The release of the LibreELEC 10.0 project, which develops a fork of the OpenELEC home theater distribution, has been released. The user interface is based on the Kodi media center. Images have been prepared for download to work from a USB drive or SD card (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Raspberry Pi 4, various devices based on Rockchip and Amlogic chips).
With LibreELEC, you can turn any computer into a media center that is as easy to use as a DVD player or set-top box. The basic principle of the distribution is βeverything just worksβ, to get a completely ready-to-use environment, you just need to download LibreELEC from a flash drive. The user does not need to take care of keeping the system up to date - the distribution kit uses a system for automatically downloading and installing updates, activated when connected to the global network. It is possible to expand the functionality of the distribution through a system of add-ons that are installed from a separate repository developed by the project developers.
In the new release, the bundled Kodi media center has been updated to version 19.1. Support for Raspberry Pi 0 and 1 boards has been dropped. Due to the unfinished work of rewriting graphics drivers, builds for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 have not been generated. The focus is on support for the Raspberry Pi 4 board, which uses H.264 and H video decoding hardware .265 video output, 4kp30 quality video output via HDMI, HDR support, and Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD audio forwarding.
Recall that LibreELEC was created as a result of a conflict between the OpenELEC maintainer and a large group of developers. The distribution does not use the package base of other distributions and is based on its own developments. In addition to the standard features of Kodi, the distribution provides a number of additional features aimed at making your work as easy as possible. For example, a special configuration add-on is being developed that allows you to configure network connection settings, manage LCD screen settings, and enable or disable automatic installation of updates.
The distribution kit supports features such as the use of a remote control (both infrared and Bluetooth control is possible), file sharing (a built-in Samba server), a built-in Transmission BitTorrent client, automatic search and connection of local and external drives.
Source: opennet.ru