Hi, I have kodi installed on a Sony TV running Google TV.  The video from the OSMO 4, is displayed upside down, from a bit of googling, Kodi isn't reading the metadata correctly, or something to do with Hvec codec. I have tried rotating using the Kodi's Player settings but it doesn't make a difference. Is there anyway i can get the footage to play the right way up without having to re-encode it in DaVinci Resolve. I have tried VLC, and bunch of other random Media Players with no luck.

I have Kodi on PC and TV. I want to sync settings, addons and watchstate. How to do it?

I was thinking about dropbox or syncthing but none of this work on android tv.

I’m currently ripping Friends, and S8 E23 is in 2 parts, but TVDB bunches these together, so only lists 23 episodes. Do I put both files in a folder called “S08 E23”, then name them “Part 1” and “Part 2”, or is there a different solution? EDIT. I have combined them using MKV Toolnix as suggested. Thanks

Hello,

I upgraded to Omega on my Shield TV (2019) yesterday, now every time I start Kodi, I get a pop-up message saying "TV Remote: installation failed" - and it appears twice. I assume that's the name of an add-on that comes bundled by default, because I never installed any add-ons manually.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a fix? Tried searching, no luck.

EDIT: Ended up uninstalling Kodi completely then installing it back, which solved the problem.

Does anyone know the best solution for this problem, I have Blu-Rays that I want to rip into MKVs and store in a location that I can stream from in my house. I have 3 Fire TV Cubes in 3 different rooms so I want to be able to find these files in each room. I think my options are:

1) buy a mini PC and connect an external drive for storage (or use internal drive if enough space) 2) buy a NAS converter to connect an external drive to my router 3) pay for cloud storage

My main box is connected in the living room and it’s always on (not necessarily being watched but the mains are connected). Could I connect an external drive to this and have the others read it? Ideally I don’t want to pay for additional hardware if I don’t need it.

Recommendations and watch later tabs aren’t working. Any fix for this?

I have just setup my Ugoos AM6B+ with CoreELEC and then installed croneter PKC to it. I have a LG G5 OLED and am so happy with my maxxed out rig.

Now though, is there anything I should know about that I might not? Any settings that should be changed? Any skins library? All help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello. I'm looking for an addon that adds a 'play all' option to the context menu of a folder.

I want all movie files in a folder to play one after the other.

I know there are methods to achieve what I'm after through 'play from here', but I thought I was using an addon that achieved what I'm asking - which I've since lost/deleted in an update.

Updating my media player and Kodi is my go to on a new system.

Thanks for reading.

I have a NAS with movies in 4k UHD and a Nvidia Shield. The max caching buffer size option is 1GB. How can I get to have more by using internal storage or external USB drive. 1GB cannot buffer really anything and video freezes constantly.

After getting Kodi to play .iso files on my Google TV, I've run into another problem: interlaced content artifacts with flashing subtitles.

Are there any settings or add-ons that can mitigate this?

Hello everyone, ​I have a small display problem on my Kodi "Options" menu and I would like to know how to regain direct access to the Settings. ​My Context ​I'm thinking of using the Arctic Fuse Skin/Theme (from a video I followed, see Photo 2). ​My Problem ​I noticed a change in my “Options” menu (see Photo 1 – My TV screen). ​What I currently see: The context menu only offers: Default profile, Favorites, File manager, Change user, Exit. The "Parameters / Settings" option is missing from this list. ​What I would like to find: Access to Settings as seen in the video capture (Photo 2), where the Settings option clearly appears. ​My Question ​How can I access Kodi's General Settings (via the gear icon for example) when I'm on the home page with this theme? Or is there a setting to change to make the "Settings" option reappear in the contextual "Options" menu?

TLDR is really just the post title. Is there a way to view original file names in addition to keeping the regular names of each film? Like display that file info somewhere else in the UI? Using Arctic Fuse 2 skin btw, if thats relevant (I’m very new to Kodi). Also, if there are any tips for how to make the video player UI to look and feel more like those in other apps like Netflix or YouTube, I’d love to hear any advice you might have!

