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* No one have developed a picture library for {{Kodi}} yet, but there is a pictures section where you can add media sources and view pictures in file mode. | * No one have developed a picture library for {{Kodi}} yet, but there is a pictures section where you can add media sources and view pictures in file mode. | ||
* Not having a picture library (and a picture database) unfortuanly means that you can not sort, browse, or search pictures by their tags. | * Not having a picture library (and a picture database) unfortuanly means that you can not sort, browse, or search pictures by their tags. | ||
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== PVR (Live TV and DVR) == | |||
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| Question= How does Live TV and PVR work in {{Kodi}}? | |||
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Logically, the PVR / Live TV design in {{Kodi}} uses a [[wikipedia:distributed application|distributed application structure]] that is designed after the [[wikipedia:client–server model|client–server model]] concept which consists of two parts: | |||
# The PVR '''backend''' (as the server side part), which communicates with a TV tuner adapter(s) to receive the Live TV signals and create a video or audio stream, and | |||
# The PVR '''client''' (as an addon for {{Kodi}}) - an {{Kodi}} addon which controls the presentation of that content via the {{Kodi}} GUI that acts as unified frontend and common interface for all connected PVR backends. | |||
The "'''PVR backend'''" as such is a separate application/process that directly interfaces with your TV tuner adapter(s) and the performs the task of tuning, streaming, and recording over-the-air and cable television signals and radio programming. PVR backends can either run on the same host running {{Kodi}}, or on a stand-alone host/device completely by itself with {{Kodi}} only running when needed, as long as they have a network connection between them. Some PVR backends may be able to serve several clients simultaneously, which may be {{Kodi}} clients or others applications/devices, and in those cases such PVR backends that serves multiple clients are commonly refereed to as PVR servers. | |||
When paired with one or more matched PVR backends, a configured '''PVR client addon''' enables {{Kodi}} to handle the GUI interface, or frontend, allowing the user to watch Live TV (with pause/time-shift, if supported by the PVR backend used), display a graphical EPG (Electronic Program Guide) of all available television programming, schedule recordings or listen to radio, giving the same sort of functionality as TiVo-style video recorder devices. | |||
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* While Kodi does not have [[w:Adobe Flash|Flash]] video support directly, very often videos can be extracted from the Flash video stream/file container. Some sites also have non-flash video streams that can be accessed from within Kodi. Sometimes these streams/files can be accessed by using a [[STRM]] file, while others are more complicated and need an add-on to access the content. For example, there is an add-on for [[Hulu]] and Amazon Prime video services (see Bluecop's add-on repo for both). Be sure to check out [[:Category:Video add-ons]] and the Kodi forums to see what is currently available. | * While Kodi does not have [[w:Adobe Flash|Flash]] video support directly, very often videos can be extracted from the Flash video stream/file container. Some sites also have non-flash video streams that can be accessed from within Kodi. Sometimes these streams/files can be accessed by using a [[STRM]] file, while others are more complicated and need an add-on to access the content. For example, there is an add-on for [[Hulu]] and Amazon Prime video services (see Bluecop's add-on repo for both). Be sure to check out [[:Category:Video add-ons]] and the Kodi forums to see what is currently available. | ||
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