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by marcosdumay 2532 days ago
The Pi4 is overpowered for a Kodi box.

That said, there is a huge number of applications for overpowered LED blinkers, and no lack of people to use them. And there is a great deal of educational value on having those boards available and easy to get.

Besides, it's becoming hard to find people without access to a machine where they can learn basic computer science. So this one niche is closing down, while the Pi is still unbeatable on hardware hacking.
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sjustinas 2532 days ago
Could you elaborate on why you think Pi 4 is "overpowered" for Kodi?

From what I've seen, there are still some kinks playing 4K HEVC videos. So hopefully, when software/firmware/etc. catches up, it should be "just powerful enough" for a Kodi box, all because of hardware decode.

Barely handling 4K does not scream "overpowered for a media center" to me.

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marcosdumay 2532 days ago
Ok, I didn't think about 4k videos, or software codecs.
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darkpuma 2532 days ago
> The Pi4 is overpowered for a Kodi box.

Even for software decoding of codecs or containers unsupported by the hardware acceleration? If that's true, I might have to get one.

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