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Kodi is an open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for HTPCs.

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Kodi is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for HTPCs.

It uses a 10-foot user interface and is designed to be a media player for the living-room, using a remote control as the primary input device.

Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around.

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This subreddit does not support discussion or links pertaining to gray area or illegal add-ons (such as genesis or icefilms) for Kodi made by 3rd party developers. Any such links or discussion will be removed. For discussion of those add-ons, feel free to visit /r/Addons4Kodi.

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Xbox 360 blade skin?

I have an OG Xbox with XBMC4XBox, with JX720, a skin that mimics the Xbox 360 blades from 2005-2006. Was wondering if there was an updated version for modern-day XBMC, AKA Kodi.

Love that skin and dashboard, it was the best thing Microsoft ever made.

1 Comment
2024/03/13
03:21 UTC

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Is there a decent web browser that works on 20.3 for LibreElec?

I know Kodi isn't meant for this.

But I have a mini PC with LibreElec and it would make a lot of sense if I could do a little light web browsing.

Is there anything available that works well?

5 Comments
2024/03/13
00:45 UTC

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Kodi 20.5 - no tv-shows playing

Trying to get the tv shows to play from UPnp. Any help?

have:

  • kodi 20.5 (server) on macos
  • kodi 20.5 (client) on android
  • have movies and tv shows loaded and see the poster board for both.
    • movies are all in one folder (movies/moviefile)
    • tv shows are on in their own sub folders (tv/<tv-show-name-folder>all seasons movie files
  • files shared through UPnP
  • how I play them
    • main screen > select category > enter files section > select UPnP > my UPnP > video library > Movies/tv > recently added > play file

works

client and server

  • movies
    • movies/moviefile all work

server

  • tv shows

Issue:

client ( no issue in server, behavior expected)

  • in tv shows total number of files are showing but
  • 1 - can't play them
    • but can't actually play them
      • both in recently added lists
  • 2 - if I go to the poster for the show it doesn't load up the episodes instead goes back to the previous screen where the tv show poster is.

1 Comment
2024/03/13
00:36 UTC

1

The TVDB V4

Has anyone have this working? I'm using latest Linux Mint, Kodi. I went thru set up but the pin part I used The TVDB account id. Still no luck.

3 Comments
2024/03/12
22:42 UTC

2

What streaming device?

Hi :) I am looking for streaming device for my old tv and video content for trips. I would like to have definitely kodi and Netflix or Xbox game pass app would be not bad. I don't have little money but Nvidia devices are to expensive. Sorry for my english and thanks :)

44 Comments
2024/03/12
18:47 UTC

0

Kodi on iOS in Europe?

Now that Apple is opening up to external apps will kodi have an official version in Europe?

1 Comment
2024/03/12
14:03 UTC

3

Kodi Video playback freezes after about 8 seconds

Hi all,

I am having issues playing videos with Kodi on my Steam Deck. I installed Kodi from Flatpack, except for adding the video sources and changing the skin to estouchy nothing has been changed.

I tried couple of video files but so far all videos have had the same issue.

log: https://pastebin.com/3ePDatwk

anyone an idea?

1 Comment
2024/03/12
11:07 UTC

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HDR won't activate without Mediacodec (Surface) mode

Hi! I run kodi-21.0-Omega_rc1-armeabi-v7a on Googe Chromecast wGTV, and I'm trying to play HDR videos in 4K resolution (h265 encoded).
The thing is, playback is wrong in both cases:

  • If I enable Mediacodec (Surface) -- HDR plays properly, BUT video stutters. Like, tiny lags every few seconds. And I'm sure that LAN and WiFi is alright, other player plays same file just fine.
  • If I disable Surface and play only with Mediacodec -- HDR won't start, it renders colors wrong and TV doesn't go into HDR mode. 

So my question is - how do I fix HDR playback? Basically I need to fix stuttering in Surface mode or figure out how to enable HDR without Surface, any help will be very appreciated.

2 Comments
2024/03/12
10:35 UTC

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KODI installed as a flatpak will not recognise Textures.xbt

Hey all,

I've switched to installing KODI via a flatpak on linux, however I've noticed that my Textures.xbt is no longer working. I've used flatseal to give KODI access to the following folder

/home/neon/.var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi/data/addons/skin.unity/media/

but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. What else am I missing here?

2 Comments
2024/03/12
06:35 UTC

3

Screensaver with music

Hi. Please can someone help me... I am looking for a Screensaver that will load my pictures from a folder when the unit is idle, but also play music from my Spotify account. I find Screensaver that do the pictures but nothing that can do both...

1 Comment
2024/03/12
04:25 UTC

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Can Kodi totally ignore one LIRC IR remote, not even turning on video output?

I use one remote for controlling Kodi, and another for controlling other things. Kodi is configured to only perform actions in response to keys on the remote I use for it. The other remote doesn't perform any actions in Kodi, but it always turns on Kodi HDMI video output, which was shut down by the screen saver. How can I prevent the other remote from turning on video output?

This is with Kodi 20.3 on a Raspberry Pi in Raspbian Bookworm.

