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Thermopyle posted:Can you use USB OTG with the Fire TV? I probably won't use the Fire TV or the NP remote... You can plug in a FLIRC to the Fire TV. There's also a phone app. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 03:04 on May 1, 2015 |
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I'm not aware of any menu issues, I click buttons and stuff happens instantly. And yeah they added USB support in the last patch a couple weeks ago, haven't tried it out yet.
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May 1, 2015 06:08
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Thermopyle posted:I also should have clarified that by "performance" I mostly meant the performance of the interface. My Acer Revo HTPC's performance in menus and whatnot is significantly worse than my Core 2 Duo HTPC. I went with the FireTV over the NP because I really wanted an ethernet port. The FireTV runs Kodi pretty much flawlessly even with big skins. The only time I see a bit of interface lag is during library updates and that's because I have a huge library. If you have a Harmony you can get it working pretty quickly through some customization or just by using a Flirc. I love my FireTV, its given me all of the streaming apps, Kodi, Plex and even a bunch of emulators in the same common device. For $100 its a bargain.
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May 1, 2015 14:27
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is there a good guide for what I should do to index all my stuff? I've installed kodi for the first time in years, in the old days I used to just browse to my SMB share and navigate directories but I gather there is a better way now?
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The Gunslinger posted:I went with the FireTV over the NP because I really wanted an ethernet port. The FireTV runs Kodi pretty much flawlessly even with big skins. The only time I see a bit of interface lag is during library updates and that's because I have a huge library. If you have a Harmony you can get it working pretty quickly through some customization or just by using a Flirc. I love my FireTV, its given me all of the streaming apps, Kodi, Plex and even a bunch of emulators in the same common device. For $100 its a bargain. Well, that sounds good.
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May 1, 2015 23:21
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Looks like they finally fixed the lack of USB storage too yeah? Can you run an emulator on the fire TV and pull files from USB now or does it still need to all be on the internal memory? Can you do a network share? I really want to replace my AMD e-350 for no reason I guess. 
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For some reason I can't figure out, Kodi on my fire tv stick can't see my smb shares no matter what I do. Is there another way to mirror my library to it? I know I can view my library over upnp but it doesn't seem to mark the files as played.
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May 1, 2015 23:57
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Vykk.Draygo posted:For some reason I can't figure out, Kodi on my fire tv stick can't see my smb shares no matter what I do. Is there another way to mirror my library to it? I know I can view my library over upnp but it doesn't seem to mark the files as played. When you go into the properties of your folder, go to the security tablet and make sure "Everyone" is listed under the "Groups or user names" part.
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May 2, 2015 01:02
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Well, thanks for making me pick up a Fire TV. I already had a HTPC set up running Windows 8, but having different apps for everything and missing out on 5.1 for Amazon content was a pain. Plus I see you can install Moonlight (used to be Limelight) if you root to stream games if you have an NVIDIA graphics card.
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May 2, 2015 01:03
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Internet Explorer posted:Plus I see you can install Moonlight (used to be Limelight) if you root to stream games if you have an NVIDIA graphics card. Here's the Amazon Link to Moonlight for FireTV users Thanks! Now I have an excuse to upgrade my video card, finally! The GTX 460 was one of the last Nvidia models to not support video game streaming.
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Hadlock posted:Here's the Amazon Link to Moonlight for FireTV users Nice, thanks for posting it. I looked briefly for it on Amazon and must have overlooked it. Guess you don't really have to root but it seems like having Google Play would be useful.
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Just posting to say the NP works flawlessly and is easily as snappy as my i3 NUC HTPC. This is with 15.0 Beta 1. Also love talking to the remote to search youtube etc. Wireless streaming over Wireless N works fine for everything except these big uncompressed THX intros. It's not choking on bitrate, it just needs more than the 3MB/second bandwidth it's getting. jonathan fucked around with this message at 02:00 on May 2, 2015 |
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The Fire TV is actually pretty terrible at Limelight/Moonlight. The Nexus Player and even OUYA are much, much better at it, and can actually do it at 1080p. It works okay for some things, but anything that requires twitchy responses will be a mess simply because you're not going to get anything less than 40ms (more typically 50-55) input latency in most cases. Most things are playable, but it might not necessarily be an enjoyable experience.I attempted to play GTAV through Moonlight recently and gave up after a few hours because the latency made me drive like a drunkard. I couldn't not hit every car on the road. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2505510 posted:Anecdotal Hardware Decoder Latency Numbers I can say that I really do love my rooted Fire TV, but this is the exact reason that I'll be dumping it for the Shield box when it comes out. Even the FTV stick is better at Moonlight.
