Then, I can stream my audio and video collection from my other gaming/play PCs, while slide-showing (is that a verb?) my recent photographs from the study PC (using smooth transitions and optional Ken Burns fades). To summarise it's main features, I watch cable TV, complete with on-the-box channel changing, pause live TV as with Sky +, have an excellent and detailed Electronic Program Guide (EPG) that beats all other Vendor supplied EPGs (and switches on the PC, updates itself during the night and switches off again if need be), can pre-select to record programs (to hard drive) or simply hit the record button when I'm tired and ask it to stop when the current progam is complete (and switch off), then pop in later, cut out ads, and dump the lot to DVD. I tried a few HTPC packages (Home Theatre PC) and rapidly found that Media Portal wins hands down on all fronts, surpassing ALL commercial packages. I recently bought a high end PC for the express purpose of providing music, video, dvd, and wireless gaming for my family living area. I temporally disabled the firewall and rechecked Kodi but it still showed the same problem symptoms.I cannot recommend this software (nor it's web site and forum users) highly enough. I checked the firewall settings on the MP2 Server and all looks in order. I reenabled the MythTv PVR client and kodi connected to our Ubuntu Myth box an run live TV immediately on the same network segment. I checked another laptop running Kodi and it was the same on both. It is the same when you try to playback a recording. It looked like we were in business but when I select any channel it spins up the revolving Working Message for 5 seconds and stops without any error message. With this in place I stopped getting the connections lost errors messages in Kodi and it loaded up the schedules on start-up like it does when it detects a live PVR client. I checked in Windows to see thart the shares were there and manually stopped and restarted the MP2-Service, I set up shares for the recordings and time shift folders using the suggested UI from inside the SetupTV app in the TVServerKodi plugin section.

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