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This is pretty decent device. Played around with these when I was working in automotive stuff in previous job and was playing with the idea that I'll get one of those to replace my current Kodi box.

Runs QNX atleast and Linux/wayland, no idea about possible Xorg drivers...

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It also runs Ubuntu.

PS: A raspberry PI will run Kodi perfectly :)

Until you want to decode h.265 ... then it will fall over.

The Jetson makes sense as many things, but it's serious overkill to be a Kodi box. It's a nice development kit that includes CUDA, and for some people it's even a nice and interesting desktop.

For Kodi and media purposes however it makes far more sense to buy either (1) the Nvidia Shield TV with the same chipset and also costs $200, if you're looking for a media player with and don't care about running your own software or (2) the Odroid C2, which is one third the cost of this, is a much smaller device (and probably more power efficient), will soon run mainline Linux (nightlies out already) and plays h265 and 4k just fine!

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