[mythtv-users] Windows 10 - Kodi using MythTV API

[Tom Harris]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:55 PM Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was recently given a Surface Pro 3, so I did like everyone would do and
> bought a $25 dock for it and turned it into a MythTV frontend :)
>
> Then I got to thinking - since only my Roku (it is currently a 100% Linux
> house) allows me to play back episodes on all of my pay channels' apps, I
> though - why not try Windows 10 - it has tiles that are easily navigated
> with a remote control and all of those channel apps are also available
> there.  I never made it that far.  The dock ethernet is Gigabit and gets
> every bit of it, but kodi's skip forward and back is noticeable to the
> point of unusable (it takes seconds to go back and forth a minute).  An
> android nvidia shield is instant with kodi doing the same thing.  I am just
> dumbfounded how something 10x faster and with much greater resources than
> the shield is so much faster.
>
> I could not find anything related on the web, so am asking here if anyone
> else has experienced and overcome this?
>

I’m not 100% sure we’re talking about the same thing, but from my
experience:

The default Kodi settings have a delay before acting on the skip ahead/back
commands.   Kodi has logic for multiple keypresses jumping father (e.g. i
click = 20 sec, 2 = 1 minute, 3 = 5 minutes) so it delays to see if more
clicks are coming.   For a MythTV user accustomed to instant action this is
really annoying.

In System -> Video -> Playback you can tweak these settings. Change ’Skip
Delay’ to 0 for a much more responsive UI.
 (I wrote up a few observations when I first set up Kodi.  Mailing list
link:
http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-November/383134.html )

Thanks,
>
> Greg
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