*** Official Kodi (née XBMC) Thread ***

Found this at the top of the wiki:

There's two big areas of "to do" for this page:
One is the namechange from XBMC to Kodi, and the current assumption is that XBMCbuntu will become something like KodiBuntu. Since the page still needs to make sense for existing XBMC installs, just write "XBMCbuntu/KodiBuntu" for the time being.
The other area is transitioning this entire page to a basic how-to on just getting XBMC on a dedicated box. This likely needs to mention OpenELEC and how KodiBuntu compares to it, why people would choose one or the other, etc. OpenELEC is considered by Team XBMC/Kodi to be an officially sanctioned version of XBMC/Kodi.
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Taking a look at the OpenELEC site now... didn't realise it was a different/unique distro
 
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I tried the latest version of openelec which is 4.97.2 nothing seems to work at the moment.

If this is happening in so many different operating systems surely it's an hardware fault and nothing to do with the OS.
 
Lord Alibaski said:
I tried the latest version of openelec which is 4.97.2 nothing seems to work at the moment.

If this is happening in so many different operating systems surely it's an hardware fault and nothing to do with the OS.
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What problems are you having?

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IMHO it is the best one if you want a box that will only do Kodi (including addons).
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Just sticking it on a USB stick... will give it a test...

It should do everything I need it to with just that front end... although I have been used to having a windows 7 box sitting under my TV for quite a few years now.
 
crinkleshoes said:
What problems are you having?
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The main problem is freezing m8 when watching video files mp4 and mkv files.

If you look here

http://openelec.tv/forum/90-miscellaneous/73005-random-freezes-on-amd-kabini-platform?start=15

They all seem to have the same problem and turning off a few options in openelec doesn't help any matters.

It does the same inside windows 7 & 10 though I haven't tried windows 8 yet.

The only thing you can do to stop it is to turn off with the power button. It usually happens within the 1st 10/40mins of watching a video then if you reboot it stops for a bit then it will just happen again.

Windows 10 was the best one even though it took a few hours before it froze the icons started to blur or go black but this is a new OS and full of bugs so I can't use this OS all the time.
 
I'd wait a few days until OpenElec 5 final comes out. Once Kodi 14 is out of the RC stage it will follow suit very shortly.
 
I am now on my 4th operating system.

openelec - 4.2.1 = froze 3 times in 1 hour
openelec - 4.97.2 = froze once in 2 hours
windows 10 = froze after 4 hours, but was also too buggy
windows 8.1 = froze after 76mins

Linux mint will be my next test.
 
I bought an Amazon Fire TV this week, and it's pretty decent.
It plays all my TV shows (HD or SD) without fail, and will happily play uncompressed DVDs.

However it really struggles with uncompressed Blu Ray files so if you have lots of those then it'll be a no go. It buffers every 20-30 seconds

I'm going to download a 14gb MKV we'll see what that's like
 
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