Please add support for rendering the Steam Overlay

As I understand it, Kodi's repaint optimizations prevent the Steam Overlay from working properly all of the time. More specifically, when Kodi is not making a call to paint, the Steam Overlay cannot render. Because Kodi does not have a continuous pain...

Improve XML of tvshow.nfo and episode.nfo files

I've written a couple of programs in different languages that produce and parse tvshow.nfo and TV episode .nfo files. The only things that have tripped me up are that `<actor>` and `<genre>` are repeated tags instead of being wrapped in con...

Profiles errors

I was using Kodi 16 with profiles, everything works fine. Now I'm testing with Kodi 17 (RC2), profiles gives several problems. I'm using a fresh install of Kodi 17 RC2 on Windows and OSX. Both have the same problems. - After creating profiles, can add...

Force movies in a specific order?

How do I go about forcing movies in chronological order, rather than alphabetical order? For example, the MCU (Iron Man,The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, Avengers etc..) I want to make sure that they are in the order of the story...

Fastforwarding without holding down

I am using an 360 controller and when i press on L2\R2 for fast forwarding i want it to be able to stay on the speed without holding. In previous kodi versions (i've been using 14.2 for awhile now idk when it was changed) i could touch r2 slightly and...

PS4 Controller Audio Issue

I received a wired PS4 dual shock 4 controller as a gift specifically to use as remote control & gaming controller. I have a Kodi 5.1 Android TV box. I was told it was "plug and play" and it didn't matter that I don't have a PS4. But while watchin...

Crashing back to library

Hi there. Recently Kodi crashes back to the library view from the TV program or film is was playing. Now nothing freezes, but it is as if you've pressed stop. It allows the stream to be resumed from where it stopped. I have attached a log, assuming th...

Kodi screen too big for tv screen

HI and Happy New Year everyone, i have a small form windows 10 computer directly attached to my large 65 inch tv via a hdmi connection. the problem is that the kodi 17 krypton home screen is too big for the tv screen. ive noticed with the old kodi 16 y...

Upgrade to 16.1 and all is not well

I just upgraded to Kodi 16.1 (via openELEC 7.0) and most things work as expected except chromium v7.0.3 doesn't launch. So I ssh-ed into the box and ran manually to see stdout ... Code: MyVisioETV:~/.kodi/addons/browser.chromium # ./bin/chromium /st...

amazon fire tv 2 cannot write in nfs network.

alright im sorry if this is dumb but i have been working on this for 5 days straight now and so far i cant get it. I have the amazon fire 2 4k and im trying to use quasar and want the download path to go to nfs i already have it set up and it can make ...

VDR Recording Format

Hi, Was wondering if it's possible to have VDR record as mpg/mkv on-the-fly? A lot of the documentation is in German by the looks of it, and any plugins that do mention alternate formats are either really old or in German. Can a recording maybe be pi...

[HELP] ADDON ERROR

I need help to this add-on error that just keeps on popping up. Everytime I open up a add-on like the UFC add-on or the Youtube add-on it just gives me a quota exceeded pop-up at the bottom right corner of the screen. If you now why this is happening p...

Slow Streaming & Some Streams Not Working in Krypton

Recently have been testing various Krypton builds on many devices, from the beta to the latest nightly. It is slow to play many streams, let alone the switching speed, but its working perfectly in older kodi builds. There's also some streams which cras...