Questions tagged [kodi]
Rebranded name for XBMC (Xbox Media Center) is now Kodi, an open source cross platform HTPC program with a 10-foot user interface.
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Windows Media Player: Configure kodi/UPnP to provide icon for movies
I am a happy kodi/UPnP user, but I'd like to tweak the setting so that icons are send as part of the UPnP message. Right now here is what I see on my PC using Windows Media Player (Windows 7):
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Red mute icon under time causes no sound in Kodi
I have just gotten a small red mute icon under the time in top right corner: A loud speaker followed by X.
Sound is now gone: Both from video and from the UI. Sound works fine in Android, so this is ...
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Can Windows XP supply media to Kodi?
I have a HTPC with XP (~ see below) and I just installed Kodi on a Raspberry Pi (LibreELEC). A quick try with SMB didn't work, and I thought I recalled that WannaCry caused Microsoft to disable SMB, ...
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How to disable mouse in Kodi 18.5?
I need to disable the mouse in Kodi as I use the mouse buttons for another task (in a CLI background process).
I disabled Settings | System | Input | Enable mouse and touch screen support. The mouse ...
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ZIP archive or MP4 container to save clusters?
For exchange and travel, I have an external USB HDD with a single partition (for compatibility with specific devices, e. g. a smart TV). Most of the existing content are video files between c. 100 MB ...
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No sound with Stremio / Kodi
I installed Kodi in the past which worked fine (including audio).
After a reinstall of my PC I reinstalled Kodi and everything works except I do not have sound. I have sound on all other programs so ...
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Kodi on raspberry pi 4 sound startup settings
This is a bit of a long story..
I´m using the service librespot on Libreelec, a kodi version, that adds a Spotify listener to Kodi. It works as it should, except for one small detail: When using ...
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MP4 Files encoded with ffmpeg do not play back on Kodi with hardware acceleration
I have encoded some files with FFmpeg using ubuntu 16.04 with FFmpeg from ubuntu repos
ffmpeg version 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
encoder : Lavf56.40.101
Since I disassembled a video frame by ...
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catching the URL from a streaming video/audio
I am trying to get the url of a live stream (from this German IPTV) in order to watch it using VLC and with Kodi, but instead of a .m3u8 file like usual, I am getting a .mpd file and its associated ....
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How to make a simple bunch of video files viewable by Kodi
I have OSMC/Kodi on Raspberry Pi 3 and Windows file share with video files on another computer. In order to show at least anything Kodi expects me to re-organize my video files and folders in a ...
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Stopping KODI from autostarting on boot
I've been searching online for how to stop KODI from autostarting. I can't see (or find) anything in systemd etc. Any suggestions on how to stop the autostart?
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Raspberry PI / Kodi wont start after upgrading raspbian to buster version
Raspberry pi 2 b, raspbian buster - stable version
I have problem with starting Kodi on my raspberry PI. Before upgrading raspbian from stretch to buster kodi works great. After upgrading to buster ...
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No sound in kodi after upgrade to Fedora 30
I run Fedora Server on my htpc (Intel NUC7i3BNK). It has no desktop environment installed, it just starts xinit and the kodi-standalone binary. Until today this worked like a charm. But today I ...
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How to start a service at startup
I am using Ubuntu Server to make a Kodi box. I'm using kodi-standalone-service to do so. I have made a shell script (sudo -S <<< "password" systemctl start kodi) to start kodi. When I run it ...
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Kodi HDMI-CEC right-click with TV remote without such button [closed]
Normally you control Kodi (I'm using LibreELEC) with left-clicks and right-clicks with special buttons on your TV remote through HDMI-CEC. My new Samsung TV has a minimalistic remote that has a left-...
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LibreELEC Kodi HDMI colors washed out
I use Kodi on LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 3 connected to a high-end Samsung television set with HDMI. The TV is generally working well for other sources, but Kodi's colors look washed out. Everything ...
