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I had Kodi on installed on my Raspbian and some videos didn't work.

I read OpenELEC is optimized for Kodi and indeed, these videos work fine on this distribution.

What are the differences between Raspbian/Kodi and Openelec/Kodi? Why is the behavior different?

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  • I believe openelec uses a different video player than the default install of kodi through raspbian. – Brett Reinhard Mar 5 '17 at 21:43
  • This question makes no sense in its current form. You're looking for the difference between Raspbian and Kodi - Raspbian is an operating system and Kodi is a software application. It's equivalent to asking what the difference is between Windows and Word. Can you edit the question to indicate which things you're trying to compare? – goobering Mar 6 '17 at 15:35
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    My question is edited. – Kiva Mar 7 '17 at 8:15
  • FYI, actual version of Kodi in Raspbian is 15.2-2, while the latest version announced on kodi.tv is 17.1-RC1. Not sure which version is shipped with OpenELEC. – Dmitry Grigoryev Mar 7 '17 at 15:54
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    I'll try to increase the gpu mem – Kiva Mar 7 '17 at 16:43
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The following thread on the RPi forums discusses some differences between OpenELEC+Kodi and Raspbian+Kodi.

According to that discussion, a key difference is the memory split in Raspbian. Essentially, this determines how much of your RAM is available for running programs and how much is used by the GPU. If you allocate more RAM to the GPU, your Pi can perform more intensive graphics processing.

I suspect (but am not 100% sure) that to get Raspbian+Kodi working more effectively you'd have to adjust this memory split in order for the GPU to run Kodi at a decent speed. Although you'd probably be better off just running OpenELEC from one SD card and installing Raspbian on a second and switch between the two when you want to watch media or play with an OS respectively.

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  • Hope that helps the videos run at a more acceptable pace! – Palaeologus Mar 7 '17 at 20:24
  • it helps also if you need to hack things , i had trouble make the PITFT work without raspbian . Many dependecies problems are solve this way – plombix Sep 17 '19 at 12:41

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