[mythtv-users] Windows 10 - Kodi using MythTV API

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:23 AM Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:55 PM Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was recently given a Surface Pro 3, so I did like everyone would do and
>> bought a $25 dock for it and turned it into a MythTV frontend :)
>>
>> Then I got to thinking - since only my Roku (it is currently a 100% Linux
>> house) allows me to play back episodes on all of my pay channels' apps, I
>> though - why not try Windows 10 - it has tiles that are easily navigated
>> with a remote control and all of those channel apps are also available
>> there.  I never made it that far.  The dock ethernet is Gigabit and gets
>> every bit of it, but kodi's skip forward and back is noticeable to the
>> point of unusable (it takes seconds to go back and forth a minute).  An
>> android nvidia shield is instant with kodi doing the same thing.  I am just
>> dumbfounded how something 10x faster and with much greater resources than
>> the shield is so much faster.
>>
>> I could not find anything related on the web, so am asking here if anyone
>> else has experienced and overcome this?
>>
>
> I’m not 100% sure we’re talking about the same thing, but from my
> experience:
>
> The default Kodi settings have a delay before acting on the skip
> ahead/back commands.   Kodi has logic for multiple keypresses jumping
> father (e.g. i click = 20 sec, 2 = 1 minute, 3 = 5 minutes) so it delays to
> see if more clicks are coming.   For a MythTV user accustomed to instant
> action this is really annoying.
>
> In System -> Video -> Playback you can tweak these settings. Change ’Skip
> Delay’ to 0 for a much more responsive UI.
>  (I wrote up a few observations when I first set up Kodi.  Mailing list
> link:
> http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-November/383134.html )
>
>
Thanks for the tip, but I just tried that (it was set to 750ms) and it
still behaves the same (although a little time is shaved obviously).  My
nVidia shields are pretty instant - I will check one of those to see what
those settings are (I never changed them).  I get the spinner for close to
a second on each jump.

Oh well, I guess I will start digging into Windows settings trying to hunt
it down (or search Kodi forums, etc)..
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