Kodi as a window on Ubuntu 16.04

Does anyone know if it's possible to have Kodi as a window. I'm running Gnome and would like to be able to minimise Kodi as I can with say Mozilla or Transmission. At the moment I can only exit Kodi and I then have to open it again which causes it to c...

Next Episodes showing Episode 1 of every season

I use Trakt video addons as well as my local library for TV shows. The issue I'm finding is that all my TV shows show episode 1 even though i'm in the middle of a season. Maybe I don't understand how is scrobbles. Is it because in Trakt I haven't wa...

NewOn – Regional Live Streams and News Clips

Be a part of the future of local news with our new venture, NewsON. The free, ad-supported app provides instant access to live or on-demand broadcasts from over 170 local stations in 113 markets. Access previous newscasts for up to 48 hours after the...

Update?

I got a message that I need to update my Kodi software which is fine. I'm just wondering how do I update an existing installation without uninstalling the whole thing and starting from fresh? I'm sorry if this has been asked before I tried searching an...

[split] Security issue?

HELLO KODI PEOPLE

I RECENTLY UPGRADED TO KODI 17.3 AND I WAS ADVISED TO UNINSTALL THE OLDER VERSION OF KODI DUE TO A SECURITY ISSUE .
BUT WHEN I DOWNLOADED KODI17.3 I ALWAYS GET THIS ERROR MESSAGE HOW CAN I FIX THIS?

This program can’t start api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll Is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this program to fix this problem

I HAVE REPEADEDLY TRIED TO REINSTALL BUT I STILL GET THIS MESSAGE . I EVEN DID A SEARCH ON MY COMPUTER FOR THIS MISSING FILE AND IT DOES EXIST ON MY COMPUTER . I FACT THERE ARE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS FILE THAT I DOWNLOADED OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS.

PLEASE HELP ME SOLVE THIS PROBLEM SO I CAN ENJOY MY KODI AGAIN

Video not playing

I am streaming a video from a server onto kodi onto my raspberry pi. When I play a video (and i've tried several), it shows that it is playing, but there is no audio or video.

mark folder as read

so in 17.3 i don't see a way to go into 'videos' and mark a whole folder at once. is this not an option? i know it does work in SPMC ...

Stream from local network codecs missing?

Hi all, I just managed to connect my macbook pro (10.12.3) with KODI 17(on Raspberry). I can browse my mbp movies from raspberry and even stream some (like one MPEG4 XVID low res). But When I tried a 720p (also MPEG4 XVID) or a 1080p (MPEG4 H264 AVC ...

buffering problems

Why are we having so many problems with the buffering in the channels? I mean, this product Krypton, have been out in the market for at least 8 months now, Stalker Middleware, which by the way, we have to pay 100 hundred dollars to have a donation num...

MBOX only

I am using an MK 809 III Android and Kodi version 16 for picture slides . Had a close lightning strike and now the Only thing on the screen is MBOX. I can not make the the screen do anything ! Bob

Hardware HEVC support in High Sierra!! (via API)

Hello devs and users, you probably heard of the big news: the next major release of macOS will FINALLY come with system-level support for GPU-accelerated fixed-function HEVC/h.265 10bit decoding! The feature will be available to third party programs ...

Smart Playlist has no shows

Created a video source and smart playlist as per instructions. I only have art work, actors lists etc, in the files folder, but no shows in the playlist. I used the GUI interface and tinkered with the xsp. file. The scrapper doesn't appear to be popula...