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Maybe they don't want tire-kickers, but the whole website feels like "If you have to ask, you don't belong here, move along!". The blog post doesn't mention wh

Maybe they don't want tire-kickers, but the whole website feels like "If you have to ask, you don't belong here, move along!". The blog post doesn't mention what it is, the home page doesn't mention what it is, the about page hints at what it does, but only says it's for something called "Kodi" but doesn't say what THAT is. Good way to create a sense of mystery though!

Cockbrand 5y ago
TBH, I think they're just ~nerds~ technical people who focus a lot on their product and don't have the resources and skills to build an attractive, inviting website. The product itself is great, though!
- nhouriet 5y ago
  A single sentence would certainly help to give a broad idea about what 'kodi' is.
  - inetknght 5y ago
    I think the three comments in this thread leading to my reply have it wrong. I see the top comment as being clear. I see the next three comments complaining about the website. What exactly is wrong with it? It's very clear to me. Perhaps you three should learn more about how to use the internet instead of expecting websites to spoon-feed you everything that you don't know. Websites can't, and shouldn't be expected, to know what you don't know. I opened the posted link [0]. It's clearly a blog. What's it about? It's about LibreELEC. There's a LibreELEC logo in the top left. Click that and it [1] clearly says "Just enough OS for KODI". What is KODI, I wonder? Double-click the word, right-click, search with your favorite search engine. The first result is the homepage for KODI [2] which clearly says it's open source home theatre software. There's no frills. There's no javashit. This website clearly and plainly works. I like it. [0]: http://libreelec.tv/2021/08/26/libreelec-matrix-10-0/ http://libreelec.tv/2021/08/26/libreelec-matrix-10-0/ [1]: http://libreelec.tv/ http://libreelec.tv/ [2]: https://kodi.tv/ https://kodi.tv/
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thiagocsf 5y ago
I’m a long-ish time user of LibreELEC and holy crap! That blog post is like “there be dragons here, there and everywhere”. I’ve recently moved on from LE on RPi to OSMC on some British media centre hardware that I forget the name now. The main reason was because some (all?) of the x265 stuff I downl^H^H^H^H^Hacquired wouldn’t play properly.
- arbitrage 5y ago
  blame rpi, not LE. i mean, what did you expect when you bought literally the least capable hardware possible for a set top box, really?
  - selfhoster11 5y ago
    That Broadcom CPU was literally designed as a Set Top Box CPU, at least for Pi 1 and 2. That's why the GPU is in control of the CPU.
- dspillett 5y ago
  I've had no trouble with x265 on a Pi4 via LibreELEC, either things I've encoded myself or obtained elsewhere. The Pi3 could playback 720p x265 fine, and sometimes 1080p OK but far from always (and it would get fairly warm trying, hitting the thermal throttle after a while in summer months). It comes down to what hardware acceleration is supported and/or how beefy the CPU is otherwise, either your media centre supports 265 in hardware like the Pi4 or it is just has a chunkier set of CPU cores so can cope decoding such content in software (in the latter case, it will be drawing a chunk more power and generating more heat to do so). I've not tried anything over 1080p on the 4, but IIRC it should be able to do 4K x265. For the size of my TV and how far I usually sit from it, I don't have eyes better than 1080!
  - oarsinsync 5y ago
    The RPi4 can do 4K x265, it’s the reason I have one, and the only thing I use it for (with LibreELEC too, as it happens)
dspillett 5y ago
> Maybe they don't want tire-kickers Could well be at this time. My LibreELEC running Pi4 recently updated itself to 9.2.8, and isn't showing 10 as an update yet. Perhaps this is considered a gamma testing period.
- LeoPanthera 5y ago
  As the linked page explains there will never be an automatic update from 9 to 10, they are too different. You have to do it manually.
selfhoster11 5y ago
If you don't know about Kodi, there will be a steep learning curve to learn either it or LibreELEC in every case.

Cockbrand 5y ago

TBH, I think they're just ~nerds~ technical people who focus a lot on their product and don't have the resources and skills to build an attractive, inviting website. The product itself is great, though!

nhouriet 5y ago
A single sentence would certainly help to give a broad idea about what 'kodi' is.
- inetknght 5y ago
  I think the three comments in this thread leading to my reply have it wrong. I see the top comment as being clear. I see the next three comments complaining about the website. What exactly is wrong with it? It's very clear to me. Perhaps you three should learn more about how to use the internet instead of expecting websites to spoon-feed you everything that you don't know. Websites can't, and shouldn't be expected, to know what you don't know. I opened the posted link [0]. It's clearly a blog. What's it about? It's about LibreELEC. There's a LibreELEC logo in the top left. Click that and it [1] clearly says "Just enough OS for KODI". What is KODI, I wonder? Double-click the word, right-click, search with your favorite search engine. The first result is the homepage for KODI [2] which clearly says it's open source home theatre software. There's no frills. There's no javashit. This website clearly and plainly works. I like it. [0]: http://libreelec.tv/2021/08/26/libreelec-matrix-10-0/ http://libreelec.tv/2021/08/26/libreelec-matrix-10-0/ [1]: http://libreelec.tv/ http://libreelec.tv/ [2]: https://kodi.tv/ https://kodi.tv/
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thiagocsf 5y ago

I’m a long-ish time user of LibreELEC and holy crap! That blog post is like “there be dragons here, there and everywhere”. I’ve recently moved on from LE on RPi to OSMC on some British media centre hardware that I forget the name now. The main reason was because some (all?) of the x265 stuff I downl^H^H^H^H^Hacquired wouldn’t play properly.

arbitrage 5y ago
blame rpi, not LE. i mean, what did you expect when you bought literally the least capable hardware possible for a set top box, really?
- selfhoster11 5y ago
  That Broadcom CPU was literally designed as a Set Top Box CPU, at least for Pi 1 and 2. That's why the GPU is in control of the CPU.
dspillett 5y ago
I've had no trouble with x265 on a Pi4 via LibreELEC, either things I've encoded myself or obtained elsewhere. The Pi3 could playback 720p x265 fine, and sometimes 1080p OK but far from always (and it would get fairly warm trying, hitting the thermal throttle after a while in summer months). It comes down to what hardware acceleration is supported and/or how beefy the CPU is otherwise, either your media centre supports 265 in hardware like the Pi4 or it is just has a chunkier set of CPU cores so can cope decoding such content in software (in the latter case, it will be drawing a chunk more power and generating more heat to do so). I've not tried anything over 1080p on the 4, but IIRC it should be able to do 4K x265. For the size of my TV and how far I usually sit from it, I don't have eyes better than 1080!
- oarsinsync 5y ago
  The RPi4 can do 4K x265, it’s the reason I have one, and the only thing I use it for (with LibreELEC too, as it happens)

dspillett 5y ago

> Maybe they don't want tire-kickers Could well be at this time. My LibreELEC running Pi4 recently updated itself to 9.2.8, and isn't showing 10 as an update yet. Perhaps this is considered a gamma testing period.

LeoPanthera 5y ago
As the linked page explains there will never be an automatic update from 9 to 10, they are too different. You have to do it manually.

selfhoster11 5y ago

If you don't know about Kodi, there will be a steep learning curve to learn either it or LibreELEC in every case.