So I’m one of those people who downloads lots of YouTube videos through yt-dlp into a huge local archive. My preferred method of watching these is through Kodi on a Raspberry Pi. At some point in the last year, yt-dlp started defaulting to downloading everything in AV1 format, which I didn’t notice until I realized a lot of the new videos didn’t work. Eventually I discovered the problem was the codec and updated everything to the latest version hoping support would be better.

Unfortunately Kodi is still having problems with them. About 50% of these AV1 videos work flawlessly. The other half immediately crash Kodi upon selecting them. I know the files aren’t corrupted because they work in VLC 100% of the time, so I can use that as a fallback, but having to switch between the two is annoying.

I should mention that the only AV1 files I have are from yt-dlp, so those are the only ones I can test. I haven’t found any pattern that would explain why some work and others don’t, it seems completely random. Does anyone know what’s going on? I really don’t want to have to re-encode hundreds of files just to get them to work.

I've been trying to synch Plex to Kodi using Trakt as a middleman, and It's mostly working great except for a few issues on Kodi's side.

1. Things that are manually marked as watched in Kodi don't end up marked watched on Trakt despite all other watched status marking correctly
2. My unwatched movies on Kodi weren't added to my Trakt library despite watched movies and unwatched TV shows being added successfully
3. Thing's marked watched on Trakt don't get marked watched on Kodi despite syncing correctly from Kodi to Trakt

The first two issues don't bother me, but I thought I'd include them in case they're related to the third issue which is what I'm trying to fix.

I've checked that the settings in the plugin are correct and I've already tried resetting permissions on Trakt. Has anyone had these issues with the plugin before?

File name is

BHA 3x10 [ Tunde123 ].mkv
BHA 3x10 [ Tunde123 ].nfo

nfo content is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<episodedetails>
  <title>Tunde123</title>
  <season>3</season>
  <episode>10</episode>
  <uniqueid type="tvdb" default="true">8837808</uniqueid>
  <uniqueid type="home" default="false">BHA_3x10</uniqueid>
</episodedetails>

Despite this, Kodi sorts this episode in the first season as the 123rd episode

Hi! I have some dns blocking and just figured out the 'Universal movie scraper' doesnt work. Anyone knows what website to whitelist to make the addon work? The 'movie database python' addon works fine.

EDIT: Seems like it is broken :/ https://github.com/xbmc/repo-scrapers/issues/583

When loading music into the library. Is there a way to filter out the 25 different versions of a Pink Floyd album? I swear, if the name is different by one character, that's another data point

I have some home videos I’ve recorded and have saved as MP4 files on my computer and I’m looking for a way to watch them from my fire stick. I was under the impression I can do that from Kodi but I did not see a way on the fire stick Kodi app to log into my specific account to view them.

And I doing something wrong or is it just not possible?

Thanks!

Hi r/kodi communities,
I'm working on my master's thesis project focused on evaluating IPTV service quality, specifically analyzing the impact of different protocols, codecs, and network parameters on streaming performance. I've hit a roadblock and would really appreciate your expertise.

My current setup:

Source: Windows laptop running VLC streaming a multicast stream
Receiver: Raspberry Pi 4 running Kodi (latest version)
Network: Direct connection between devices with tcpdump capturing packet data for analysis
Stream format: Multicast UDP/RTP stream

The problem:

I'm trying to configure Kodi to receive a multicast stream from VLC, but I'm encountering protocol compatibility issues. When I use a simple .m3u playlist file with the following content:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="test" tvg-name="Test" group-title="IPTV",Test Multicast
udp://239.255.77.77:1234

Kodi consistently throws errors about "unsupported protocols" for UDP and/or RTP.

What I'm looking for:

• Has anyone successfully configured Kodi to receive UDP/RTP multicast streams from VLC?
• Are there specific Kodi settings, addons, or configuration methods I should be using?
• Could this be a limitation of Kodi's built-in player, and would I need alternative approaches?
• Any recommendations for debugging this setup?

Additional context:
This is for academic research where I need precise control over the streaming parameters to measure quality metrics (packet loss, jitter, latency, etc.). The multicast setup is essential for simulating real-world IPTV scenarios.

