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So I put Kodi on my Amazon Fire TV with the purpose of trying to make it an option for cord cutting. I've found a lot of addons that seems to have links to channels, but most of them either crash or plain just don't open (Phoenix, FTV, Genesis, CLIQ!). Is it me or is there something that I'm missing as far as repositories to get them to work?
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Mar 3, 2015 04:25
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My lounge room Kodi is showing show folders in Swedish, but the episode details in English. It's only some files and seems completely random. It makes zero sense.
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Mar 3, 2015 06:04
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ZHamburglar posted:So I put Kodi on my Amazon Fire TV with the purpose of trying to make it an option for cord cutting. Nope, this is pretty much the name of the game when it comes to pirate live TV feeds. For every one that works you'll find at least three that don't (give SportsDevil a try during an NFL game if you really want to see a ridiculous example of this). Genesis is easily the most reliable of the addons you mentioned, but the difference there is that with most things you can almost certainly find one that works pretty easily. Autoplay is even pretty reliable.
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Mar 3, 2015 07:28
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Apple just dropped the Apple TV price to $69. Is this still considered a decent Kodi machine? I know it can do 1080p but how does it handle Dolby 5 or 7 channel audio?
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Mar 9, 2015 18:27
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Bonzo posted:Apple just dropped the Apple TV price to $69. Is this still considered a decent Kodi machine? I know it can do 1080p but how does it handle Dolby 5 or 7 channel audio? Unless I'm mistaken, I believe Kodi only can be installed on an ATV2.
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Mar 9, 2015 19:07
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Yeah it only works on the ATV2 and they're dropping support after Kodi 14.2 comes out.
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Mar 9, 2015 19:11
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ahh ok. Thanks
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Mar 9, 2015 19:28
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The newer android boxes are way more powerful too. I belive even the newest apple tv is still a single core 1ghz chip and even the fire tv stick has twice the ram and a dual core 1ghz chip for $30 less. I'm really close to buying a fire tv set top to replace my htpc, the only hangup being that I need to explore how well the limelight app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.limelight&hl=en) plays on it in general as my HTPC probably gets used more for gaming than video at this point on my end. Anyone using this setup with an xbox 360 controller and it links up okay?
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Mar 9, 2015 19:44
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Minty Swagger posted:The newer android boxes are way more powerful too. I belive even the newest apple tv is still a single core 1ghz chip and even the fire tv stick has twice the ram and a dual core 1ghz chip for $30 less. I haven't done much with limelight but it DID mostly work with pcsx2. I could mess around with it and steam for you some today and see how it goes. You're probably going to want to be using a wired connection though.
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Mar 9, 2015 19:47
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Yeah I currently run wired for my existing setup, I just wonder how the geforce experience thing works on non NVIDA optimized games and stuff like that, the steam streaming doesn't really give a poo poo on WHAT game it is which is cool and the integration of steam into XBMC is super easy. Maybe I should just leave it as is. 
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Mar 9, 2015 20:45
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Minty Swagger posted:Yeah I currently run wired for my existing setup, I just wonder how the geforce experience thing works on non NVIDA optimized games and stuff like that, the steam streaming doesn't really give a poo poo on WHAT game it is which is cool and the integration of steam into XBMC is super easy. Maybe I should just leave it as is. WRT to games Limelight doesn't care and you can add the game executable manually to the geforce experience. It's what I did for PCSX2 when I tried it out that one time. The Fire TV should be able to handle 720p60 or 1080p30 without too much trouble. 1080p60 is too much for it. They also recently made a change on the new geforce experience (version 2.1.4) that changes the way they stream games. This adds a decent amount of input lag on some devices and could include the Fire TV (devices with qualcomm based processors). You'll have to downgrade to 2.1.3 to get around that. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56839233&postcount=1699 edit: besides that new thing that may not affect the fire tv (can't find any info either way and I haven't used limelight in awhile) Limelight seems to work fine on the Fire TV. MagusDraco fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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Mar 9, 2015 20:54
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If you didn't sell off your ATV2 2 years ago for $200+ i feel bad for you.
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Mar 9, 2015 21:15
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Sold one in October for just over $200, and eBay is still full of 'professional' listings that are charging even more. I sold mine, bought an ATV3 and put Plex on it and it's 100x better and I had £100 leftover. No brainer.
