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Longtime Kodi user here. Bought an M1 MacBook Air in the spring and Kodi barely works. Video won't display even though the sound works fine, and instead the mo
by thrusong 5y ago
Longtime Kodi user here. Bought an M1 MacBook Air in the spring and Kodi barely works.
Video won't display even though the sound works fine, and instead the mouse will multiply thousands of time. You can move the mouse around and just leave trails of mouse cursors everywhere.
It's like one out of every four times it will work as expected, but requires quitting and re-opening it over and over.
- smoldesu 5y agoThat's really curious considering how Kodi treats ARM targets as a first-class citizen. I'm guessing it has to do with Apple's own underlying systems?
- Mayzie 5y agoIt really doesn’t. There hasn’t been an active Android maintainer for ages at this point - it’s only just barely supported.
- danachow 5y agoKodi targets low cost ARM SBCs as a first class citizen. ARM is (a family) of instruction sets - for something like a media player it is down near the least important aspect of providing support. Kodi targets a boat load of low cost embedded SoC ARM devices but these bear little resemblance to an M1 based MacBook except for the instruction set. Kodi will run fine on typical x86 PC setups because this hardware is commonly available.
- smoldesu 5y agoI'm aware of the difference, I just haven't quite seen the effects of ARM ISA variations in action quite yet. I was kinda under the impression that v8 would be back-compatible with v6 and v7 ARM.
- danachow 5y agoYeah and what I’m saying is that any ARM ISA variations have little to do with anything. Kodi is a C++ application primarily and uses off the shelf compilers. The support issues have more to do with hardware and OS compatibility.
- kadoban 5y agoYou can configure Kodi to use other video players to actually play. Probably worth doing. I do it myself because for whatever reason Kodi's player crashes like crazy on my Windows htpc.
- jaimex2 5y agoM1 is still new tech that is hit and miss with anything not from the walled garden. There's not enough interest to fix/develop for it.