Development halted

[tiagoboldt]

There has been little to no activity in this repository in the latest months. Was the project abandoned?

[AlwinEsch]

Yes, sorry! For me alone to much work 😰.

There are a lot of other things in Kodi as well, so I can't really take care of them at the moment, since it is very time-consuming.

Will try it again sometime, but not sure when. I also consider not taking CEF / Chromium and using https://wpewebkit.org/ instead.

Because of the major changes to Chromium, it is always difficult to have it correct. In addition, the main problem for me is rendering, because the CEF brings this in an independent sandbox app, the website rendering with OpenGL can only be transferred using a CPU memory copy, therefore miserable in streams.

Only DirectX allowed it via GPU, but this support was also removed by CEF during the last updates.

[tiagoboldt]

No need to say sorry, that's how open source works. Can I suggest that you change the readme to state that you're lacking the time to work on the project and that you're willing to receive contributions to it? Maybe someone else picks it up :)

[rikardfries]

This is sad news. This was the thing on top of my own wishing list for Matrix.
I am pretty sure that I am not alone in longing for this.
Hopefully you will find time and a solution, or even better, someone to help you.
The idea is truly a good one.
Thanks for your good and hard work!

[rikardfries]

is "continued development" what i hope it is ?

[AlwinEsch]

Thought to continue on Kodi 20, but found some time now 😀.
I'm just looking to get it a lot more stable and looking good so far. I have the crashes as good as gone and if that would fit it would really be usable.

If that fits, it's mainly just about user control of a website in it.

The following points are primarily still open:

• GUI control by users of opened websites
  • Currently not the best and on some sites or games not easily controllable
• Find a way how addon can be updated safely
  • Since it is bigger and more complex, it cannot be reinstalled quickly and easily, as with other add-ons
• Support on all OS

As secondary:

• Zero copy because of rendering (for games etc.)
  • There is request open and hope it come back https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/pull-requests/285/reimplement-shared-texture-support-for-viz/diff and hopefully we find a way for Linux too
• Extend JS API to bring an addon to Kodi using html / JavaScript.

[rikardfries]

Fantastic!!!!

[mrfixit2001]

Very glad to see this is no longer halted!! Quick question for you - will this add-on requie that kodi is running with a windowing system (x11/wayland/etc)? Or will it support libreelec on arm devices which utilize GBM and GLES without a windowing system?
Thanks in advance, and for your efforts!

[AlwinEsch]

There I'm not 100% sure that it works one end, I think yes (with chromium code modifications).
First I want to become it mostly stable on the others and then to look there.

[denisbredikhin]

Are you sure that GUI controls should be a primary focus?
For me the primary focus should be not a traditional browsing, but running "web apps", like youtube TV or netflix. And for them we don't need navigation buttons, reload button, tabs and son on. If I would be able to add menu item to kodi that will open Youtube TV full screen, and then by pressing back button - return to Kodi, I would be happy.
And, is it possible to accept donations? I think it is great idea to develop such plug-in and I would like to support it.