| 2 Oct 2024 |
 krzno | In a practical sense, is there much difference between Kodi and something like Plasma Bigscreen/Android TV?
This assuming one has set up Kodi to launch external games and apps, via something like Advanced Kodi Launcher. | 20:49:31 |
| krzno | * In a practical sense, is there much difference between Kodi and something like Plasma Bigscreen/Android TV?
This assuming one has set up Kodi to launch external games and apps, via something like Advanced Kodi Launcher.
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| krzno | * In a practical sense, is there much difference between Kodi and something like Plasma Bigscreen/Android TV?
This assuming one has set up Kodi to launch external games and apps, via something like Advanced Kodi Launcher. | 20:51:14 |
| krzno | Kodi seems to be something in between an app and a full OS UI with core apps. | 20:52:21 |
| krzno | * Kodi seems to be something in between an app and a full OS UI with some core and some extra apps. | 20:54:38 |
| krzno | * Kodi seems to be something in between an app and a full OS UI with some core and some extra apps (depending on the amount of addons installed). | 20:55:14 |
 keith | @bgt while all of these sounds amazing, it really will take an interested dev, so posting to the forums is your best bet | 21:16:40 |
| keith | @krzno Kodi main focus is media first: yes you can use it for these other things, but we're not building our own voice assistant in like GTV and looks like Plasma has. You could use it as a launcher yeah, but the focus is definitely not to be an OS, but to be the best most customizable media frontend we can be | 21:18:46 |
 bgt lover | In reply to @_slack_teamkodi_U07J7TDRU:matrix.org
@bgt while all of these sounds amazing, it really will take an interested dev, so posting to the forums is your best bet ahh, so the forums actually exist and aren't just there because? I thought this is the new forum | 21:21:51 |
| bgt lover | I was trying to contribute myself, but my computer runs out of memory when building kodi, so yeah | 21:22:18 |
| keith | after freenode got fractured chat has kinda died unfortunately | 21:22:25 |
| keith | the forum has and will be the best source of stuff like this | 21:22:52 |
| keith | and sounds like you need to enable more swap :) | 21:22:57 |
| bgt lover | my swap partition isn't enough, I think I need a swap file of like 4 gigs or something lol | 21:24:12 |
| keith | it should build in 8gb of ram | 21:24:55 |
| bgt lover | I have 3.5 gigs of ram lol | 21:26:12 |
| keith | oh damn | 21:26:57 |
| keith | impressive you're able to browse the web :) | 21:27:12 |
| bgt lover | see? no amount of swap can help me now, lol | 21:27:33 |
| keith | well it might! | 21:27:53 |
| keith | if you had like 6gb it might work but be incredibly slow | 21:28:02 |
| bgt lover | at least I made speech dispatcher be able to use pipewire natively now, without pipewire-pulse. I could build that at least without running out of memory. It's weird that I can build odilia, my rust linux screenreader project, fine with my computer, but not kodi | 21:29:16 |
| keith | yeah Kodi is large | 21:29:39 |
| keith | its a massive monolithic app | 21:29:46 |
| bgt lover | imagine how interesting it'd be if I could login to the forum with the fediverse, aka mastodon and such. Now, I have to make yet another account lol | 21:31:11 |
| krzno | In reply to @_slack_teamkodi_U07J7TDRU:matrix.org
@krzno Kodi main focus is media first: yes you can use it for these other things, but we're not building our own voice assistant in like GTV and looks like Plasma has. You could use it as a launcher yeah, but the focus is definitely not to be an OS, but to be the best most customizable media frontend we can be As is Android TV's and PB's focus. Voice thing seems more like a preference.
There's no denying it; in practical terms Kodi is Google TV alternative but one that can live inside its competitor. | 21:40:54 |
| bgt lover | In reply to @_slack_teamkodi_U07J7TDRU:matrix.org
its a massive monolithic app then, I wonder, would I be able to hook that deep in what I want to do with an adon, which then would get in kodi proper? I have no idea if I could do that, but if so, perhaps an adon wouldn't be that hard to build with my current specs. Could I build an adon in rust instead of C? I had enough of C for like a year or something, after my spd thing | 23:50:49 |
| 3 Oct 2024 |
| keith | Well a python addon might be enough. Most of our addons are python. there’s binary addons as well you can in theory do whatever. Channels App wrote a go one. I’m not sure someone has done rust. You should be able to compile them without having to build Kodi too | 15:25:48 |
| keith | No Android TV and Pb are launchers. We are designed for media playback first and can do launcher related things but aren’t focused on ‘launching’ things. | 15:26:51 |
 The Software Pagan | Hey everyone, has anyone else experienced input lag during video playback? | 16:44:37 |
