2016-02-11, 01:33
Hello, my name is Kevin, and I'm a movie/TV addict.
I've been a TiVo user for well over a decade. I started out with a series 1 TiVo. My current TiVo is an older series 2 box. I tend to stay behind the times hardware wise. All my TVs are older CRT type TVs. A few years ago I dropped cable and have mostly been watching old shows on DVD or from my PC since then. Since I dropped cable the only thing my TiVo has been used for is viewing stuff from my PC. It doesn't make sense to keep paying TiVo $13/month for that. My TiVo is in my living room. All I have in my bedroom is a DVD player. I've been wanting to add PC video viewing capabilities to the bedroom TV for quite a while now. I've just recently started trying out Kodi. I think I'm already hooked, even though I don't have a Kodi box connected to either of my TVs yet. I have Kodi installed on an old Gateway E4300 desktop PC. The things I need to get it connected to one of my TVs are in the mail. Once I try out Kodi on my bedroom TV if all goes well I'll set up a second Kodi box in the living room and retire my TiVo. I already have the first Kodi box set up to use a MySQL database. I have MySQL running on my main desktop PC, though I usually use PostgreSQL for database related things. All of my online video files are also on my main desktop PC, accessible to Kodi via NFS. I'm starting out with Kodi running on older PCs I had lying around to keep costs to a minimum. I'll probably eventually give running Kodi on a Raspberry Pi a try.
Organizing my video library for use with Kodi might be a challenge. I don't have a whole lot of disk space. From the days when I had even less disk space many of my video files have been offloaded on data DVDs. I have just over 1,200 such DVDs. I'm low on disk space so some of the stuff I currently have online will probably get offloaded to DVDs before long. In the early days I tended to CamelCase both directory and file names, without spaces. Now days most video file names have spaces in them, but directory names are still CamelCased. Kodi doesn't seem to like CamelCase.
I have a lot of forum archive and wiki searching to do before I'm ready to start asking questions. I'm sure I'll eventually have at least a few newbie questions to ask. Is it okay to ask several questions in one post or would separate posts be better?
Is there a Kodi mailing list anywhere? Mailing lists are so much easier to keep up with than online forums.
I've been a TiVo user for well over a decade. I started out with a series 1 TiVo. My current TiVo is an older series 2 box. I tend to stay behind the times hardware wise. All my TVs are older CRT type TVs. A few years ago I dropped cable and have mostly been watching old shows on DVD or from my PC since then. Since I dropped cable the only thing my TiVo has been used for is viewing stuff from my PC. It doesn't make sense to keep paying TiVo $13/month for that. My TiVo is in my living room. All I have in my bedroom is a DVD player. I've been wanting to add PC video viewing capabilities to the bedroom TV for quite a while now. I've just recently started trying out Kodi. I think I'm already hooked, even though I don't have a Kodi box connected to either of my TVs yet. I have Kodi installed on an old Gateway E4300 desktop PC. The things I need to get it connected to one of my TVs are in the mail. Once I try out Kodi on my bedroom TV if all goes well I'll set up a second Kodi box in the living room and retire my TiVo. I already have the first Kodi box set up to use a MySQL database. I have MySQL running on my main desktop PC, though I usually use PostgreSQL for database related things. All of my online video files are also on my main desktop PC, accessible to Kodi via NFS. I'm starting out with Kodi running on older PCs I had lying around to keep costs to a minimum. I'll probably eventually give running Kodi on a Raspberry Pi a try.
Organizing my video library for use with Kodi might be a challenge. I don't have a whole lot of disk space. From the days when I had even less disk space many of my video files have been offloaded on data DVDs. I have just over 1,200 such DVDs. I'm low on disk space so some of the stuff I currently have online will probably get offloaded to DVDs before long. In the early days I tended to CamelCase both directory and file names, without spaces. Now days most video file names have spaces in them, but directory names are still CamelCased. Kodi doesn't seem to like CamelCase.
I have a lot of forum archive and wiki searching to do before I'm ready to start asking questions. I'm sure I'll eventually have at least a few newbie questions to ask. Is it okay to ask several questions in one post or would separate posts be better?
Is there a Kodi mailing list anywhere? Mailing lists are so much easier to keep up with than online forums.