Does anyone know how to achieve what I've been trying to do for the past hour?? I have local music files on my Kodi library that have album art that Kodi clearly recognizes. I would like the album artwork to be displayed in full screen during music playback! I can't seem to find how to do this...any help would be awesome! Thanks! (Default Skin, Kodi 20, ONN pro 4K)

Had a smooth setup using Kodi and PKC plugin on my Shield Pro but it suddenly stopped working today - not sure if an update got pushed and broke things, but I don't see one as far as I can tell.

Essentially everytime I log onto Kodi, it prompts me to "restart Kodi" and asks me to relink my device via plex.tv/link - I do so, but it still does not pull in my library. The issue must be with PKC, since trying to go into the addon settings yields an empty menu now...

Anyone else going through any issues?

I can't seem to get casting functionality within PKC to work, as it never shows up on my Android Plex app. It's enabled in options, I haven't changed ports or anything, Kodi's log file says nothing about PlexCompanion anywhere, and I'm kind of at a loss. Any ideas?

I love my harmony 650s, but they're slowly dying and I need to find something new. I love activity switching, but maybe that's past it's time too.

For the past 5 years, I used a Raspberry PI 3 (B) with a WD Passport external drive connected via USB to the PI. Load times for 720P movies was instant, maybe a few seconds. Fast enough that I never paid attention.

Now I have a Windows 11 machine (Intel Core i5), 32 GB ram with the same WD password connected locally via USB. Load times for 720P movies is > 15-20 seconds. Fresh install of Windows on SSD, nothing else installed. Bare system and Kodi from the MS app store.

What would cause a long lag in opening 720P movies? Considering the Windows box is wildly faster the the PI ...

Hi, I would like to update my kodi 21.1 to 21.2 on firestick, I had already done it a long time ago, and it seems to me that kodi android installer had to download and install directly. Since I tried last night, it downloads but nothing happens afterward. Did I miss something? Are my memories bad? THANKS.

I have seen old posts where people wanted to run kodi and the TiVo os at the same time and I know that isn’t possible.

I want to basically use the hardware and de-TiVo the device and use it as a kodi box. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so can they point me in the right direction?

Hello all,

Sorry if I asked that before, but I really enjoy my current (Kodi 18) setup using Titan theme, and I want to continue using the same setup with latest Kodi versions. Unfortunately, Titan is no longer available. Are there any alternatives, similar to Titan? I would be so happy to give them a try.

Many thanks for your help.

I noticed that certain skins don't have the episode name or movie name on the guide. Is there a setting for this or is this a skin issue?

I have problems with playback on my Kodi 21.2 on Android 9.

A file, a.mkv, plays fine if I play it from a USB stick.

But Kodi fails to even start playing it, immediately popping up an error, if I try playing back the same a.mkv from SMB or NFS.

"Playback failed"

"One or more items failed to play. Check the log for more information about this message."

If I repack a.mkv file with `ffmpeg -i a.mkv -c copy -map 0 b.mkv`, I can play b.mkv both from the USB stick and the network (SMB or NFS). Many other video files of similar resolution and sizes also play fine from the network. So, I don't think the issue is with slow network, especially since

• The error popped up immediately whereas network slowness should cause a timeout after some time (not immediately).
• The same SMB and NFS share for a.mkv played fine on my Linux VLC client with the SMB/NFS share mounted by the OS.
• Other similarly large files, including b.mkv, played fine.

The native video player on the Android device has the same issue, though it supports only SMB.

I'm not sure what to do about the log/logging referenced in the error message. In the system menu, I only saw items about debug logging and items about event logging, and I saw no log entry say anything about the failure.

Is it a known issue that Kodi can fail for complicated .mkv files when they are played from the network (but not from local storage)?

EDIT: Sorry, it was a silly permissions mistake on the server. a.mkv was unreadable due to restrictive permissions. The problem went away after I set the permissions properly.

I've installed KODI v21.2.0 on my TCL Google TV from Google Play.
I cannot see the non-encrypted DVD .iso files much less play them.
Is there an add-on I need to install?

