Hi, let me start saying that this project is awesome and, in my opinion, a must implementation for Kodi, especially for arm users like me. Unfortunately a lot of services that can be accessed online, for which broadly used addons exists, cannot be accessed legally from Kodi because a lot of them states in the ToS that web scrapers are forbidden. A lot of people, even LibreElec developers, suggest to use a full os with Chromium installed to do this. Maybe this could be a solution for devices in the x86 space, where Nvidia, Amd and Intel provide some ways to play media flawlessly. For Raspberry users, for example, it is not possible since only Chromium support Mmal hardware decoders and it only works on Xorg. If you don't have special patches, you cannot present using atomic commit with drm/kms on Xorg, leaving with a HUGE screen tearing problem, making it unusable for media reproduction (for example enabling xorg drm/kms on a Raspberry pi 3b+ lead to "broken atomic modeset userspace detected, disabling atomic" error). For these reasons i think a real browser will be a very important component of the Kodi ecosystem. So at the end of this i would like to ask if it is possible to provide some precompiled binaries that can be installed and tested. I would like to ask for arm binaries (since this kind of devices cannot compile such project themself without crosscompiling), and in particular armhf binaries, simply because it is widely used in the media center space and have access to widewine to test. Obviously i understood that is a work in progress project and i do not expect it works out of the box. I would simply like to try it, but, like you said in the README file, it is very heavy to compile, so some precompiled binaries would allow users to at least test and eventually discover bugs.
Thanks in advance for the dedicated time to read this and the efforts invested in the project,
Have a good day
Hi, let me start saying that this project is awesome and, in my opinion, a must implementation for Kodi, especially for arm users like me. Unfortunately a lot of services that can be accessed online, for which broadly used addons exists, cannot be accessed legally from Kodi because a lot of them states in the ToS that web scrapers are forbidden. A lot of people, even LibreElec developers, suggest to use a full os with Chromium installed to do this. Maybe this could be a solution for devices in the x86 space, where Nvidia, Amd and Intel provide some ways to play media flawlessly. For Raspberry users, for example, it is not possible since only Chromium support Mmal hardware decoders and it only works on Xorg. If you don't have special patches, you cannot present using atomic commit with drm/kms on Xorg, leaving with a HUGE screen tearing problem, making it unusable for media reproduction (for example enabling xorg drm/kms on a Raspberry pi 3b+ lead to "broken atomic modeset userspace detected, disabling atomic" error). For these reasons i think a real browser will be a very important component of the Kodi ecosystem. So at the end of this i would like to ask if it is possible to provide some precompiled binaries that can be installed and tested. I would like to ask for arm binaries (since this kind of devices cannot compile such project themself without crosscompiling), and in particular armhf binaries, simply because it is widely used in the media center space and have access to widewine to test. Obviously i understood that is a work in progress project and i do not expect it works out of the box. I would simply like to try it, but, like you said in the README file, it is very heavy to compile, so some precompiled binaries would allow users to at least test and eventually discover bugs.
Thanks in advance for the dedicated time to read this and the efforts invested in the project, Have a good day