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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/05/15 21:29, Brian J. Murrell
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 15:20 -0500, John Marshall wrote:
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I would add #4 - Kodi has lots and lots of plugins.
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Indeed! Sadly the MythTV PVR plugin is lackluster. As has been pointed
out, it is slow to enumerate the shows.
Not exactly related to the MythTV PVR plugin, but Kodi's handling of
EDLs (which is how MythTV's commercial flags are translated to Kodi) is
also less than satisfactory. It's either On or Off. No "advisory"
handling like MythTV where the EDL (commskip) markers are used as
targets for skip forward/reverse keys.
And I must say MythFE's "sticky" keys really rock for navigating around
those badly flagged recordings.
But back to Kodi's plugins, while there are a plethora of them, I think
the general concept of how they work is entirely misguided. Generally
speaking if you want to watch something, you have to know which plugin
provides it. If you have a dozen different plugins for different video
distribution mechanisms, like just for argument's sake, TV channels
(ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.) you have to know which plugins provide which
shows.
That should all be hidden behind a "list of shows" that then chooses the
plugin for you based on what you want to watch.
But this is starting to digress way OT for this list. Not that way OT
is all that unusual but I hate to contribute to it.
Cheers,
b.
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Hmm, can you expand on "enumerate shows", this isn't something I've
noticed, and as my wife is the only one using LiveTV, perhaps
something I wouldn't notice until she goes to use it. If you can
explain where this happens and what the symptoms are I can check if
I'm seeing that issue.<br>
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Flagging isn't an issue for us, because we don't, we simply skip
forward 3 minutes to the end of (most) UK adverts, as I've never
been able to get advert detection to work reliably on UK TV
transmissions, and to be honest that habit has now become ingrained
into us when watching recorded material.<br>
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I think your complains about plugins it a little harsh, after all,
each is written by a different developer and there would need to be
some sort of central management of plugins to get the type of
functionality you're looking for. Not saying it wouldn't be a good
thing, indeed it would be excellent, but then so would a better
MythMusic :)! It's a bit like complaining that NetFlix, Hulu,
Amazon, BBC iPlayer etc all have different interfaces to their
on-demand video systems, and while it would be nice, it's not very
realistic to think they'd actually do it (although never say never),
and if someone ever writes a frontend to all the other plugins to
supply this sort of feature, then I'd bet it's more likely to happen
in KODI than anywhere else simply due to the apparent developer
focus that KODI gets.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Gordon<br>
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