<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Gerald Brandt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbr@majentis.com" target="_blank">gbr@majentis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2015-05-20 10:15 AM, Damian wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
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I'm really surprised to hear so many of you moving over to Kodi as a front end. Am I right in thinking that Kodi is based on (or 'is') XBMC? I have tried XMBC roughly once every year or two since it came out as I feel I must be 'missing something'. Every time I try it, I uninstall it after a couple of days. I find it repeatedly horrible to set up, sluggish and ugly (compared to the best Myth themes) and I just don't see any benefits. I think MythTV with one of the nice themes (like the most recent Steppes), is SO much better.<br>
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What am I missing? What is it about XBMC/Kodi that people like and even prefer?<br>
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I'm not trying to be on a high horse, I'm genuinely interested.<br>
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Maybe XBMC/Kodi doesn't work very well with Ubuntu/MythBuntu setups for some reason?<br>
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Looking forward to reading your thoughts,<br>
Damian<br>
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The *ONLY* reason I switched to Kodi was to get away from MythMusic. The WAF dropped, and Kodi has some issues with a couple of recordings (doesn't know recording length, so can't fast forward. Mythfrontend does fine).<br>
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If Mythmusic was a usable interface, I would never have switched.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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Gerald<br>
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ps: I use Mythbuntu throughout.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">I have thought about switching over to Kodi for the tv frontend, and have tried it a few times. Seems to work okay. Never really gave it a lot of effort.</span></div><div>I use Kodi for music and movies. I have yet to have a video that did not play in Kodi. It has been a while since I tried myth to play movies. I switched to Kodi/Xbmc a few years back because myth was struggling with playback of some videos. Never have looked back.</div><div>And the music interface is better than myths imo. Plus with all the plugins Kodi has, it is hard not to have it as part of my htpc.</div></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>