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Oh wow, that is a big jump. Is that 50ms round trip or one way? I might have to look at the Nexus Player now, my primary use case for Moonlight was console casual games like GTA V like you described.
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May 2, 2015 01:59
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I believe it's one way, and even though I just called it input lag it's actually video lag. I have my TV about eight feet away from my computer so I have directly compared it by monitor jumping and it's just bad. It just makes every game that you play feel like it has really lovely play control.
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If you're buying something with streaming in mind wait a week or two to see if the razor box is worth while. It starts shipping next week according to amazon. Same price as the firetv and it does streaming from AMD cards as well.
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May 2, 2015 03:11
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Huh, a product from Razer I would actually consider buying, now that's an interesting thought. From Jadius' chart, the Snapdragon 80X series seem to only support ~40ms latency, whereas the Intel/Tegra equipped boxes can handle sub-10ms... Presumably Razer will get it under 20ms but it's hard to argue with a $68 streaming google nexus player which is already benchmarked at 8ms.
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Internet Explorer posted:Well, thanks for making me pick up a Fire TV. I already had a HTPC set up running Windows 8, but having different apps for everything and missing out on 5.1 for Amazon content was a pain. Plus I see you can install Moonlight (used to be Limelight) if you root to stream games if you have an NVIDIA graphics card. You don't need root for Moonlight Hadlock posted:Oh wow, that is a big jump. Is that 50ms round trip or one way? I might have to look at the Nexus Player now, my primary use case for Moonlight was console casual games like GTA V like you described. That is decoder latency. It doesn't include the network latency. Currently, the best solution you could get for Moonlight is something like a Nexus Player hooked up to a USB OTG adaptor to a USB Ethernet adapter.
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Hadlock posted:Huh, a product from Razer I would actually consider buying, now that's an interesting thought. From Jadius' chart, the Snapdragon 80X series seem to only support ~40ms latency, whereas the Intel/Tegra equipped boxes can handle sub-10ms... Presumably Razer will get it under 20ms but it's hard to argue with a $68 streaming google nexus player which is already benchmarked at 8ms. Razer put a lot of emphasis on the Forge being capable of very low latency PC streaming irregardless of graphics card manufacturer through their streaming software. Who knows if that will turn out to be true or not.
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So is the fact that Crunchyroll Takeout doesn't work on Android (and, more annoying, on Fire TV, the one platform it doesn't seem to have an app for) just a "Thing" I have to deal with?
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Can you somehow get Kidi to stream a URL like you would in windows media center? I want to use http://lpm.streamguys.tv/lpm3web but a pls or m3u file does not seem to be working.
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Bonzo posted:Can you somehow get Kidi to stream a URL like you would in windows media center? I want to use http://lpm.streamguys.tv/lpm3web but a pls or m3u file does not seem to be working. The Pushbullet addon works pretty good for this in my experience.
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quote:Official Android Remote http://kodi.tv/kodi-community-may-2015/
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Nvidia Gamestream means controlling video games on one computer from another right? The same thing that Limelight taps into? I hope I'm reading that right; in theory if that project is successful you could buy a Raspberry Pi and use a Limelight style add-on directly from OpenElec?
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I set up a nexus player running kodi/plexbmc for my father so he can use my library. Is there a way to make the movie selection show up in the normal movie and tv shows section off the main menu instead of going into the plexbmc addon to view them ? Currently using amber skin but I can switch it up if another one supports this.
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jonathan posted:I set up a nexus player running kodi/plexbmc for my father so he can use my library. Is there a way to make the movie selection show up in the normal movie and tv shows section off the main menu instead of going into the plexbmc addon to view them ? Currently using amber skin but I can switch it up if another one supports this. Couldn't you just link PleXBMC on the front page and hide the Movies/TV Shows section? That's what I do for my upnp share.
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jonathan posted:I set up a nexus player running kodi/plexbmc for my father so he can use my library. Is there a way to make the movie selection show up in the normal movie and tv shows section off the main menu instead of going into the plexbmc addon to view them ? Currently using amber skin but I can switch it up if another one supports this. UPnP library integration is coming soon, but for now you'll have to use work arounds such as the one suggested above. The UPnP intregration looks pretty awesome.
