[mythtv-users] Adding Kodi Library to Myth

Sat May 23 05:55:47 UTC 2015

2015-05-22 18:52 GMT+02:00 Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>:

> 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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The only issue you may have with using mythtv instead of kodi for showing
videos is if you have something that mythtv can't play (for example h265
encoded videos don't work on the 0.27 branch at the moment). I use kodi for
watching those videos and open kodi from a menu item in mythtv. :-)
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