japanese/cyriliy characters

@Moderator: I am not clear about the roots of my problem. That is why I posted in such a general group. Please feel free to move my post to the correct group. My Kodi doesn't display japanes or cyrilic characters in filenames (over Samba). There are ...

[BUG] Kodi 17.3 doesnt’t start after Installation

Dear Community, i have completely new installed Windows 10 Enterprise and Kodi 17.3 today. Try to start Kodi and it crashes. Below you can have look at my Kodi.log and Kodi_Crashlog with Loglevel 1. Please help to resolve problem. kodi.log --> ...

Kodi addon with token generator

Hi im developing an addon to stream live tv but the problem is that the website that im trying to stream these servers works with token. So for example is this file : http://website.com/playlist.m3u8?__token__=ip=(an ip)~exp=(some numbers)~acl=*~hmac=...

customize skin layout

Hi all, i was wondering if anyone could point me to the right place in the xml files to adjust the layout of my skin a bit. I attached a screencapture to help explain what i wanted to to. I want to expand the view left, the movie poster (with the blue...

Going to add-ons crashes Kodi

Hey I'm new as I'm sure you can tell but I recently started using Kodi and it worked fine but recently it has begun to crash everytime I click on the add-ons tab. I am using the Google pixel (not XL) and I'm on Android version 8.0.0 (DP3) I assume th...

Black Bars

Im running Krypton 17.3 on my windows 10 just a few days ago I was watching a movie and the video started slowing down but the words kept going untill i moved my mouse now as long as my mouse is moving or the black bars are there the movie plays fine....

Audio issues with some files

Hi all, I am having an issue with video playback with some video files. Sometimes I will get a video that plays just fine, except for the audio. If I then try to stop the video, and play any other video, even a known good file, it has no audio. Furth...

Clear Playlist option missing

Just wondering what happened to the "Clear" option that used to exist in the "Current Playlist" view? I thought it might be something with the LibreELEC distributions that I am using, but it is missing from my Kodi 17.3 Windows installs as well. Is t...

Crash on skipping in recorded tv-show

Hi, Skipping forward and backward with Kodi 17 is slower and when it crashes Kodi stops completely and not only the stream as in Kodi 16 before. I am often skipping the commercials (10 Minutes) by pressing skip forward multiple times. On Kodi 16 it oft...

time navigation steps

i am running kodi 17.1 krypton on raspberry pi 3 i think , my question is generic . here is my time navigation file OpenELEC:~/.kodi/userdata # cat advancedsettings.xml <advancedsettings> <video> <usetimeseeking>true</usetimeseekin...

RK3399 or S912 with HDR and automatic frame rate

Hi everyone,


Which tv box is HDR compatible and supports automatic frame rate in Kodi for a price up to $/€ 150,00?
Would you choose in this case for RK3399 or Amlogic S912?

What would be the best choice in your opinion?

Thanks for your reaction.

Need help with forced subtitles

Let us suppose a movie has 2 subtitles: Subtitle A(subtitle for all dialogues) Subtitle B(forced; subtitle only for foreign dialogues) I usually like to watch my movies(Hollywood) with subtitles even though i speak English. Hence, this is how i would...

Replies to threads not being posted

After I've made a reply in a thread and posted it, it's shown in that thread. However, sometimes when I come to look at them later, in a different session - i.e after logging out and then logging back in - my reply is not there. I'm using Win10 and F...