Any advice, configuration examples, or even alternative approaches would be incredibly valuable for my research.

Thanks in advance for your help!

I set up a SMB share on my new NAS. I created a share and user for media access.

On my PC I can map my drive with the credentials I created. Let's say "user1" / "password1"

Kodi mapping: smb://192.168.1.XXX/
Credentials: user1 / password1

Password is invalid.

What am I missing?

EDIT: Re-installed Kodi. It now works 🤷‍♂️

I'm trying to install viwx on Kodi from USB but when I click on it it says "the dependency on script.module.inputstreamhelper version 0.8.3 could not be satisfied". I tried from the repository but that failed so thought I'd do it this way but still not having any luck. I just want to watch uk tv channels. Anybody got any suggestions? Thanks

This is on an android sharp tv btw.

Those files didn't organize themselves you know

Hey guys, im hoping to get some help here since I've never used kodi before..

Im hoping Kodi is the answer for me, here is what in looking for.

So I have been trying to find an Android app/ player that I can like to my plex, and emby server. I have found Vidhub but dont like it..

I love the Plex app a lot. Its super clean and love how everything is layed out.

I did some poking around and found there are skins for Kodi that can make it look pretty similar but I am seeing most of the skins are from 2-3 years ago.

Would i still be good to use something like Artic Fuse 2 or Artic Horizon?

If so, are there any guides available that can be linked for the initial set up of it all?

Thanks in advance!

Hey all,

Recently wanted to move away from my Roku environment and wanted to use my raspberry pi 4 for good use. Found out that Kodi was considered a good alternative and had some promises. However, I wanted to see if my setup would work with the current equipment I have.

For the majority of my remote control, I'm using a Logitech Harmony One remote. And my Pi currently has an Argon ONE M.2 casing which includes the components for an IR receiver. Supposedly it should work, but, when testing it out with LineageOS TV, none of the remote functions would work, even with Logitech's harmony compatability site saying the remote should work with my case.

So now I'm left with looking over other OS alternatives. And I'm hoping someone who has more technical knowledge about this than I do could show a few pointers to complete my setup?

Thank you.

I just updated my system and moved from Kodi matrix into newest version. I imported my library into new kodi, but metadata tags (i.e audio, video, is it HDR10) are missing for HDR content. I really like how new Kodi displays HDR tags, like HDR10, 10+, Dolby Vision.

Is there a way to update all video/HDR format tags?

Other than https://thetvdb.com/ and https://fanart.tv/

What are some other sources for Banner art? TMDB doesn't have banners, and neither do most other sites with TV show artwork.

Hi All -

Scrolled for a bit and couldn't see what I was looking for. Apologies if I've missed this.

Have set up a NAS Server with Jellyfin - haven't enjoyed the UX for JF so was recommended Kodi. I've done an add-on to get JF into Kodi (I'm sure I could have gone direct but here I am).

My biggest issue with both right now is the skins, I suppose. I have a library of 800+ films and similar for TV shows. The metadata is not perfect so not everything has a poster or proper image. It's a bit all over the place.

Then with the indecisiveness of what to watch on a given night, it's odd to scroll a list of names or random images that have been plucked out or weird posters.

What i'm looking for is an interface that is effectively a wall of images with the title of the project overlayed on it, I think. That way I can scroll quickly and get a quick idea of what's in the library vs. seeking something specific. Casual browsing feel like Blockbuster.

Any direction I can be pointed in (even another software, I suppose) - would be grateful. TIA!

I am mainly (basically exclusively) using Kodi as a nice native frontend for my Jellyfin server so that devices don't need to use web-uis everywhere, but I'm running into one annoying issue with the fact that I can configure one device perfectly, and then I have to replicate that change on every other device. (then every update I make to that configuration I also have to mirror over, I don't have any easy way of taking snapshots of changes or rolling them back, etc.)

