Kodi front end and TVH backend players

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

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RE: Kodi front end and TVH backend players - Added by Robert Cameron over 7 years ago

The only additional processing that TVH will do is if you have set up a streaming profile that is other than pass. In that case, TVH must manipulate the stream it is receiving into the format requested by the user's stream profile.

If however you are just using the pass format, the stream is passed unmodified from TVH to Kodi. Recording and streaming video is quite easy on the CPU if you are not transcoding, as all you are doing is passing packets across the network; the biggest point of strain in the process will be the network interface.

RE: Kodi front end and TVH backend players - Added by Daz Egar over 7 years ago

cheers Robert, I managed to work TVH out over last few weeks

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