I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions: (1) it doesn't seem to handle the mouse and keyboard well. Moving the mouse seems to change keyboard focus sometimes, and it 's not clear to me when I can use the keyboard and when the mouse. There seems to be no consistency. What's the UI model? (2) It comes up full screen. Is there any way to persuade it to be a window? (3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong? I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 20:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(1) it doesn't seem to handle the mouse and keyboard well. Moving the mouse seems to change keyboard focus sometimes, and it 's not clear to me when I can use the keyboard and when the mouse. There seems to be no consistency. What's the UI model?
Yes, the left main menu activates with mouse hover.
(2) It comes up full screen. Is there any way to persuade it to be a window?
Yes. Dented wheel in main menu to access configuration. I think it is in "interface / settings" (translating from Spanish, the wording may be different in yours). There is another wheel at the bottom to choose expertise level, which activates/deactivates some entries. But I can't locate the option for "windowed" view this time :-(
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so.
It is confusing initially, I agree. I had the same problem. You do not need to import directories, but configure an entry for them under "Music" main menu. Huh, I have to go out now. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpH9vkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VVvQCeIN6ARhxbpXzwGU4Mh04z0QwU 1ZgAnAorp/8Rq3P7wKyJuDEPteH4BK1Q =K+32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 21:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 20:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so.
It is confusing initially, I agree. I had the same problem.
You do not need to import directories, but configure an entry for them under "Music" main menu. Huh, I have to go out now.
It says there is an empty collection, fill it. It proposes to enter the archive section or remove entry from menu. I enter. Add music. A dialog opens. Browse or search. The list is a bit confusing, but one entry is for the filesystem root. Select the directory that has the music, then it will prompt for a name to give, by default the directory name. Then Ok. It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot. It is still searching, I don't use Kodi for audio. For videos it searches on internet and finds descriptions of them. Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers. I use a little machine with external big disks as home server and media machine to watch TV, and here Kodi works well. It crashes often, though. And als hangs sometimes, so I start it directly from a terminal son that I can do "control-C" on the terminal and kill it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpIAdsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Vx4wCfXQ5jH6C/3/+vQ21lvGOB0TL1 4CMAni4H3u6ioLR6U+LcKX1TWKIsDFn+ =YOEj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:15:01 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 21:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 20:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so.
It is confusing initially, I agree. I had the same problem.
You do not need to import directories, but configure an entry for them under "Music" main menu. Huh, I have to go out now.
It says there is an empty collection, fill it. It proposes to enter the archive section or remove entry from menu. I enter. Add music. A dialog opens. Browse or search. The list is a bit confusing, but one entry is for the filesystem root. Select the directory that has the music, then it will prompt for a name to give, by default the directory name. Then Ok.
That's what I did. I've just done it again.
It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot.
On my machine it finishes scanning with a music source called Music (the name of the top-level directory) and the directory structure under that, but not the actual music files. The second time produced the same but with the source called Music(2). :(
Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers.
Well, it claims to run on pretty much anything. So far it hasn't crashed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2017-12-31 00:27, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:15:01 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 21:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 20:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so.
It is confusing initially, I agree. I had the same problem.
You do not need to import directories, but configure an entry for them under "Music" main menu. Huh, I have to go out now.
It says there is an empty collection, fill it. It proposes to enter the archive section or remove entry from menu. I enter. Add music. A dialog opens. Browse or search. The list is a bit confusing, but one entry is for the filesystem root. Select the directory that has the music, then it will prompt for a name to give, by default the directory name. Then Ok.
That's what I did. I've just done it again.
It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot.
On my machine it finishes scanning with a music source called Music (the name of the top-level directory) and the directory structure under that, but not the actual music files. The second time produced the same but with the source called Music(2). :(
I had not used it before for music and I don't quite like it. Try this. On the top of the "Music" page I have a row named "Categories". At the right end of that row it will say "Archives". This is the actual directory and file view. Hit enter on one of the files and it starts playing that file, then the next...
Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers.
Well, it claims to run on pretty much anything. So far it hasn't crashed.
Yes, it does runs on a lot of hardware, it is true. Android phones, for instance. It is a very good program :-) What I meant with "not exactly for computers" I meant that it is often used on things that do not have actually a keyboard and mouse. It may be an infrared remote like on TVs. For playing music on a computer I prefer other things, like Clementine, Amarok, Audacious... there are a number of good audio players, some complex, some simple. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:42:58 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2017-12-31 00:27, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:15:01 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 21:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 20:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so.
It is confusing initially, I agree. I had the same problem.
You do not need to import directories, but configure an entry for them under "Music" main menu. Huh, I have to go out now.
