George Posted March 12, 2018 Share #1 Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) ... Has anyone build a XBMC and/or Kodi VM on the NAS, using the platform as a central place to run PMS, XBMC and or Kodi. PMs is great for TV series and movies, but seems XBMC + AddOn's is the better option for sport streaming. G Edited March 12, 2018 by George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Polanskiman Posted March 12, 2018 Share #2 Posted March 12, 2018 As far as I am aware since DSM does not use a GPU I don't see how installing Kodi will work. You need to install it on a GPU capable OS/hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 George Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share #3 Posted March 12, 2018 Kodi works on a Rasperry Pi (ARM), also don't have a GPU. G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Polanskiman Posted March 12, 2018 Share #4 Posted March 12, 2018 Rasperry Pi (ARM) has no video output? What is the HDMI connector for then? Synology Boxes do not have any video output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 IG-88 Posted March 12, 2018 Share #5 Posted March 12, 2018 35 minutes ago, George said: Kodi works on a Rasperry Pi (ARM), also don't have a GPU. like every smartphone now days it has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi "with an integrated ARM compatible central processing unit (CPU) and on-chip graphics processing unit (GPU)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 George Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share #6 Posted March 12, 2018 It has a Video output, yet, like most Mobo's. same as most XPenology NAS's, it does not have a dedicated GPU. XBMC/Kodi is just a Media server like Plex, wondering if anyone has build one on the XPenology platform, most likely inside Docker. G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 IG-88 Posted March 12, 2018 Share #7 Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, George said: It has a Video output, yet, like most Mobo's. same as most XPenology NAS's, it does not have a dedicated GPU. just because the isn't a dedicated chip does not mean there is no gpu, the arm cpu can't do h.264/h.265 decoding thats a task of the gpu and depending of the "chip" used for such small low power systems there are differences depending mostly of the gpu, i use a odroid-c2 instead of raspi, this one (amlogic s905) has a better gpu then the raspi, also most "problems" with open source on this arm systems are around the gpu drivers and the fact that there are usualy not opne source Quote XBMC/Kodi is just a Media server like Plex, wondering if anyone has build one on the XPenology platform, most likely inside Docker. the question about xmbc in our case would be - does kodi work headless (without a dedicated output/gui), the way dsm is made seems not to offer the option for a local gui (like its done on asus nas systems using kodi) Edited March 12, 2018 by IG-88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Has anyone build a XBMC and/or Kodi VM on the NAS, using the platform as a central place to run PMS, XBMC and or Kodi.
PMs is great for TV series and movies, but seems XBMC + AddOn's is the better option for sport streaming.
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