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I quite like Kodi and I really appreciate the work of the people that make it available for free. But it seems rather buggy. I've had several versions of Kodi

I quite like Kodi and I really appreciate the work of the people that make it available for free. But it seems rather buggy. I've had several versions of Kodi installed on 2 different media PCs. Each version was flakey in a different way. The current version (v18.0) won't let us see (or cancel) shows that we set up to record. So every time they re-run 'Impossible Engineering' (which is often) they all get recorded again. But I'm nervous about upgrading in case the more recent version is even more buggy!

cf100clunk 4y ago
> The current version (v18.0) I'm thinking you meant the version installed on your device. Have you tried upgrading to at least 19.4? The improvement in fit and polish will likely be quite clear.
- hermitcrab 4y ago
  >I'm thinking you meant the version installed on your device. Yes, that is what I meant. I should have been clearer. >Have you tried upgrading to at least 19.4? No. Should I? Each time I have upgraded previously it seems to have fixed some bugs and introduced others. How stable is v19.4 or v19.5?
  - cf100clunk 4y ago
    Daily driver that I've mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34175171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34175171
xen2xen1 4y ago
So, not long ago I pulled out an old Xbox OG, and started setting up XBMC. I turned on some UPNP stuff, and I locked up. I had to reboot the Xbox. I did the EXACT SAME THING on my PC a month later, had the exact same lockup. I had to task manager kill it. I was not impressed, seeing the same bug 10? software years later?
thefz 4y ago
It can be quirky sometimes but I remember it being the only player correctly offloading decoding work to the GPU on Linux (so no stuttering) when 90% of the others required manually intervening on the compositor.