It says there is an empty collection, fill it. It proposes to enter the archive section or remove entry from menu. I enter. Add music. A dialog opens. Browse or search. The list is a bit confusing, but one entry is for the filesystem root. Select the directory that has the music, then it will prompt for a name to give, by default the directory name. Then Ok.
That's what I did. I've just done it again.
It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot.
On my machine it finishes scanning with a music source called Music (the name of the top-level directory) and the directory structure under that, but not the actual music files. The second time produced the same but with the source called Music(2). :(
I had not used it before for music and I don't quite like it.
Try this. On the top of the "Music" page I have a row named "Categories".
Ah, I don't? I have a list with Playlists at the top, Files in the middle and Music add-ons at the bottom.
At the right end of that row it will say "Archives".
I don't see Archives anywhere.
This is the actual directory and file view.
The Files item is the actual directory and file view on my machine.
Hit enter on one of the files and it starts playing that file, then the next...
But as I say, it shows me the directory structure but there are no files shown in the directories.
Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers.
Well, it claims to run on pretty much anything. So far it hasn't crashed.
Yes, it does runs on a lot of hardware, it is true. Android phones, for instance.
It is a very good program :-)
What I meant with "not exactly for computers" I meant that it is often used on things that do not have actually a keyboard and mouse. It may be an infrared remote like on TVs.
For playing music on a computer I prefer other things, like Clementine, Amarok, Audacious... there are a number of good audio players, some complex, some simple.
Yeah, I was just experimenting. I tried its photo album and find that worse than various other programs, so I thought I'd try the music and so far that's a total fail. I don't watch videos much on my PC. So I don't think kodi is a very good program for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Op zondag 31 december 2017 12:52:10 CET schreef Dave Howorth:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:42:58 +0100
"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2017-12-31 00:27, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:15:01 +0100 (CET)
"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 21:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 20:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I
have several questions: (3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy
to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to
use program but so far, very much not so.
It is confusing initially, I agree. I had the same problem.
You do not need to import directories, but configure an entry for them under "Music" main menu. Huh, I have to go out now.
It says there is an empty collection, fill it. It proposes to enter the archive section or remove entry from menu. I enter. Add music. A dialog opens. Browse or search. The list is a bit confusing, but one entry is for the filesystem root. Select the directory that has the music, then it will prompt for a name to give, by default the directory name. Then Ok.
That's what I did. I've just done it again.
It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot.
On my machine it finishes scanning with a music source called Music (the name of the top-level directory) and the directory structure under that, but not the actual music files. The second time produced the same but with the source called Music(2). :(
I had not used it before for music and I don't quite like it.
Try this. On the top of the "Music" page I have a row named "Categories".
Ah, I don't? I have a list with Playlists at the top, Files in the middle and Music add-ons at the bottom.
At the right end of that row it will say "Archives".
I don't see Archives anywhere.
This is the actual directory and file view.
The Files item is the actual directory and file view on my machine.
Hit enter on one of the files and it starts playing that file, then the next...
But as I say, it shows me the directory structure but there are no files shown in the directories.
Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers.
Well, it claims to run on pretty much anything. So far it hasn't crashed.
Yes, it does runs on a lot of hardware, it is true. Android phones, for instance.
It is a very good program :-)
What I meant with "not exactly for computers" I meant that it is often used on things that do not have actually a keyboard and mouse. It may be an infrared remote like on TVs.
For playing music on a computer I prefer other things, like Clementine, Amarok, Audacious... there are a number of good audio players, some complex, some simple.
Yeah, I was just experimenting. I tried its photo album and find that worse than various other programs, so I thought I'd try the music and so far that's a total fail. I don't watch videos much on my PC. So I don't think kodi is a very good program for me.
There are some good Android apps to remotely control Kodi, and it has a nice webinterface ( enable first ). JFYI. -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2017-12-31 at 11:52 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:42:58 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot.
On my machine it finishes scanning with a music source called Music (the name of the top-level directory) and the directory structure under that, but not the actual music files. The second time produced the same but with the source called Music(2). :(
I had not used it before for music and I don't quite like it.
Try this. On the top of the "Music" page I have a row named "Categories".
Ah, I don't? I have a list with Playlists at the top, Files in the middle and Music add-ons at the bottom.
At the right end of that row it will say "Archives".
I don't see Archives anywhere.
This is the actual directory and file view.
The Files item is the actual directory and file view on my machine.
I was translating from Spanish. It is the same thing.
Hit enter on one of the files and it starts playing that file, then the next...
But as I say, it shows me the directory structure but there are no files shown in the directories.
Maybe you did not install it complete (from packman) and it does not recognize the extensions.
Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers.
Well, it claims to run on pretty much anything. So far it hasn't crashed.
Yes, it does runs on a lot of hardware, it is true. Android phones, for instance.
