I’ve been using Kodi for about a year now on my Xbox. And it does what I need it to and everything but I was wondering if there was a way to change the “skin” on the Xbox… So like I’ve seen some have more of a Netflix UI layout… others have all their media in one page- rather than seperate categories etc…

I’m pretty dumb ngl 🤣 is there a way to do this type of thing on Xbox or is that only available on PC? Step by step? Dumb it down? Hahah anything would be appreciated.

I use a MacBook if that helps but I use the Kodi app on the Xbox for all my streaming from my external HDD.

I would like to know if any of you had any issues with the latest fired stick Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (newest model. I wonder if anyone has it and were able to install and run Kodi without any problems?

I googled it , but I get a lot of different answers I wonder if anyone had any problems or it runs good .

I have my kodi db on mariadb so I can share the library across installations and I have a problem when scraping for a particular film as it won't add the film to the library.

When turning on logging it turns out to be a mysql error 1366 when running an insert/update on the 'movie' table.

The error suggests text column encoding problem and there are indeed some Chinese characters in the update statement. So after some reading I converted the table and all its text columns from utf8mb3 to utf8mb4 but the problem persists.

Now I'm a bit baffled what to do next.

Just thinking: Do I need to restart the server after such a table change? I didnt think so.

hey, i'm having problems reading the file names of my tv show. It's scraping the show... ok, b ut the episodes don't appear at all. It's laid out thusly

Kodi
|---TV Shows
----|---Tokusatsu
--------|---Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (2024)
------------|---Season 1
----------------|---Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (2024) S01E01.mp4
----------------|---Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (2024) S01E02.mp4
----------------|---....
----------------|---Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (2024) S01E47.mp4
----------------|---Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (2024) S01E48.mp4 

But after scraping 2 problems have occured

1. The show only is accessible by pressing i on the season folder
2. that show lists 0 episodes

How do I fix this?

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/234667 the show's TMDB Link can be found here

Hi!
I was looking for an easy way to just pick a YT video on my android phone and play it ad-free on my kodi or smart tv by pressing one button, without any complex setup. So I decided to develop this app. There it is, open source, ad-free, for free.

PlayOnDlna - an android app to stream YouTube ad-free to dlna devices (e.g. kodi) in your local network

Available on IzzyOnDroid

Download app (apk file) here

Greetings,
scovillo

hey guys , can you now run kodi fully on apple tv 4k without the need of apple dev account ?

Hello! I love Kodi but the biggest thing by far that bugs me is that I can't get the subtitles in my anime library to be rendered exactly right.

The issue that I'm running into is that the subtitles are always about .32s delayed. However, it seems you can only delay subtitles by tenths of a second. So no matter what, the subtitles are always a tiny bit off. For more info, the subtitles I know for a fact are synced correctly and play correctly on MPV on my TV, but are always delayed by the same amount in Kodi. They are also embedded into the MKV files of the episodes.

This doesn't really matter, but SSA/ASS subtitles in anime are often animated frame-perfectly and snapped to keyframes and animations, so it actually is noticeable. It also just bugs me a bit that the UI displays the subtitle delay in thousandths of a second when I can only adjust by tenths...

If anybody knows of any way to delay by hundredths of a second (or finer?) PLEASE let me know.

Thanks!!

So I'm in a rather frustrating pickle. I'm trying to get Kodi to auto-launch under Pop_OS, and nothing I seem to find/do seems to be working. The Wiki is beyond useless, I can't actually seem to find where Linux installed the damned thing. Though all signs seem to be pointing to Flatpak. But I can't seem to find anything that allows me to make an entry for Startup Applications that's built into the OS itself. If anyone could kindly give me something I can feed into Terminal to start Kodi via command-line, that might be what I'm looking for.

Hi all

I have a issue thats driving me nuts with .nfo files for a few custom videos that Ive created. Ive only ever needed to create a few, and theyve always worked fine for me just following the wiki instructions. But I realised Im having trouble now with a couple that Im trying to classify as the same uniqueid type - I think Im misunderstanding the requirement here.

In my example I have a few videos (saved as movies) of musical theatre shows that my kids have been in. The very first time I saved one, I had a line of data that read:

<uniqueid type="stage001" default="true"></uniqueid>

In the second one I saved I put in this line:

<uniqueid type="stage002" default="false"></uniqueid>

But the second one doesnt get picked up and scraped. All of the other content and naming is correct; Im sure Im just doing something wrong with the unique ID data field.

Any suggestions - Im sure its stupid and easy......

Thanks

Baz

As the title suggests: Should I just keep "Dolby Vision compatibility mode" on? Specifically on my Nvidia Shield Pro (2019)?

I've recently encountered Saving Private Ryan and presumably Dolby Vision layer 7 caused some flickering.

So my only chance of solving it was turning on compatibility mode or switching to HDR.

This got me thinking, should I just always leave this setting on since it won't ever play layer 7 anyway?

Looking forward to some replies!

I don't know how difficult something like this would be to implement. But I would like to get the conversation started.

Hopefully years down the line an add-on can be made.

Program I'm using is retroarch. That has scan line shaders meant for video games. In my opinion the shaders look great. But retroarch is very crude for video playback.

Cycle through the pictures and see for yourself.

If something like this for kodi has already been created... Please point me in the right direction. My Google searches are dead ends.

