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Okay, so I got a Minisforum S100. The experience has not been great at all. Other than the very long delivery time that kept changing, it finally arrived. I connected it to and booted the PC up. Windows was loading fine on it, and I got that installed initially. Browsing on it and doing very light work seemed to be okay. Now, when I tried to install LibreELEC, issues started.

For starters, it doesn't use NVMe but UFS storage, which causes the LibreELEC installer to not detect any devices other than the USB itself from which I booted. Unfortunately, I tried to install regular Linux on it with the idea of booting up Kodi from there. However, many regular Linux distros also do not seem to detect the UFS storage. I tried a few distros: OpenSUSE, Arch, and at last, Fedora, which actually detects it. Fedora even successfully installs, but right after you boot into the freshly installed system, it will complain that /dev/fedora/root and /dev/root are missing.

After giving up on using Linux, I went with Windows. I installed Windows 11 IoT Enterprise on it, which works after doing some regedit tweaks to disable the requirements. Windows installed, and all was working fine. Okay, then it was time to install Kodi on it, which went well, and even the Jellyfin plugin installed. But any video playback will just hang after the first 10 seconds of watching. Audio and subtitles work, but not the video. Just to rule things out, I installed the Jellyfin media player on it, and anything 4K will just stutter like crazy, probably maxing out at 10 fps when watching, even when the stream is 100% compatible with the device (you can see this in Jellyfin server).

All in all, I will return the device. I thought it was very promising, but the UFS storage and the very underpowered N100 make it unusable for my use case.

Hello everyone,

I'm planning to set up Kodi on a mini PC, but I'm unsure which hardware to choose, such as a Minisforum or an Intel NUC and which once. I have a very large library of movies and shows on Jellyfin, and I'd like to use Kodi with one of the two Jellyfin plugins to stream content from Jellyfin to the Kodi box.

I tried Jellyfin for WebOS 4, but unfortunately, it has many limitations regarding codecs. My library mainly consists of REMUX files. The box needs to be able to play 4K, Dolby TrueHD, Atmos, etc. Additionally, I'd prefer it to be somewhat future-proof.

Apart from that, I will connect the Kodi box directly to an Arcam AVR31 so I can pass on the Dolby audio to it.

I have a fresh install of Kodi, and I'm trying to install some addons, but I'm seeing unavailable dependencies for them.

These are all common dependencies, like plugin.googledrive, script.module.whatever, ResolveURL, etc...

Is there some sort of default repository that I don't have installed? Do I need to install these things in the OS I'm running Kodi in? Something else that I'm not thinking of?

Thanks!

I've got a very simple Kodi setup:

• Arch Linux on a laptop behind the TV
• Media files on a server upstairs, shared over NFS

I've been running Kodi quite successfully on this machine for years, but with the Omega update, videos play without audio for about 10seconds, then freeze. Sometimes if I wait a while, I see subtitles for the episode while the video is frozen. Music doesn't play either. The interface freezes too, to the point where I have to kill -9 it. Switching from Wayland to Xorg hasn't had an effect.

I tried deleting ~/.kodi and restarting, but nothing changes.

Has anyone else run into this?

I'm not a fan of the turns Open Subtitles has made toward monetisation, ad injection etc. — particularly not considering the unpaid volunteer work that has gone into their offerings. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was their "AI" subtitles, though.

I don't know if they sincerely think what they're doing is related to AI, the results I've had the misfortune of downloading was subpar speech-to-text gibberish. And from what I can tell they're even charging for generating those.

So, as I ask in the title, what alternatives to Open Subtitles are currently available for Kodi? I've used Subscene in the past but the add-on stopped working — or maybe I just need to look into the settings again?

This is a RCA remote I bought from Walmart. It seems to require a proprietary app. Has anyone had any luck with this device or similar devices?

Edit: it doesn't work with Bluetooth so no

Using 18.7 right now on my Nvidia Shield. I have to stay on this version for now.

I have some MKV files that use OPUS audio tracks AV1 Encoding, and KODI plays them as music files with no video. The files play without problems with VLC for Android.

Has anyone seen this before? Was OPUS AV1 support so new in Leia that the video player didn't bother with it?

EDIT: The issue was with the AV1 codec, which wasn't added to Kodi until v19.x (software), or really fully-implemented until v20.x

See my comment below for some additional detail

Thank you understanding. Have a nice day

...where would I be without thee?

Been using it since around 2011, back when it was still called XBMC and running on an old laptop.

Installed Raspbmc on a Raspberry pi 1 as soon as it came out. Been using Libreelec for the last few years.

As my media needs have changed over the years, I've been able to use Kodi to meet them in different ways.

#kodi4life

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This is my appreciation post for Kodi

The best application for watching your media.

I still remember finding out about Kodi and remember thinking it was as amazing as VLC, except with an amazing library.

Since using it over the years, on multiple TVs, a couple raspberry pi via librelec I have since settled on:

Kodi, with Jellyfin add-on, over native paths. I get the power of Kodi with a centralised metadata service. Finally I can watch something on one tv and have it sync onto all other devices.