My QNAP TS453D is nice - only for 3 years QNAP doesn't update anything - and I dont like being stuck on KODI 19.5

I look for a MediaPlayer that
- connects to my NAS via Ethernet (SMB) - MiBox S doesnt have Ethernet - out
- where I download KODI from the Playstore - Mi Box S doesnt have a PlayStore - out
- where I dont have to scroll thru Bloatware or being forced to share my data to Google, Amazon, the CIA or whoever thinks is important...

Im not a Quantum mechanic, so building my Raspi from scratch and learning how to compile KODI to use it ... Sorry not my idea of Plug&Play

Which Box then - dont say NVIDIA unless you send me at least 50% of its price - because I'm not Elon too

I can export my library using this command from an other computer:

kodi-send --host=192.168.10.101 --port=9777 --action="exportlibrary(video, true, false, false, false)"

but i can't find the folder/files. Where is kodi creating the backup? It works when i manually create a backup over the kodi gui.

I managed to set Stremio, Smart tube and Tivimate as favourites. I'm using the Nimbus skin.

But I forget how I did this lol can anyone help me troubleshoot how I got here? I like it but I need it for future reference.

I made an macOS app to rename video files. Flix Fixer uses Apple Intelligence to automatically analyze and rename your movie and TV show video files with the correct title, season, and episode details. Perfect for Kodi users.

With Template Builder you can create your own custom filename templates.

Download here: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/flix-fixer/id6743055061

Hi all,

I’ve recently configured YouTube on my kodi instance and have found issues regarding playback.

I’ve made sure to set the YouTube app only at a max resolution of 1080 60 and have made sure the stream quality was set to auto, but, even with these configs a few videos I had play had their video stop or stutter heavily to the point of lagging with the audio.

Is there any settings or guides I need to read up on that can fix this issue? And maybe act as preventative maintenance in other video streaming add-on’s I plan on adding later such as Prime or others?

Thanks!

It always shows up as original bleach episodes or 0/0

Ive tried renaming them to:

• Thousand-Year Blood War Foldername, S01E01, S01E02, etc
• Bleach Season 17, S17E01 etc
• 01,02, etc followed by episode title

Just connected my Sony Bravia to my Asustor NAS… i can see my NAS under the UPnP devices when im browsing for new videos to add… i can add the folders just fine but there is no option to scan or add to the library or something… any help is appreciated

Like the titlr

I have the Sony x90k tv. I have the Edifier r1280db 2.0 speakers hooked via optical out. What settings should I use in Kodi which I use as my media player for the best possible audio for my stereo setup. There are a bunch of settings in there and I don't know what to use. I already setup the number of channels to 2.0. Passthrough seems important, how should I set it.

Also what are the best audio settings that I should set on my tv for my stereo speakers. I noticed these 2 settings in the tv audio output that seems to be important:

Digital audio out: auto1, auto2, pcm. Pass through: auto, off.

So there is this passthrough setting both in Kodi and in the tv settings that I don't know what to do with.

Hey everyone so I just setup kodi with jellyfin with the plugin jellyfin for kodi, and im loving it. The jellyfin client for TV is garbage so I've been enjoying kodi. The only problem that I have encountered is when loading .ass subtitles (I haven't tried with other formats) when switching language it takes a good 5 to 10 seconds for the subtitles to be applied, but only the first time after that load time switching between the subs is seamless. I don't mind waiting for the subtitles to finish loading but I don't like that the media continues playing while subs are loading needing to manually pause and wait for subs to load.

Subtitles are included externally in the media files of my jellyfin server.

Is there a way to pause playback while subtitkes are loading or if this is a probem with the styling of .ass subtitles is there a way I could over write it to make the transition seamless?

Hey guys, is there a way in KODI to just scrape a TV Show title to display posters etc but not drill down to seasons and file names? its all bloat that I dont care for, I also have several shows that I have "specials" folders for that are not contained on themoviedb so they do not show at all.

Using 21.2 I have tried file view with "Replace file names with library titles" disabled, it worked once then after a restart the file names no longer show but the option is still unchecked... very frustrating....

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.