[mythtv-users] Using Kodi with mythtv?

[Jim Abernathy]

On 09/06/2017 10:07 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
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> On 09/06/2017 07:10 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>> I have 1 backend running 0.28.  It works as it's supposed to. All my
>> frontends run mythtv-frontend as they are supposed to. However, my
>> preferred frontend is Kodi.
>>
>> All my Kodi frontends are on 17.4, but my older iMac 24" circa 2007 with
>> a Core 2 Duo and ATI Radeon HD 2600 GFX has issues now that I've
>> switched from Kodi 16 to 17.  The video is great, but the audio keeps
>> slipping further behind the video.  It can be minutes if you let it run
>> long enough.
>>
>> I know the hardware is old, but since Mythtv-frontend works, I know the
>> problem is Kodi.  The Kodi forum is not much help.  I figure there has
>> to be some Mythtv backend/Kodi frontend folks here.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
> I used Kodi with MythTV a couple of years ago and I had a problem of 
> audio getting out of sync with video after a skip forward or back. It 
> seemed to be associated with the mpeg ts video file type. My solution 
> was to run a job that converted the files to mkv after recording. It 
> is very quick, takes just seconds and it eliminated the problem. 
> Obviously it did not help with Live TV or with watching a program that 
> was still recording.
>
> In case you are interested -
> https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/userjob_mkv.sh 
>
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> I set it up as a user job for all recordings. It also has code to fix 
> subtitles. You will have to set up a few things to get it to work for 
> your environment.
>
> Peter
Recordings work fine, it's live TV that's the problem and only on the 
iMAC that is a Core 2 Duo with ATI GFX.