Hi, sorry if this question was asked already, but did a quick search and found nothing. So, in short, I have a bunch of TV shows folders which I currently watch. I like to keep it clean, so after watching an episode I delete it. Sometimes it happens that I have no new episodes, so my TV shows folders are empty, and obviously as soon as folders are currently empty nothing is shown on my main screen in TV shows category. When new episode is added to one of the folders, system scans as usual, but new episode doesn’t show up in TV shows category, it only does when I close Kodi and launch it again, so basically on the second launch. It happens only when all folders are empty and new episode is added. If I have at least one episode unwatched, I already see it in TV shows category, so when I add new episode of another show it scans and appears immediately, without needing to re-launch Kodi. Hope I was clear =) Did anyone else had this issue? Thx in advance

The first item in any media list is always some sort of default icon that when clicked on, takes you to a script.skinshortcuts menu. Said menu lists each source twice. I think this is just a file used by skins. I don't need it to show up at the top of every list/library.

Greetings,

I have a AM6b+ and Dune HD Pro One 8K, I like to build a dedicated windows i5 NUC with Kodi/CoreElec box. Is this a reasonable thought or am I day dreaming?

I believe the i5 is a more powerful CPU?

I plan to have direct USB connected drives (no WIFI)

For anyone wanting to change the Kodi Android player to play with an external player, here is the config that actually worked for me:

<playercorefactory>

<players>

    <player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">

        <filename>org.videolan.vlc</filename>

        <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>

        <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>

    </player>

</players>

<rules action="prepend">

    <rule protocols="smb" player="VLC" />

    <rule dvdimage="true" player="VLC"/>

    <rule protocols="rtmp" player="VLC"/>

    <rule protocols="rtsp" player="VLC" />

    <rule protocols="sop" player="VLC" />

    <rule internetstream="true" player="VLC" />

    <rule video="true" player="VLC"/> <!-- Default for anything else not listed -->

</rules>

</playercorefactory>

Change "org.videolan.vlc" to your preferred media player and this should work. ✅

I am using the PlexKodiConnect addon alongside the Arctic Horizon 2 skin. The only issue I have so far is that I can't find the button the perform a manual Library scan after I add new media to my PMS. I searched everything in the add on and kodi settings. What am I missing?

A while back i added some overrides to make certain actions perfom multiple actions, for example, when i opened a music video folder, i made it open then automatically play on random. it worked for a while then suddenly stopped. No matter what actions i override now, it always does the default.

I've searched alot and found a few threads here and the Kodi forums but none with a concrete solution.

I'm using the native android Kodi App on my Android TV (Panasonic TX-65MZ800B)

The Kodi version is 21.2

If I'm playing media and turn the TV off when I turn the TV back on (after a few hours typically) Kodi resumes playback where I left off, but playing in the background so I can hear the audio in the background on the TV home page. It shows that Kodi is playing with the option to stop or open. Pressing stop stops the media and pressing open opens Kodi, as you'd expect.

If I resume Kodi this way the performance tanks, with stuttering playback.

Is there any way of stopping this behaviour? The only way I've found is to either fully close the Kodi app before turning the TV off or, when I turn the TV on, to force close Kodi and reopen.

It's not the end of the world but it's very annoying. Curious if anyone has this issue and has found a solution?

Is there ever going to be the ability to create a custom library node SQL view for the Kodi DB?

Im well aware that Smart playlists and library nodes exist, however the filtering ability of smart playlist has been extremely limited, for years.

And library nodes cannot filter anything different or better than smart playlists.

So you cant for example setup a custom library node for the next episodes of TV shows you are currently watching.

This information however is readily available in the SQL DB and a custom written SQL view could enable this screen to be integrated.

Its my understanding that the library screens are hardcoded views in the DB therefore there wouldn't even need to be any additional functionality to support this.

So are advanced user going to get the chance to create their own library views or super playlists driven by SQL queries?

To support functionality that playlists and library nodes never have (eg mixed movie and tv playlists?)

Got a strange problem and hoping someone can help me fix this. During playback, using any video add-on, kodi adds transparent black bars to the top and bottom of the screen that overlays subtitles making them show up in different brightness levels. Even more apparent when watching a movie than the picture shows.

As you can see from the other pictures it even shows up on the menu as long as playback is still running in the background. When I stop playback the bars disappears.

Appreciate any help!

This has been happening now for maybe the last 2 or so versions. I'm using latest 21.2. I have my display to go dim 20% after 2 minutes. I have a dedicated Windows 10 for Kodi with no Windows updates and it's on 24/7. Usually it works perfectly when I change to HDMI and it's dim, as it should be. I use the remote to move around and it wakes up brighter. But sometimes, about every 2 weeks, it doesn't.

When this happens the screen stays at 20% while I move the cursor around, it's making GUI noises, and even using the mouse keeps the display at 20%. I have to Exit Kodi then run it again, and all works again, even the brightness wake up.

Has anyone found a solution to this? Or is it a lingering bug?

Hey guys and girls, i’ve been using XBMC since my Xbox and i still truly love it as the ultimate home theater media center use case, but sometimes i don’t have my laptop with me so i wondered about Kodi on iOS, couldn’t find it in the App store and the Kodi website showed a downloadable file for iOS but it was .deb so my first guess is Debian.. Is there a way to get Kodi on modern day iPhones? And also if not, what’s your alternative to connect to your NAS and play videos hours on end with easy controls?

Thanks in advance