Kodi 21 "Omega" has landed in the repo

nazar

Starting new thread, as old thread has been locked. New "Omega" v21 release has been in the repo for about a week. 21.0 release notes from kodi team are here.

With this new release kodi caught up with ffmpeg 6, and that means InputStreamAdaptive addon is packaged again and working for all your streaming needs. Also, in the old thread @Solarmass asks

How can I get these emulators? Game emulator addons are not available for Kodi (Linux).

I'm guessing @Solarmass talks about libretro cores adapted to kodi with project Retroplayer. The Retroplayer has been part of kodi since v.19 but the cores (emulators) it integrates, aren't part of source tree and not included with the package. But it gets better...

To use Retroplayer cores, enable 3rd party repository. From there cores and gamepad profiles are available as kodi addons. Having installed your preferred selection of addons from the repository, you can browse you rom folder and emulate roms with kodi. It is that simple. Works best if you have a gamepad.

Solarmass

Thanks for keeping updating Kodi!

I had to switch to Kodi flatpak some time ago, because InputStreamAdaptive addon was gone. Moreover, YouTube addon now requires InputStreamAdaptive addon as dependency, so I couldn't just install/update YouTube addon manually.

BTW Kodi doesn't start here on Solus Budgie

/usr/lib64/kodi/kodi-x11: error while loading shared libraries: libxg.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

nazar To use Retroplayer cores, enable 3rd party repository.

I wish all addons were in one official repo, I would rather avoid 3rd party repos.

nazar

Solarmass BTW Kodi doesn't start here on Solus Budgie

Oh, this one is a good catch.
eopkg sf libxg.so Searching for libxg.so Package crossguid has file /usr/lib64/libxg.so.0 Package crossguid-devel has file /usr/lib64/libxg.so

Your system needs crossguid-devel package installed.

Edit: package should be fixed soon

nazar

Solarmass I gonna check it when fixed version drops!

The PR I referred to above has been merged and available in unstable repo. If you don't want to wait till weekly sync you can get it with CLI command without leaving stable update channel
eopkg install https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/unstable/k/kodi/kodi-21.0-100-1-x86_64.eopkg

Solarmass Moreover, YouTube addon now requires InputStreamAdaptive addon as dependency, so I couldn't just install/update YouTube addon manually

Youtube integration with InputStreamAdaptive is optional. About unsafe 3rd party repos you are right. But it's not the case for the libretro buildbot repo, this one is ok.

Solarmass

I gonna check it when fixed version drops!

Solarmass

nazar Youtube integration with InputStreamAdaptive is optional.

Yes, you can disable InputStreamAdaptive from youtube addon settings, but look at youtube addon dependencies list, you will see InputStreamAdaptive adaptive there. Also if try to install youtube addon manually, it would fail because you don't have InputStreamAdaptive installed (not an issue on Kodi flatpak because InputStreamAdaptive is preinstalled/in the repo)

nazar

Kodi has been removed from the repo some months ago. And while I wasn't part of that decision making process, I keep updated and simple instructions how to prepare and install package locally here

so long.

Solarmass

nazar I get 404 error on that link.

BTW I am using Kodi flatpak now. Annoying part is that if you have Nvidia GPU, you have to deal with nvidia flatpak driver too.

Staudey

Solarmass I think they meant to link to https://github.com/nazar-stasiv/solus-experimental