help scraping tv bluray iso

I want to be able to scrape and separate a tv episode bluray without having to rename mpls files. I have most of my collection in iso's . I have tried to use strm files , but for some reason my setup wont correctly address the file location. is it poss...

Newbie question

I bought two boxes and one was rooted. Is rooting them "taboo" to talk about? I quickly looked through the forum rules and didn't see anything about that. Or at least to my little knowledge. The reason I ask is from everything I see online it seems as...

$PARAM

Can I not pass param to images?

Code:
<include content="WidgetSpecial">
<param name="list_id" value="9016"/>

Code:
<include name="WidgetSpecial">
        <definition>
                  <control type="group">
            <height>600</height> 
            <include content="SpecialImages">
                <param name="list_id" value="$PARAM[list_id]"/>
            </include>
</control>
</definition>
</include>

Code:
<include name="SpecialImages">
        <definition>
            <control type="multiimage" id="7977">
                <fadetime>1500</fadetime>
                <animation effect="fade" time="200" tween="cubic">Visible</animation>
                <width>1080</width>
                <height>600</height>
                <imagepath background="true">$INFO[Container($PARAM[list_id]).ListItem.Art(fanart)]</imagepath>
            </control>
              </definition>
</include>

the image control works fine if I just use the 9016 and bypass params but I want to use this for more then one thing.

Krypton/confluence

So I just updated my Kodi to Krypton and I'm not a fan of the new default skin. I tried to change it to confluence but when I choose it I get an error. The dependency on script.tvtunes version 3.0.6 could not be satisfied. Any new skin I try and inst...

Live TV Artefacts

Hi All, Just wondering if this is a common issue, after random periods of time, my Live TV will start showing major artefacts, bring up the guide and going straight back to LiveTV fixes the issue and sometimes I will see the issue occur and correct it...

Nothing happens when launching Kodi 17 final

I was using RC3 in Windows 10 without much problems. I download and install the final version and it won't launch, not via shortcut or the application in the folder. Nothing in Task Manager, just me? I downloaded the nightly KodiSetup-20170204-7781e47-...

pvr starting up @ 75%

I upgraded to Kodi 17 today and only issue so far is slow startup issue. I am getting "PVR starting up and it will get to 75% and then just stay there for several minutes and eventually work ok I know this may be a kodi issue and NOT a serverwmc issu...

Kodi 17.0 Krypton – Released!

Team Kodi are very happy to announce the immediate availability of Kodi 17.0 (Krypton) for Windows, Android, MacOS and iOS. Krypton brings updated default user interfaces, better organisation of settings, and many under-the-hood changes on VideoPla...

Kodi krypton 17

I just updated to v17 krypton and there is a radio button on the right side of my screen middle way up that I cannot get off. Can you please help me get rid of this because it interferes with my viewing. Thanks

Amazon Fire TV, movies stop on their own

I originally posted in this thread before I realized it was already marked "Solved". When I am watching a movie on Kodi 16.1, it will usually just stop somewhere in the middle of the movie and the screen goes black. I press a button on the remote and...

MENU BAR

In Kodi 17 Krypton is there any way to make the menu bar lighter? More transparent?

Way to Choose Each Time Whether to Create Resume Point or Not?

I am looking for a hotkey or some way to control whether, when I stop any given movie in the middle of its progress, a resume point is created. I know that you can use the advancedsettings.xml to make it so that either resume points are always created or never created, but my situation is that I usually want to create a resume point but sometimes don’t. I also understand that it is relatively easy to delete a resume point by simply going to your movie in your library and hitting the w key to mark it as watched, but the problem is that I usually initiate playback from the home screen, not by selecting a movie from my library. I have the Titan skin set to show a homescreen widget of In Progress Movies, and the w shortcut doesn’t work when I try to use it on a movie showing up in that homescreen widget. I can’t even bring up the context menu on a movie in the homescreen widget.

So the ideal solution I am looking for is that when I am in the middle of playing back a video, I could use one of two different hotkeys: the first would just stop the movie like normal (i.e., the default x hotkey during playback) and create a resume point, while the second would stop the video and not create a resume point. Is there a way to accomplish this using the keymaps.xml and/or python?

One workaround I thought of was to set a hotkey to the action of SkipNext to skip to the next movie in a playlist, but this still creates a resume point in the movie that is being skipped from. I was hoping that it would mark the movie as watched, but it does not.

If none of these things work, does anyone know of a different Kodi skin that could show In Progress movies on the homescreen and that would allow the w key to have its normal function on the homescreen as well?

Thank you so much!

Problem & Fix for scraping “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” via TheTVDB

Hi all. Just a kind of query of sorts.

I just added a few more Series to my Kodi installation, all went smooth apart from 1 Series in particular, being "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"

My naming convention is setup as it should be and with 23 other Series, with which I have had no problem scanning into the library, all has been well.

My Naming is as follows (example given on the problem here)

E:\Media\TV Shows\The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)\Season 1\The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - S01E01 - The Fresh Prince Project.mkv
E:\Media\TV Shows\The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)\Season 1\The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - S01E02 - Bang the drum, Ashley.mkv
...

All filenames are scraped with a tool which uses TheTVDB naming database.

I got the following result in the debug log:

Code:
DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Skipping dir 'E:\Media\TV Shows\Star Trek - The Original Series (1966)\' due to no change
22:20:11.002 T:1456   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: No NFO file found. Using title search for 'E:\Media\TV Shows\The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)\'
22:20:11.002 T:1456   DEBUG: ADDON::CScraper::FindMovie: Searching for 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' using The TVDB scraper (path: 'C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\metadata.tvdb.com', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.8.4')
22:20:11.006 T:1456   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url cache="cache-The%20Fresh%20Prince%20of%20Bel-Air%20(1990)-en.xml">http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=The%20Fresh%20Prince%20of%20Bel-Air%20(1990)&amp;language=en</url>
22:20:11.006 T:1456   DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><results></results>
22:20:11.006 T:1456   DEBUG: ADDON::CScraper::FindMovie: Searching for 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' using The TVDB scraper (path: 'C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\metadata.tvdb.com', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.8.4')
22:20:11.006 T:1456   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url cache="cache-The%20Fresh%20Prince%20of%20Bel%20Air-en.xml">http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=The%20Fresh%20Prince%20of%20Bel%20Air&amp;language=en</url>
22:20:11.007 T:1456   DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><results></results>
22:20:11.007 T:1456 WARNING: No information found for item 'E:\Media\TV Shows\The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)\', it won't be added to the library.
22:20:11.030 T:1456   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Skipping dir 'E:\Media\TV Shows\The King of Queens (1998)\' due to no change

I played around a bit with the URL and it turns out that the series cannot be found with the added Year included (on the first try)
On the 2nd try though, Kodi (?) tries a different search pattern and excludes the Year, but if you look carefully it also excludes the hyphen between "Bel-Air", making it "Bel Air", and because of that missing hyphen, the search result also fails.If you paste the link and delete the space between "Bel Air" and put a hyphen inbetween, you will get a result.

My question is, does one normally include the YEar with TV series? I thought yes, same with Movies, but now I'm not sure, as adding the year on any search query nothing gets found. If that's the case I'll remove all years from my structuring. If one can leave the year, why does Kodi try the search without the hyphen?

I know this is probably a very rare and random "glitch" but thought it might be good to make someone aware of this as possibly there are other Series which may be affected?

Kind regards