Delineation between Kodi, Emby, Plex, Playon, etc.

I know what Kodi does. - Kodi allows the playing of media files on a machine. I know what Plex and Emby do. - They use a client/server architecture. They use a server to maintain a media database. Then various clients can hit the server for the media...

What did you use before?

I have been using XBMC/Kodi/SPMC/Openelec for several years now. Before it, I used the Boxee Box. Remember those?? They were EXECELLENT and did what the primary function od Kodi is. They allowed you to play back media files to the TV easily. DLink boug...

Installed Nighthawk Router – Goodbye Kodi

I've been streaming with Kodi for about 6 months now and I absolutely love it. I just upgraded to a Nighthawk AC1900 router yesterday and now I am unable to stream anything on Kodi. Has this happened to anyone else? I have no other issues on any PC or ...

Mouse Lag

Hopefully this hasn't been answered before or is covered in another forum, but this is my issue. I'm currently using KODI 16.1 with windows 7 and a AMD XFX RX-460P2SFG5 AMD Radeon 2GB GDDR5 DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card, connected throug...

Completely lost

Hey y'all, I'm new to Kodi and just recently installed the Amber skin. I can't actually get to the skin settings? It's greyed out under appearance. I read on a forum that they're on the main menu? and I found it once, but I can't seem to get back? I'm...

Issues with KODI app on Moto Z Force

I just recently upgraded my phone and downloaded the KODI App from the Play Store. When I try to open it no text appears and nothing seems to work. Does anyone know what the issue may be and how can I fix it. I'm not very tech savvy just know enough to...

Installed Nighthawk Router – No More Kodi

I've been streaming with Kodi for about 6 months now and I absolutely love it. I just upgraded to a Nighthawk AC1900 router yesterday and now I am unable to stream anything on Kodi. Has this happened to anyone else? I have no other issues on any PC or ...

IR-KEYTABLE without LIRC / LIRCD in LibreELEC?

Hi all, Since Kodibuntu is no longer supported by the Kodi developers, I have made the move to LibreELEC and I am very happy with it so far... Quick to install, fast boot, available options that should have been in Kodibuntu (network configuration to...

Subtitle Download

I like the selection do download either manually or automatically the subtitles. However. It seems about 50% plus of the time, it does not find a subtitle. When I go to opensubtitles.org, and search there, voila, they are there.... Am I doing some...

Official view on modded skins?

I was just wondering what is the official view on modded skins? If I mod a skin for my own purposes (that is OK, I suppose) am I able to distribute it? I.e. someone else might like my mod. Or is it up to the skin author? I suppose all skins ar under so...

resume watching problem

My kody stopped asking if i want to resume watching from the last point that i watch , on all addons and even ond saved files. what can it be?

Bounty or something to finally fix database?

G'evening The MySQL database structure has been topic of discussion for many years. Isn't it an idea we post some sort of bounty, to get an expert MySQL-dev to design the structure right for once and for all? My Synology DS2415+ MySQL server with 6G...

Scans only half my library: known problem?

G'evening I have a 200 thousand songs music library, like this: \audio\albums\artist1\album_1-album_n\. For some reason, Kodi only indexes around half of it (85000 songs in MySQL), and then it considers the job done. Is this a known problem? Are th...