One potential solution is to write a program that filters LIRC events, only sending events from one particular remote to Kodi. I'm hoping to avoid that.

4 Comments
2024/03/11
15:50 UTC

1

20.5 Nexus

Is it just me or is this update slick? Like shit off a shovel last night after the update.

2 Comments
2024/03/11
12:03 UTC

5

ELI5-style UPNP question that's probably been answered a million times before but I can't find!

So I run Kodi off my Mac, with a 5TB external HDD holding my media library. I consider this my main server origin as this is where I do all my scraping/amending etc.

For the rest of the apartment, I have a Firestick on a bedroom television and the Xbox in the living room, both of which run Kodi absolutely fine, and I’m already able to use UPNP to stream on these as a 'filetree' style interface (additionally I'd like to be able to stream to my iPad and my partner's but I'm not feeling inclined to go down the jailbreak route!).

So my question is basically this; via UPNP (or alternative options), is there any way that the interface of my Kodi apps on the other two devices can mimic what I see on the Mac? My library currently consists of around 700 movies and 50 TV shows that I’ve been through, added into sets (including some custom ones), amended artwork etc and I’d like for that to be replicated on my other devices.

When looking for something to watch with my partner I would love the Wall layout and the ability to look at a synopsis without having to get up and gather round the Mac before settling down in front of it!

I apologise if this has been asked a lot before or if it's a basic 'no, you can't do it' but just thought I'd best ask!

7 Comments
2024/03/11
11:45 UTC

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What could cause frame skipping on some videos and not others? (roughly same bitrate, resolution, and framerate)

E.g. I have two movies:

  1. Hot Rod
  • video bitrate: 2000kbps
  • resolution: 1920 x 818
  • fps: 23.98
  • audio bitrate: 224kbps
  • file size: 1.37GB
  • runtime: 1h 28m
  1. The Matrix
  • video bitrate: 2000kbps
  • resolution: 1920 x 800
  • fps: 23.98
  • audio bitrate: 223kbps
  • file size: 2.12GB
  • runtime: 2h 16m

They both are HEVC and use AAC audio. They also both were muxed by Lavf58.20.100. The only notable difference I could find between the files (aside from the runtime and file size) using ffmpeg was the tbn (24k for Hot Rod, vs 1200k for The Matrix.)

Hot Rod plays perfectly fine, while The Matrix has awful frame skipping (not just during action scenes, but constantly throughout the entire movie.) It's not just The Matrix, I also have this issue with other movies (and like Hot Rod, other movies play fine.) I cannot figure out what could cause some to play smoothly and others so poorly despite having near identical characteristics.

I even used ffmpeg to split the video files up for The Matrix into 1h parts, so it was

  • The Matrix (1999) part1.mp4
  • The Matrix (1999) part2.mp4
  • The Matrix (1999) part3.mp4

But the frame skipping in Kodi remained.

This issue is occurring for me in Kodi on the Chromecast with Google TV HD. Playing the videos in VLC does not cause this issue (unfortunately, VLC on Android TV does not use the correct aspect ratio for movies — you have to manually select the aspect ratio for each video (assuming it's even one of the options listed.))

I tried sideloading Kodi 19.5 and 18.9 in case it was an issue with Kodi 20 on Android TV, but it didn't help. Just in case it was that the USB-port was too slow, I copied The Matrix part1 to the internal storage, but it still frame-skipped.

Using Kodi on my laptop, The Matrix plays perfectly fine. However, while the Chromecast with Google TV does have weaker hardware, it can play the movie without frame skipping in VLC, and some movies of similar characteristics do play well in Kodi. Does anyone have any idea as to what could be causing this poor performance on some movies in Kodi? I'm perfectly fine re-encoding videos if it'd be an easy fix to improve performance, but I'm not even sure what settings I should use to help make things play better.

5 Comments
2024/03/11
09:48 UTC

1

Trailers Autoplay on Kodi - Arctic Zephyr Reloaded

Hi guys, I have Kodi on my TV using Arctic Zephyr Reloaded. I set it up a while ago and managed to get trailers working upon hover over tiles. Well and good. I now have a Pi4 running LibreELEC and using the same skin. I can't seem to figure out how to get the trailers to work. I have the YT plugin and the IMDB plugin in there but am I missing something? Thanks

2 Comments
2024/03/10
22:32 UTC

1

Best option for automated library updates with Kodi on Fire Stick/Cube and shared MySQL DB?

Not seeing the answer to this question anywhere in Reddit or random Google searches so hopefully someone out there has a similar setup. I've fully migrated my multiple Raspberry Pi/LibreELEC setup to a couple Fire TV Sticks and a Fire TV Cube using MySQL as my shared database still. I'd like to run Kodi somewhere 24/7 so I can automate Update/Clean Library on notification/schedule.

I'm thinking my best option is to run Kodi in a container on my main PC or maybe repurpose one of my Raspberry Pi's. Anyone found the lowest effort/complexity option for keeping a shared Kodi library updated when media changes for a setup like this? I haven't found a way to make it work with the Fire TV devices due to app not staying running 24/7.

