Peter Frühberger
Senior Expert at Bosch
Renningen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Frühberger is a Senior Expert and system architect with 13 years of experience building real-time multimedia and automotive systems from low-level drivers to system architecture. Based in Renningen, Germany, he leads two-wheeler system architecture at Bosch after heading software architecture for automotive security, audio, video and connectivity. An active open-source maintainer and long-time Kodi contributor and former Team Kodi board member, he brings deep practical expertise in audio/video playback, performance optimization and AVX-level low-level tuning. His background in image processing and multisensor 3D reconstruction (PhD work at KIT) informs a methodical, research-driven approach to solving embedded and multimedia problems. Notably, he has shipped kernel and driver patches for lightweight Kodi-focused OSes and implemented real-time audio smoothing and buffer optimizations used across major media platforms. He combines industry-scale product delivery with hands-on low-level coding, making him equally comfortable in silicon-near performance work and cross-team architectural strategy.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Image Processing and machine learning, Master of Science, Image Processing and machine learning at Hochschule Karlsruhe – Technik und Wirtschaft / University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (12)
audio-processing10
c-language10
ffmpeg10
cprogramming-language10
linux-kernel10
performance-optimization10
kodi10
decoding10
audio9
embedded8
multithreading8
sys8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Aug 2012 - Jan 2023
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:2 releases, 453 reviews, 1080 commits in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily worked on audio-related features, performance optimization, and low-level improvements within the Kodi media player. Their contributions include addressing audio delay issues in ActiveAE and refining the handling of different audio formats (like DTS-HD and TrueHD). They also worked on optimizing the sink performance by implementing a weighted average smoother and focusing on minimizing audio buffer sizes, indicating a focus on real-time audio processing and playback stability. The user also incorporated changes for improved performance by providing low level optimizations for AVX intrinsics.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
CoreELEC/CoreELEC
May 2013 - Jan 2017
A lightweight OS for KODI
Role in this project:System Architect / Software Architect
System Architect / Software ArchitectContributions:51 commits, 2 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focuses on low-level driver modifications and system-level changes. The contributions include patches related to the Linux kernel, specifically addressing graphics drivers (radeon, i915), and audio-related fixes. The user demonstrates expertise in optimizing video playback, fixing rendering issues, and improving performance within the context of a lightweight OS for KODI. These modifications involve intricate understanding of hardware, and drivers, ensuring efficient operation of the OS.
linuxkodi
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