Firstly, we need to know about Kodi and XBMC.
Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player software, developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. The software was originally produced as an independently developed media player application named Xbox Media Center (abbreviated as XBMC) for the first-generation Xbox game console, and was later made available under the name Kodi (formerly XBMC) as a native application for Android, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, iOS, and Microsoft Windows based operating systems.
Kodi is highly customizable: Kodi supports most common audio, video, and image formats, playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and third-party plugins, also share resources, supports Airplay, Zip/RAR files and SMB; a variety of skins can change its appearance, and various plug-ins allow users to access streaming media content via online services such as YouTube, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Crackle, Spotify, Rhapsody and Pandora Internet Radio. The later versions have a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) graphical frontend for receiving live television with Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and high-definition DVR (Digital Video Recorder) support.
Hardware requirements
Kodi has greater basic hardware requirements than traditional 2D style software applications: it needs a 3D capable graphics hardware controller for all rendering. It runs well on LeMaker Guitar, which is running PowerVR SGX544MP GPU.
When software decoding of a Full HD 1080p high-definition and high bit-rate video is performed by the system CPU, a dual-core 2 GHz or faster CPU is required in order to allow for perfectly smooth playback without dropping frames or giving playback a jerky appearance. Kodi can also offload most video decoding process onto graphics hardware controller that supports common types of hardware-accelerated video decoding. LeMaker Guitar, with the CPU 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex-A9R4 processors, can confidently fully supports all the powerful functions of Kodi.
According to the high performance of LeMaker Guitar, We designed the Lemedia based on Debian8 and Kodi source code.
You can also experience the Lemedia in advance on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c19U1D0gIAQ&feature=youtu.be
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