CoreELEC is a ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution based on Kodi 1 technology for popular Amlogic hardware. This project offer support for a wide range of Amlogic SoC start with GXB, S905 till newest T7, A311D2 (2024). CoreELEC will give you the best possible multimedia experience by supporting most of the commonly used video and audio formats. This include support of hardware video decoder for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), H.265, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak, AV1 3 and VP9. Audio formats supported include MIDI, AIFF, WAV/WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus (AAC+), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD (Amiga Module), XM, NSF (NES Sound Format), SPC (SNES), GYM (Genesis), SID (Commodore 64), Adlib, YM (Atari ST), ADPCM (Nintendo GameCube) and CDDA. In addition, CoreELEC allows you to passthrough lossless audio formats such as Dolby Digital (AC3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), DTS, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, Dolby Atmos, DTS-X and DTS-HD MA. On certain Amlogic devices, CoreELEC brings you the full enchantment of Dolby Vision 2,3 as well, supporting the most common Dolby Vision profiles.

CoreELEC 21.1-Omega (August 22th, 2024)

CoreELEC 21.1-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.1.

Changes Since 21.0-Omega

  • Added support for PCIE Wifi
  • Added Wifi module support for AP6275P
  • Added Wifi module support for RTL8852BE
  • Added Wifi module support for RTL8761BU
  • Added JLSemi gigabit driver
  • Added support for S928X, S5 Amlogic SoC
  • Amlogic-ne: add support of Ugoos AM8 (Pro)
  • Amlogic-ne: add support of Ugoos SK1
  • Amlogic-ne: add support of Tencent Aurora 5X
  • Amlogic-ne: add support of X96 X10
  • Amlogic-ne: add support of Kinhank/Orbsmart G1
  • Added support for 3D playback, MVC frame packaging, (F)TAB, (F)SBS (limited to devices using hdmitx20 driver)
  • Added Amlogic IR transmitter support
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  • CoreELEC 21.0-Omega (April 9th, 2024)

    CoreELEC 21.0-Omega is now available. We have come a long way to the first stable Kodi Omega release, and there have been big changes in CoreELEC. It is based upon Kodi Omega v21.0.

    CoreELEC 21 becomes the active development branch and it is based on CoreELEC 20.

    Dolby Vision will be supported on Amlogic-ne and Amlogic-ng with Kodi Omega on certain Amlogic devices like Homatics/Dune R 4K Plus, RockTek G2 or Nokia 8010. Other devices on Amlogic-ng like Ugoos AM6+ or Minix NEO U22-XJ (Max) equiped with S922X-J will support Dolby Vision with profile 7 FEL as well.

    UPDATE: All users installed 21.0-Omega BEFORE April 9th, 2024 should please download the release and update again by the manual method . Just to ensure latest hotfixes will be included by the update.

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  • CoreELEC 20.5-Nexus (March 5th, 2024)

    CoreELEC 20.5-Nexus is now available. It was a rather short development cycle this time around, which saw the CoreELEC developers focusing on fixing the most common issues reported with the 20.4-Nexus release.

    Changes Since 20.4-Nexus

     * Fixed W1-AML Wifi driver
     * Fixed Dolby Vision on Amlogic-ng
     * Added Wifi module support for AIC8800-SDIO 
    

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    1  Kodi® is a registered trademark of XBMC Foundation. 2  Dolby Vision® is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories. 3  Item might be supported only on specific type of Amlogic SoCs.