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Love a good hack. But in this case, I just use LibreELEC (kodi) and call it a day :D

CoreELEC for me - the Amlogic chips are much more capable than the average Pi/PC/SBC when it comes to video, with features like quality deinterlacing (as good as modern TVs), HD audio passthrough, Dolby Vision, etc. Plus LibreELEC is always a bit janky, be it frame skip, audio sync issues, incorrect output levels, etc

Kodi is definitely a very cool project.

I haven't used it much myself. How well does it work with streaming services? It seems like it's designed to be really good for offline content.

I use it primarily with my own Jellyfin instance, but there are Netflix, Disney+ and pretty much anything you can think of plugins. The YouTube irritatingly complicated to get working, but then there are "play on kodi" plugins for various browser so you can flip what you're watching to the big screen. It's really an amazing project.

Out of interest, why do you use Kodi as a frontend rather than a native Jellyfin client?

Kodi is a native Jellyfin client, isn’t it?

Being able to play media from Jellyfin and other locations like YouTube, samba shares, etc is why I tend to use Kodi. I’m not stuck with one server/service.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/

No more transcoding and/or demuxing subtitles on the server

Also the more mature/retro UI, although you can skin it like Jellyfin’s web UI or like yet another streaming service if you prefer

LibreELEC is my go-to as well. I like to buy old thin-clients with bad storage for next to nothing and net-boot them diskless

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