Category: NZTekonverse -> Kodi

  • Using Kodi with multiple monitors is abysmal.

    Kodi is a great media player except for how it handles display settings. One of the areas that will really trip it up is when your computer has multiple monitors, especially if they have different resolutions. What I am generally seeing in my experience with multiple monitors is that Kodi’s default if it is the…

  • Using a Windows 10 computer as a media player

    UPDATE 19-10-7: Due to cost the Win10PC was put into an old obsolete chassis and parked in a corner of the room so it can be used when needed but it will not sit on my desk and will hardly ever be used. This was accomplished using an identical spare G-E350 WIN8 mainboard and the…

  • Raspberry Pi [4]: Raspberry Pi vs Chromecast

    I last wrote about my Raspberry Pi back in July, and since then it hasn’t been used. I decided against using it to play videos because it had some trouble playing some of the ones in my collection. At this point I went back to playback from a computer, and subsequently pc4 was used for…

  • Free Linux video editors

    Well when I rip my DVDs with a software program and the music all comes out on my computer as one file then I need to split that file into tracks and I need a simple editor to do that. Avidemux is good except for this one time where I have a file that is…

  • Artful release date set for 19 October

    So the date for the Artful release (17.10) of Xubuntu has been set for 19 October, about eight weeks away. I have been running it on all three of my Linux computers for several months and have noticed only a few minor issues.  Mainly the issues boiled down to: In a number of cases I…

  • Xubuntu Core 17.10

    Well there is going to be a Xubuntu 17.10 out soon so I decided to jump into the deep end with it and install it onto the second media computer (the one in my bedroom). To get the core edition you need the mini.iso for netboot, and while this isn’t officially available for Artful, you…

  • Xubuntu 17.04, Kodi 17.1

    Well the bedroom pc (AMD E350) had to be reinstalled because it needed more disk space for storing videos etc and I had assigned the larger disk entirely to Linux (500 GB) and only left a 320 GB partition for my stuff which was almost full. I reinstalled completely with the latest release of Xubuntu…

  • Linux So Far [2]

    Obviously a bugbear of any platform is that the software you want to run isn’t always available for the platform and these days it is not unusual to have several computers running multiple platforms if you are a power user. I have had to maintain at least one Windows computer since I switched to Linux,…

  • Kodi Media Player on Xubuntu

    Last time I was looking at putting Kodibuntu onto a low spec computer (in this case a AMD E350 as I have a couple of those and they are not much use for anything else). I duly did install the Kodibuntu image but there was no sound on the computer when it was set up.…

  • More Xubuntu

    As a result of rearranging things in the house and having three computers in one room, I now have three Xubuntu computers in the house and one Windows 8.1 computer. One of those Xubuntu computers is acting as a media player with Kodi. The function of the Windows computer is mostly to do with hardware…