So here we are, I rebased, updated and adjusted the packages for LibreELEC 9.x, added Qt 5.x support for Dolphin, Citra etc. Also since the develeopers dropped DolphinWX support I had to find a solution for this problem. I know there is ongoing work to integrate RetroPlayer but IMHO this Kodi feature will never be able to compete with standanlone emulation frontends like Emulationstation, Retroarch or Pegasus-Frontend. I also wanted to take advantage of new Kodi 18 features and finally beeing able to watch my Amazon Prime VOD without using Chrome.

The LE team overhauled the build system and there are pretty usefull features like git handler scripts that make it easier to build stuff without downloading the source everytime. I've felt it's time to rebase the Remix build. I really enjoyed Escalades LE 8.0 Remix which was an attempt to melt all good stuff into a single system but if you look into detail the 8.2.x base is pretty outdated. There are several Linux distributions available like Lakka, Retropie, Recalbox or else but all of them are focused on either a single emulation frontend, come with a full featured (somewhat bloated) Linux system or lack standalone emulators for Generic systems. They allow you to run several libretro & standalone emulation cores to play basically all games of the common home consoles, arcade & home computer systems of the last decades. So the latest drivers and NVDEC support are not the long-term solution for nVidia support in LibreELEC either.This fork comes with all stock LibreELEC 9.x features but also with 3 different emulation frontends which were integrated into the Kodi Estuary theme. Even if an attempt was successful (which is unlikely) it would not benefit the majority of LibreELEC users with older nVidia cards which still depend upon the legacy driver and VDPAU decoding. So far nobody on the current Kodi staff has volunteered to implement NVDEC support and run the gauntlet of getting it accepted and merged. In theory NVDEC is not a big technical challenge to implement, but Team Kodi has an established policy of refusing to include more/new proprietary hardware-decoding APIs that complicate code maintenance. The latest driver uses NVDEC for hardware decoding so either Kodi would need to add support for NVDEC or nVidia would need to support VAAPI which is used by Intel and AMD.

It removes one technical blocker to LibreELEC supporting newer nVidia devices in future releases. This will allow Kodi to render the GUI via Mesa OpenGL. Update (Oct 2021): nVidia has announced the latest drivers support GBM and Mesa.

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