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

[Mike Bibbings]

On 25/10/2018 17:52, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:23 AM Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thom.j.harris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:55 PM Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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 for the tip, but I just tried that (it was set to 750ms) and it 
> still behaves the same (although a little time is shaved obviously).  
> My nVidia shields are pretty instant - I will check one of those to 
> see what those settings are (I never changed them).  I get the spinner 
> for close to a second on each jump.
>
> Oh well, I guess I will start digging into Windows settings trying to 
> hunt it down (or search Kodi forums, etc)..


As well as changing "skip delay" to 0 , try changing "skip steps" e.g. I 
have only -30 sec and 30 sec set, which works fine for me in LiveTV and 
recordings

Mike.


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