I wanted to share a project I've been working on: megastreamer, a native, lightweight video addon for Kodi designed to browse and play media files directly from your personal cloud storage (specifically Mega) in real-time.

Version 0.2 represents the first consolidated stable release, focusing on cross-platform compatibility, secure credential handling, and advanced listing organization.

Technical Design & Features:

• Performance seeking: Built a custom connection engine that reuses active TCP/TLS sockets, enabling quick seek times (skipping forward/backward) and stutter-free playback.
• Security: Addon credentials are saved on-disk using AES-CBC cryptography (crypto_utils.py), ensuring your profile is never stored in plaintext.
• Persistent session management: Uses local caching to minimize API requests and maintain a light traffic footprint.
• Multi-Slot profile system: A new slot management system that lets you configure multiple cloud profiles in the settings and switch between them dynamically.
• OS-Independent importer: A fully platform-agnostic file importer compatible with Android, Linux, Windows, and macOS for loading file structures from local text files.
• Folders-first auto-sorting: Strict A-Z sorting of directories (subfolders first, followed by playable media elements).
• Native Metadata Display: Mapped category and year tags directly into Kodi's native list engine (listitem.setInfo), making it compatible with premium Kodi skins.
• Bilingual: Full English (en_gb) and German (de_de) localization.

The codebase is fully open-source and licensed under GPLv3.

Link to the GitHub repository and compiled ZIP assets is in the comment section below!