For IPTV, in 4.1, with Kodi front end....
Just wondered how the two work to play live TV?
Does Kodi PVR front end for TVH (TVheadend PVR Client) get a mux stream URL from TVH and then pass that to the OMXplayer in Kodi (Im using OMX) which I think uses ffmpeg to surface the frames to the display.
OR
Does TVH provide a feed (say ffmpeg) stream from the mux, and broadcast this stream over the LAN to the Kodi front end which then uses ffmpeg again to display , meaning some duplication of effort and unnecessary CPU loading particular if client_+server are on the same [powerful] host [PC]? N ; if this is indeed what happens, would it not be more efficient for TVH to simply provide the front end with a URL which the front end can then play locally rather than have all this duplication.
Or
something else?
cheers