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Mar 9, 2015 22:15
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Minty Swagger it looks like the Fire TV has 50 ms of video lag before you take the TV and network into account. Fire TV Stick's video lag is 20 ms due to different hardware (broadcom chipset). The Shield tablet or a nexus player is at 5ms. It's up to the device and how it handles H.264 hardware decoding latency. There's more information Here..
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Mar 9, 2015 23:49
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Interesting. Thanks for looking into it! In the end I'll probably get one to finally retire my xbox1(original) for emulators but combining it with my xbmc htpc would be best. For now I guess I'm fine as-is. 
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Mar 10, 2015 00:30
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I occasionally use Limelight on my Fire TV and a wireless 360 controller. It works okay for some things, not for others. The video lag means that anything super twitchy is out, so I wouldn't suggest Counter-Strike on it. Playing New Super Mario Bros through Dolphin works pretty great, though.
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Mar 10, 2015 03:59
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Jadius posted:I occasionally use Limelight on my Fire TV and a wireless 360 controller. It works okay for some things, not for others. The video lag means that anything super twitchy is out, so I wouldn't suggest Counter-Strike on it. Playing New Super Mario Bros through Dolphin works pretty great, though. I tried googling, but as primarliy a console/Linux guy I can't quite grasp this. What would I need in order to do the fantastic things you take for granted?
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Mar 10, 2015 08:04
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Looks like you need a minimum of GTX 600/700/800/900 series GPU and acts as a client for nVidia's video streaming technology that runs locally on your laptop/PC "server". I think it renders the scene locally on the server and pushes it out as a h.264 stream which is then decoded locally by the FireTV "client" in hardware. I have an old GTX 460 (2010/11 era GPU) so I'm out of luck, anything newer than Spring 2012 ought to support it though. Hadlock fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 09:44
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Is there an addon that will let me play music as stereo? I just want music out of left and right channels not the full 5.1 but dont want movies or TV affected. Tried the settings but any rips with MP3 rips are affected too.
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Mar 10, 2015 14:03
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Hadlock posted:Looks like you need a minimum of GTX 600/700/800/900 series GPU and acts as a client for nVidia's video streaming technology that runs locally on your laptop/PC "server". I think it renders the scene locally on the server and pushes it out as a h.264 stream which is then decoded locally by the FireTV "client" in hardware. Yeah thats to use the limelight setup which is android based. Steam streaming does it without any level of special hardware/OS but its not something you can easily dump into android. torjus check out if steamOS can somehow do it on your machine as it's linux based? My HTPC is windows based so I just use steam streaming right now, with an addon that boots straight into steam big picture from the main menu (GAMES button under videos) With that I can get 720p/60fps in most games, I'd do 1080p as my desktop can handle it, but the htpc cannot.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:31
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Minty Swagger posted:Yeah thats to use the limelight setup which is android based. Steam streaming does it without any level of special hardware/OS but its not something you can easily dump into android. torjus check out if steamOS can somehow do it on your machine as it's linux based? I'm very interested in the Dolphin emulator, since I recently retired the old Wii, but that would limit me to a Windows machine with a NVIDIA-card, right?
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Mar 11, 2015 07:37
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torjus posted:Thanks. Yes, I will surely look into this. Or a Linux machine with an Nvidia card. Dolphin has a native linux version. While using dolphin on Linux with an AMD video card might work, it'd probably not work very well.
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Mar 11, 2015 10:02
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My storage drive (an external HD) went on me yesterday (Hopefully I can recover the movies and such but I'm considering the drive a write off) and I'm thinking of moving onto a wireless storage solution like WD's my cloud or similar, what's the best one for the most pain free XBMC experience given that I'm running Windows 8?
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Mar 13, 2015 10:03
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ConanThe3rd posted:My storage drive (an external HD) went on me yesterday (Hopefully I can recover the movies and such but I'm considering the drive a write off) and I'm thinking of moving onto a wireless storage solution like WD's my cloud or similar, what's the best one for the most pain free XBMC experience given that I'm running Windows 8? XBMC doesn't care as long as its visible on the network.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:29
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havenwaters posted:Yeah it only works on the ATV2 and they're dropping support after Kodi 14.2 comes out. drat it, I never got around to stealthily replacing my parents' ATV2 with an ATV3 and selling the 2 on eBay for way too much money!
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Mar 13, 2015 23:51
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ConanThe3rd posted:My storage drive (an external HD) went on me yesterday (Hopefully I can recover the movies and such but I'm considering the drive a write off) and I'm thinking of moving onto a wireless storage solution like WD's my cloud or similar, what's the best one for the most pain free XBMC experience given that I'm running Windows 8? Synology NAS is the correct answer. Run all your SABnzbd/SickBeard/CouchPotato/Headphones on a quiet little box stuffed with hard drives. Fake-NAS HDs and 1st party 3.5" external hard drives are for scrubs who don't want features and want arbitrarily truncated warranties.
