About

CoreELEC is a ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution based on Kodi1 technology for popular Amlogic hardware.

This project offer support for a wide range of Amlogic SoC start with GXB, S905 till newest S6, S905X5 (2025).

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, AV13 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 Vision2,3 as well, supporting the most common Dolby Vision profiles.

News

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_beta1 (June 23th, 2026)

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_beta1 is now available. We have made significant progress toward the first beta release of Kodi Piers, with substantial changes in CoreELEC. It is based on Kodi Piers v22.0 Beta 1.

CoreELEC 22 is now the active development branch, building on CoreELEC 21. Devices using Amlogic SoC S905X (GXL) or older will no longer be supported by CoreELEC 22.0-Piers. CoreELEC 22 includes the latest codebase kernel 5.15.196, thereby providing support for the latest Amlogic devices available on the market.

Downloads:

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Discussion thread:

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_alpha3 (March 12th, 2026)

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_alpha3 is now available. We have made significant progress toward the first alpha release of Kodi Piers, with substantial changes in CoreELEC. It is based on Kodi Piers v22.0 Alpha 3.

CoreELEC 22 is now the active development branch, building on CoreELEC 21. Devices using Amlogic SoC S905X (GXL) or older will no longer be supported by CoreELEC 22.0-Piers. CoreELEC 22 includes the latest codebase kernel 5.15.170, thereby providing support for the latest Amlogic devices available on the market.

Downloads:

Before posting an error:

Discussion thread:

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_alpha2 (November 10th, 2025)

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_alpha2 is now available. We have made significant progress toward the first alpha release of Kodi Piers, with substantial changes in CoreELEC. It is based on Kodi Piers v22.0 Alpha 2.

CoreELEC 22 is now the active development branch, building on CoreELEC 21. Devices using Amlogic SoC S905X (GXL) or older will no longer be supported by CoreELEC 22.0-Piers. CoreELEC 22 includes the latest codebase kernel 5.15.170, thereby providing support for the latest Amlogic devices available on the market.

Downloads:

Before posting an error:

Discussion thread:

CoreELEC 21.3-Omega (November 4th, 2025)

CoreELEC 21.3-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.3.

Changes Since 21.2-Omega

  • MT7668: added BLE support
  • RTL8761B: updated firmware

Downloads:

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Discussion thread Amlogic-ng:

Discussion thread Amlogic-ne:

Install Guide

  • Download

    Visit our Download Helper and select the image file (.img.gz) for your device.

  • Prepare your SD card

    Burn the downloaded image to an SD card using your favorite tool (Rufus recommended).

  • Copy device tree

    Search for the right device tree, copy it from the "device_trees" folder to the root of your SD card and rename it to "dtb.img".

Download

Please choose which version you would like to install.

The recommended installation for your living room is the latest stable version.
If you are brave enough and would like to test the newest developments,
you could pick the latest nightly version.

Supporters

CoreELEC is compiled in front of a live audience and made possible in part by:

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.