[Roby77]

simply is not like popcorn hour
one device > xx number of known issue ( some issues funny get fixed in one firmware and come back in the newer)

Here we have one software with thousand hardware configuration, os type, driver variable etc etc

the other funny thing is that your clear list contains bugs that are unfixed from one year like macroblocking

kodi release a new beta or alpha version every day circa

[User 231261]

read post #1 it's about confirmed playback issues with the top ten popular devices/builds.
So it's not about the software on a thousand hardware configurations....

Are issues regarding the following mostly with hardware, OS or with xbmc development, you tell me?
3D playback local or streamed.
HD Audio down mixed or passthrough
Framerate sync 1080p 23,97, 24, 25, 30fps on 50, 60Hz PAL NTSC
SACD DSD/DFS playback @ 172,6 or passthrough on HDMI
HDMI EDID failures.
Artifacts, jitter....etc..

The product I run a buglist for wasn't even on the market a year ago so loose the popcorn chip on your shoulder.. this is getting silly.

FYI First Kodi release I understand is 14.

[jammyb]

Yup, download them through the wiki.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Dev...htly_build

[Ned Scott]

yes thank you for the WiKi links but hard to find for new users trying to find the best Kodi hardware solution.

Actually, it's a lot easier to find information on the wiki when people provide that information on the wiki. Google extensively indexes the wiki, and it gets very high search results for any XBMC/Kodi related issues.

I try to explain this to people who have add-ons or helper apps for XBMC. If you want more exposure, update the wiki page for whatever you are working on and Google will drive a bunch of people to your project.

If you build it they will come.

[RockerC]

Maintaining a shitlist would allow new users to avoid certain solutions and motivate manufacturers to clean up their products.

@Willem55, there is a huge different between listing or comparing hardware issues/limitations and listing all the software issues on those different hardware platforms when both firmware (operating-system) and different Kodi/XBMC software versions are involved.

While I think that such a table might be possible to maintain in the wiki, I strongly believe that for an cross-platform media player Kodi/XBMC a such list would probably quickly become too huge and quickly become manageable.

What you have to understand is that Kodi/XBMC is not like PopcornHour/Popbox which have a software that only runs on a few specific boxes with limited amount of underlying hardware platforms and operating systems.

Kodi/XBMC latest and older versions can run on hardware based on ARM, PowerPC, x86/IA-32, and x86-64/x64 CPU-architecture, all multiplied with a combination of different GPU for GUI 3D/2D-graphics and VPU hardware video decoding architecture from Nvidia, AMD/ATI, Intel, Broadcom, Imagination Technologies, Qualcomm, Vivante, and ARM's own Mali.

And that is just the hardware, then you also have to multiply those with the different operating-systems as Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and Windows, with multiple versions of each of those operating-systems.

And that is only if you count the official mainline version as there are also or have been development versions for MIPS architecture, and operating-systems MeeGo, Tizen, and Sailfish OS.

By now there got to be at least a million combinations of hardware platforms and OS/firmware that you can run XBMC on.


However if you would still like to give it a go then I would suggest that at least consider breaking it up into smaller several wiki articles about specific topics, and would recommend that you checkout these wikipedia articles about "comparison" for inspiration on wiki coding of such lists articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...r_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...e_packages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...r_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...-top_boxes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...ia_players
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...ia_players
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...er_formats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...ng_formats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_codecs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...converters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_codecs

Regardless, people might then want to add list of containers and codecs that is or is not working, etc, so my guess a such large list will not be maintainable in the long run as more hardware platforms get added.

[Roby77]

Maintaining a shitlist would allow new users to avoid certain solutions and motivate manufacturers to clean up their products.

@Willem55, there is a huge different between listing or comparing hardware issues/limitations and listing all the software issues on those different hardware platforms when both firmware (operating-system) and different Kodi/XBMC software versions are involved.

While I think that such a table might be possible to maintain in the wiki, I strongly believe that for an cross-platform media player Kodi/XBMC a such list would probably quickly become to huge to be manageable.

What you have to understand is that Kodi/XBMC is not like PopcornHour/Popbox which have a software that only runs on a few specific boxes with limited amount of underlying hardware platforms and operating systems.

Kodi/XBMC latest and older versions can run on hardware based on ARM, PowerPC, x86/IA-32, and x86-64/x64 CPU-architecture, all multiplied with a combination of different GPU and VPU architecture from Nvidia, AMD/ATI, Intel, Broadcom, ARM Mali, ,

etc

totally agree