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Add subtitle font in Kodi
I don't like the available subtitle fonts in Kodi and want to add my own .ttf file.
How do you do that? I use both OSMC and LibreELEC.
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Use custom font for Kodi Estuary UI
I'm trying to figure out how to change the UI font on Kodi with Estuary (the default skin) installed on LibreELEC and OSMC. I have a mynewfont.ttf font file I want to use.
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Is it possible for my media devices to stream from my computer if bitlocker is turned on?
If i activate bitlocker on my computer hard drives will my boxeebox or kodi still be able to access my files over my home network ?
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Get details on a Network Location configuration
I have Kodi running on a Raspberry Pi 3 (LibreELEC OS).
On my Windows 10 PC, in This PC, I can access Kodi's library under Network Locations:
But the thing is, I don't know the protocol nor the ...
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AirParrot2 (Screen mirroring software) - Unable to connect to Kodi device
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What I am trying to do is mirror my Windows 10 screen to my TV in another room. I have Kodi installed on a raspberry pi that is connected to this TV. Kodi supports apple airplay. I have ...
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How can I cast/fling media to a Plex for Kodi target?
On the Plex website https://www.plex.tv/apps/computer/kodi/#
With the Plex for Kodi add-on, you get the Kodi experience for your big screen, powered by Plex Media Server, and enabling you to ...
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New Skin on Kodi Unusable - How to Reset or Change?
I switched to a new skin (Titan) with Kodi (17.1) running on OpenELEC (8.0.0). Once I dropped out of the system config menu though all I got was a blank screen. I could hear the remote moving things ...
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duplicate files on emby and squeezeserver
My data file system is zfs and I'm running linux mint.
I had a buffalo nas that failed. After recovery I was able to save most of my files to a mirrored zfs on my computer. Something went wrong. Now ...
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Kodi font configure - ASUS NAS
I have worked my way into a corner, trying to configure Kodi.
Background: Brand new NAS, AS6104T. Installed Kodi, to allow spouse to watch her TV dramas on Youtube. The shows are from Thailand, so a ...
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Increase number of movies list on kodi using estuary skin
I am wondering if I can increase number of items per page in the movie section on kodi krypton. Any suggestion would be great help.
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Touch not working in kodi with waveshare 10.1 inch capacitive touch screen lcd
I bought this lcd screen http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/10.1inch_HDMI_LCD_(H)_(with_case) for my raspberry pi 3.
This screen has a usb capacitive touch input.
I installed kodi 15 under raspbian os ...
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Psexec to windows server 2012 only starts process, not GUI
I need to run a program called Kodi in windows server 2012 from another machine, The startkodi.bat itself works correctly in the win server machine
C:\PSTools\psexec -u Administrator -p 123456 \\192....
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Emulating a Chromecast on a Windows desktop
I am aware of the settings that allow Windows Media Player to become a DLNA receiver and the ability enable UPnP on Kodi (which is my current setup).
What I would like to do is have the native ...
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Why can I ssh by name to one LAN device, but not another?
I am looking for an explanation on something probably stupid but that I can’t find immediately on Internet.
Situation:
Classic home LAN.
Network: 192.168.1.0/24
No DNS server.
I installed 2 ...
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Can't launch Kodi - No display found + few simple questions
I installed kodi on my bananian, a variation of debian, on banana pro via apt-get. I can't launch it tough. As the title states, in the error log file it says: ERROR: GLX Error: No Display found. ...
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How to set audio device priority
I have problem with my audio devices in my computer. I have 3 audio devices: PC Speakers, Headphones, TV Output. I want to switch between them automatically by this rule: If the headphones are ...
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Add user permission for /media/myDrive directory
I'm using RaspberryPi and Raspbian distribution. Additionally I have installed Kodi and set it up to auto start.
I have problems with setting permission to /media/myDrive directory.
It's because od ...
