Kodi freeze when trying to play some radio streams

Kodi freeze when trying to play some radio streams (doesnt react for minutes) after 5mins i double click on the Kodi Window and a message to shut down Kodi popped up. while other stations seem to work, if i try to play "Radio-X" it freezes. - No issu...

Resume or play random video on start up

Hello I've been using this: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=183084 without problems really for over a year. Well I was updating an realized his code and repository are gone! Is there any other add-on that does something like this? I have a ra...

Cant get custom folders to display content

Hi Guys When i try and add custom menus nothing is displayed they are just empty. 1) added a source eg kids tv and kids movies 2) Go into settings and add menu and for the action i select video library => sources => Kids Movie (video source) =&...

DLNA subtitle support?

Hi i am having trouble getting subtitles to display on the video when playing through DLNA. They are working on some of the files, but i can't figure why or how to get it on everyone. It works on a couple of my video file thats stored in the folder vi...

Arrow will not install for trakt.tv

Hi I am new. I looked for the sticky thread on whcih files to add but did not see it. Also from reading I understand people are getting information from a log that I do not know how to access. My issues are simple at this point: How do I get the l...

failed due to an invalid structure

hello. i can add repositories just fine. however whenever i go to add ons. i always get the message. "installing the add-on from zip file located at (location here). failed due to an invalid structure. this is very confusing to me as ive seen people ad...

Cannot stop recursive scanning of STREAM, PLAYLIST, and VIDEO_TS folders

Recently upgraded to Kodi 17 and it seems no matter what settings I use for "Scan recursively", after my movie library is scraped, Kodi also scans every single STREAM and PLAYLIST folder within the BDMV structure and adds hundreds of copies of "The Breakup Playlist (2015)" and "Stream (2000)", and a copy of "Video (2016)" for every DVD I have ripped. I have tried adding the following to my advancedsettings.xml files with no effect...

<videoextensions>
<remove>.mpls</remove>
<remove>.m2ts</remove>
</videoextensions>

For reference here is my full advancedsettings.xml...

Quote:<advancedsettings>
<tvshowmatching append="no">
<regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]+)\]_\[[Ee]([0-9]+)\]?([^\\/]*)(?Sad?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \[\-\\/]([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?Sad?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
<regexp>[Ss]([0-9]+)[\.\-]?[Ee]([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?Sad?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-\\/]([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*)(?Sad?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
<moviestacking>
<!-- <cd/dvd/part/pt/disk/disc/d> <0-N> -->
<regexp>(.*?)([ _.-]*(?:cd|dvd|p(?:ar)?t|dis[ck]|d)[ _.-]*[0-9]+)(.*?)(\.[^.]+)$</regexp>
<!-- <cd/dvd/part/pt/disk/disc/d> <a-d> -->
<regexp>(.*?)([ _.-]*(?:cd|dvd|p(?:ar)?t|dis[ck]|d)[ _.-]*[a-d])(.*?)(\.[^.]+)$</regexp>
<!-- movienamea-xvid.avi, movienameb-xvid.avi -->
<regexp>(.*?)([ ._-]*[a-d])(.*?)(\.[^.]+)$</regexp>
</moviestacking>
<videoextensions>
<remove>.mpls</remove>
<remove>.m2ts</remove>
</videoextensions>
</advancedsettings>

Any help is appreciated. I have been trying to troubleshoot this for hours by searching on Google and the Kodi forums with no luck so far.

Thanks.

Consumer mode

We need a consumer mode that can be turned off only with a password. The purpose of the consumer mode is to have it on for users that will only be consuming content set up by a more advanced user. When switched to consumer mode, Kodi cannot scan for c...

Which OS would YOU choose

Greetings,
I built a kodi box a few years ago and at the time I decided Using windows 7 would be the way I would go for an OS. I wanted a box that would play my video library as well as emulate the old games and eventually be able to support my PVR needs when I got around to building a PVR box. Well I recently built out a Mythtv box and got it up and running and whilst installing the add-on for it on my Kodi box I noticed the whole box seemed sluggish and was eating my entire 8 GB of RAM. It has been years since I last wiped the drive (I normally wipe my other computers every year or so. Anyways, I know this question has been asked before but it has been a long time and several improvements to Linux since I have seen the question asked so here it is...if you were to rebuild your system today (or the system listed below)...what OS would YOU use for if you could choose any one? When I built this box the first time I used windows because Linux didn't seem to have a lot of support for game emulators and their accessories (Xbox 360 controllers, Wiimotes, etc) but it seems I just looked it up and Linux supports almost every one I use now. I am considering Linux instead of my copy of WIN7 because to me it feels less bloated than windows...and I figure I would have a lot less issues with "focus" on the Kodi program (IE: Windows loves to shrink my Kodi to give me some B*($SH!HF system message. I got it corrected with XBMClauncher but still annoying). My rough specs are below:

Quad-Core AMD A-Series APU Processor Model A8-5600K
Gigabyte GA-F2A85XM-D3H AMD Socket FM2 A85X (Hudson D4) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Motherboard
8 GB RAM
128 GB SSD
Using the built in geforce video (I bought a stand alone geforce card for it but it would never boot and seem to get red hot with it installed to I just stayed with onboard)

Any suggestions (or warnings) about switching to Linux (or staying with Windows and just reinstalling) would be much appreciated.

Acc

No video streams start

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