why has kodi never incorparated a kodi account that would allow users to pull up the same setup on different devices

I want to watch stuff on my iPad. I do have a computer but I just don’t like don’t like watching stuff on my computer. Btw I just started using kodi so you might have to be a little bit more patient with me. Also my iPad is not jailbroken but I tried to use sideloady and it said the signer was out of date or something

Hi all, I have an issue with some (not all) of my videos having audio delay:

• Videos using DD+ 5.1 sound great
• Videos using AC3 5.1 or HE AAC 5.1 have delay between the audio and picture

Here's my setup:

• Intel minipc running Windows 11
• HISENSE 4k 120hz TV
• Default audio output in Windows set to HISENSE high def audio
• HDMI (older 1.3 cable) running PC to the TV
• HDMI (2.1) cable TV to my Denon sound bar
• TV is configured for passthrough output to eARC

Now for the Kodi setup:

• Version 21.1.0
• WASAPI Audio HISENSE
• Channels: 5.1
• Passthrough ON
• Transcode OFF (doesn't appear as an option anyway)

Note: I tried setting channels to 2.0 with Transcode set to AC3 and had the same audio issues.

I did a lot of Googling and it seems that the issue might be my TV, however wouldn't there be audio delays for all audio formats? Any way to solve this? Barring fixing the audio, is there a way to set a delay only for certain audio formats?

I appreciate the help.

So I have a rooted WebOS tv that has kodi installed, and I was wondering about audio over wifi?

I want to play the movie on my tv but have the audio streamed over wifi to my phone and output over 3.5mm.

Is this something that Kodi can do, and how do I do this if that is a function?

I previously posted (https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/1idmwey/kodi_starting_and_immediately_stopping_making_it/) an issue about Kodi suddenly launching and immediately stopping. I received some helpful suggestions, but in the end, it was all about the C++ Redistributable".

It turns out that there were two installs of the same version of the C++ Redistributable. I have no idea how that happened, so I uninstalled BOTH versions, rebooted, reinstalled the latest version of Kodi, allowed it to install the C++ Redistributable, and Kodi launched faithfully. PROBLEM SOLVED.

My brother-in-law also had a Config backup which he restored, and EVERYTHING just worked for him as expected. It's GREAT to see how Kodi has matured over the years.

(I personally come from the Plex world, and while Plex works great for my use cases, Kodi is 100% the magic bullet for my brother-in-law providing everything he needs and wants. Despite this one-off quirky annoyance, he loves it.)

Hey all, I’ve been using the Acemagic AM06Pro for Kodi, and it’s been running my media content without any issues. I’m able to stream 4K videos smoothly and control everything easily with my remote. Has anyone else tried using this

Hi,

some files will only show a black screen when (Surface) Hardware acceleration is activated, but they will show perfectly when it's turned off (and the other hardware acceleration is left turned on).

However, when surface accelration is turned off the player will not switch to hdr/dolbyvision, but when its turned on it does, even when the screen only shows black...

So this means I can either not play all files without black screen or I can't use hdr... is there any way to correct this? The files are played with hdr and no black screen on my webos internal tv media player, I just need this for beamer setup...

I read something about turnin on developer mode in kodi, couldn't find how to do than on fire tv stick, and then changing some setting...

It works no problem with vlc for fire, but in vlc for fire the audio pass through doesn't work and everything is played in stereo, no matter what I try...

Hey Kodi community.
Kodi is a new concept for me. I have been using an old Mac as a media server but recently upgraded. As a result, my Apple TV 3 is basically useless. All I can do is stream from my phone or iPad.

Would I still be able to install Kodi on these old devices, or have I missed the boat?

Hi all, does anyone know where Kodi gets it's online music metadata from? I've noticed in my music library that the Hip-Hop group 'Outlawz' has been changed to 'Dramacydal' in Kodi. I know Dramacydal was an earlier name they went by but the artist name in the embedded data is 'Outlawz' and the MBID links to Outakwz on musicbrainz so I don't know where the alternative name is coming from.

If I have a basic Kodi install, with just a few supported add-ons, how can I backup that install? i.e. So I could copy the install to another of my machines if I wanted. Is it simply copying a folder or do I need to do other stuff? Or perhaps not possible?

EDIT - I now realise that I was super unclear in my post :-( I didn't even state what platform I'm running on (duh!)

...So apologies for that. I will rectify it here - I currently have this Kodi install on Windows 11 and have two short term goals:

1. Copy current Kodi install to another Windows 11 machine
2. I have decided to move to Linux Mint on all four of my machines. Probably, I would be better to just do fresh installs of Kodi on each machine and simply duplicate the installs manually?

Thanks.

hi,

I just purchased a new Shield TV Pro, loaded it with Kodi, pointing to some movie BDMV folders in NAS, but I got errors and failed to play.

