Does OSMC work on Raspberry pi 4?

General Discussion
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Doses OSMC support the Raspberry pi 4? If so, how does video playback preform? If not, how long until it is supported?

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Not yet, but support will be added ‘soon’.

Software decoding will be possible after the release, so this will be limited to 1080p.
More details are on the blog.

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I’m optimistic they will do better than that. I prefer OSMC, but the alpha release of LibreELEC has very impressive hardware support on the Pi4 already.

Test files: http://jell.yfish.us/

jellyfish-90-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit plays perfectly, no dropped frames. Low CPU.

jellyfish-120-mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit looks very good but some dropped frames. Still low CPU.

jellyfish-120-mbps-4k-uhd-h264 plays far worse than the hevc-10bit version for some reason. Call it alpha issues probably.

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Pi4 doesn’t support H264 above 1080p which is why the last jellyfish clip does not work well.

We will introduce hardware acceleration with Kodi v19 (and nightlies) with V4L2/GBM. The HW method currently used by LE is a stopgap and deprecated. It will shortly be removed as a video acceleration pathway from Kodi.

I have explained this in detail in the blog post

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@sam_nazarko Any update on the Raspberry Pi 4 ? (and Kodi v19) since July 9th ?

Thanks for the great work !

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Pi4 still being worked on.

Kodi v19 nightlies are being built, er, nightly (well, almost).

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Thanks. I’ll keep an eye on this :slight_smile:

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RPi4B just came to my home … how´s OSMC going for this? Thank you.

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It’s still being worked on.

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And how about Netflix and Amazon?

They use mmal at the moment.

Will that work?

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Is there any way to test a beta build from osmc?
I get my raspberry 4 at christmas 2019.
It`s a gift from my son.

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Not atm no.
Sam did mention it’ll be available by December but its all gone a bit quiet, he has a lot on his plate I think.

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Netflix and Amazon uses software decoding, not MMAL (hardware acceleration).

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Shouldn’t you start a separate donation pool for pi4 osmc to accelerate the development?

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Thanks, but it won’t make much of a difference. I have the hardware but don’t find a lot of time to work on it.

I’m actually thinking of removing or revamping the donations section on the website as it’s rare to get a donation. We raised $40 in the whole of 2019 so far. Considering the size of our userbase, that’s quite low. Fortunately the project is still well-funded through hardware sales to cover things like hosting

Sam

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It took me quite a bit of time to find the donation button just now.
I started looking for it after your comment, because I thought that after this amount of time having it running on my rpi (although probably not using it for quite so many hours as some people on here) you/the team should get something back. Thank you for all the time and effort!!

Might be a good idea to revamp the donations section, maybe place it under the contribute menu header?

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I will rework it a bit when we update the website

Sam

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I’ve tested a Kodi manual install with OSMC on the Pi 4 and found issues with stability and picture quality. Pi 4 is the future though, when OSMC supports it. Makes the UI absolutely fly.

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Hi there, I don’t suppose there is an update for a support with the pi 4? I need a new pi but cant seem to get a pi3+ due to stock levels. They have the pi 4 but at present I know its not supported as of yet.

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Not yet - I will post an update when everything is ready.