[mythtv-users] Kodi Jarvis pvr plugin for MythTV .29

[Brent Bolin]

Odroid-C2 is just as fast as my AMD Phenom II and blows away ZOTAC
IONITX-A-U Atom N330

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 1:25 PM Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I like Mythfrontend for watching TV.  But like I've said I'm running
>> Odroid-C2 and Mythfrontend isn't compiled for arm64
>>
>> What I like about Kodi are the plugins.  Specifically Youtube
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 8:09 PM Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've converted all my frontends over to Odroid-C2 boxes running Kodi
>>>> (Libreelec)
>>>>
>>>
>>> This isn't an answer to your question, I'm afraid. But I'm interested in
>>> your opinion of Kodi vs Mythfrontend. I've always found Mythfrontend to
>>> have better functionality. Examples are skipping, and the ability to set up
>>> recordings. In particular I have a recording profile for movies which
>>> allows me to do about 3 clicks of the remote and it's done, whereas on
>>> every other interface to manage recordings (eg Mythweb and Kodi) you can't
>>> do this as there's no recording profiles.
>>>
>>> So keen to understand what things you like better about Kodi as a
>>> frontend.
>>>
>>
>
> I ran into a reboot loop with LibreElec, but it seemed to be related to
> the Pi 3+ hardware I had upgraded to.  I was trying to new WiFi.  After
> disabling that it seems stable.  If yours happened without HW/SW changes,
> you may want to try a different power source.  A marginal PSU can cause
> reboots.
>
> I have switched back and forth between Kodi and Myth Frontend a few times.
>   I do all my scheduling via mythweb, so I just use the frontend for
> playing recordings.   I much prefer the UX of Myth Frontend - better
> navigation, super fast skip ahead/back.   But, Kodi has excellent video
> quality.  To my eye, the HW accelerated MPEG2 1080i playback on my cheap
> little Pi3 is as good as my previous x86 system with Nvidia VDPAU.
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