (of course...) one of the first things i did was trying to run a media center on it. So the C2 ist only widely available for 3 months, and i wasn't expecting too much. And that was right! After going through all the available options in the hardkernel forums i find there is currently not much more than a couple of alpha-quality images for the C2.
- The official hardkernel ubuntu image (even the last 2.0) is still quite buggy (unable to get a german keyboard on console, package broken... ts,ts), only a bloated desktop image available and only a half hearted kodi-build without working pvr-addons in it (so worthless to me)
- The hardkernel provided Android is hardly working, has EDID-issues and is nothing more than a demo at the moment. kodi android doesn't work properly
- Some guy XeoSal offered a C2 optimized - debian build called odrobian ( going the bananian way...). But that dates back to march, seems a one man show and seems half- or fully abandoned
- kodi/libreelec dev WRXtasy has made an experimental Libreelec build, that's not too bad, but has EDID issues as well and only runs at 720p on my rig.
So currently there's 4 "nearly there"-options, but nothing that's usable . Since i neither want android nor openelec/libreelec (b/c I need e.g. an nfs-server running) it seems natural for me to turn to armbian, which already has a mature userland and anyway is the right approach by not inventing the wheel again and fighting the same bugs for every board over and over.
... But i would need kodi running. (not necessarily a desktop), and i feel the effort to make it happen would be best invested in a project like armbian with an already relatively solid server base. I read that there are 3D accelerated x11 and framebuffer drivers available for the s905/mali for a couple of weeks, and are there a couple of kodi repos for c2/arm64 already available at github...
Do Igor or tkaiser have a general idea about how much work it would be and what needs to be done to produce kodi-packages for armbian (arm64/s905)? I've read that Igors point of interest is not so much multimedia, but maybe there are some other skilled people interested? I would be willing to do what i can (I'm not a professional dev, but operating linux iron for a living as administrator), if there's some guidance.
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