Then I installed Kodi on my windows pc and pointed it into the same folders in NAS. I could play them.

Any thoughts

I can see the external hard drive when i want to choose 1 file but when i go to movies->add video->browse-> it does not show my external drive but it does when i click on movies from main menu. I don't understand how to scan from fresh install.

Haven't found a definitive answer ... I have Kodi installed on this device but does it come with an NFS client / support?

Tried multiple ways to connect to NFS v4 share with it ... I'm either missing something in the syntax or no way it'll work. Tried the Services setting to version 4 too. Thanks.

Everytime I add a new show or movie in my library Kodi doesn't show them and It also doesn't fetch information automatically about the show or movie, Most of the time I have to create the .nfo file myself.

Can you guys tell me how can I create NFO file easily or what setting I have to make for KODI auto add my shows to it's library and also fetch the show info on its own.

I have the below settings for my kodi Setup on WIndows 10 :

• I have a folder on my PC called medias and in that folder I have two more folders tv shows and movies and inside those folders I have the folders of my movies and TV shows respectively
• I have added those folders in my library of kodi and enabled auto scan and also enabled autoscan/update library on startup

EDIT: Yes it was the naming convention Movie/TV show folder names should have respective names with year inside parentheses and if possible add the tvdb id inside [] square brackets. Why the downvote though people gets offended easily, Damn. And I appreciate the help of the community got introduced to wiki and found out that I can create the addons of my own so Here I am starting a new journey to make kodi a bit better by contributing but gotta learn the python first. Will notify you guys of my progress. Thanks you all.

i.e: Prison Break (2005) [360115]

I have been trying for days to get Kodi working as I wanted it to and finally succumbed to making a help post.

So I originally made my library work with Jellyfin for Kodi, but it had issues (Like not supporting featurettes), and also randomly 'falling apart on itself.' And then I heard that its possible to use SMB (is this the best method for simple windows file share?) with Kodi, so I immediately dropped Jellyfin for SMB. The videos play, but I can't use Kodi for its main function: presentable movie libraries.

I have multiple movie folders with their own genres, and while it was possible with Jellyfin for Kodi and the quartz skin to use multiple folders, I am having extreme difficulty with making the folders work with Kodi alone.

My main point is:

1. How to make multiple libraries work with Kodi that only supports one movie folder (seriously guys, it's time for native support)

2. Preferably use the default skin or a modification of it; I tried others but I don't really like of them, but I will use them if necessary

3. As seamless as possible, while quartz worked fine with Jellyfin for Kodi, It didn't feel great.

And as for other questions:

1. Is SMB the most efficient method?

2. I have a SDR TV, and while 99% of my library is SDR, I have like 4 movies that are HDR, and I can't find any settings for HDR tone-mapping or anything like that in the native skin, but I did find the settings in another skin that can't remember the name of. I feel like it may be on, but it might be not and while the colors aren't grey and ugly, they are a bit dark for my liking.

3. I tried with one skin to scrape one of the folders in my library (I thought I solved the problem that time), and a lot of my movies have featurettes, but Kodi (or maybe rather Universal Movie Scraper), didn't recognize them, and put them separate from the movies and named them all 'Movie Album Featurettes (1932)' (?). Got any tips to make featurettes work nicely (I would probably figure this one out myself but since I'm here I may as well ask).

4. Is artwork saved on the device which Kodi is installed on (in my case a Android TV box), or is displayed from a website online? I feel like its the latter, but It would be nice to make sure.

I will link some photos of my library, and I might edit if I have further questions.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/m1ykPTL

Edit: I should re-elaborate what I meant on the genre thing, I know very well that kodi has a genre feature, but i have many different types of comedies, and dont want hallmark comedies mixed with adult comedies, for example. So I went ahead and put all my movies in the folders I believed they should have been. All I need is a way to add a tab next to the movie tab that will go to that folder. If that's not possible (from what I'm reading it seems), then that's fine I guess, but I would have wasted a lot of time on this.

And yes, I will read the wiki more. But I will still wait for more replies.

I should know this.. i thought i did know this.. but it's very obvious that I don't..

I have multiple clients witha MySQL database..

If i was to have 1 single system that was responsible for the library updates and cleans then what files do i need to exist on the systems that do not do library updates from the below :

* sources.xml
* mediasources.xml
* passwords.xml

I know I need advancedsettings.xml but the above files are confusing the hell out of me as to which i need.

I might want to browse the sources from the clients but i will never run a library update or clean from anything except the master..

There is also a mixture of Windows and Linux clients in the mix here.

My aim is to have my headless client do my library updates but right now it's not always picking up tvshows on all my extents and i'm obviously screwing something up.

