Anyone tried kodi 17 yet

[mickmcpaddy]

I have and its absolute pants, for a PC with a mouse at least anyway. The new skin looks more geared up to a touchscreen tablet or similar, try a mouse on it and the pointer is all over the show, you only have to move the pointer over a menu item and it brings it all up without clicking.

The lists of films etc scroll automatically as well, so I can select the top few items in the list but as I move the mouse down the list automatically scrolls up so it bypasses the bit in the middle, if I move the mouse up the list jumps down again, I just cant select the films in the middle of the list.

Already unisatalled and going back to 16.1, luckily I kept the .exe file.

[chow pan toon]

I prefer it but then I use it with a remote control from across my lounge. I've always found Kodi annoying with a mouse. You could always try using the Confluence skin (default on 16) on 17 and see if that improves it for you.

[RDM]

Using a mouse and as you say it's hopeless. Running mcktv
As an add on and it's all over the place now. Will try some
Different skins and stuff and see if I can get the old mcktv
Interface back and also slow the mouse down.

[NordicCrankShaft]

Agreed, I downloaded it onto a Windows 10 laptop Sunday as our Amazon stick is playing up. I think it's absolutely awful. It just doesn't flow well and they've over complicated it.

[CAPP0]

Can anyone recommend the best way to access Kodi (and a preferred version!) given the current Cappo infrastructure of:

- Apple TV
- Chromecast
- iPad
- MBP

To which the answer may of course be, buy a Firestick! Although I don't know a "man who can" - is it possible to DIY Kodi onto a Firestick?

Thanks.

[cb31]

CAPP0 said:

Can anyone recommend the best way to access Kodi (and a preferred version!) given the current Cappo infrastructure of:

- Apple TV
- Chromecast
- iPad
- MBP

To which the answer may of course be, buy a Firestick! Although I don't know a "man who can" - is it possible to DIY Kodi onto a Firestick?

Thanks.

Just run it on the MBP, works great. It won't work on the other 3 apart from old Apple TVs that are jailbroken. You can DIY it onto a Firestick, google is your guide.

[budgie smuggler]

Blimey, I'd forgotten that you could even use a mouse to control it. Anyone tried it with a remote?

What I'm really dying to know is if the ability to add audio plugins is going to mean that it finally gets a decent DRC plugin so I don't have to constantly ride the volume while watching a film, then forget to turn the amp back down and cause a breach of the peace with the Teletubbies theme at volume 58 at 7am the next morning.

[CAPP0]

cb31 said:

CAPP0 said:

Can anyone recommend the best way to access Kodi (and a preferred version!) given the current Cappo infrastructure of:

- Apple TV
- Chromecast
- iPad
- MBP

To which the answer may of course be, buy a Firestick! Although I don't know a "man who can" - is it possible to DIY Kodi onto a Firestick?

Thanks.

Just run it on the MBP, works great. It won't work on the other 3 apart from old Apple TVs that are jailbroken. You can DIY it onto a Firestick, google is your guide.

Thanks, I'll give that a go.

[V8covin]

hmmmm,I see you need android 5.0 as a minimum.Looks like I'll be sticking with 16 on my tablet then as it's stuck on 4.4 and it's not yet available for ubuntu so that's me out for the moment

[Too Late]

I'm running Kodi 18.0 (Libreelec) http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298461
Using the CEC remote for the TV it works a treat.

I also like the new skin, but if you dont like the default skin, there are plenty of skinners out there so take your pick. I used to always use Aeon Nox but very happy with the new Estuary skin

[RDM]

CAPP0 said:

Can anyone recommend the best way to access Kodi (and a preferred version!) given the current Cappo infrastructure of:

- Apple TV
- Chromecast
- iPad
- MBP

To which the answer may of course be, buy a Firestick! Although I don't know a "man who can" - is it possible to DIY Kodi onto a Firestick?

Thanks.

Running it on firestick is a doddle, easy tutorials available as someone else said.
I've got a few sticks running at home but use a Pi when
Away working. After the mess it made of the Pi I'll wait
Until a few more people confirm it's ok before updating the
Sticks!

