Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version (betanews.com) 80
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Earlier this year, we shared with you that a pre-release version of Kodi 18 "Leia" 64-bit for Windows was available. There was a big catch, however -- it was not up to par with its 32-bit brother. And so, many people just stuck with the 32-bit version, because, well... why not? It is finally time to make the jump to the 64-bit variant, however, as according to the Kodi team, it is now identical to the 32-bit version from a feature perspective. "The 64-bit Kodi version for Windows is now feature complete and on the same level as 32-bit. From now on the 32-bit installer will include a warning to ask you to install the 64-bit instead. This upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version is seamless and you just need to install on top of the old version," says Kodi.
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Yeah, theft is both good and bad.
Please tell me how theft would be good. As we're talking about copyright, the only theft (deprivation of property) here happens when one of the companies GP listed issue fraudulent DMCA/equivalent takedowns, not letting authors share and benefit from their own work, while the company claims the rights with impunity.
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I have somewhere north of 3000 DVDs, BlueRays, HD-DVDs (remember HD-DVDs?), CDs, videotapes (both VHS and BetaMax (remember BetaMax?), audio cassettes and records stacked up under the house, just in case anybody asks me about this 3.4-odd terabytes of copyrighted content living on my NAS. Your argument is invalid.
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Someone can steal physical media from you (ie, a licensed (or not) recording), but can't steal copyright (ie, intangible monopoly rights).
The definition of theft requires two elements:
It's easy to steal a physical medium, but uncommon to steal copyright. For this, you need enough clout to effectively ban the author from distributing the work on his/her own, then distribute it yourself.
A small-time crook may have luck with
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Re:Kodi is both good and bad... (Score:5, Insightful)
Not everyone uses it to watch pirated content. I use it as a "jukebox" to play my (legally purchased) collection of FLAC audio files from about 2500 CD's I purchased over the years and piped through my home theater audio system. Tucked all on a cheap Intel NUC with all the content stored on an internal M.2 SSD. It works great!
WTF? (Score:2, Insightful)
Why the fuck does this link to some hearsay on a third party site? The only link needed is the link to the official announcement on the official Kodi site.
Brian Fagioli really is a fagioli.
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Personally I would say Kodi is more like a toy in comparison to Plex. Plex can transcode videos on the fly (or in the background as media is imported) so that only the server needs to be powerful enough to transcode instead of each player. Plex is definitely supported on more devices. It can also put copies on a phone for mobile off-line viewing. You can share libraries with other people (Say vacation photos with my dad, etc). It also has an option to put the server in the cloud. Plex also integrates
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I perosnally use emby+kodi. Kodi doesn't have a plex media server alternative, but emby covers that pretty well.
Plex's proprietary nature bugged me, so emby filled that gap. Both do want you to use a premium online connected account, but plex was really obnoxious about it no matter what. emby is more subdued (though I haven't checked out plex lately).
Note I use it to manage my own rips, not so much online videos or streaming services.
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Personally I would say Kodi is more like a toy in comparison to Plex.
Kodi is a CLIENT that displays content stored on SERVERS.
Saying that Kodi is a toy for misunderstanding its role is like saying SSH sucks because the system your connecting to doesn't have enough ram to compile software.
Plex can transcode videos on the fly (or in the background as media is imported) so that only the server needs to be powerful enough to transcode instead of each player.
Or any PVR/NAS with interface supported by Kodi. (Essentially ALL of them of any consequence)
Plex is definitely supported on more devices. It can also put copies on a phone for mobile off-line viewing.
Kodi can be installed on a phone and access all the same shit as your Kodi client on the sub $50 SBC driving the 4k TV.
You can share libraries with other people (Say vacation photos with my dad, etc). It also has an option to put the server in the cloud. Plex also integrates with Trakt via plugin as well.
"The cloud" means Plex's servers. U need an account to do anything with Plex ev
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Plex can transcode videos on the fly (or in the background as media is imported) so that only the server needs to be powerful enough to transcode instead of each player.
Or any PVR/NAS with interface supported by Kodi. (Essentially ALL of them of any consequence)
Such as?
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I thought people were using Plex now?
I use PLEX and KODI. I found that the music libraries were easier to manage on PLEX, but KODI serves my video library needs. I use the PLEX app inside Kodi for music playback, one reason because no other PLEX client approaches have gapless playback.
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The transcode is more about the various embedded devices not having this or that codec available in hardware, and a puny cpu that can't use pure software codec..
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Everything on my server is H.264, which is playable by everything, given enough bandwidth. Transcoding, OTOH, for me is all about watching my stuff over a random hotel's WiFi, which involves sending a stream out your home upstream connection and hoping that the connection on the hotel end isn't throttled into uselessness. At home, it all travels
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I thought people were using Plex now?
Wrong. Nobody uses Plex.
Is There No Adult Supervision Here at All? (Score:5, Insightful)
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There is always the reject table (for 8th grade and under they were 2, one for the boys and one for the girls).
Where there is often a set of regulars, and the occasional person who had fallen outside the clique where they at least sit down, eat their food, and usually semi-respectful communication.
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I didn't know the Koch brothers ran a discount store!
Re:Is There No Adult Supervision Here at All? (Score:5, Informative)
The linked article doesn't say what Kodi is either. Welcome to the future, where "news" apparently is only used to tell people things they already think they know.
Re:Is There No Adult Supervision Here at All? (Score:5, Interesting)
I refuse to click read the article, or read any follow up comments to help gain context.
I think it is some sort of Imaging editing software from Kodak.