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Does anyone know of a scraper that will scrape TV show episodes in production order? Not aired or DVD, the order TV studios produce each episode. Turns out both Filebot and Tiny Media Manager have a mutual hatred of Phineas and Ferb.
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BeerMarket posted:UPnP library integration is coming soon, but for now you'll have to use work arounds such as the one suggested above. So if I'm reading this right. Will this render .strm links to the likes of CR and Youtube (and other, less repitible sources) obsolete by allowing them as sources in their own right? ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 26, 2015 |
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I don't suppose there is a way to have Kodi running in the background just enough that the library can still update? I'm going to be using my Fire TV Stick as my primary media device but I don't want to have to refresh the library and wait five minutes every time I open Kodi on it if Kodi could be updating the library on my PC all the time. Does this question make any sense? edit: I know I could just leave Kodi minimized on the PC but I'm wondering if there is a better way.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I don't suppose there is a way to have Kodi running in the background just enough that the library can still update? I'm going to be using my Fire TV Stick as my primary media device but I don't want to have to refresh the library and wait five minutes every time I open Kodi on it if Kodi could be updating the library on my PC all the time. Does this question make any sense? Five minutes? It takes Kodi like 5 seconds to scan on startup for me.
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Don Lapre posted:Five minutes? It takes Kodi like 5 seconds to scan on startup for me. On a low power device like the FTS, scanning a network share?
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Vykk.Draygo posted:On a low power device like the FTS, scanning a network share? On a ADT1 and on my current chromebox and when i had an Zotac AD10 with an amd e350. Unless you are adding tons of poo poo between times you launch it it should be pretty quick.
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Don Lapre posted:On a ADT1 and on my current chromebox and when i had an Zotac AD10 with an amd e350. Unless you are adding tons of poo poo between times you launch it it should be pretty quick. It depends on how many shares you have and how many subdirectories are in each share. On a full blown desktop (maybe 6 year old AMD CPU), connected to 11 shares with lots of subdirectories, an update scan at startup is about 3 minutes for me.
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My FireTV takes about two minutes to scan perhaps 400 files in 60 directories over a strong Wi-Fi connection. I wrote a daily script to move anything older than 90 days in to an archive folder that's not scanned, it has sped up scanning significantly.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I don't suppose there is a way to have Kodi running in the background just enough that the library can still update? I'm going to be using my Fire TV Stick as my primary media device but I don't want to have to refresh the library and wait five minutes every time I open Kodi on it if Kodi could be updating the library on my PC all the time. Does this question make any sense? If you don't need smart playlists or Pseudo TV or trailers, you could always set up the video library on your PC as a upnp share and access it that way through the Fire TV Stick. That way it will fetch exactly what's on the upnp share every time you open Kodi on the stick. Only downside is if you add something new while Kodi is open, you'll have to close/reopen Kodi for it to show.
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BeerMarket posted:UPnP library integration is coming soon, but for now you'll have to use work arounds such as the one suggested above. Oops, forgot to mention my parents live far away, so I'm transcoding and sending over the internet.
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Trying kodi on windows 10 now. So far it works fine except when I turn off the TV/receiver overnight the scaling gets messed up when I turn everything back on. Everything in kodi is all pixelated. If I restart kodi then it's about 4x to large and I just see the top right corner of the program until I reboot and everything straightens back out. I'm running the default recommended 150% scaling in windows. I remember there being an issue similar to this in windows 7 that involved the display resetting to a low res when the TV gets turned off. There was some registry fiddling to make 1080p the default resolution when no display is connected. Another slight oddity is that kodi doesn't have the option for windowed full screen anymore for me. It only does options for full screen or windowed. I think in my old install in windows 7 the windowed full screen option helped resolve some of the resolution/scaling issues I had before. I haven't tried much googling for trouble shooting advise yet so this is more of a general update on how it's working. Also this is using an nvidia 750 with HDMI for video and audio.
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I have a similar thing happening occasionally with my Windows 8 HTPC where the desktop and windows look fine, but the content inside the windows is huge. A quick fix for the problem is the go to my resolution settings, bump it down a notch, bump it back to 1080p, and everything resets. It's way faster than rebooting the machine.
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I'm picking up Kodi after switching to Plex ages ago from XBMC. A few questions as I go along. Can Kodi do smart filename searching for TV shows/Movies like Plex does or am I going have to sort my files into Show/Season/Episodes? I'm using the ROM Collection Browser. Is there any way to add it to the main Kodi screen so I don't have to look for it in Add-ons or Favorites? This is on a Windows 8.1 PC.
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