It is a very good program :-)
What I meant with "not exactly for computers" I meant that it is often used on things that do not have actually a keyboard and mouse. It may be an infrared remote like on TVs.
For playing music on a computer I prefer other things, like Clementine, Amarok, Audacious... there are a number of good audio players, some complex, some simple.
Yeah, I was just experimenting. I tried its photo album and find that worse than various other programs, so I thought I'd try the music and so far that's a total fail. I don't watch videos much on my PC. So I don't think kodi is a very good program for me.
I did not know it handled photos. It is a good idea for the TV set on the sitting room ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpI51QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Up/QCfU70Nukc8ihydATwrSUzeiQSt sOsAoI2CxqEWX4QST+dQpP+WNcBJlOsc =GP0x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:34:12 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Sunday, 2017-12-31 at 11:52 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:42:58 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot.
On my machine it finishes scanning with a music source called Music (the name of the top-level directory) and the directory structure under that, but not the actual music files. The second time produced the same but with the source called Music(2). :(
I had not used it before for music and I don't quite like it.
Try this. On the top of the "Music" page I have a row named "Categories".
Ah, I don't? I have a list with Playlists at the top, Files in the middle and Music add-ons at the bottom.
At the right end of that row it will say "Archives".
I don't see Archives anywhere.
This is the actual directory and file view.
The Files item is the actual directory and file view on my machine.
I was translating from Spanish. It is the same thing.
Ah, OK.
Hit enter on one of the files and it starts playing that file, then the next...
But as I say, it shows me the directory structure but there are no files shown in the directories.
Maybe you did not install it complete (from packman) and it does not recognize the extensions.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I installed kodi from packman. I read somewhere that it does not use file extensions to recognize files, and my music filenames do not have extensions. They are tagged ID3 version 2.3.0 according to 'file' though. Or did you mean addons? I didn't install any addons. There are so manyand I've no idea what they all do. I assume that kodi will be smart enough to tell me if it needs one.
Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers.
Well, it claims to run on pretty much anything. So far it hasn't crashed.
Yes, it does runs on a lot of hardware, it is true. Android phones, for instance.
It is a very good program :-)
What I meant with "not exactly for computers" I meant that it is often used on things that do not have actually a keyboard and mouse. It may be an infrared remote like on TVs.
For playing music on a computer I prefer other things, like Clementine, Amarok, Audacious... there are a number of good audio players, some complex, some simple.
Yeah, I was just experimenting. I tried its photo album and find that worse than various other programs, so I thought I'd try the music and so far that's a total fail. I don't watch videos much on my PC. So I don't think kodi is a very good program for me.
I did not know it handled photos. It is a good idea for the TV set on the sitting room ;-)
Showing photos from a USB stick is about the only thing my TV is smart enough to do! :) (I like a dumb TV that doesn't phone home or let some third-party access it. Ditto with infrared remotes versus devices connected over the intertubes.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2017-12-31 16:34, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:34:12 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
I was translating from Spanish. It is the same thing.
Ah, OK.
Hit enter on one of the files and it starts playing that file, then the next...
But as I say, it shows me the directory structure but there are no files shown in the directories.
Maybe you did not install it complete (from packman) and it does not recognize the extensions.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I installed kodi from packman. I read somewhere that it does not use file extensions to recognize files, and my music filenames do not have extensions. They are tagged ID3 version 2.3.0 according to 'file' though.
Or did you mean addons? I didn't install any addons. There are so manyand I've no idea what they all do. I assume that kodi will be smart enough to tell me if it needs one.
I don't know if it is. I also do not know which addons are necessary, I installed the entire bunch.
I did not know it handled photos. It is a good idea for the TV set on the sitting room ;-)
Showing photos from a USB stick is about the only thing my TV is smart enough to do! :) (I like a dumb TV that doesn't phone home or let some third-party access it. Ditto with infrared remotes versus devices connected over the intertubes.)
:-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
Op zaterdag 30 december 2017 21:03:34 CET schreef Dave Howorth:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(1) it doesn't seem to handle the mouse and keyboard well. Moving the mouse seems to change keyboard focus sometimes, and it 's not clear to me when I can use the keyboard and when the mouse. There seems to be no consistency. What's the UI model?
(2) It comes up full screen. Is there any way to persuade it to be a window?
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so. Kodi goes to window-mode by " \ " IIRC
-- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:08:18 +0100 Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
Op zaterdag 30 december 2017 21:03:34 CET schreef Dave Howorth:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(1) it doesn't seem to handle the mouse and keyboard well. Moving the mouse seems to change keyboard focus sometimes, and it 's not clear to me when I can use the keyboard and when the mouse. There seems to be no consistency. What's the UI model?
(2) It comes up full screen. Is there any way to persuade it to be a window?
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so. Kodi goes to window-mode by " \ " IIRC
Thanks, that works, at least! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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