This link is not great for people unfamiliar with the project. I went to the Wiki link in the menu to figure out what this is.
LibreELEC is just enough (Linux-based) OS to run Kodi. Kodi is entertainment center software.
LibreELEC is just enough (Linux-based) OS to run Kodi. Kodi is entertainment center software.
The blog post doesn't mention what it is, the home page doesn't mention what it is, the about page hints at what it does, but only says it's for something called "Kodi" but doesn't say what THAT is.
Good way to create a sense of mystery though!
I see the top comment as being clear. I see the next three comments complaining about the website. What exactly is wrong with it? It's very clear to me. Perhaps you three should learn more about how to use the internet instead of expecting websites to spoon-feed you everything that you don't know. Websites can't, and shouldn't be expected, to know what you don't know.
I opened the posted link [0]. It's clearly a blog. What's it about? It's about LibreELEC. There's a LibreELEC logo in the top left.
Click that and it [1] clearly says "Just enough OS for KODI". What is KODI, I wonder? Double-click the word, right-click, search with your favorite search engine. The first result is the homepage for KODI [2] which clearly says it's open source home theatre software.
There's no frills. There's no javashit. This website clearly and plainly works. I like it.
[0]: http://libreelec.tv/2021/08/26/libreelec-matrix-10-0/
[1]: http://libreelec.tv/
[2]: https://kodi.tv/
I’ve recently moved on from LE on RPi to OSMC on some British media centre hardware that I forget the name now. The main reason was because some (all?) of the x265 stuff I downl^H^H^H^H^Hacquired wouldn’t play properly.
i mean, what did you expect when you bought literally the least capable hardware possible for a set top box, really?
The Pi3 could playback 720p x265 fine, and sometimes 1080p OK but far from always (and it would get fairly warm trying, hitting the thermal throttle after a while in summer months).
It comes down to what hardware acceleration is supported and/or how beefy the CPU is otherwise, either your media centre supports 265 in hardware like the Pi4 or it is just has a chunkier set of CPU cores so can cope decoding such content in software (in the latter case, it will be drawing a chunk more power and generating more heat to do so).
I've not tried anything over 1080p on the 4, but IIRC it should be able to do 4K x265. For the size of my TV and how far I usually sit from it, I don't have eyes better than 1080!
Could well be at this time. My LibreELEC running Pi4 recently updated itself to 9.2.8, and isn't showing 10 as an update yet. Perhaps this is considered a gamma testing period.
Even their main page is confusingly unspecific.