5 Comments
2024/03/10
20:20 UTC

1

Uploading to remote Kodi system

Looking for suggestions please. I have a family member who has Libreelec/Kodi installed on a raspberry pi3 with 4 powered hdd's attached. I would like a way to access the system remotely and upload files to it for them (ie store them on the attached hdd's, rather than stream). The Pi has a static IP assigned, and they are on StarLink. Anyone setup anything similar?

Anyone used a VPN addon?

9 Comments
2024/03/10
20:18 UTC

0

Anime Not being recognised by kodi

I'm fairly new to using this so forgive me if the answer is obvious.

I have downloaded my self 2 anime shows, one is Monster downloaded in.mp4 and the other is terraformars in .mkv .

Neither of these show up when browsing through the TV shows, but are still playable when done through files however this doesn't track progress :/

Is there a way I can force the shows to be in the TV shows or is there some scraper I can use, when prompted to add more only 2 are visible and neither of them seem to fix the issue.

I currently have everything saved in directories as follows

"pcname"/e/Videos/Anime/x (With x being name for each anime in a separate folder)

I have the video files saved as "ShowName".Sxx.Exx."EpisodeName".mp4/mkv

I have other shows in this format and they get detected, If I missed anything please let me know.

Any help is appreciated.

3 Comments
2024/03/10
18:34 UTC

1

Kodi not recognizing language audio tags

Some movies in my library are missing the language tag when selecting audio stream and therefore Kodi is unable to automatically choose which one to take.

When using VLC however, it shows the language tag just fine, as you would expect it.

Is it possible to adjust the tags, to make it parsable for kodi? Maybe this is a known behaviour with kodi.

I can not find information on this on the official documentation.

4 Comments
2024/03/10
17:30 UTC

11

Official YouTube addon stopped working

I use NewPipe to play youtube videos on the TV using OSMC on RPi4 and the Kore app.

It's been working flawlessly for a couple of years since I started using my own API keys.

All of a sudden it stopped working since yesterday. It gives the following error: Failed to get player response for video_id "xxxxxxx".
xxxxxxx is different depending on the video I'm trying to play.

Kodi Matrix v19.1
YouTube addon v6.8.18

Would appreciate any help.
Thank you.

21 Comments
2024/03/10
15:10 UTC

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Is there any add-on for copying, pasting, deleting, etc. files and folders, within Kodi itself?

Good morning.
Curiosity:
Is there any add-on for copying, pasting, deleting, etc. files and folders, within Kodi itself?
Tks.

3 Comments
2024/03/10
11:38 UTC

2

Audio Delayed

Watching a DVD rip of "Married... with Children" through Kodi on my TV and everything is off/ahead by 0.25sec.

However, if I play the file on my PC using windows media player, audio is fine.

Everything else seems fine... maybe a codec issue? Any ideas of a fix? apart from individually adjusting 258 files...

6 Comments
2024/03/10
06:19 UTC

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Cant install kodi on my lg webos Tv(stuck on please wait)

Im trying to install kodi but it stuck on please wait screen for about 30 min Can anybody help im trying to install Kodi 21.0~rc1.ipk

8 Comments
2024/03/10
05:51 UTC

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Kodi doesn't recognise my rar file on tv.

i tried watching dune on kodi ( split rar files) on my Google tv and my firestick using my flash drive. But it shows as if the folder is empty. I tried the same on my phone using the same flash drive, it worked. I have the rar addon installed in all of the devices. How do I fix this?

18 Comments
2024/03/09
22:48 UTC

0

External players on IOS

Do we have any realistic chance that we'll get external players for IOS?

Because the native player is horrible for mobile and I know that implementing the possibility of external players are really simple on ios and multiple other of my sideloaded apps also can do that...

2 Comments
2024/03/09
19:51 UTC

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Alternative App Marketplaces would this allow iOS app?

With the new alternative app marketplaces in the EU. Could this allow the tvOS app to be easily download and not needed to renew it weekly.

Does it open the possibility for an iOS app too?

I have been looking but I can’t find anyone talking about it with Kodi

3 Comments
2024/03/09
14:51 UTC

2

Kodi not covering taskbar Fedora 39 KDE

When I launch Kodi, it starts fullscreen but the taskbar remains on top. I need to peek at the desktop and display Kodi again to have fullscreen display correctly. Using 20.5 Flatpak. Anyone know a simple fix?

4 Comments
2024/03/09
12:56 UTC

0

Why does dts X not trigger in Kodi but it does in other players?

I'm using Just Player to show that my TV can play/trigger different types of audio but for some reason it doesn't trigger in Kodi

I like Just Player a lot but it's nowhere near as good as Kodi as a media center.

My setup:

TCL TV capable of handling many audio formats/codecs External HDD hooked by USB.

So basically my question is, why is the audio triggered in another player but not by Kodi?

I have audio passthrough enabled by the way.

4 Comments
2024/03/09
10:22 UTC

0

Failed to install kodi

When im trying to install kodi on my lg webos tv through webos dev manager it shows me error:-

Failed to install Kodi write: sftp error code 0

Any solutions!!

6 Comments
2024/03/09
10:09 UTC

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