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Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by syshum »

harrisi wrote: post #86
a254613e wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. Your expectations from one piece of software are completely unrealistic.

Is this sarcasm? I don't mean any disrespect or negativity, I just don't understand. I'm not familiar with this space, but I don't see why the aforementioned expectations are unrealistic. The only issue I can imagine is big media companies strong arming a player in this space (which I assume is what happens to existing companies mentioned). There's nothing technically impossible mentioned.

I agree with the parent comment, Software that tries to be everything to everyone always sucks.

I think the Emby's, Kodi's, and Plex's of the world should focus on the "home Theater" space, making the best experience for the consumption of Movies and TV Shows. maybe music if they want to stretch

There should be separate apps for ebooks, podcasts, etc. I do not (and I am sure very few do) consume ebooks, and podcasts on my Large TV. That is where the "home theater" apps should focus, the TV Watching experience.

I understand sometimes people use a computer monitor, or even a mobile app to view it but I would image that is an edge case, and should not be the focus, when I want to watch a movie I am doing it on my 60in screen not my 5.5in

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Post by frameset »

labster wrote: post #151
tuscen wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The current set of movies wouldn't be possible without thousands of years of myths, legends, stories and other fiction that was in public domain when these movies were made. Are you willing to pay countries royalties for their myths and legends.

Mel Gibson definitely ripped off the Bible in Passion of the Christ. He should pay royalties to the one true church. You know the one. But I’m not sure what the Discordians would do with all that money.

Campaign to get ddate back on most distros?

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Post by mattowen_uk »

antihero wrote: post #182
progman32 wrote: post #93

This may be unpopular, but after using Kodi and similar software for many years (and enjoying it!), I just gravitated back to the basics. Want to watch a movie? Navigate to it in my file manager and play it with VLC. Music? Just use Winamp 2 or Audacious. I realized I was messing with odd HDMI passthrough issues, database issues, audio sync, broken plugins, stressing about tagging, etc etc every movie night much more…

I have found with 4K tvs the cursor and UI is annoyingly tiny. Currently I'm using the ATV 4K and Infuse (and MBP SMB share) for "other" content. Works a dream.

In Kodi's settings you can specify a lower resolution for the menus. Not sure if that changes the controls overlay during playback though.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by nikau »

rcoilliot wrote: post #114
progman32 wrote: post #93

This may be unpopular, but after using Kodi and similar software for many years (and enjoying it!), I just gravitated back to the basics. Want to watch a movie? Navigate to it in my file manager and play it with VLC. Music? Just use Winamp 2 or Audacious. I realized I was messing with odd HDMI passthrough issues, database issues, audio sync, broken plugins, stressing about tagging, etc etc every movie night much more…

The issue with Kodi is, in my opinion, the same as with setting up a mame cab for playing roms : Perpetual Work In Progress. Users are spending way more time configuring, optimizing, and eventually breaking the whole thing than actually enjoying it. On my side, i'm playing my content with my AppleTV through a Plex server on a Nas, using wired network, and I couldn't be happier. Using a professionnal, closed, solution…

It's the same experience with kodi if you buy one of the cheap amlogic tv boxes with it pre installed

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by chrisjc »

KoftaBob wrote: post #146
bane wrote: post #77

I honestly can't keep track anymore. I've used plex for a number of years and it's "fine" but they keep spending time developing things I don't want and ignoring things the community would like in an effort to "go commercial" and "legitimatize". I want a media center that can do these things: - access from phone or tablet: remote is nice to have, but on my own network is a must - can chromecast everything - can scrap…

https://firecore.com/infuse

Very nice! Never heard of this but gave it a go and it looks promising.

I'm already using VLC and accessing content via local network, but this looks a lot more polished and always good to have a backup/alternative.

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Post by Shish2k »

progman32 wrote: post #93

This may be unpopular, but after using Kodi and similar software for many years (and enjoying it!), I just gravitated back to the basics. Want to watch a movie? Navigate to it in my file manager and play it with VLC. Music? Just use Winamp 2 or Audacious. I realized I was messing with odd HDMI passthrough issues, database issues, audio sync, broken plugins, stressing about tagging, etc etc every movie night much more…

Similarly, I spent ~£2000 on having a wonderful home cinema setup (meticulously organised kodi library on a dedicated HTPC, surround-sound, projector) -- but it’s mostly collecting dust because chromecast’ing netflix from my phone to the TV is so much more convenient.

I’m really hoping that Matter’s open casting protocol takes off, and we can get a new generation of software that combines the best of "self-hosted open-source interoperable ecosystem" and “one tap on the phone to have something playing on the big screen”...

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Post by JohnWhigham »

mmlkrx wrote: post #188

Right on the homepage it says "Kodi brings your media to life". Apart from piracy, what are legal ways to acquire my own media? When I can't find something on Netflix or Amazon Prime, I typically just buy it on Amazon but Amazon doesn't provide me with a video file. Are there any places I can buy digital media that allow me to download and manage my own media files?

Spend $30 on vastly overpriced Blu-Ray discs to get the "digital edition"

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Post by thanatos519 »

mattowen_uk wrote: post #239

My Kodi set-up is a few-years-old copy of LibreELEC[1] set to NOT auto update. I've barely configured it beyond giving the SMB paths to my video collection. I ignore all the meta-data rubbish it wants to add, and just browse to what I want to watch via the text-based list that's built into the default skin. It's all running on a Raspberry Pi 3b hooked into my big home theatre rig. Granted, 90% of my Kodi viewing is D…

I would be happy to complete your Doctor Who collection. It's definitely worth watching all of it.
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