Hi guys, My soundbar is DD 5.1 supported but allows passthrough well in Kodi app whether its for AAC, EAC3, DTS

Through network sharing option in Kodi app, I have been watching films. I have connected my Lap via LAN and screen always on. In TV, through amazon firestick 3rd gen, I have been using the Kodi app as my Sony Bravia TV is not generally an android TV but supports android apps externally like firestick

Sometimes, the films are running smooth, audio passthrough is also fine. But problem is there are sometimes where I get audio glitches and sometimes video glitch as well though the film is just 1080P - DD/AAC 5.1 and my whole firestick hangs even I tried checking other apps like Netflix etc.

Backup solution: using ffmpeg to transcode other audio formats to AC3 and just use HDMI from lap to TV

Any other solution for this or its just my firestick/TV just cant handle?

[EDIT]: issue got fixed by playing in PLEX app.

Hi all, I'm running Kodi 21.2 on a Sony XH90 Android TV. I've noticed a very specific playback issue with large DV/HDR files: • Playback is stuttering when video is at size from 1.00-1.08. • Setting player zoom to 1.09 makes playback smooth, no sluttering any more. • GUI scaling doesn't help, nor do standard settings like scaling methods (Bilinear/Bicubic/Lanczos) or "Sync playback to display refresh rate." • Tried some AdvancedSettings.xml tweaks (rendermethod/scalingmethod) also have no effect. • Method of rendering in Ul is only Automatic; no way to manually force GPU/OpenGL. I've tried almost everything via Ul or config files. The zoom 1.09 trick is the only thing that reliably works. Has anyone else experienced this, or does anyone know how I could fix this properly?

Hi guys, I want to know if Kodi can do channel seperation properly for the surround speakers

My soundbar: Supports only dolby digital (5.1 AC3)

My setup: Film playing in Kodi player in Lap connected to TV via HDMI and soundbar is only connected via HDMI

I enabled WASAPI & Channels to 5.1. For the films which are already AC3 5.1 - it comes proper with only reflecting ambient sounds.

So, my issue is that if I play a movie file which is E-AC3 5.1 or AAC 5.1 audio encoded for eg, I couldn’t see it gets properly decoded to AC3. As a result, I could still hear dialogues in my surround speakers.

Is there any way to get the channel seperation properly in the Kodi/any other player itself or ffmpeg conversion is the best possible turnaround? Thanks in advance

Everytime I try google says this app is blocked

As the title says, I've a few shows that Kodi just doesn't seem to be picking up. Bad Girl has been picked up as Bad Girls, and even if I go into Information to change it it doesn't show anything. But most recently, the above - Game Changer - isn't being picked up at all. The episodes are arranged in the same way as everything else - S06E01 etc. When I've searched some people say to right-click (this is on Google TV so options menu instead) and re-scan, but this is all it shows. Any ideas?

Does the Alpha version also contain the python bump that is available in the windows nightly, and if so, which python version ?

https://paste.kodi.tv/uridemexok

Latest Kodi installed on 2017 ShieldTV, 2 X networked NAS drive for Movie/TV and for Music (music is older SMB). Everything worked perfectly until maybe a week ago, noticed when selecting Party Mode,the screen would hang per attached, first song attempted to play, but crashed Kodi after about 10 seconds. Rebuilding Music source didn't help. I've not changed anything, no 3rd party addons here, just vanilla Kodi.

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 in the official Fdroid store

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?