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

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:48 PM Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 25/10/2018 17:52, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
> 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)..
>
>
> As well as changing "skip delay" to 0 , try changing "skip steps" e.g. I
> have only -30 sec and 30 sec set, which works fine for me in LiveTV and
> recordings
>
> Mike.
>

I'm not sure how Kodi works behind the scenes, but I am currently using
miracast to get the output to the TV until the mini-dp --> hdmi adapter
shows up.  If it is like anything else that casts, I should see display
issues rather than network latency, but I am not.  I will wait until I test
with it cabled to a TV before I go digging any further - it will be here
today and I'll test some more.

-Greg
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