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8. Project 2: Use the Tinker Board as a Media Center with Kodi

Liz Clark1 
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Boston, MA, USA
 

One of the Tinker Board’s most enticing features is its ability to play back 4K video. That combined with its SoC specs makes it a great candidate to act as a media player. Much as in our last project, where we set up the Tinker Board to be a dedicated game emulation system, we’re now going to try setting it up with Kodi, a popular open source media center application.

LibreELEC

We’re going to set up Kodi by using LibreELEC as the OS. LibreELEC is a lightweight Linux distribution that has the motto “just enough OS,” which is often shorthanded to JeOS. It’s open source, ...

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