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I tried the unoficial OpenELEC Kodi 16 beta 3 build by Millhouse, and it has better performance indeed in HEVC, but not too much better, it couldn't play smooth some 1/2 MBits HEVC 720p videos that I tried. I tried to change some things and some more optimizations but without noticeble performance improvement in HEVC. Relatively to my Kodi packages, the optimizations were allready applied after all. I dont use MPD and it is a little offtopic. The version of Kodi in the Raspbian testing repo, is very likely to be the desktop version, with OpenGL, so it will not work on the Raspberry Pi.
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I also tried Arch Linux which has kodi v16 but it still lacks of HEVC and in my case it is impossible to run it as user, only rootītw, anyone has successfully run MPD on rasp jessie? in my case it is breaking after 1-2 songs, totally freezing I tried to migrate to stretch but it broke my whole system.
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There is a new version of kodi in testing repo but its impossible to just install it on current jessie. Openelec is really great but i also want some other features like nas, torrent, vpn, vnc, etc, so. nobody else cares about fully working linux + kodi. I you want to test my Kodi 16.0 ARMv7 packages, you have them here: When things calm down a little, I will make new Kodi 17 packages based on that, both for ARMv6 and ARMv7. If you really want 720p HEVC smooth playback, I think it is best way to go for now. It is still in early Alpha versions so some bugs are to be expected, especially now wih the introdution of the new skin. Pretty much all HEVC optimizations (and others) is done in Millhouse's OpenELEC test versions, now with Kodi 17. This tests were all done on a RPi 2, without any kind of overclock. Didn't tested OpenELEC becaus there isn't a OpenELEC stable version with Kodi 16.0 yet. I installed the latest version of OSMC with Kodi 16 on a new card to compare it and it is pretty much the same thing. There is now a visible improvement for HEVC playback, but unfortunately, not enough to play 720p HEVC perfectly smooth. Relatively to this, I made a Kodi 16.0 new build for testing, exactly the same on PiPplware main repo, but compiled for ARMv7. Reiper wrote:Can anybody confirm that HEVC files are ok with this v16 build? They don t on official 15.2, same on v16 beta from michael gorven BUT theyre perfectly smooth (720p) on openelec, both v16 beta and v17 alpha.