[mythtv-users] What's the deal with Kodi?

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 5:51 PM Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 13:08 +0100, Gordon McCrae wrote:
> >> OK, I don't get that at all, so I suggest your specific setup is causing
> >> the slowness (or mine is causing "fastness"?).
> >
> > Or you just don't have as much data.
> >
> >> If I'm understanding you correctly, I select "Live TV / Recordings",
> >> then I choose "Default", "Horizon", "Horizon - Volcano Hell" ..... and
> >> the video starts immediately. No delays were experienced at all.
> >
> > How many recordings do you have in your database?  I have 1886
> > currently.
> >
> > On a remote machine I get about a 20sec lag after choosing Recordings
> > and then I see my recording groups and a "Working" spinner on the bottom
> > right that never seems go to away.
>
>
> I haven't used it in a while, so I thought I'd try it again.  I just
> timed it on my cell phone (Samsung Note 4).  Remembering that Kodi
> doesn't work with the stylus and needs a finger took about a minute.
> From touching "Live TV" to getting to the list of channels (waiting
> for the channels and EPG stuff to import) was about six minutes.
> Trying to remember where I was supposed to click to get to
> "Recordings" was about four minutes.  (Under a "settings" like gear
> icon?  Seriously?)  To get "Default" to show up was about 30 second.
> After that it was fairly quick to select a show and get it playing.
> Hitting the back button to try and select a different show brought up
> the working spinner for about a minute while the show played in the
> background.  I never did make it back to the program list and ended up
> quitting Kodi entirely.
>
> Starting it again I had hoped it wouldn't have to suck down the EPG
> data again, but it did.  It was faster on the second run but still
> took a couple of minutes.
>
> All in all, I find Kodi's user interface to be extremely
> counter-intuitive in just about every respect.  Everything I do seems
> to be the wrong way to do something and even when I eventually figure
> out what I'm supposed to do it takes minutes.
>
> (FWIW, I currently have 4354 recordings in the Default group which
> consume 7890GB and 291 unique xmltvids in the channels table.)
>
> Eric
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To be completely fair, you are using Kodi on your cell phone. I would bet
it's much faster on even a low end desktop
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