[CatmanV2]

I guess this may not be exactly the correct place, but here goes:

Long time Kodi user (in fact I had XBMC on an XBOX eek years ago)

Currently running Krpyton on Openelec 8.0.4 on an old Pi 2

Anyway, that feels like it could do with an upgrade, so I grab a pi 3 that I have kicking around, and a new micro SD card and go hunting for an OS with Kodi built in.

Here's where things get a little weird.  Libelec, OSMC  and Xbian: None will boot from the SD card once I've imaged it. I use Macs as my desktop so running Monterey (OS 12)
None of the actual installers work, but even using an .img.gz or a .img file results in the rainbow screen and nothing else. No disk activity, no network activity.
Same Pi, Micro SD, PSU will happily boot in Rasbian and Volumio.

I've imaged the SD with Balena, Pi Baker and Raspberry pi utility. Totally no go.

Now clearly I can (and have) installed Raspbian and then Kodi on top of that, configured for Kodi to start on boot, and that would be good, right?

Wrong: Video performance is abysmal, on both Buster *and* Stretch.  Hardware acceleration on give me no video playback at all.  HW off and I get maybe 5 fps on files that will play perfectly well on the old 2.

So what on earth am I doing wrong?  Help, pretty please!

C

[Klojum]

I've imaged the SD with Balena, Pi Baker and Raspberry pi utility. Totally no go.

Imaging LibreELEC with Rufus worked okay for me in Windows.

[CatmanV2]

I've imaged the SD with Balena, Pi Baker and Raspberry pi utility. Totally no go.

Imaging LibreELEC with Rufus worked okay for me in Windows.

Thanks. Unfortunately (in this instance) I don't have any Windows machines...... I could set up a Virtual Box or similar, but I'd rather solve than work around

C