This is very common on Slashdot, unfortunately. Where some lesser known product gets some attention, and is posted about it like this product is known and used by everyone.
For the most part as a rule of thumb, in order to not give a summary on what the product does...
1. It will need to be 1st, 2nt, or 3rd most popular product in its class. (Windows, OS X, Linux) or (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime) or (Android, iOS, Windows (10 years ago we could had used WebOS or PalmOS))
2. Explain what the product does if it belongs to a class that isn't available to consumers even if it the top used product.
3. If Slashdot had articles which had explained it within the last 3 days, it is fine to use the name without explanation, otherwise rehash it.
4. Assume a High School level of education and experience. Not to dumb it down, but after that point adults separate and specialize in things, so you can be talking about things that others have paid no attention too.
5. Explain the product if the Acronym is similar or the same as a different products Acronym or Name. Eg. If there is a story about the Dodge Ram truck line, While people in the industry may just call it a Ram, on Slashdot it would be confused about RAM (Random Access Memory). So if the article covers how the Ram has been increasing in prices, we are thinking back to the day where RAM was expensive due to illegal actions from Memory maker Samsung.
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Because I am interested in Cross-compatibility programming designs. And compared to Sun Micosystems, Apple and most other vendors. Microsoft transition to 64bit is very rocky. I originally though the initial push to .NET other then competing with Java, however running slower then a normal compiled app + only running on windows (in short taking the worst parts of Java and C++ and putting them together) was the fact that the .NET run-time would be 64bit upwards compatible. Which is wasn't because you will n
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Ok, I googled it. A home theater solution. I guess I need to add an other condition. It needs to be a technology that is popular within 5 years.
Home Theater software has been old-news for a long time. And Kodi wouldn't be high in this class. We have Apple TV, XBox and Chrome cast (in no particular order) as the top 3 in this.
However for the most part Home Theater media software hadn't really gotten to much attention.
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Kodi has been in the mainstream press a lot recently, because there are third-party add-ons that provide streaming from illegal sources and a bunch of providers have been selling 'Kodi Boxes' that have these preinstalled. Oh, and again because a few of these came with decidedly substandard power supplies that were a fire risk.
It's been on Slashdot a bunch of times, including at least one article about when they had to change the name from XBMC over trademark issues.
Basically, if you haven't come across
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This. A thousand times this. The title and summary assume that EVERYONE a) uses Windoze and b) uses Kodi.
Re:Is There No Adult Supervision Here at All? (Score:4, Informative)
It used to be called XBMC, i.e. Xbox Media Centre, a media player. It seems like it does illegal streaming too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The original announcement for the 64 bit version says
https://betanews.com/2017/06/0... [betanews.com]
If you intend to use Kodi with add-ons to stream potentially illegal content, you may wish to consider a VPN.
Or look at this
https://www.engadget.com/2017/... [engadget.com]
Apparently there are third party plugins which allow you to stream stuff for free, though the MPA/MPAA-led Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment etc are on the case.
What is the Kodi? (Score:5, Informative)
Kodi wants to entertain you
Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices. It is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers and a huge community.
Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.
It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer.
https://kodi.tv/ [kodi.tv]
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Functionality? Buzzwords. VLC does all that for me, Media Player does too. What does Kodi actually do that makes vlc irrelevant?
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It's more of a media manager. It tracks what you've watched already, can add in ratings of things in your media library so you can say get a view of media that you have that you haven't already watched and sorted by it's rotten tomatos or imdb rating so you watch the good stuff first. It also puts a pretty UI on top instead of picking movies from a file open dialog box or file explorer. It can add links to "extras" around the media, like a trailer, or cast interviews from YouTube, show links to other mov
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It fits on a Raspberry Pi that you can tuck away behind the living-room TV where no one will see it, which can then be controlled with a Playstation 3 Blu-ray remote (which connects over Bluetooth, so line-of-sight isn't needed) that has familiar media controls on it like "play," "pause," and "fast-forward", and a directional pad for selecting things. It's much more like a piece
Why is this so important? (Score:2)
I mean I get that eventually it would be caught up but they are trying to make it sound as if this is some monumental event that has a ton of advantages, while failing to list any. I can't really think of any. It's not like anyone is running a pure 64bit system and kodi is not resource intensive either cpu wise or memory wise. Why should anyone care if its 32 or 64.
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This was my first thought as well.
Does this program whatever it is have a need for large memory use and why? After reading some comments (the summary was useless), it appears to be some kind of media library whatever thing so it probably does not demand a 64 bit version but some people still think its faster or better in some way.
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So long as a particular workload doesn't use pointer-heavy algorithms (which video decoding doesn't), the performance benefit of x86-64's additional general purpose registers is likely to outweigh the data cache hit of larger pointers.
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SIMD is a fair boost for applications that can use it as well. Many 32bit programs are faster than 64 due to a few reasons as noted.
I suspect most people just see 64 vs 32 and think it must be mo gooderer in all cases.
What did this article cost to publish? (Score:1)
Id like to subject the readers to an article that doesn't explain what they are talking about, or even why I should be excited. Well, more than one really, I have thousands of misspelled "articles" such as:
Loapet 2 is out. It's differant from Loapet 1 in that it now has a 2 instead of a 1, and that is just amazing folks. How does slashdot think this will affect them in the future??
Who is "Kodi"? What is "Leia"? (Score:2)
Who knows? Who cares?
Deceptive Headline! ONLY 32-bit for Windows 7! (Score:1)