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

[Mike Perkins]

On 22/05/15 02:21, Saul wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2015 21:16:50 -0400
> Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
>> wrote:
>>> To be completely fair, you are using Kodi on your cell phone.
>>
>> Yes, but it's not a low-end phone as phones go and throughout this
>> thread and other similar threads people tend to advocate for Kodi on
>> Android and/or on low-end non-desktop hardware so I think the Note 4
>> is a fair test.
>>
>>> I would bet it's much faster on even a low end desktop
>>
>> Of course, but if I had a low end desktop I could run mythfrontend.
>
> I do have low end desktops - or shall I call them nettops. The trouble
> with MythTV frontend is it cannot handle IVTV - and this is practically
> my only source right now.
>
> I'm trying Kodi but the damn thing cannot find the backend ... anybody
> knows why?
>
Am I missing something? Why should the frontend need IVTV? I thought only the 
backends needed that.

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Mike Perkins