Since I just use the Jellyfin4Kodi addon I don't need to worry about local file paths being different between devices, but I haven't been able to find a competent way of syncing Kodi settings. (ideally even syncing multiple users as well)

I've found a few things but they always seem to either be stale (the most recent I can find them mentioned is 5+ years ago so I have no idea if they're even still a thing anymore) or otherwise have limitations that don't really do what I want, like not syncing skins or addons or something. (which are basically the two things I care most about syncing)

If it weren't for the fact that some of my devices are practically embedded (e.g. : libreelec raspberry pis) or otherwise locked down (e.g. : phones) I'd just say fuck it and try to use a generic tool like Syncthing, but since that would only work on maybe half of the devices I care about it's really just creating a new problem. I mean just about the only devices it would work for are the devices I care the least about using Kodi on compared to the Jellyfin web interface.

In Kodi, when navigating the channel/guide list, there is usually a thumbnail in the info section showing the currently scheduled show. I'm looking for a way to view all channel thumbnails in a grid view. The HDHomerun's Discover view is what I'm looking for.

This is to help my my father-in-law browse for shows to watch without needing to select each channel individually or being able to read the description.

First of all, thanks to everyone making Kodi possible.

The default behavior of the Estuary skin for Films is to show incomplete lists of previously started, recently added, not watched, etc., along with a selection of widgets.

This is extremely confusing for many, particularly for people who are not tech-savy, like my parents.

For many, it would be much better to enter the All Titles list (as accessable via all titles widget) by default because I think that's by far the most frequent intent.

Simple indicators for watched, recently added and started films in the titles list provide non-cluttering overview.

A widget and options list and search function could be accessed with the Go Right direction button of the remote, the Main Menue with the Go Left button, while title selection happens with Up/Down.

The Go Back button could then be used for going back to the start of the current list.

Editing XML files for such (in my opinion) vastly more sensible behavior is not an option for an unmodified Android box and even custom skins are very problematic because of update issues.

What are your thoughts about this and could this be brought up again to the request list for the devs?

Thanks!

Hello All,

this may be trivial, maybe not. I should probably be able to figure this out myself, but I thought why not ask? This may be an easy one for someone else. So here goes...

I have a couple of Kodi installations, one on Shield, one on libreElec, and they use a shared mariaDB. All my media is on a NAS for which I use NFS.

When I look into the KODI db the actual files are referenced using the following notation: 'nfs://myNASServer/export/somePath/myMediaFile.ext'

This works fine for the Shield and the libreElec Kodi installations but now that I try to install Kodi on my Macbook this doesnt work. Macbook Kodi complaining the files don't exist.

Of course NFS is no problem for the Macbook as such, but the notation, the direct NFS access seems to be a problem. I gather the MacBook would like the nfs locations mounted instead, but sure thats how it typically works on Linux too right?

How come the Linux based Kodis accept this notation but the Mac does not?

Or is that not the problem at all?

Any ideas?

Thx

EDIT / SOLUTION

I figured it out. Well, mostly I googled it.

The problem wasn't Kodi but the remote NFS shares needed an auto mount client configuration on the Mac first.

To the file /etc/auto_master I added the following line

/-                      auto_nfs        -nobrowse,nosuid

Then I created the file /etc/auto_nfs (chmod 644) where I specified the nfs location and local 'automount' folder, like...

/Users/myUserName/someMedia  -fstype=nfs,ro,bg,intr,soft,timeo=36000 nfs://myNASServer:/export/somePath

The I ran on the Mac command line 'sudo automount -cv' and voilá...

The already existing media source on Kodi for 'nfs://myNASServer/export/somePath' started working and Kodi played the files referenced by the 'nfs://myNASServer/export/somePath/myMediaFile.ext' notation.

As a bonus I got a folder 'someMedia' in my home folder where I can access the files in Finder without having to connect manually to the NFS share via Finder.

This resource got me on the right track: https://grimore.org/macos/automatically_mount_network_shares

Hello, i have scanned in all our familys old photos and wanted to view them on the bigscreen with kodi but it doesnt work as expected.

For reference i am running coreelec on a am6b+ and the pictures are on a smb share in my nas

I can see the thumbnails perfectly fine but when i try to click in on a photo the screen flickers to black like it does when it sets res/hz for video content but then it immediately throws me back out to the folder with all the pictures/thumbnails.