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2016-01-08, 02:48
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-08, 02:50 by Ned Scott.)
Meh, I always think of Kodi as a video player for a user's local media.
However, there is a huge opportunity with Android and the fact that there are so many different streaming services. Imagine Kodi indexing all of the shows from all of the services you have (Netflix, Hulu, etc), and then you use the Kodi UI to browse everything. When you find a show or movie you want to watch, Kodi launches the native Android app and goes directly to that video.
vs having to wade through each individual app to figure out what shows/movies are available.
Kodi would need a way to pass on the app-specific URL to the external app, maybe as an "external player" in an strm file, and have some way of generating these entries (strm file generator or an add-on). Whatever creates the index could then exclude anything you have an actual local copy of. A single library UI that lets you browse/filter/search your local library and online content. Sure, it would be great if they also used the same player UI/app, but I would kill for even this kind of "launcher" approach.
It's possible to do this on platforms other than Android (and this has been done with Netflix via browsers), but Android has official clients that are also remote-control friendly.
* Ned Scott wipes away his drool.
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The unfortunate reality is that kodi is too small to get these guys to the table. Also, doesn't help that local storage is antithetical to their business models.
But maybe kodi could have a role to play as a bridge between the people who store locally and these companies? A half-way house that shifts them from download-and-storers to high quality streamers.
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Certainly not a threat, as great number of people like myself just don't trust any of these streaming services and prefer to keep all our media local. At least with a local file I'll always have guaranteed access, while with streaming services you're at the mercy of changes to your account whether price or how accounts are structured, plus stuff is constantly being removed from these services due to rights expiring and not being renewed.
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2016-01-09, 11:57
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-09, 11:57 by da-anda.)
I use both - streaming services mostly for tv-shows and Kodi for my local library, so I don't see how these couldn't coexist. And I usually prefer the much better quality of my local library vs the reduced bitrate streaming stuff. And as broadband is still not available everywhere in a good enough quality to f.e. allow multiple 1080p streams in a house hold, offline content/media is still the way to go
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A threat to kodi? Let's assume a thing like a threat exists for a product like kodi, then I'd say it is definitely a threat. Looking at my 14 year old niece coming generations will most probably not even know local media even exists.
I grew up with tapes, vinyl, cds, vhs, dvds and later began transferring these on my harddrives and NAS. Perfect for media consumption with kodi. But even I'm beginning to see the advantages of online content, cloud solutions and such as these services are getting better and better and are affordable. The huge downside is these cannot be accessed with kodi. So there is growing a part of my media collection that I can't use kodi with. Sad thing but it's true. Sadly all the online services have set up walls to access them, that kodi so far can't overcome.
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Can these formats you are talking about be played in Kodi? I'm still buying dvds, because blu ray in kodi is still not really fully functional if I'm still informed correctly.
However, even these things will eventually move to the cloud and streaming services.
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But what if Netflix comes on Kodi as a add-on ? A Simple addon from them officially on Kodi could be great. Imagine streaming 1080p streams from Netflix on a 5 dollar Raspberry pi
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(2016-01-08, 15:21)JinJin Wrote: @ned scott
something like this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/...r-t3281310
NICE!