Edit:

I've always assumed i need the source.xml.. and because of that assumed i need the passwords.xml so that the paths get proper authentication.. i jsut can't seem to find a set of results that prove it either way..

i've also no clue what the mediasources file does compares to the sources file...

I just got a new Fire Stick and installed Kodi today. The app is definitely installed, and I can see it in Manage Installed Applications, but the Kodi icon doesn’t show up—just a generic app icon instead.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to get the actual Kodi logo to appear? I’ve tried restarting the Fire Stick but no luck. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

My brother-in-law has been successfully running Kodi on Windows PCs for a long time. His latest install is Windows 11 Pro 23H2 and an earlier version of Kodi ran successfully (we don't remember the version.)

We're not sure if it was due to updating Kodi to v21.2 or some Windows update, but now, whenever he launches Kodi, it starts and immediately stops making it unusable.

He tried uninstalling v21.2 and installing v21.0 with the same "stop" results. He then uninstalled v21.0 and installed v21.2, again with the same results.

I'd like to COMPLETELY remove all traces of Kodi and try reinstalling the latest version, but I don't know where Kodi stores everything, and I'm not confident that Windows Uninstall removes everything.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

These days no YouTube video add-on opens, it gives an id error, does anyone know how to solve it?

Kodi 19.5 (on recalbox so I'm quite limited to what I can do regarding versions or permissions on files)

Here is my issue. I have an SMB share on my NAS. This has 2 separate users on it. if I create a media source and point it at the IP address and give it the first user/pass great it works. I have access to the videos under that user. Now if I add another completely separate source using SMB, same IP but different user/pass it just logs into the first one. Now bear in mind that if I log into this nas via windows or any other way and use the different credentials I can clearly see different files.

I have even tried adding a completly separate kodi profile and specifying sources and settings to be separate and the same behaviour is happening. I've not even added the first source on this profile. I go to add sources, SMB, IP address, and 2nd user's user/pass and it just logs into the same default source as in the first master profile.

Argh, it's driving me nuts. Can someone either tell me what I'm doing wrong or confirm it's actually a bug/limitation please.

https://preview.redd.it/hrtipa534wfe1.png?width=785&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdbcef5c7e2db86f3533fdcc2a19cf9aaa401fb5

Why Finding Memories (2024) ngl its funny.

I would like to be able to browse my NAS file system and play the files that are there, regardless of whether they are audio or video files.

I have somewhere around 400,000 files comprised of a combination of many different audio and video file types that are not necessarily mutually exclusive, such as mp4, ISO, Blu-ray files, DVD files, etc. Kodi's library functionality is is not capable of organizing this in a meaningful way.

For example I may have the same album and mp3 format as well as CD quality flac, DVD audio, Blu-ray audio, or even a video. If I add all the music to a library Kodi puts all this together and I don't know what I'm playing. The files are already organized in the network file system, so all I want is to not have an arbitrary distinction between videos and music and just be able to browse and play whatever is there just as if you were to click on a file on your computer.

Is there any way to create or modify a browsing category that includes all of the file types so I don't have to exit out of either one when I want to play another file type?

Thank you

When i add one piece to my library it only detects the first season till episode 61

I found a thread that has the same problem explained very good https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=95187

but it didnt get fixed in that threat can someone help me

I just got a Qnap TS-451+ to replace my old basic NAS. I'll be syncing media from my seedbox to the Qnap. I've done all my "management" through just manual drag-and-drop in folders on the old NAS, and I'd like to have it automatically organized so I can use my existing Kodi HTPC to play back content from the Qnap.

Filebot was mentioned in other threads as a Windows tool. Do any other Kodi people have recs for Qnap native utilities that can automatically move content to better organized folders? I don't mind if it's a paid utility, I'm happy to cough up if it saves me having to turn things into a project.

Recent data from similar devices shows that this app may stop working on your device. Tell me what this means pls.

I have a Raspberry Pi on a 1Gbit connection. I'm connecting to a Windows 10 PC SMB share. If I play a video through VLC Player, it plays fine, but on Kodi, it is slow, pixelated, and sometimes gives the source to slow error. It's a new setup, so the software should be up to date.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Hello, I have plex on my tv but i have a lot of issues, like always buffering with high bitrates or transcoding. I recently installed kodi with PlexKodiConnect add-on and it's a lot smoother, but I want to know if there is a way to use the "Watch together" feature of Plex through Kodi. Thanks.

I have 4 TV’s in my house and they each have their own TV Box. Is it possible to put Kodi on a USB drive and copy/paste to each of these boxes instead of going through one by one, using each tv remote and adding Kodi from the tv only?

Like the title says, I am setting up a new install trying to get the weather category to show an (fanart/fullscreen background) image reflecting current conditions. Has this disappeared from Kodi? I been searching around for answers and it doesn't look good, I really liked this feature when I used Kodi before.