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

Gordon McCrae gordon.mccrae at gmail.com
Wed May 20 20:51:23 UTC 2015


On 20/05/15 21:29, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Hmm, can you expand on "enumerate shows", this isn't something I've 
noticed, and as my wife is the only one using LiveTV, perhaps something 
I wouldn't notice until she goes to use it. If you can explain where 
this happens and what the symptoms are I can check if I'm seeing that issue.

Flagging isn't an issue for us, because we don't, we simply skip forward 
3 minutes to the end of (most) UK adverts, as I've never been able to 
get advert detection to work reliably on UK TV transmissions, and to be 
honest that habit has now become ingrained into us when watching 
recorded material.

I think your complains about plugins it a little harsh, after all, each 
is written by a different developer and there would need to be some sort 
of central management of plugins to get the type of functionality you're 
looking for. Not saying it wouldn't be a good thing, indeed it would be 
excellent, but then so would a better MythMusic :)! It's a bit like 
complaining that NetFlix, Hulu, Amazon, BBC iPlayer etc all have 
different interfaces to their on-demand video systems, and while it 
would be nice, it's not very realistic to think they'd actually do it 
(although never say never), and if someone ever writes a frontend to all 
the other plugins to supply this sort of feature, then I'd bet it's more 
likely to happen in KODI than anywhere else simply due to the apparent 
developer focus that KODI gets.

Cheers
Gordon
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