[mythtv-users] Adding Kodi Library to Myth

Fri May 22 19:43:33 UTC 2015

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)

Tom

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Andréas Kühne <andreas at kuhne.se> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2015-05-22 18:29 GMT+02:00 Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:19 AM Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advanced.
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>>>>
>>>> Kodi works on Linux too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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>> I think you missunderstod. You don't have to dual boot for kodi to work.
>> You can just install kodi on the linux machine you are using for mythtv and
>> then add a menu item to start kodi from mythtv. That way you'll never have
>> to reboot.
>>
>> You can also add your library to the videos section on the mythtv
>> backend. That way it'll be accessible via the mythtv frontend.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andréas
>>
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