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I run LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi, which is a just-enough-OS for Kodi. It works great, and is even a good choice for playing music over HDMI, because unlike som

I run LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi, which is a just-enough-OS for Kodi. It works great, and is even a good choice for playing music over HDMI, because unlike some other music-playing distributions, it doesn't use ALSA, and simply bit-bangs the decoded audio out of the HDMI port. Works very well.

swayvil 5y ago
Ditto. Has ALL the codecs. Listening to music on it right now (Stars of the Lid).
Smoosh 5y ago
There's also OSMC, which is minimal Debian + Kodi.
- Fuzzwah 5y ago
  I'm such a fan of osmc. I used to run it on a raspberry pi, and then switched to their vero2 box when they released it.
LilBytes 5y ago
I'm part of the LibreElec converts. Great package.
azalemeth 5y ago
Indeed. It's also worth mentioning that the very inexpensive Digital TV tuner "just works" (at least in Europe) and with tvheadend you can then stream the live stream around your home network trivially. That's what the rpi4 running Kodi in our bedroom does at least. The streams are so in sync that you can listen to them on two separate devices in other bits of the house without an audio phase difference. Kodi is an amazing project and deserves much praise.
Cockbrand 5y ago
+1 for LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi. Zero hassle, zero fiddling, everything just works, and it feels like it's built into the TV as it uses its IR remote as the only input device.
Deukhoofd 5y ago
I really want to like LibreElec, but the frequent crashes of the entire OS makes it hard for me to do so. A day doesn't go by that the entire system crashes on me. Connecting a bluetooth device? 50/50 chance that it crashes. Attempting to play a video that failed to play just before? Complete crash.
- globular-toast 5y ago
  Sounds like a hardware problem. Libreelec has been running on my Pi2 for literally years. The only time I had problems was when the power supply of my Pi failed. If you're running a Pi, try changing the PSU. Bad power can cause many problems that you wouldn't expect.

swayvil 5y ago

Ditto. Has ALL the codecs. Listening to music on it right now (Stars of the Lid).

Smoosh 5y ago

There's also OSMC, which is minimal Debian + Kodi.

Fuzzwah 5y ago
I'm such a fan of osmc. I used to run it on a raspberry pi, and then switched to their vero2 box when they released it.

LilBytes 5y ago

I'm part of the LibreElec converts. Great package.

azalemeth 5y ago

Indeed. It's also worth mentioning that the very inexpensive Digital TV tuner "just works" (at least in Europe) and with tvheadend you can then stream the live stream around your home network trivially. That's what the rpi4 running Kodi in our bedroom does at least. The streams are so in sync that you can listen to them on two separate devices in other bits of the house without an audio phase difference. Kodi is an amazing project and deserves much praise.

Cockbrand 5y ago

+1 for LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi. Zero hassle, zero fiddling, everything just works, and it feels like it's built into the TV as it uses its IR remote as the only input device.

Deukhoofd 5y ago

I really want to like LibreElec, but the frequent crashes of the entire OS makes it hard for me to do so. A day doesn't go by that the entire system crashes on me. Connecting a bluetooth device? 50/50 chance that it crashes. Attempting to play a video that failed to play just before? Complete crash.

globular-toast 5y ago
Sounds like a hardware problem. Libreelec has been running on my Pi2 for literally years. The only time I had problems was when the power supply of my Pi failed. If you're running a Pi, try changing the PSU. Bad power can cause many problems that you wouldn't expect.