Get album path via music player?

I was thinking that one way around the problem of destructive downsizing when showing album art on the homepage was maybe having two separate album art files, one at a smaller size, then displaying both 1:1 in Kodi. This could be done quite simply if y...

Kodi UI freeze during PVR manager start

Kodi 17RC2 on Win 7 x64 also seen on Win 8.1 x64. I use PVR WMC as live TV client. When Kodi starts I get an announcement popup that PVR manager is starting up. Normally this goes by pretty fast. Sometimes, though, the announcement will stay up for...

Live TV works – playback of Recordings not

Hi There im new at kodi - but a long term VDR USER. I play around with Kodi and VDR PVR activated - VNSI Plugin on a VDR from Source GIT(SVN). Connection to VDR SErver works well Live TV works well If i try to playback Recordings i only get a emty ...

IPTV script does not allow ffmpeg -i “http://”

In the URL field of the tvheadend iptv settings I put: Code: pipe:///script.sh The script contains: Code: #!/bin/bash pipe:///usr/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -i http://ip?id=1&a=1&b=2 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpegts pipe:1 However runn...

TV Tunes Alternative

Hey, I've seen the reasons it's gone, and I don't want to start another debate, I won't be pulling it from github. Are there any other similar addons/plugins? I realised the other day loads of my shows were missing the theme songs since I did a clear...

Baffled

Hi. I have Kodi installed on my Windows 10 desktop. It runs beautifully and I haven't had any issues. I have an m3u list that has been working great. I installed the pvr iptv simple client with no issues. When I would start Kodi, I would get a popup, s...

Half-D1 DVD subtitle problem

Hi, I'm having problems with subtitle display on my DVD rips in Kodi. In order to save space, I coded my extras on DVD as half-D1 video. Now, in Kodi, video plays fine, video is correct size, but subtitles are left as per normal video. This means that...

hd-trailers addon – no posters?

I remember when I was on PC that the addon would download posters for thumbnail views. I'm on SPMC now and no posters are loading and I tried uninstalling / installing the addon. Anyone know what might be the issue?

Kodi scanning content other than from my library

Hi, I'm using Kodi Jarvis 16.1 and have been since it came out. All of a sudden Kodi is scanning content that is not in my library. I am not sure of the source of this and why it is doing this all of a sudden. The only thing I can think of is that i...

Question: Scrape epsoide metadata option

Hello, I am in clear how the scrape epsoide metadata option (found in the context menu) differs from scraping the show? Does this just update epsoides and leave the rest intact? You have to scrape the show or "new epsoides" initially so that why I a...

Android Cannot Access SMB

Hi, folks. Pretty newb to the whole networking of Kodi thang, but a bud helped me set-up stuff so I could route my external HDs through my desktop (Win 7), and access them via my android devices, but everything went to poot last eve. I've two android...

Movie playback in Kodi

I'm trying to establish an alternative to Win7 / WMC so this is my basis of comparison. What I've experienced so far is a difference in how DVD movies stored on a hard drive are played back. On WMC, a thumbnail of the file is displayed and selecting ...

Add-on for Plex

I keep finding references to what I understand to be an add-on which would provide a Plex client from within Kodi. But I've been unsuccessful finding where / how to download it for my openelec device. Am I missing something or misunderstood what was ...

[Kodi 17.0RC2] Fails Server Authentication

I am a total newbie to Kodi, so please bare with me. Properly installed a couple days ago. Then I tried the built-in stalker client. I was very careful to get the info correct. Then I found out that there seems to be a controversy over how ti input t...