[mythtv-users] Switching back to mythic frontend from Kodi

[Jim Abernathy]

On Nov 11, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com<mailto:knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>> wrote:

On 11 November 2017 at 20:06, Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com<mailto:jfabernathy at outlook.com>> wrote:

On Nov 11, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com<mailto:mike.bibbings at gmail.com>> wrote:

On 11/11/17 18:05, Jim Abernathy wrote:

I’ve been using a separate mythtv backend and frontend for years.  The
frontend was mostly Kodi built on top of mythbuntu 16.04. I thought it would
be nice to have a frontend with a lot of integration of streaming and OTA
TV.  Turns out Kodi totally changes their interface every year or so and it
gets worse every time. Also the useful plugins break a lot and can’t deal
very well with DRM content.  For that I was always using a browser with DRM
turned on.

So if I have to do all that, I may as well use the more stable Mythtv
frontend for the OTA DVR stuff and Firefox/Chrome for the DRM stuff like
WatchESPN and Amazon Video.

Now to my question. One feature I liked about Kodi was how I could use quick
presses of the remote right and left arrows to skip 30 sec/1 min/3 min/10
min.  Is there a way to setup the Mythtv Frontend to have different types of
skips?  From what I can tell with Mythtv, right arow is 30 sec skip forward
and left is back 10 sec.

Any pointer to more details on setting this up would be appreciated.

Jim A

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You can change Skip ahead/back values for the arrow keys in
Setup>Video>Playback Groups>Default Group  on mythfrontend.

Mike


Thanks, that’s what I was looking for.  I have up arrow and down arrow for
10 minutes forward and backward.  I now have 60sec forward skip and 10 sec
backward rewind.  I think that will work for me.

In addition to the defaults you can also have custom skip/jump
settings per playback group, which I find useful for different types
of content (sport/news/drama/etc).

That makes sense. I see that when I changed the default skips, it changed it for all Frontends.  If I setup multiple playback groups, how do I switch between them when I change what I’m watching?

Jim A


Cheers,
Nick
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