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2015-09-03, 18:51
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is transcoding absolutely necessary to get this to work with kodi or does it also work without transcoding (i want to use this for amazon prime)?
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no, i have read that you can disable transcoding. but the question is if kodi can decode the files (especially amazon prime).
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2015-09-03, 21:20
(This post was last modified: 2015-09-03, 21:23 by Ed76.)
the amazon prime addon will only work until 14. september. after that it will not work anymore. at the moment only very low quality is possible with that addon (no hd).
transcoding has 2 disadvantages:
1) with transcoding you will loose (more or less) quality. also (from what i have read) max. 720p is possible with playon. but amazon, netflix send 1080p
2) for transcoding you need a lot resources. that means cpu ist getting hot, fan will be lout and i dont know if my amd a6 apu have enough power for transcoding.
does anybody know if kodi can handle the "not transcoded" pure stream from amazon?
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Hi, currently I use PlayOn with the MyLibrary script. It seems to work good with the exception of links expiring.
How does this overcome this limitation?
Also with my current method, it seems that it doesn't keep track of episodes that have been watched. Does this help with that?
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My library with PlayOn doesn't play well together. I would love to see this working so using have to have the links expire. Also having some sort of way to track what has been watched and what have would be nice