Magnus, who said I gave up on it? And I'm not one that has claimed to want a refund.
I know; I was talking to Norman there. What I can tell you is that the author of this fork of Kodi (Davilla) is responsible for more OS X and AppleTV support than anyone I can think of. From what I've read he will be adding new features to MrMC that Kodi could have used for a long time (e.g. video tagging support) and hopefully that will find its way back to Kodi as well.
Given the average person out there seems happy with Plex (transcoding galore), I'm hard pressed to find a better media center replacement for Apple TV at this stage that can stand on its own without a second computer server. Infuse 4 looks promising, but Kodi for me has a lot of flexibility in adjusting how the movie database is presented in terms of appearance, scrolling descriptions, collections, etc. Hopefully the back porting will make both products better in the long run.
with any reliability. But since I am a paying customer I'll feel very damned free to register my issues with its shortcomings.
Go right ahead. I'm not stopping you. I just found some of Norman's comments a bit absurd, especially about the GUI OSD. He isn't just upset. He thinks it's 1990s looking (odd thing to say IMO given I don't recall any large scale media centers in the 1990s and DVD players didn't have that kind of OSD either) and 'wants a refund' (as if $5.99 was too much to ask for something that makes a $150-200 box actually usable for many people that it would not otherwise really be given the limitations Apple has consistently placed on what media it allows to play (and doesn't encourage you to add your own at all) rather than see if it gets fixed.
Frankly, based on the response he knew what he was getting into (apparently having Kodi elsewhere) and despite knowing it had Python removed and other things, bought it anyway and then whined about the interface he KNEW THAT IT HAD. But even though I have XBMC Eden on two devices and one netbook and Kodi Isengard on two more devices and two more computers and Kodi 16 Jarvis beta 3 on my Mac server, I'm apparently unfamiliar with the GUI and so I should not comment on the GUI or Kodi behaviors that they have in common.
He doesn't own ATV with MrMc nor Nvidia Shield with Kodi. He just own two Amazon sticks that does not support Kodi officially.
I own THREE Apple TVs (two with XBMC and one with Kodi) so I'm quite familiar with Apple's basic GUI and Kodi's GUI and MrMC isn't that different (yet).
I don't know WTF you're even bringing up the Nvidia Shield for. Where did that even come from? I've never mentioned it and I've never talked about it. The Nvidia Shield has no Amazon player support so what good is it to me in terms of doing something new for me (unless I wanted it to game which I do not)? The same is also still true of the Apple TV Four for that matter.
if he is happy with his amazon sticks, performance and UI are not his priority.
You do seem to enjoy putting words in people's mouths, I'll give you that. Where did I say I was "happy" anywhere in this thread??? I got FireTV Sticks because they are more than adequate for both playing my own 480p,720p,1080p based library AND Amazon Video (seeing I'm a Prime member i would like to be able to watch shows like The Man in the High Castle on my televisions without having to resort to mirroring my computer over Airplay). So Kodi is no longer "officially" supported. WTF does THAT have to do with anything? Sideloading a FireTV with adbFire is little different than installing a DMG off the net for OS X or a package for Linux. It's 100% the real deal. Now Kodi for ARM may have a few glitches compared to Windows, but it's still being actively developed. I recently put Kodi Jarvis beta 3 on my Mac and it fixed the visualizer issue Isengard had and now supports proper detection of 7.1 and 6.1 DTS soundtracks and decoding them both to PCM over HDMI. Not bad for a few months since the final Isengard update came out.
More importantly, exactly what UI or performance issue am I
supposed to be having? It handles 1080p with total aplomb and can even transcode DTS/DTS-HD MA to Dolby Digital in real time while 1080p is playing. So what
performance issue am I having??? Your new Apple TV doesn't do 4k so that cannot be the performance issue you're referring to so WTF are you talking about? If I wanted 4k, I would have gotten a different device. 4K projectors are prohibitively expensive right now and I'm sitting near the edge of full 1080p resolving as it is relative to my 93" screen size. Given FireTV sticks could be had as little as $25 a couple of weeks ago on sale, I had little to lose to try them out. It does no preclude me buying an AppleTV 4 or even your NVidia Shield should the software support improve on them (I do have more rooms like my exercise room I could put the FireTVs into should I replace it. I also have prior generation AppleTVs in both my viewing rooms as well (The Netflix viewer is definitely better on AppleTV right now than FireTV due to some issue that arose in the last Neflix update).
Thus, I'm under the distinct impression at this point you either are trolling or have no idea about any of these devices. I've also more than noticed you never addressed a single point raised but keep on telling me how little I know and how I should just shut up without raising a single response and to me that type of behavior is definitely pushing me towards the latter conclusion.
