kodi

USE flags

• airplay - enable AirPlay support
• alsa - Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
• bluetooth - Enable JSON-RPC over BT for remote control connected via bluetooth
• bluray - Enable playback of Blu-ray filesystems
• caps - Use sys-libs/libcap to bind to privileged ports as non-root
• cec - Enable support for HDMI-CEC devices via libcec
• cpu_flags_arm_neon - Use the NEON (ASIMD) instruction set
• cpu_flags_x86_avx - Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions instructions
• cpu_flags_x86_avx2 - Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions 2 instructions
• cpu_flags_x86_sse - Use the SSE instruction set
• cpu_flags_x86_sse2 - Use the SSE2 instruction set
• cpu_flags_x86_sse3 - Use the SSE3 instruction set ([pni] in cpuinfo, NOT ssse3)
• cpu_flags_x86_sse4_1 - Enable SSE4.1 instruction support
• cpu_flags_x86_sse4_2 - Enable SSE4.2 instruction support
• css - Enable reading of encrypted DVDs
• dbus - Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
• eventclients - Install full set of Kodi python evenclients and evenclients examples
• gbm - Use the Graphics Buffer Manager for EGL on KMS.
• gles - Use simplified OpenGLES instead of full-scale OpenGL
• lcms - Add lcms support (color management engine)
• libusb - Use virtual/libusb for usb device hotplug support. This flag should only be enabled if you're running a non-Linux kernel or you don't want to use udev.
• lirc - Enable support for IR remote controls using app-misc/lirc
• mariadb - Enable support store of media library metadata on local or remote MariaDB
• mysql - Enable support store of media library metadata on local or remote MySQL
• nfs - Enable NFS client support
• optical - Enable Audio CD playback, optical disks detection and reading (CD-ROM, Video CD, and others), and ISO optical disk images direct reading. DVD disks may require additional 'udf' flag.
• pipewire - Enable pipewire support
• pulseaudio - Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
• python_single_target_python3_10 - Build for Python 3.10 only
• python_single_target_python3_11 - Build for Python 3.11 only
• python_single_target_python3_9 - Build for Python 3.9 only
• samba - Add support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing)
• system-ffmpeg - Use system ffmpeg instead of the bundled one
• test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
• udev - Use udev rules to handle devices' permissions and hotplug support. Unless you know what you're doing do not disable this flag on Linux kernels. This is provided as an option for completeness.
• udf - Enable UDF support. Required for playing blurays.
• udisks - Enable storage management support (automounting, volume monitoring, etc)
• upnp - Enable UPnP port mapping support
• vaapi - Enable Video Acceleration API for hardware decoding
• vdpau - Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix acceleration interface
• wayland - Enable dev-libs/wayland backend
• webserver - Enable internal webserver
• X - Add support for X11
• xslt - Enable metadata XSLT scrapers support with dev-libs/libxslt
• zeroconf - Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD)

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