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_alpha1 (September 1th, 2025)

CoreELEC 22.0-Piers_alpha1 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 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 5.15.153, thereby providing support for the latest Amlogic devices available on the market.

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CoreELEC 21.2-Omega (January 19th, 2025)

CoreELEC 21.2-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.2.

Changes Since 21.1.1-Omega

  • Amlogic-ng: add support of SC2, S905X4
  • Amlogic-ng: add support of Motorcomm YT8531
  • Fixed seek of BluRay ISO
  • Added Wifi module support for RTL8851BU
  • Amlogic-ne: add support of Minix U8K-Ultra
  • Amlogic-ne: add support of AP6276S Bluetooth

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CoreELEC 21.1.1-Omega (August 26th, 2024)

CoreELEC 21.1.1-Omega is now available and it is based upon Kodi Omega v21.1.

Changes Since 21.1-Omega

  • Amlogic-ne: fix missing set frac rate

This is a Hotfix release for Amlogic-ne 21.1-Omega.

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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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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.