Hello everyone,
I'm sharing a Kodi 22 build I compiled for my VU+ Ultimo4K running OpenBH 6.0, in case it helps others – especially if you use the PM4K (Plex for Kodi) addon, which is what this build is actually for.
Kodi 22 "Piers" (master branch), r100, with two patches tested under real conditions on this hardware (last validated 2026-08-23), needed to make PM4K usable on this box without it randomly freezing solid:
- No PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT on STB-target mutexes: fixes a confirmed hang (__futex_lock_pi64, addon thread stuck forever while browsing large libraries), caused by the vendor's 3.14 kernel never being validated against glibc's current priority-inheritance futex protocol – exactly the kind of freeze PM4K triggers browsing a big Plex library.
- 100ms per-frame pacing on STB target, active during GUI navigation and for the first 5 seconds after video playback starts (covering the fullscreen transition): avoids a render-thread hang that can get stuck indefinitely waiting for a hardware event from the closed-source Broadcom GPU/video driver that sometimes never arrives – this is what made Kodi freeze solid when PM4K loads a lot of posters/thumbnails at once (see my report on pannal/plex-for-kodi issue #289). Pacing is disabled for the rest of playback so it doesn't affect smoothness.
The package also bundles 188 dependency packages (bluez5, libxrandr2, libcec7, dav1d, etc.) rebuilt in matching versions, since the official feed doesn't always carry the minimum versions a recent Kodi 22 needs – a plain opkg install stb-kodi-vuultimo4k would otherwise fail with dependency resolution errors.
Requirements: OpenBH 6.0 on VU+ Ultimo4K, ~200 MB free, root SSH access.
Full README with step-by-step install instructions included in the archive.
Kodi 22 is still BETA1 upstream – use at your own risk, not a stable release.
Download: the file (~162 MB) is over the forum's upload limit, so it's hosted here: https://1drv.ms/u/c/8eaea5644dc7b4cd/IQC5YCRJf9lLQbmYt3EprZ3HAV0KcN6bACdeCZb1FhCLFDA?e=Ywz3Dr
Let me know if you have questions or run into issues installing it.
I'm sharing a Kodi 22 build I compiled for my VU+ Ultimo4K running OpenBH 6.0, in case it helps others – especially if you use the PM4K (Plex for Kodi) addon, which is what this build is actually for.
Kodi 22 "Piers" (master branch), r100, with two patches tested under real conditions on this hardware (last validated 2026-08-23), needed to make PM4K usable on this box without it randomly freezing solid:
- No PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT on STB-target mutexes: fixes a confirmed hang (__futex_lock_pi64, addon thread stuck forever while browsing large libraries), caused by the vendor's 3.14 kernel never being validated against glibc's current priority-inheritance futex protocol – exactly the kind of freeze PM4K triggers browsing a big Plex library.
- 100ms per-frame pacing on STB target, active during GUI navigation and for the first 5 seconds after video playback starts (covering the fullscreen transition): avoids a render-thread hang that can get stuck indefinitely waiting for a hardware event from the closed-source Broadcom GPU/video driver that sometimes never arrives – this is what made Kodi freeze solid when PM4K loads a lot of posters/thumbnails at once (see my report on pannal/plex-for-kodi issue #289). Pacing is disabled for the rest of playback so it doesn't affect smoothness.
The package also bundles 188 dependency packages (bluez5, libxrandr2, libcec7, dav1d, etc.) rebuilt in matching versions, since the official feed doesn't always carry the minimum versions a recent Kodi 22 needs – a plain opkg install stb-kodi-vuultimo4k would otherwise fail with dependency resolution errors.
Requirements: OpenBH 6.0 on VU+ Ultimo4K, ~200 MB free, root SSH access.
Full README with step-by-step install instructions included in the archive.
Kodi 22 is still BETA1 upstream – use at your own risk, not a stable release.
Download: the file (~162 MB) is over the forum's upload limit, so it's hosted here: https://1drv.ms/u/c/8eaea5644dc7b4cd/IQC5YCRJf9lLQbmYt3EprZ3HAV0KcN6bACdeCZb1FhCLFDA?e=Ywz3Dr
Let me know if you have questions or run into issues installing it.