[CAPP0]

RDM said:

CAPP0 said:

Can anyone recommend the best way to access Kodi (and a preferred version!) given the current Cappo infrastructure of:

- Apple TV
- Chromecast
- iPad
- MBP

To which the answer may of course be, buy a Firestick! Although I don't know a "man who can" - is it possible to DIY Kodi onto a Firestick?

Thanks.

Running it on firestick is a doddle, easy tutorials available as someone else said.
I've got a few sticks running at home but use a Pi when
Away working. After the mess it made of the Pi I'll wait
Until a few more people confirm it's ok before updating the
Sticks!

Think I might just get a Firestick and play with that. I tried installing it on the Mac tonight (v.16) and received umpteen dire warnings about it (downloaded from kodi.tv), plus when I ran it it completely took over the Mac and was reluctant to kill, so I bumped it off again.

Apologies for the slight thread derail but which add-ins are, ahem, the most useful?

[AJB88]

I've got it running on my MBP, Firestick and FireTV box and I can't see much difference???? seen a few people saying its different but looks the same to me

[RDM]

AJB88 said:

I've got it running on my MBP, Firestick and FireTV box and I can't see much difference???? seen a few people saying its different but looks the same to me

Good to know, will try the sticks when I get home.
Hopefully I can sort out the Pi to make it more usable

[budgie smuggler]

budgie smuggler said:

Blimey, I'd forgotten that you could even use a mouse to control it. Anyone tried it with a remote?

What I'm really dying to know is if the ability to add audio plugins is going to mean that it finally gets a decent DRC plugin so I don't have to constantly ride the volume while watching a film, then forget to turn the amp back down and cause a breach of the peace with the Teletubbies theme at volume 58 at 7am the next morning.

I've tried it myself now. Performance is bad in the UI, lots of frame dropping when scrolling around the menus*. Looks good though and pretty usable with a remote. Playback seems fine, so I assume it's just the skin.

Can't find any audio plugins to enable so I assume nobodys written any yet.

• this is on a windows machine with a reasonably fast AMD CPU and decent nVidia GPU, so it should be up to the task.

[Murph7355]

budgie smuggler said:

Blimey, I'd forgotten that you could even use a mouse to control it. Anyone tried it with a remote?

What I'm really dying to know is if the ability to add audio plugins is going to mean that it finally gets a decent DRC plugin so I don't have to constantly ride the volume while watching a film, then forget to turn the amp back down and cause a breach of the peace with the Teletubbies theme at volume 58 at 7am the next morning.

Can you not set output levels on your TV and/or amp for different sources?

[budgie smuggler]

Murph7355 said:

Can you not set output levels on your TV and/or amp for different sources?

No I don't think I can (pioneer vsx-527), but also Teletubbies plays via Kodi anyway

[scovette]

budgie smuggler said:

Blimey, I'd forgotten that you could even use a mouse to control it. Anyone tried it with a remote?

What I'm really dying to know is if the ability to add audio plugins is going to mean that it finally gets a decent DRC plugin

Yes, the last skin I saw designed for use with a mouse was about a decade ago. Remotes work as with the previous versions.

To normalise the volume try setting audio in Kodi to around -20db and set audio amplification to around +30db.

[budgie smuggler]

scovette said:

To normalise the volume try setting audio in Kodi to around -20db and set audio amplification to around +30db.

Thanks I knew that, and it does help for the most part, however it causes 'pulsing' in the sound. I haven't looked at the code but I guess it is just a dumb brickwall limiter. What is needed is something like dolby volume.

Maybe I'm asking too much and just need to get a better receiver. It just seems something that pretty much everyone wants and should be doable.
Having it controlled by the source means as well that it could be set differently for music, films and TV for example/

Edited by budgie smuggler on Wednesday 8th February 17:24

[Oakey]

It's useless on a Windows tablet, it can't decide if it's touch operated or mouse operated (pointer regularly reappears). Some of the menus don't respond to touch and backing out of menus is like a lottery