Re:OSMC is a free and open source media center
by ankurpatel on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @01:32PM
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This is from their wiki site for more clarification
Kodi is a media center application and OSMC is the operating system that runs Kodi and brings it to your device. OSMC is not a fork of Kodi but rather a Linux distribution that ships Kodi as the main application. This is a similar concept to Kodi running on top of Windows or Android.
OSMC is based on Debian Jessie (a flavour of GNU/Linux) and has been heavily optimised to provide the best TV experience possible.
Re:OSMC is a free and open source media center
by patja on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @02:41PM
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The information available on the website and github is pretty sparse. Will it play blu-ray iso's or folders? Support for DTS-MA? TV tuner support documentation just says "most work", which really doesn't answer the question at all. In general the documentation just says it will do anything you want it to, without going into any specifics.
Do I have to go back through the docs on Kodi and assume this will do everything Kodi will?
Re:OSMC is a free and open source media center
by ankurpatel on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @02:43PM
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This is an open source project and hence lacks the resources to document or be as polished. As mentioned in my comment below it is a OS which runs only one program which is the Kodi Media Center but it will support Apps along with Kodi Media Center.
Re:OSMC is a free and open source media center
by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:45PM
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> This is an open source project and hence lacks the resources to document or be as polished.
PostgreSQL is an open source project, and has documentation on par with its commercial alternatives. Open source doesn't have to mean poorly documented.
Re:OSMC is a free and open source media center
by colinramsay on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @01:31PM
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I've been using Raspbmc and OSMC (which spawned from Raspbmc) on both RP1 and RP2 and they've both been great. While OSMC is only on RC2, it's fairly solid and RC3 should be coming any day. As well as standard addons for Kodi, it has an App Store that will ultimately let you install things like torrent clients and the like with ease. Their default skin needs a little work but it's nice and fast.
Link to their GitHub repo: https://github.com/samnazarko/osmc
Kodi is a media center application and OSMC is the operating system that runs Kodi and brings it to your device. OSMC is not a fork of Kodi but rather a Linux distribution that ships Kodi as the main application. This is a similar concept to Kodi running on top of Windows or Android.
OSMC is based on Debian Jessie (a flavour of GNU/Linux) and has been heavily optimised to provide the best TV experience possible.
Do I have to go back through the docs on Kodi and assume this will do everything Kodi will?
PostgreSQL is an open source project, and has documentation on par with its commercial alternatives. Open source doesn't have to mean poorly documented.
Great job Sam and the team.