<div dir="ltr">MythTV does not modify anything in the videos section, so it won't touch your Kodi setup. Having said that, I use MythTV for my video (non-live/recorded media) watching, and I have no issues, so I'm not sure why you have to use Kodi at all in this scenario? I have found that my setup of MythTV doesn't like mp4 files for some reason, but it's a simple task to convert to mkv if necessary, and after that I have no issues. Kodi does excel (and far surpass MythTV IMHO) at online/streaming video, so TED, YouTube, Netflix, etc work better for me outside of MythTV, but those are pretty rare in our household, for you that may be a deal breaker, in which case Kodi is probably the right answer for you. It's very simple to add a menu item to launch Kodi from the MythFrontend, my only issue with that was that Kodi did not recognize my remote, so I had to switch to a keyboard to navigate and exit (part of the reason why Kodi is not popular in my house)<div><br></div><div>Tom</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Michael Wisniewski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikewiz38@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikewiz38@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">D'oh! Why did I not think about having mythfrontend and kodi in the same instance!?!? I spent about a day or two getting irexec and the remote to dual boot and switch between grub.conf files and reboot. <div><br></div><div>Many years ago though, I dealt with building a minimal Ubuntu box and installing Kodi from the repo. I got tired of the little goofy details, so I went to OpenElec. It's nicer because everything is better organized and I can backup the configs and rebuild within minutes. Maybe I should had done the single boot instead of the dual boot.... :) But hey, it was a learning experience. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the info about adding it to the videos section in the backend; I'll check that out. I was afraid that Myth may rewrite all the nfo's or rename everything to something that Kodi can't understand. I boot into Kodi and it redoes everything again. I think that's happened to me once. lol. </div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Andréas Kühne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas@kuhne.se" target="_blank">andreas@kuhne.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-22 18:29 GMT+02:00 Michael Wisniewski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikewiz38@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikewiz38@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Mashos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com" target="_blank">thomas@mashos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:19 AM Michael Wisniewski <<a href="mailto:mikewiz38@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikewiz38@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I have a pretty extensive library of files that are mp4 and mkv and used within Kodi. They are also organized pretty well (IE: Show\Season x\Show Name-Number.mkv), and many of them have nfo's that are read by Kodi. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a dual-boot machine right now with Myth's Frontend and Kodi for the other boot. I do this because Myth is a lot better and nicer to use for Live TV, but yet I've used Kodi for years and like viewing my library within there. </div><div><br></div><div>Fairly recently, I need to watch a show from Myth, but rebooting takes awhile. I would like to add the Kodi Library to MythTV, but I don't want to mess the library up within Kodi. In order to do this, do I just add a 'storage group' on the backend for the Kodi library? Is there a better way to do this?<br><br>Thanks in advanced.<br></div></div></div></div>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>I know.... Kodi's Live TV section, IMHO, is bad compared to Myth. The EPG is almost impossible to read with Confluence. I know I can use another skin, but I'm use to Confluence throughout everywhere else and prefer it....everywhere except the EPG. Also, trying to have guests here (babysitters) use Kodi with Live TV is more complicated than Myth. A few clicks with Kodi and you are somewhere and confused (live background on main screen). With Myth, it's easy to get back to Live TV. </div><div><br></div><div>Until Kodi changes the skin to make the EPG guide easier to use, I'm going to continue to use Myth for the frontend too. There's also some other features that make Myth a bit nicer to use than Kodi. I know there was a discussion about Kodi vs Myth a few days ago and didn't really want to turn it back into the discussion again. I love Myth for Live TV, I love Kodi for my video library. </div></div><br></div></div>
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