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HI-FIDELITY KODI

SINCE THE RASPBERRY PI 4 has significantly more graphical horsepower than its predecessors, it’s capable of playing ‘movie’ 4K resolution (i.e. 4096 x 2160 as opposed to ‘TV’ 4K which is 3840 x 2160) and 10-bit (HEVC) content. It might not yet be capable of driving two 4K displays at 60Hz, but it can certainly drive one.

You need to enable that feature by hand, as it will make the SoC run a little warmer than usual. You’ll need to enable SSH access and log in to your Kodi box to do this, remembering that Kodi has only one account, namely root. So the incantation will look like ssh root@192.168.x.x. Remember you can always find Kodi’s IP address from the status panel.

Once you’re in, you’d usually run raspi-config to enable this, but LibreELEC doesn’t include this program. Instead, you’ll have to remount the /flash partition in read-write mode and

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