Which board with composite out and H.265 support?

Manuel · January 26, 2018 at 12:52 PM

Hi,

I've already asked this on the Kodi forum but they recommended to ask here as well, so here goes:

I'm looking to set up Kodi on (something) connected to an old CRT TV, mainly to watch german DVB-T2 terrestrial TV. This probably means I need the (something) to have composite out and hardware support for H.265 decoding. I've tried a Raspberry Pi 3 but it struggled on the decoding part. I still plan to give the experimental Kodi 18 builds a try, maybe they'll do well enough, but I'm also looking for alternatives.

So, what would you recommend with the requested features and good Kodi support? I'd prefer Linux over Android as I'm much more at home there. TV backend will be on a separate machine so I don't need an tuner in the frontend. On the Kodi board, something based on the AMLogic S905/S905X/S912 was suggested. This led me to the Libre Board/Le Potato - how well is that supported? How well does the composite out work on that? Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help!

**Klojum** · January 26, 2018 at 6:01 PM Official Post

You won't be getting many different views on your question here. As 99% of all current boxes only have digital video output, perhaps you can get yourself a 'normal' Kodi device, and add something like this between it and your TV: Black Mini 1080P HDMI to RCA Audio Video AV CVBS Adapter Converter For HDTV HDMI2AV Video Converter Adapter Box - Walmart.com

Manuel · January 28, 2018 at 9:35 AM

Thanks for the suggestion. I've now ordered a Libre Board, mainly out of curiosity. If I don't get Kodi working decently on that, I'll consider one of these adapters.