External Player Within KODI?

was able to to add the external play i want to use (potplayer) but didn't realize that it would be launched "outside" of kodi... is there a way to get an external player to launch "within" kodi, the same way that kodi's player launches, in order to mai...

Library update on resume

Hi All. This may not be the right place to post but I wanted to rule out this being a problem with Krypton Final on my chromebox. In the previous version of Kodi (jarvis) after a suspend, the library would get updated. This allowed me to leave the box ...

How to Add Additional .exe to playercorefactory?

I don't know how to add (2) .exe processes or if it's possible to a playercorefactory.xml? Anyone know code modification to add another .exe process? I would like this additional .exe process to start 10 seconds before the 2nd one if anyone's attempted...

Much needed help

Hey all, not really sure if this is the right place to post this (I hope it is). Anyway I am trying to find someone that knows and programs Kodi. I am very good with computers, however when it comes to Kodi and all the features (most which I don't even...

Lost websocket connection

I am getting a websocket error while using chorus 2. It happens nearly every time I use chorus 2 to control my kodi installation. Any ideas how to resolve this?

No video on Ubuntu 14.04 machine

Hi, I've used Kodi for a while, especially on my Ubuntu/Intel machine. I previously had 16 from the team-xbmc repo, which was upgraded to 17 recently. As of that upgrade, video completely stopped working: that is, when playing a video, audio and eve...

Linux – Text disappears after running for a few days

Hi. I am running Kodi 17 on Fedora 24. Compiled from source.

After running for a couple of days all the text disappears. This has happened with Estuary and Aeon Nox skins. There are grey box where the text used to be.

Anyone else seeing this problem?

watch gallery


Debug log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/24087755/


First bit of config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by kodi configure 17.0.000, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = dogbert
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 4.9.5-100.fc24.x86_64
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Fri Jan 20 12:27:44 UTC 2017

/usr/bin/uname -p = x86_64
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = x86_64
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

TV Shows with advance tracking

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Please help a newbie :) I deleted simple client

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Slideshow crash

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Audio help

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Translating the wiki/website?

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Unbearable load times

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