[mythtv-users] What's the deal with Kodi?

[Kevin Johnson]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com> wrote:

> On 2015-05-20 10:15 AM, Damian wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm really surprised to hear so many of you moving over to Kodi as a
>> front end. Am I right in thinking that Kodi is based on (or 'is') XBMC? I
>> have tried XMBC roughly once every year or two since it came out as I feel
>> I must be 'missing something'. Every time I try it, I uninstall it after a
>> couple of days. I find it repeatedly horrible to set up, sluggish and ugly
>> (compared to the best Myth themes) and I just don't see any benefits. I
>> think MythTV with one of the nice themes (like the most recent Steppes), is
>> SO much better.
>>
>> What am I missing? What is it about XBMC/Kodi that people like and even
>> prefer?
>>
>> I'm not trying to be on a high horse, I'm genuinely interested.
>>
>> Maybe XBMC/Kodi doesn't work very well with Ubuntu/MythBuntu setups for
>> some reason?
>>
>> Looking forward to reading your thoughts,
>> Damian
>>
> The *ONLY* reason I switched to Kodi was to get away from MythMusic.  The
> WAF dropped, and Kodi has some issues with a couple of recordings (doesn't
> know recording length, so can't fast forward.  Mythfrontend does fine).
>
> If Mythmusic was a usable interface, I would never have switched.
>
> Gerald
>
> ps: I use Mythbuntu throughout.


I have thought about switching over to Kodi for the tv frontend, and have
tried it a few times.  Seems to work okay.  Never really gave it a lot of
effort.
I use Kodi for music and movies.  I have yet to have a video that did not
play in Kodi.  It has been a while since I tried myth to play movies.  I
switched to Kodi/Xbmc a few years back because myth was struggling with
playback of some videos.  Never have looked back.
And the music interface is better than myths imo.  Plus with all the
plugins Kodi has, it is hard not to have it as part of my htpc.
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