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    Hi-fidelity Kodi

    Dec 14, 2021 4 minutes

    Since the Pi 4 has more graphical horsepower than its predecessors, it’s capable of playing ‘movie’ 4K resolution (4,096x2,160 as opposed to ‘TV’ 4K which is 3,840x2,160) 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 partition in read-write mode and edit manually:

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