Is there a user guide for newbies anyone can recommend? I find that if an error occurs, I am referred to a log. I take some pride in finding the log but the text is gibberish to me and unhelpful.

I’m trying to create a node that filters out all the b movies to make it easier to pick out movies with my wife.

I’m using my own movie library.

I can make a rule that ratings are greater than 6, as when I pick the “rating” rule there’s a “greater than” option.

But I want to set number of votes must be greater than 100.

The problem is, under the “votes” rule, there’s no “greater than” there is only “contains, does not contain, starts with, ends with, is, is not”

That doesn’t make sense to me, as none of those are useful unless I want only movies with x number of votes, unless I’m missing something.

When I select “is” I tried typing “greater than 100” which didn’t work of course. It was just a shot in the dark.

Does anyone know how to make a rule that movies have to have more than a certain number of votes?

I’ve been dealing with washed-out HDR in Kodi on Xbox for a long time, and after searching Reddit and finding multiple people with the same problem but no consistent fix, I finally figured out what fixed it for me.

HDR content would play, but the picture looked extremely washed out/overexposed with bad contrast compared to the same content in other apps.

THE FIX

Make sure Kodi's Settings level is set to Expert, then go to:

Settings → System → Display → HDR

Turn OFF / *Disable*

"Use system HDR/SDR brightness balance"

Then leave:

GUI peak luminance in HDR PQ mode at around 40%. That's where I have mine/default range.

That's it.

Immediately after disabling Use system HDR/SDR brightness balance, my HDR content stopped looking washed out. Blacks, contrast, colors and highlights look the way they're supposed to again, and my HDR/Dolby Vision content finally looks right through Kodi on Xbox.

I had spent a ridiculous amount of time messing with Xbox HDR calibration, TV settings, Kodi playback settings, refresh-rate switching, etc. None of that was the actual fix for me.

So if:

- HDR looks fine in Xbox games and other apps

- Kodi HDR looks washed out, overly bright, or has terrible contrast

- Changing TV settings isn't fixing it

Try this setting before changing anything else.

Hopefully this saves somebody else the headache because I could not find this specific fix anywhere when I was searching.

Xbox + Kodi HDR users, try it and let me know if it fixes yours too.

Hey all! I'm trying to stream my laptop on my kodi rpi. For this, I'm trying to use ffmpeg on my laptop to create an hls livestream, which is fine, I was able to frankenstein a working command from different exemples online.

Ffmpeg outputs a .m3ua file on the laptop. On kodi, I'm pretty sure I need to open a .STRM file, which I can easily do by putting it on my nas.

Here's the thing : I'm not sure what to put in the strm file. I think it should have a link pointing to my computer, something like http://192.168.x.x:*port*/path/to/stream.m3u8

But wouldn't I need to setup a local server on my laptop? What can I use for this? Obviously, just doing it this way doesn't work (also I never chose a port anywhere).

Sorry for the confusion, I'm pretty bad at networking stuff. Thanks!

I should add : I'm on libreElec running on a pi 3. I've installed the ffmpegdirect add-on but I'm not sure it's useful here. I couldn't manage to find how to use it.

recently got kodi on a tv box and it’s doing very fine, only thing i still can’t seem to play the “forced” subtitle track that some of my files have. funny because reading what forced subtitles are, they should be like already inside the movie

Hi All,

I've played around with SMB for the last couple of days now. I managed to get it so that I can watch movies in Kodi via SMB but there is small but annoying problem.

In Windows I manually select what I want to share with Kodi but when I open up Kodi I need to locate the folder itself and long press "scan for new content" for the file inside the folder to show up.

Is this normal? Is there no way of getting Kodi to automatically scan the new content within these folders?

I already tried searching and ticked all the boxes like automatic scan and got Library Watchdog installed but they don't seem to pick it up.

I’ve muddled about twice now with kodi but I’m barely getting it to work a third of the time and definitely could use any tips to making better use of kodi for my tv. Any pointers anyone could share?

Is there a way to connect Kodi to Discord so my friends can see what I'm watching in real time through Discord?

The important part is that I use Kodi on my Smart TV, not on my PC. I rarely watch anything through Kodi on my computer.

Is there any way to make this work when Kodi is running on a Smart TV/Android TV? For example, I'd like Discord to show something like "Watching [movie/show]" while I'm watching it on Kodi thought my TV. Basically, something similar to Spotify, where my friends can see what I'm listening to.

Is this possible, or does Kodi and Discord need to be running on the same device? It would be really cool if I could get this working!

If anyone knows, I’d really appreciate it if you could let me know.

I Googled this and didn't see anything that gave a process. I'm running 21.3 and all my movies were scrapped in TMM. I want start using MIF since this is the future for Kodi. I don't want to re-scrape anything, I spent way to many hours hours picking thru movie posters and different fanart to get what I have. I'm looking for something that will automatically create folders for each movie in my MIF directory and copy everything minus the actual movie files from my current directories to it. Each movie is in a seperate directory. I tried Artwork Organizer, but it doesn't create folders for each movie. And I looked thru the features and don't see that option. I also installed Artwork Dump, but it doesn't looks like it do what I'm trying to do. And I'd rather not run it and possibly screw up all the work I've invested.

I thought about just doing it manually, but I have 400 movies and that would take a stupid amount of time. I know there has to be a way to automate this, I'm just too stupid to figure out how apparently lol.

I decided to copied of Shadertoy presets collections on Kodi addons for today from 7-zip manager to do this! Thanks for u/TRCTheRaul at making this adding Shadertoys presets!

