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

Gordon McCrae gordon.mccrae at gmail.com
Fri May 22 15:32:04 UTC 2015


On 22 May 2015 16:24, "Eric Sharkey" <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Mike Perkins
> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 22/05/15 02:21, Saul wrote:
> >> I do have low end desktops - or shall I call them nettops. The trouble
> >> with MythTV frontend is it cannot handle IVTV - and this is practically
> >> my only source right now.
> >>
> >> I'm trying Kodi but the damn thing cannot find the backend ... anybody
> >> knows why?
> >>
> > Am I missing something? Why should the frontend need IVTV? I thought
only
> > the backends needed that.
>
> I think he means "MPEG2" not "IVTV".  IVTV cards produce MPEG2 output
files.
>
> Eric
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org

Mpeg2 plays fine on MythFrontend though, the only problem seems to be with
LiveTV  channels through PVR cards which use the IVTV driver.

I can happily record through my PVR-250 card, but cannot watch LiveTV with
it, any there are many such reports of people having the same problem.

Cheers
Gordon
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20150522/348d1595/attachment.html>


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list