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trying to copy an application folder to different user
im new to the community and in a rush to get things going so... forgive me for me if it becomes weird..
im trying to copy a folder of an app (kodi) to a new user on my machine.
after trying to ...
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Starting xbmc fails with TV connected, “unable to create GUI”
I got an Banana Pi with Bananian running on it. I installed xbmc on it. When I connect my Banana Pi to my TV with a HDMI cable it shows an TTY as expected. When I try to run xinit /usr/bin/xbmc --...
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Get rid of 'One or more items failed to play. Check the log file for details.' in XBMC
the question is simple.
How to get rid of this dialog message in Kodi (xmbc)?
The developers refuse to fix this, and this message happens every time when the streaming playlist contains a few ...
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Disable Kodi notifications
I'm using Kodi within OpenElec, running from my Raspberry PI. I run this without a monitor, and control it using the Kodi Kore application from my tablet (music only). However sometimes Kodi freezes ...
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Can I play videos FROM PC on Phone
I have installed Kodi, and my question is:
Is it possible to play videos from computer to my phone? I mean kodi running on PC and on my phone plays videos from my PC hard drive as streamed accross ...
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Stream from PC to Kodi (xbmc)
Does anybody know is it possible to stream movie from PC (using VLC or similar) .. to Kodi (XBMC) .. perhaps via AirPlay or something similar ? ..
I want to be able to push stream from PC to Kodi (...
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Ubuntu Server with X11 minimal instalation for KODI
im trying to install minimal Ubuntu Server 15.04 with X11 and functional KODI.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi xinit xorg xserver-xorg-video-...
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XBMC/Kodi Default Volume
Kodi (formerly XBMC) seems to use a global setting for volume level, so when it goes to the next episode, it stops using whatever I've recently adjusted it to and goes back to the default volume level....
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Can't see russian subtitles the right way in Kodi
I use Kodi on Windows 7, to see movies. I would like to see subtitles in Russian but I see them in gibberish (Hebrew characters). How do I set Kodi for my PC, to be able to display the Russian ...
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Can I run 2 sessions with 2 displays on windows server 2008 R2?
Can I connect 2 displays to my PC and configure it to log in under 2 different accounts and show them on different displays?
My goal is to connect 2 TVs to 1 PC and run different media servers (xbmc/...
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Live TV streaming with Tvheadend works fine on laptop, but not on home server
I have a DVB-T TV tuner USB dongle (Afatech AF9013/AF9015) which I'm using in conjunction with the latest version of Tvheadened and the latest stable build of Kodi. I ultimately want my small home ...
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KODI remote isn't working
I'm trying to correctly configure KORE, the official Kodi Remote app for Android, but I'm unable to do so.
My copy of Kodi is installed on a laptop with openSUSE as a base system, and both it and my ...
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Kodi not updating video tags correctly
I'm using Kodi 14.2 Helix and also using tinymediamanager to manage my library. I'm adding tags to some movies and tv-shows to be able to filter some lists.
NFO files seem correct, they have the ...
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XBMC unable to connect via SFTP to server
I have a raspberry pi xbmc server set up at home that I use to stream videos over my local network, but I'd like to be able to stream videos over the internet. I am able to SSH and SFTP into my ...
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Remote or wireless access to XBMC (android box or RPi) from Win8 PC
I am trying to gather information on setting up an XBMC Android TV box (or using RPi) and I am looking to what I want to do with it since it will replace me home video server.
With My home server I ...
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My devices cannot see my dlna media center
I installed XBMC on my iMac to host as a media center. I enabled UPnP in XBMC. However my BD player cannot see any media center (it can see the Mac as a computer). I know the BD player support dlna. ...
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XBMC: How to share only the librarys between 2 PCs?
So that's it, how do I do that?
I mean, yes, I know how to share my library between 2 or more PCs but it also shares the Watch states and resume points and I don't want that. I want to share the ...
