OpenELEC

OpenELEC
Developer OpenELEC Team
OS family Unix-like
Working state Current
Source model Open source
Initial release 2009 (2009)
Latest release 6.0.3[1] / 1 March 2016 (2016-03-01)
Update method Automatic
Platforms ARM, IA-32, x86-64
Kernel type Linux
Default user interface Kodi
License GNU GPL
Official website openelec.tv

OpenELEC (short for Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a Linux distribution designed for home theater PCs and based on the Kodi (formerly XBMC) media player.

OpenELEC applies the "just enough operating system" principle. It is designed to consume relatively few resources and to boot quickly from flash memory.[2][3][4][5][6] OpenELEC disk images for the Raspberry Pi series and Freescale i.MX6 based devices are also available.[7][8][9]

The OpenELEC team released OpenELEC 4.0 on 5 May 2014, and this version features updated XBMC 13.0 with further updated important parts of the operating system as well as the Linux kernel updated to version 3.14 and additional device drivers.[10] OpenELEC 4.0 also switched its init system to systemd.[11]

Description

OpenELEC provides a complete media center software suite that comes with a pre-configured version of Kodi and third-party addons with retro video game console emulators and DVR plugins. OpenELEC is an extremely small and very fast booting Linux based distribution, primarily designed to be booted from flash memory card such as CompactFlash or a solid-state drive, similar to that of the XBMCbuntu (formerly XBMC Live) distribution but specifically targeted to a minimum set-top box hardware setup based on an ARM SoCs or Intel x86 processor and graphics.[2][3][4][5][6][12]

History

Since 2011, the OpenELEC team usually releases a new major version, following the Kodi release schedule.

Since 2014, specifics builds supporting a set of Graphics/GPU chipsets (ION, Fusion, Intel,...) are deprecated. And since version 6, x86 builds are deprecated too. Builds are currently available for x86-64 systems (as "Generic Build"), Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3 and the first generation Apple TV.

OpenELEC version Release date Kodi version Kernel
1 1.0 20 October 2011 10.1 Dharma
2 2.0 16 October 2012 11.0 Eden 3.2.31
3 3.0 24 March 2013 12.1 Frodo
3.0.6 15 June 2013 12.1
3.2 13 September 2013 12.2 3.10
3.2.4 28 November 2013 12.2 3.10.20
4 4.0 5 May 2014 13.0 Gotham 3.14
4.0.7 9 July 2014 13.1 3.14.11[13]
4.2 26 September 2014 13.2 3.16[14]
5 5.0 28 December 2014 14.0 Helix 3.17[15]
5.0.7 29 March 2015 14.2 3.17[16]
6 6.0 1 November 2015 15.2 Isengard 4.1[17]
6.0.3 1 March 2016 15.2 4.1[18]

Systems

On 5 February 2013, OpenELEC announced that they had jointly developed, with Arctic, a manufacturer of computer cooling systems based in Switzerland, a passively cooled entertainment system – the MC001 media centre, based on the Kodi 12 (OpenELEC 3.0) platform. They also announced plans to provide further builds for the ARCTIC MC001 systems on their next release.[19][20][21][22][23]

Pulse-Eight sells both custom and off the shelf hardware products primarily designed for Kodi, such as remote controls, HTPC systems and accessories, including a HTPC PVR set-top-box pre-installed with Kodi that they call "PulseBox"[24] Pulse-Eight also offers free performance tuned embedded versions of Kodi that they call "Pulse" which is based on OpenELEC and a custom PVR-build of Kodi that is meant to run on dedicated HTPC systems.[25]

Xtreamer Ultra and Xtreamer Ultra 2, manufactured by the South Korean company Unicorn Information Systems, are nettops based on Nvidia graphics and Intel Atom processors which comes with OpenELEC and Kodi software pre-installed. The first-generation Xtreamer Ultra uses Nvidia Ion chipset with a 1.80 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D525 CPU, while the Xtreamer Ultra 2 uses discrete GeForce GT 520M graphics with a 2.13 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D2700 CPU.[26][27]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "[UPDATE] [Release] OpenELEC 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 released". openelec.tv. 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2016-03-01..
  2. 1 2 "OpenELEC Is a Fast-Booting, Self-Updating Version of XBMC for Home Theater PCs". Lifehacker. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  3. 1 2 "XBMC-Focused OpenELEC 1.0 Released". Phoronix.com. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  4. 1 2 OpenELEC 1.0 released 26 October 2011 natethomas (26 October 2011). "OpenELEC 1.0 released". Xbmc.org. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  5. 1 2 http://www.openelec.tv OpenELEC.tv Official Website
  6. 1 2 "OpenELEC Media Center Software on Launchpad".
  7. ↑ Building and Installing OpenELEC for Raspberry Pi openelec.tv
  8. ↑ "Raspberry Pi lands MPEG-2 and VC-1 decoding through personal licenses, H.264 encoding and CEC tag along". engadget.com. 26 August 2012..
  9. ↑ Raue, Stephan (28 December 2014). "OpenELEC Mediacenter - OpenELEC 5.0 released". openelec.tv. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "OpenELEC 4 offers simple XBMC install for standalone devices". betanews.com. 5 May 2014..
  11. ↑ OpenELEC 4.0 released, 10 June 2014
  12. ↑ Thursday, 20 October 2011 04:18 (20 October 2011). "OpenELEC 1.0 Released". Openelec.tv. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  13. ↑ "OpenELEC 4.0.7 released". openelec.tv. 9 July 2014..
  14. ↑ "OpenELEC 4.2.0 released". openelec.tv. 26 September 2014..
  15. ↑ "OpenELEC 5.0 released". openelec.tv. 28 October 2014..
  16. ↑ "OpenELEC 5.0.7 Released". openelec.tv. 29 March 2015..
  17. ↑ "OpenELEC 6.0 released". openelec.tv. 7 May 2015..
  18. ↑ "[UPDATE] [Release] OpenELEC 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 released". openelec.tv. 1 March 2016..
  19. ↑ "ARCTIC announces passive cooled Systems with OpenELEC installed". openelec.tv. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  20. ↑ "ARCTIC MC001 Fanless low cost HTPC". forum.xbmc.org. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  21. ↑ "Arctic Introduces OpenELEC-based MC001-XBMC HTPC". www.anandtech.com. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  22. ↑ "ARCTIC MC001-XBMC Media Center Now Available w/ XMBC 12". legitreviews.com. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  23. ↑ "ARCTIC Bundles OpenELEC with Lower Priced MC001-XBMC". www.missingremote.com. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  24. ↑ "PulseBox out 10th October". Blog.pulse-eight.com. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  25. ↑ http://packages.pulse-eight.net Pulse-Eight Packages
  26. ↑ "XBMC-based embedded Linux distro debuts on HTPC mini-PC". Desktoplinux.com. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  27. ↑ XBMC-based embedded Linux distro debuts on HTPC mini-PC – News – Linux for Devices. Archive.is (21 October 2011). Retrieved on 2013-07-24.
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