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

Brian J. Murrell brian at interlinx.bc.ca
Wed May 20 20:29:31 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 15:20 -0500, John Marshall wrote:
> 
> I would add #4 - Kodi has lots and lots of plugins.

Indeed!  Sadly the MythTV PVR plugin is lackluster.  As has been pointed
out, it is slow to enumerate the shows.

Not exactly related to the MythTV PVR plugin, but Kodi's handling of
EDLs (which is how MythTV's commercial flags are translated to Kodi) is
also less than satisfactory.  It's either On or Off.  No "advisory"
handling like MythTV where the EDL (commskip) markers are used as
targets for skip forward/reverse keys.

And I must say MythFE's "sticky" keys really rock for navigating around
those badly flagged recordings.

But back to Kodi's plugins, while there are a plethora of them, I think
the general concept of how they work is entirely misguided.  Generally
speaking if you want to watch something, you have to know which plugin
provides it.  If you have a dozen different plugins for different video
distribution mechanisms, like just for argument's sake, TV channels
(ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.) you have to know which plugins provide which
shows.

That should all be hidden behind a "list of shows" that then chooses the
plugin for you based on what you want to watch.

But this is starting to digress way OT for this list.  Not that way OT
is all that unusual but I hate to contribute to it.

Cheers,
b.

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