Kodi Media Center

from kodi.tv

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open source media player application developed by the XBMC/Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.

Kodi is a target that can be installed with -t kodi.

Features/Notes:

• Works best with modern Ubuntu (~16.04)
• can play h.264 & h.265 out of the box (tested with Acer C720 peppy & Toshiba Chromebook 2 swanky)
• smb/samba works out of the box. cannot scan, must enter port with hostname (445). (Patch #3503 in review to fix!)
• volume is separate from ChromeOS. (make sure it's turned up in chromeos)
• DOES NOT work with kiwi/extension
• ChromeOS power management is disabled while kodi is running, this will prevent it from dimming the monitor or suspending while using kodi. However, this also means if kodi is running in the background, power management will be disabled as well.

My personal recommendation

I recommend making separate from other targets. sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t kodi -n kodi

Tested With: (feel free to add your model)

• Acer C720 (peppy)
• Samsung XE303C12 Chromebook (Daisy) Does not work at all, see below for instructions to make Kodi work with Samsung XE303c12 Chromebook).
• Toshiba Chromebook 2 (swanky)

Instructions for setting up on Samsung Chromebook XEC303C12.

• See above to enter Developer mode.
• Start with 'sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t kde'
• Enter chroot with 'sudo enter-chroot'
• Update graphics with 'sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-dummy xdiagnose' , Comment: mouse will not work
• exit chroot with 'exit'
• update xenial kde with 'sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t kde -u' Comment: fixes mouse problem.
• start xenial kde with sudo startkde
• kodi install instructions coming

TODO

• Fluff out info regarding Kodi uses
• Detail recommended settings