Yes, we patched GST to work as kodi player and it is fine and acelerated. Much better than internal player. But it works only with files. Now we need to pass Widewine output to GST.
But dpeddi can explain bettter because he is the author of the work on kodi.
For many services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Dazn edd we can have DRM protected contents in E2 with qtwebflix ( https://github.com/gort818/qtwebflix )
It seems that a plugin for Octagon was made in these days.
Another solution is to port kodi 18 under E2 that include plugins for these services.
This is the solution we recently adopted for openblackhole and we have beta images with Netflix Dazn and Amazon Prime working : https://www.vuplus-c...3-beta-2.39672/
But the internal kodi player have not video hardware aceleration so now we need to use GST under kodi and to adapt it to work with inputstream adaptive. We are trying.....