Kodi 18 on Nano?

[OnnikZ]

Kodi 18 on Nano?

[mr.chrismitchells]

Kodi 18 is available to the ubuntu apt repo in version 20.04. if you use my ubuntu 20.04 image that I created for the jetson nano all you need to do is sudo apt install kodi.

Xubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa L4T R32.3.1 - Custom Image for the Jetson Nano

Hello All, I have created another custom image for the Jetson nano which is now based on Xubuntu 20.04 and includes a few improvements and features over my last image. In this release I was able to integrate Ubuntu’s Ubiquity installer which allows for initial user setup and language selection prior to first boot. ( just like a normal Ubuntu release and the image Nvidia provides for the nano ) . Once the initial user setup is complete the nano will reboot and enter the desktop ready to go wit…

[mictiemix]

So I assume Kodi will not be working on Ubuntu18.04?

[mr.chrismitchells]

You can build it yourself , it’s pretty easy… And a good first project for a beginner also. Head over to the xbmc GitHub page. They have instructions for compiling there. I don’t mind helping if you run into problems. Kodi 17 is the only.official version that I’m aware of for 18.04 on arm64 based platforms.

But building kodi18 Is easy enough.

[succo69]

well, i use to update quite often kodi 19 (Matrix) from its sources within jetpack/L4T official images and it works quite well, even if there is no hardware acceleration. Everything is fine and smooth for 1080p (that’s what my TV is right now) but there is no way to reach atmos/dts:x bitstreaming (i guess it must depend on the obsolete alsa driver in 18.04) or pulseaudio (even updating to pulse 13 from sources the passthrough is not complete yet), The only real trouble i had to fix was building projectM vis, as the freetype used by kodi doesn’t support aarch64 as an arch so had to copy the config.sub and guess fron the automake folder to make it build

[mictiemix]

Thanks!
Is Kodi 18 running with GPU on Ubuntu 20.04?

[hashtag]

I was able to get Kodi HW acceleration working for Jetson Nano. We have active testing going on Kodi forum.
We got Docker container which contains V19 Matrix Kodi build (Docker Hub) also source code is hosted here (still under development, so bear with me)

[rreddy78]

Sorry to bump this topic.

Can you provide me with the Docker file you used. I want to build a container for the mpv player with hw acceleration from this topic:

Hardware decoding in mpv player

I was able to solve this. Before explaining details, I will briefly describe the solution and how to install mpv, vlc and ffmpeg with nvmpi and nvv4l2dec support. I have shared precompiled debs so it would be easy for anyone. By the way, totem practically does not work on Jetson Nano, for me it was much slower than mpv with software decoding, and it does not come even close to mpv in therms of features anyway; gst-play-1.0 technically works but it does not support landscape mode on display with…

Thanks a lot and I hope the progress on Kodi HW acceleration is coming well.

[tsf73653]

Hlo i installeld like u discribed. all works fine. After rebooting the Nano i cant get back to Ubuntu desktop. I can shut down Kodi. After powerup Kodi still booting. How can i adjust the bootfile or when i reinstall everything forsee thath Kodi works like an app ? Thanks in advance. Just got the Nano for 1 week and need to lurn programming the Nano…step by step ;-)