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Mar 14, 2015 06:44
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Thermopyle posted:XBMC doesn't care as long as its visible on the network. That too.
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Mar 14, 2015 06:45
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eltoozero posted:Synology NAS is the correct answer. Fair enough; Is there anywhere where I can read up on all this and can I run a Synology Nas wirelessly or does it require to be permanently hooked to the router?
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Mar 14, 2015 07:07
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A synology can use a usb wifi adapter to either connect to a wireless network, or it can actually be your wireless router or access point https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/faq/427
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Mar 14, 2015 07:19
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Should the small home office ones be ok for what I'm looking to do (Wireless Network Storage?)
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Mar 14, 2015 08:32
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ConanThe3rd posted:Should the small home office ones be ok for what I'm looking to do (Wireless Network Storage?) I suggest one with at least two drives, so you can swap/expand (using SHR volume). But you can also plug in an external drive for backup, or just free-ball it and run an unprotected single spindle. Even if you're doing SHR you should backup, I'm lazy and my bitty NAS is still down because of an "oops I hosed" forced shutdown during rebuild, yea they're tiny and convenient enough that you can be holding the power button while swapping a drive. Luckily recovery isn't difficult, just time consuming (did I mention I'm slightly lazy when it comes to my own projects).
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Mar 14, 2015 09:24
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eltoozero posted:I suggest one with at least two drives, so you can swap/expand (using SHR volume). But you can also plug in an external drive for backup, or just free-ball it and run an unprotected single spindle.
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Mar 14, 2015 09:38
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ConanThe3rd posted:I had intended to get a two drive one and my budget is about £200 for such a project so like one weighing in at £150 with a couple of non flashy 1TB HDDs and a wireless usb sound about right for what I'm trying to do? I'm confused on the "wireless usb sound" bit, you can have a usb sound card to get audio out, and you can have a usb wireless but I'd want that thing wired to the router if you can help it. Sounds like you're on the right track tho. The single spindle units are just fine and the only time you'll really see it lag is when SABNZBd is unpacking and verifying.
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Mar 14, 2015 23:34
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hdhomerun kodi plugin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF80LjvwDxc
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Mar 15, 2015 02:20
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eltoozero posted:I'm confused on the "wireless usb sound" bit, you can have a usb sound card to get audio out, and you can have a usb wireless but I'd want that thing wired to the router if you can help it. I meant did that set up sound right, not that I wanted wireless sound.
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Mar 15, 2015 07:09
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ConanThe3rd posted:I meant did that set up sound right, not that I wanted wireless sound. My mistake, here's the Synology USB wifi compatibility chart: https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/faq/444
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Mar 15, 2015 08:44
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It's a little bit more rich for my tastes than what I was going for but how's the DS214Play?
ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Mar 15, 2015 11:38
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ConanThe3rd posted:It's a little bit more rich for my tastes than what I was going for but how's the DS214Play? I might get flak for being a scrub and getting The Wrong One (tm), but I am loving the Buffalo Linkstation. I picked up the 8TB version for $350 USD last week, and it came functionally ready-to-go. No mucking with HDDs, no fiddling with settings. Within 20 minutes, it was acting as a network hard drive and XBMC saw it no problem.
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Mar 15, 2015 18:04
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Sputnik posted:I might get flak for being a scrub and getting The Wrong One (tm), but I am loving the Buffalo Linkstation. I picked up the 8TB version for $350 USD last week, and it came functionally ready-to-go. No mucking with HDDs, no fiddling with settings. Within 20 minutes, it was acting as a network hard drive and XBMC saw it no problem. Buffalo works fine for straight SMB sharing, no problems, but you're not going to run your torrent/NZB application stack on it, unlike Synology. Nor are you going to have "magic" expanding SHR RAID volumes. ConanThe3rd posted:It's a little bit more rich for my tastes than what I was going for but how's the DS214Play? Should do it, I have one of the 214 units sitting around somewhere, that model is cool because the disc access is behind that front panel, you have to fully disassemble the cheaper models.
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Don Lapre posted:hdhomerun kodi plugin That looks great. I'm just wondering how it would run under a low powered device like Raspberry Pi and the low end Android boxes.
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