Modify default patterns

Hello Where do I modify default filename patterns used by kodi to recognize movie name, subtitle file etc? Fe. my movie files are named "<localized title> (year) <original title>.ext", subtitles are named <movie file name>-language....

Omnimod – basic tweaks

This is a personal mod of omni originally created to add back the skin.helper.service dependency for ratings, as well as the tv episodes view from mimic. Changes: - Added skin.helper.service dependency and rating bits back. - Added tv episode view f...

Problem with HW h265 decoding

Hello there, I have a problem with Kodi 17.1 (it was existing with kodi 16.0 before). When I try to Read 1080p movie, it works great, there is a HW decoding : (http://hpics.li/d5ad3d3) But when I try to play a 4K movie, HW decoding doesn't work and...

View a Web Page in Kodi Interface

Hi Guys, Warning: I am not an add-on developer... I do know a little PHP coding. I have in my own personal Apache server, created a web page in PHP that scrapes recent releases from various places through their rss feeds. I then display this info on ...

panasonic TX-55CX700B and kodi 16.1 3D issues

I have got 3D active glasses for my panasonic TX-55CX700B tv and the 3D function on the tv remote control is highlighted out so i cannot change any option when a 3D movie side by side is playing. Is there any way to do it on kodi. I followed some you t...

ATV4 TVOS 10.1 (14U593)

Hey guys just tried to install kodi both with impactor and through Xcode. Both tell me the App install has failed " This application does not support this kind of device". My ATV4 is straight out of the box. Any help would be much appreciated. Using ...

Google Summer of Code 2017 – Welcome and Read This First

Students interested in working with Kodi, welcome! In this sub-forum feel free to ask questions, discuss projects, or propose ideas. If somehow you've stumbled here without seeing our project ideas page first, be sure to check it out: Google Summer of Code 2017

This year's mentors will be determined based upon the projects chosen. Nathan Betzen (natethomas) is our GSoC admin and Martijn and Kib are our backup admins.

You can see some past GSoC ideas and proposals at: Category:Google Summer of Code

If you decide to submit a proposal, you MUST submit it in this forum first, so that the community and potential mentors can learn about it, ask questions, discuss narrowing or broadening the proposal, etc. You must also submit it using the proposal outline format from our Ideas page.


Additionally, we'd like to know a bit about you, so when you submit, we'd like to know the answers to these questions as well.

  • Tell us about the computer(s) and devices you have available for working on your SoC project?
  • When did you first start programming?
  • Are you a user of Kodi? When did you first start using it?
  • What do you primarily use Kodi for?
  • Have you contributed to other Open Source projects? If so, which projects and can we see some of your code?
  • If you have not contributed to open source projects, do you have other code we can look at?
  • What sorts of programming projects have you done on your own time?
  • How much time do you have available, and how would you plan to use it?
  • Do you plan to have a job or study during the summer in conjunction with Summer of Code?

Links of interest:

Google Summer of Code homepage
Google Summer of Code - Wikipedia article on GSoC
Google Summer of Code 2017 Ideas - our project ideas page

Pass through of HD audio not working

Hello! I use a Asrock Z270 ITX MB with HDMI 2.0 and a Pentium G4600, connected via HDMI to my Denon AVR X3300W. When I play movie files with HD audio like Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD Master Audio, DTS High Res., Dolby Atmos..., i get no audio to my AVR over ...

Rasperry pi3 – 1080p through wifi?

Hi, I´m planning on setting up a mini computer with raspberry pi3 to my daughters room.
She have an apple tv there that streams 1080p series and movies from the internet without problems,
I shouldn´t experience any lag with the raspberry pi3 should I?, the internet router is pretty strong.

Missing “Add to library” in context menu

I have Kodi 17 running on Windows 10 and I'm missing the "Add to Library" entry in the context menu. I have "Add to Favourite" and some other but not this one. Do I need a Add-on or do I have to change some settings to get it? I already installed Kodi ...

Kodi 17 and Aeon Nox

Upgraded to 17 to play with it. Put aeon nox skin on, but I can't find addons in system.like you could with Jarvis. So I have a pretty much blank new build. I can't find the addons, repositories, where to unzip from. Is it just me or an I missing somet...

Update Setup Info in Official Kodi Remote App

I couldn't get the official kodi remote app (iOS) to work since update Kodi 17 since i normally let Zeroconfig to do it for me I had to use a different port than 8080 because i tired the port range 8080-8080 and it didn't work so i tired changing th...

Caller information and autopause AddOn?

A general question: Is there an addOn which can be configured to communicate with a telephone (PBX) system (like a fritz.box to keep things simple or, even better, more sophisticated things like Asterisk or Auerswald products)? I know that some apps fo...

[Kodi 17] This is weird: External Player CPU Usage

Setup: i5 NUC running Windows10 64bit and Kodi 17.0 with MPC-HC 64bit as external player for all media. This has me baffled: When I play HEVC .mkv encoded content launched via Kodi, MPC is launched as normal but playback is super-choppy with audio dr...