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

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Andréas Kühne <andreas at kuhne.se> wrote:
> > I'm not really sure that the mytthv api can be upgraded to work faster. It
> runs an XML interface which is probably the main problem (generating and
> parsing XML takes time). It could be switched to json or to a binary format
> for speed, but going to a binary format we will have the same issues as now.
> Anyone who wants to can look at the mythtv source code and implement their
> frontend the same way mythfrontend is implemented (direct access to the
> mysql database). It will be frowned on by the mythtv developers and subject
> to change, but it will work for a specific version of mythtv.
>
> What could be changed easily would be to load only the curent showing
> recordings each time you look at the recordings screen instead of loading
> all recordings each time. That way you would be able to load the information
> in the background and it wouldn't take as long to load.

Right.  That and having some way to get to recordings without needing
to go through a "Live TV" interface that sucks down all sorts of
channel/guide data that isn't needed to watch recordings.  I never
watch Live TV so that's just an impediment for me.

Eric