*** Official Kodi (née XBMC) Thread ***

StevieP said:
Not had much joy with the "9 and 0 to zoom" - probably because I'm using my Sony remote with a CEC adapter or the Yatse phone app - anyone know of any other ways to zoom using these remotes?
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I assume you would need to edit/create a remote.xml with the buttoms 0 and 9 mapped to buttons on your remote in order for it to work.

Edit: Don't know if this is at all helpful or can push you in the right direction: http://xbmcnut.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/how-to-remap-cec-buttons-on-sony-tv.html
 
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I got my live tv and recording series links etc working. I installed MediaPortal as my back end server and enabled the PVR add-on for it in XBMC. I can control everything from XBMC.
 
OMG! Why the hell have I not been using OpenELEC until now?!?!

I have spent litterally years in an awkward battle with Windows trying to coax it into being a simple media streaming device. Last night I gave up on it and put OpenELEC onto a USB stick and booted into the installer...

30 seconds later I was at the XBMC home screen, and 2 minutes later all my media was added! It "just works" so beautifully.

And its freed up a W7 license I can use elsewhere. Next step is to replace the Dell desktop with a NUC and ill be sorted.
 
Packaged Linux builds can be a pain with drivers ans things, but OpenELEC seems to come with everything I need.

I tried xbmcbuntu or whatever its called a few years back and had issues, so never really tried anything else.
 
FerretBoy said:
Yeah windows adds only a few things, I always ask people why they install it. It seems most do it as scared to try something different.
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It's basically the only OS that will play what ever you have. As it supports apple and MS stores. As well as every thing else.
Obviously many on XBMC are only playing ripped media. But for anything else it's a total nightmare and mess. So much so I gave up after several weeks and within a few minutes windows media centre was working flawlessly,
 
Glaucus said:
But for anything else it's a total nightmare and mess.
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Bit over the top don't you think? You were trying to get DVB-S2 working on a platform that is not very mature in that department (and this is very very well known and widely documented) and then went to a platform that is extremely well versed in what you wanted to do (mainly because MS actually has money to put into the development of these things) and you are surprised?
 
I'm just popping in to see how live TV is going these days? My Acer Revo R3700 is being upgraded to a hybrid HTPC / Steam Box so I can take another look.

My current setup is Windows 7 64bit, Media Browser for Movies and TV Shows, DVBLink TV Source for the DVB-S2 into the native MS Live TV app.

The key things for XBMC was can you start a program recording and then start playing it before it finishes? Can you rewind live TV? Can you pause live TV and then fast forward up to the current time.
These were all a bit lacking last time I looked!
 
Skeeter said:
Yeah it's horses for courses. But my use fits better with something like OpenELEC.
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Yup

OpenElec on the Pi is great. I've set mine to use the 'turbo' overclock settings, makes it a little quicker. Also I disabled the RSS feed along the bottom of the screen, another boost.

It's slow at scanning for new media, but since moving a shared sql db on my Synology the Pi never has to scan media now, I use my desktop pc to scan as I add the media in.
 
wonder_lander said:
I'm just popping in to see how live TV is going these days? My Acer Revo R3700 is being upgraded to a hybrid HTPC / Steam Box so I can take another look.

My current setup is Windows 7 64bit, Media Browser for Movies and TV Shows, DVBLink TV Source for the DVB-S2 into the native MS Live TV app.

The key things for XBMC was can you start a program recording and then start playing it before it finishes? Can you rewind live TV? Can you pause live TV and then fast forward up to the current time.
These were all a bit lacking last time I looked!
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I think all of that is down to your backend, not really up to XBMC. I may be wrong but since you already use DVBLink TV Source you already have a very good backend so check DVBLink forums for answers to most of your questions.
 
ubern00b said:
Bit over the top don't you think? You were trying to get DVB-S2 working on a platform that is not very mature in that department (and this is very very well known and widely documented) and then went to a platform that is extremely well versed in what you wanted to do (mainly because MS actually has money to put into the development of these things) and you are surprised?
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I am actually, people always bang on about xbmc and how good ir is, how it works with anything and has plugins for most services. Except it's nothing like that, even things like youtube plugins are terrible.
Xbmc is good if you have ripped media. And that's it, even then it really needs customisation.
 
Glaucus said:
I am actually, people always bang on about xbmc and how good ir is, how it works with anything and has plugins for most services. Except it's nothing like that, even things like youtube plugins are terrible.
Xbmc is good if you have ripped media. And that's it, even then it really needs customisation.
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I agree with this to be honest, mine is all ripped data and for that it's excellent (although i disagree that it needs customisation to do this. It just works out the box in about 5 minutes of setting up sources).

Anything else though and it all starts falling apart. Even Youtube as mentioned is pitiful.
 
How does everyone deal with NetFlix from XBMC?

I'd quite like to be able to still use my Harmony remote but the XBMCNetflix plugin crashes on start up.

I'd rather not have to dig the mouse out every time we want to use it and have to close XBMC each time too.
 
I now use XBMC as my sole input to all the tvs in the house. We use it for streaming live freeview tv and music as well as other tv show streaming along with all locally hosted movies and its really good. Not saying its that quick and easy to set it all up but its fine once done. Even my wife has no problems using it now as its all controlled via the normal tv remote.

Youtube may be crappy but everyone in the house has a tablet or phone and we dont really bother with it much anyway.

Yes its not all singing and dancing out of the box but for someone into tech its good having to tinker and learn things.
 
We too are using XBMC as the primary source.

Live TV (Freeview) is handled by ArgusTV on the server, and then pumped out over the network to the XBMC boxes.

Most media playback is of local files, and not of streaming services.

YouTube works adequately enough - most of the time we would search for a video on our phones, and then send it to XBMC using the "share with" option provided by Yatse, rather than using the search/navigation on the YouTube plugin itself.

Yes - it took me a little while to get it set up how I wanted - but once doing that, it now just works, and even a reinstallation of the HTPC is simple, because I simply drop 1 file into place (advancedsettings.xml) and it's back up and running again.
 
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