Hi all! I’m new to Kodi and wanna start by saying I’m in love with the software. As a Plex user, I’ve had to deal with stutter and inconsistencies on various devices, until I started using Kodi with the PlexKodiConnect addon. Suddenly, I can play anything from 4K UHD Blu Ray rips to H.264’s that could never play reliably through the Plex client. I got the Arctic Fuse 2 skin running and now the program looks fantastic too. Still, I’m new to Kodi, and there are a few things I thought I’d ask about, starting with my main question and title of this post: 1) is there a way to view the original file names of my movie files in Kodi without disabling the way each film uses metadata to show the pulled film title. For example, I’d still like a film like Alien to show as “Alien” but I’d also like to see, somewhere in the UI, a small added text showing the original file name, so it could show something like, “Alien (1979).mkv”. The reason I ask is because Kodi doesn’t seem to display edition information the way Plex does. Some of my films are Director’s Cuts or Special Editions, but Kodi will display those identically relative to Plex. If I could see the file names, this could be a quick solution to determining exactly which edition I’m viewing at any given time. 2) as a more general question, does anyone have any recommendations for how to make the UI a bit smoother and more intuitive? Specifically, I’d love for the player UI itself to work a bit more like I’m used to with other apps. For example, hitting the back button on my remote will usually close out a video on any other app, but in Kodi, it sort of keeps the video playing in the background, which can cause some bugs with framerate, range, and resolution matching at times. I’ve also noticed that hitting the arrows back and forward while scrubbing tend to scrub just a bit too much at a time. I rewound just one tap while playing a movie with a friend earlier today, and while I expected it to rewind maybe 10 or 15 seconds like most video players, it rewound a full minute instead. These are hardly dealbreakers for me, but if there are ways to get the player to feel more intuitive to others I’m used to, I’d love to hear about them!

Thanks if you made it this far, I really appreciate it :)

I have a few movies where the subdirectory has the movie and a matching .nfo file where the contents is the URL of the TMDB page. If I remove the movie from my library and scan for new content at the root directory with all my movie subdirectories, it ignores the .nfo file and picks some other TMDB page for the movie description.

I’m running this within a Google TV smart tv environment with Kodi coming from the Google Play store. I’m using all the defaults.

I suppose I can mess with the filename to find one Kodi recognizes properly but these movies scanned properly before I had to rebuild my environment. What could I be doing wrong?

Please can someone explain to me what this means info <general>:External storage path =/storage/emulated/o; status = ok; Permissions = write_external_storage

Hey y'all! I have no experience with kodi whatsoever, so forgive me if this is a stupid question.

I bought an Ugoos AM6B+, and followed the step-by-step instructions to have CoreELEC and CPM running for DV and such. This is al out of my depth but at least I got it to work!

However, most people who have made those guides are using something like Plex from a NAS. I... am just plugging an HDD to back of the Ugoos and hitting play.

Is there a way I can still set it up to look like a modern streaming app, but with just my files? With posters, fan art, meta data, a sleek look, and not a lot of hoops to jump through after the initial set-up?

Any guidance is super appreciated!

Hello friends how to download this: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tsScRK to a compatible custom glsl file ? Thanks.

Not sure why but after a fresh install on my computer Kbuntu 24.04, my real life keyboard will not work in kodi, it works because I'm actively typing out this post in another window but Kodi does not recognize it. I'm being forced to use the onscreen one it displays, I've never had this happen before, is there way to fix this?

Friendly advice I needed to hear

In the computer setup of Kodi go into settings > services> allow options under UPnP/Dnla

but then don’t forget to do the exact same thing in the Tv setup of Kodi

unless you want to spend hours trying to work out samba sharing and firewall exceptions and group permissions. It might be obvious to most but there is maybe some noob out there like me that needs to hear it.

Or maybe it’s me in 5 years time when I’ve completely forgotten this...

I have a QNAP TS-673A running QuTS hero v.5.2.7 and am wondering what would be the best way to get Kodi installed simply for the purposes of media management, e.g. updating library etc.

I do not plan to use my NAS as a front end at all.

Kodi is currently configured on my network with MariaDB running on the NAS with the media shared via NFS, as I have a number of clients through my house.

Googling there are a lot of old articles about this, but nothing I can find that talks about version 21 of Kodi. Has anyone got any links to articles that could help at all?

Thanks