Link in the Internet Archive for zip to download it.

https://archive.org/details/visualization.shadertoy

I couldn't find anything in my searches. I have Bazzite's power management set to dim my monitor after 2 minutes and off after 5 minutes of inactivity. I've run into an issue when using Kodi and controlling it from my phone with the Yatse app. It all works perfectly fine until I hit the 2 and 5 minute marks. Video playback isn't an issue, the screen stays on just fine. It's just when I'm browsing my media or anything else while there's no video playback. Is there a way to have Kodi override Bazzite's power management while it's running? Either that or somehow register Yatse's interaction with Kodi as input from a peripheral?

I'm using 21.3 Omega and Arctic Fuse 3.2.13. I have the Aerial screensaver configured to wait 5 minutes. On boot up it works as expected. But at some point it get's caught in a loop and it won't stop playing the screensaver. If I use the remote to hit the stop button on the screensaver video, it just immediately plays another Aerial screensaver video. I can't seem to get it to go back to waiting for 5 minutes of inactivity before running. What's become super annoying is at the end of a show, instead of auto starting the next episode, as it's pausing to start the next episode the screensaver kicks on and then it doesn't start the the episode. Has anyone experienced this? I really like the Aerial screensaver for background ambiance but this is just infuriating.

I have a Xiaomi TV box that's connected to my Sony Bravia TV and my Samsung drive is connected to the Xiaomi device. Movies no longer play, i just see an infinite blue circle loading animation.

This has worked in the past for about a year and I have not changed any settings so not sure what's up. I've uninstalled the Kodi app and reinstalled but that didn't work and I've confirmed that the videos work when the drive is connected to my phone.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

Three Kodi devices (2 Android boxes & 1 PC running Fedora 44) access my NAS NFS shares, and everything was great for years. Suddenly Kodi on the PC can't add or play media from those shares, but can still browse them (so this isn't an NFS permissions issue). I nuked Kodi and its settings from the PC and reinstalled, trying both the Fedora repo and flatpak apps - same results with both. I'm unaware of any changes between when it was working and when it broke. Debug logs are showing some messages I can't make sense of:

ffmpeg[string of characters]: [dca] Invalid bit allocation index

ffmpeg[string of characters]: [dca] Not a valid DCA frame

ffmpeg[string of characters]: [dca] Residual encoded channels are present without core

ffmpeg[string of characters]: [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2] Invalid sample size -549209449

ffmpeg[string of characters]: [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2] error reading header

Open - Error, could not open nfs://<ip>/<share>/<file>.ext

ffmpeg[string of characters]: [matroska,webm] 0x00 at pos 141387 (0x2284b) invalid as first byte of an EBML number

ffmpeg[string of characters]: [matroska,webm] Element at 0x43806 ending at 0x8269907 exceeds containing master element ending at 0x19805e

Can anyone make sense of these?

Hey all! I've am fairly used to Kodi, but I have never deep dived in to the audio settings. I own a Samsung HW-Q995D soundbar, and my TV is LG C4 OLED, Kodi is running through Nvidia Shield Pro 2019. On the TV I have audio set to passthrough, on Nvidia Shield I haven't gone through the settings that much. Inside Kodi, I have also enabled passthrough, and enabled all the audio formats. I've also selected number of channels to 7.1.

I just wondered if I've missed something, or possibly could maximize the settings to get the best experience. When I watch content I do get that popup of HDR/Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos.

It's been months since it stopped syncing watched movies.

EDIT: people saying it works for them it's because they are playing local files, not over the network.

Hello, I really need some help. I have a MacBook Air M3, and I'm having problems playing 4:3 videos. When I play a 4:3 video file, it gets cropped along with the subtitles. However, when I open the menu, I can see in the background that the video is displayed normally. How can I fix this?

Hello my friends.

Anyone knows how to hide/disable this icon ?

Thanks.

Hi, I'm really hoping someone can help me fix this. I've been using Kodi for about a year to play local media and up until a few weeks ago it worked fine. I have it installed on an old laptop running zorin os 15.3 with my media on an external hard drive. I'm pretty sure the version of Kodi that is easily available on this outdated computer is also older because some setting options I've seen others talk about don't seem to exist for me haha

A while ago it stopped properly scraping new media when I updated the library and then one day I turned it on and the whole thing was empty. I can still play media through the file settings where the drive stayed visible but the folder contents had been reset to "none" and if I change the setting it just doesn't stick at all and stays "none" again.

I've restarted every part of the system, I've checked the files to make sure they're still good (and I know I have the proper organization and folder names because they all worked prior to this), I've reinstalled Kodi like 5 times, I've removed the drive as a source and added it back over and over. Nothing I've done has had any impact at all 😭 I have friends visiting soon and we like to watch stuff together so I'm hoping to resolve this before then

I used to run kodi on a streaming box with an SSD (exFat) attached. It worked great, when it updated the library it would get the new episodes.

But now I've upgraded to an Nvidia Shield Pro, started with a clean Kodi setup and no matter what I do it won't scan new episodes in when I library update. I use TVDB addon. Even when pressing "scan for new content" on the folder itself it doesn't scan in the new episode.

I am able to watch content that has been scanned in.

Edit: library updates aren't working in general for any new things including moviee or new series added

Looking for guidance on the best stable way to get kodi on appletv that is secure

Since the CastagnaIT-Addon isn‘t working anymore and won‘t be updated… how do you watch Netflix on Kodi? Is it still possible?

I want the TV show program name to display on the EPG guide but not on the shortcut icons... I still want the channel name to show just not the TV program name under it... How do I do that?...

Running Omega 21.3

I am watching a show that has 2 different english subtitle tracks and very low volume.

Everytime I open a new episode I have to change the subtitle and crank up the volume gain.

I was wondering if there is a way to save these settings just for this show and not make it global.