Kodi allows you to play videos, music and other digital media files from local and network storage media or the Internet. OSMC is the operating system running on the Raspberry Pi (like Windows on a PC). Kodi is the software we’ll use to browse into our media center (like Spotify for music). That’s why I’m writing this short introduction. Most people don’t really know the difference between OSMC and Kodi. In this case, you can skip the next part and go directly to the Kodi guide at the end of this post. If you want to install Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 4, you need to install Raspberry Pi OS or LibreElec. OSMC doesn’t work on Raspberry Pi 4 or 400 for now. It’s a lightweight distribution, easy to install, which will do the job perfectly. OSMC is a free and open-source distribution, dedicated to media center hosting.

To create our media center, we’ll use OSMC as our Linux distribution for this project.

Linux is an operating system (like Windows or macOS) that you can find in several variants (called distributions). The Raspberry Pi runs mainly Linux distributions. You can also travel with it, and then use it at home, at your parents’ home or while traveling, with the same content, whatever the TV you’ll find on your way ^^ OSMC Raspberry Pi is the perfect device to turn your old TV into a smart TV or to upgrade your current smart TV with the latest apps for a media center.

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