> I can't even show photos from there on the Apple TV
BUG to apple!
I have an ancient laptop running linux serving usb disks using samba. Kodi works just fine for my mp4 rips of my dvd collection. Kodi works just fine to show photos. Works just fine as a mythtv frontend!
Kodi on a pine64 single board tv box, kodi on a droid smart tv, kodi on any laptop or desktop on the local network of which there are a few.
For the apple tv to view the served content it actually works best to use vlc browsing the share of the smb as served by the pine64 box which is low enough power to just leave on. It's garbage.
The kodi devs are of course far too stupid to make their software that works on everything I've heard of with enough cpu power also work on an appletv - no wait - of course they can. Apple banned them for $reasons. Apparently there is some gutted version of kodi you can pay for in the apple store that probably works (scripting removed, re-skinned, claiming to be original, looks like a pretty shifty move) but I don't vouch for it at all.
Apple are exactly what you know they are. Let's think on that time apple destroyed the record collection of every non-geek you know stored on their ipod with a beautiful "sync". Every non-geek old enough to own an ipod has that story, you can check! The KINGS of user-friendly right there. You can really see why Microsoft want to copy them so badly. "Apple get away with wha..? Ok we can beat that!"
BUG to apple!
I have an ancient laptop running linux serving usb disks using samba. Kodi works just fine for my mp4 rips of my dvd collection. Kodi works just fine to show photos. Works just fine as a mythtv frontend!
Kodi on a pine64 single board tv box, kodi on a droid smart tv, kodi on any laptop or desktop on the local network of which there are a few.
For the apple tv to view the served content it actually works best to use vlc browsing the share of the smb as served by the pine64 box which is low enough power to just leave on. It's garbage.
The kodi devs are of course far too stupid to make their software that works on everything I've heard of with enough cpu power also work on an appletv - no wait - of course they can. Apple banned them for $reasons. Apparently there is some gutted version of kodi you can pay for in the apple store that probably works (scripting removed, re-skinned, claiming to be original, looks like a pretty shifty move) but I don't vouch for it at all.
Apple are exactly what you know they are. Let's think on that time apple destroyed the record collection of every non-geek you know stored on their ipod with a beautiful "sync". Every non-geek old enough to own an ipod has that story, you can check! The KINGS of user-friendly right there. You can really see why Microsoft want to copy them so badly. "Apple get away with wha..? Ok we can beat that!"