[mythtv-users] MythTV on Kodi

[Joseph Fry]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Warpme <warpme at o2.pl> wrote:

> On 23/06/15 07:26, Joseph Fry wrote:
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>> Honestly, Kodi is a much more capable media player than mythtv frontend.
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> Joseph,
> May You pls be more specific about this?
> It looks like I missed something as my experience is opposite.
> What exactly is better within Kodi as player?


I am not suggesting its a more capable frontend... I think it needs a lot
of work in that area... but as a pure media player I would say it is better
than mythfrontend for several reasons:

   - vast array of plugins allowing access to a wealth of content from the
   internet and integration with other content servers such as plex,
   mediabrowser, and mythtv of course.  As well as integration with iphoto,
   Picasa and Flickr for photos.
   - Built in networking configuration (can connect to a server and it's
   content all with the remote)
   - Hardware decode support on a lot more hardware
   - Multiple user support, each with own library, skins, and configuration.
   - Much more forgiving metadata import, and more accurate too (I can put
   the release year in the filename to ensure it gets the right one every time)

Please understand that have been with mythtv since 2003 and my family and I
love it.  Nothing above is to suggest that Mythtv isn't a great player.  I
personally think Kodi has some UI issues, while I'm sure can be fixed with
skinning and settings, I haven't been able to achieve the level of
user-friendliness I have with Mythfrontend.
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