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Just installed Kodi. Totally surprised by the lack of quality given the reputation.
The arrow pointer is jaggy in movement and responds intermittently. The desktop layout is too big for a 1440x900. More suited to a 640x480 VGA screen.
I'm using a Thinpad T61 circa 2008. The laptop is older but I've had no complaints with the speed and size of the graphic layout with the seven or eight other media servers I've worked with. I can't go through the settings and find an adjustment the operation is so bad.
Is there a configuration file and setting I can edit without running the program?
Thank you.
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Sounds like you haven't understood the primary use case for Kodi, which is to run on a device connected to a TV so you can view media in your living area while sat at normal TV viewing distance on a sofa or whatever, so it's meant to be what is often referred to as a 10ft viewing experience.
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Hello,
Thanks for responding.
My situation is this: I have a laptop dedicated to being used as a media server. The laptop is connected via LAN to my local network. The laptop is attached to a dock with ten hard drives for a total of fifteen terabytes of videos, more or less. I have an LG 55oled Smart TV connected to the network via LAN and WiFi.
Currently, I'm using Emby software as a media server, without any age related problems. My reason for still searching, and I've been through seven or eight, is the Emby program does not recognize my WD PAssport Ultra USB-C drive. Each of my drives is a library in that program. I had a work around before a new install of Win10Pro-x64 and the Emby software. That work around no longer works. I use an LG App from Emby to navigate the on-screen GUI.
No serious issues other than the USB-C drive recognition problem. I also enjoy 4K, HDR with DTS 5.1 without issue in Emby.
You can understand my disappointment when I ran Kodi and felt like I was on Windows 3.1.
Anyway, does my situation seem suited to the use of Kodi?
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In the System tab, what is...
Processor
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
DirectX version
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
In the Display tab, what is...
Name
Card name: Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)
Chip type
See above.
Device type
Full Display Device
Current Display mode
1440x900 (32 bit)(60Hz)
Which DirectX Features are enabled.
DirectXDraw Acc
Direct3D Acc
AGP Texture Acc
No problems found in Displayu, Sound1 or Sound2, or Input
Also, see my post to jjd-uk.
Thank you.
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Hello,
Please see my response to jjd-uk.
Thank you.
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While Kodi can serve media over a lan to a TV with it's own player, as I said before that not the primary use case we design Kodi around. Kodi is primarily meant to be a client app, in other words to be run on a device directly connected to a TV via HDMI for example. Do you also think Netflix and Amazon Prime apps on your LG have Window 3.1 interfaces? as that's the exact same type of interface Kodi uses.
If you don't want to use Kodi as a client app, and purely want to use something with UPnP server features to stream to your TV UPnP Player, then Kodi is probably not the best option for you. While Kodi can act as a server app it's not optimised for such usage.
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There are some other threads about issues like yours. Looks like at some point on kodi 19 development issues with slow interface on older video cards appeared on windows version and there´s no solution to it.
On my experience, replacing windows for linux made the current kodi version work without issues. If you want kodi that bad, dual boot may be an option.
And Kodi 18 may work great on your machine and still have almost all the features of the current version.
