r/kodi

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 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?

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.

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.

Asked for help on a skin to access my movie library on my pc and thread get locked for piracy addons, what gives i never mentioned anything other than i use a couple of addons in kodi.

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

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.

Hi everyone, it's my first time setting this up!

I recently got a Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q running Ubuntu Server, with Jellyfin deployed via Portainer/Docker. Everything runs smoothly when streaming to my PC and other devices.

I installed the Kodi Sync Queue plugin on Jellyfin because my goal is to use a Raspberry Pi 4 running LibreELEC/Kodi with the Jellyfin for Kodi add-on on my living room TV.

I set up the Pi and everything seems to work, except for one issue: after connecting the add-on to the server and completing the initial library sync (I currently only have a Movies library and 3 Collections), nothing shows up in the main Movies section of Kodi.

I tried a database reset, library repair, and full resync, but nothing changed. Then I noticed something strange:

In Kodi, if I enter the "Movies" menu, there are sub-categories like "Movies", "Recently Added", etc. Clicking them does nothing. However, there is a "Files" folder containing another sub-menu with those same categories, plus a "Collections" folder.
This Collections folder works perfectly — I can see all 3 of my collections and play all the movies i put in them with full artwork and metadata.

What could be causing this? Is this a known issue with the Jellyfin for Kodi add-on? Should I switch from Add-on mode to Native mode?

Any help would be appreciated cause I'm new in this world! Thanks!

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

Running Kodi on Windows 11. Tried the stable Omega release and yesterday’s nightly with the same result. DV videos play audio only in DXVA rendering mode. With pixel shader I get a momentary (about 1 second) black screen occasionally, on average about once an hour and this will occur on all videos, not just DV videos. Software rendering might work but looks so poor it is not worth it since I can watch any video without issue with VLC, including DV videos.

Any advice to get Kodi working with DXVA rendering would be appreciated.

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.

I mainly watch anime on kodi but also a lot of movies. A lot of the movies I watch have italian or russion audio tracks marked as default, so if i change default settings in the language menu to english my anime would also be in english. Could i have Japenese to be the preferred language but English to be the second preferred language?

I'm new to using kodi, was wondering if there were any ways to play random tv episodes like random episode shuffling like the way plex does.. like any apps or how to make list to do this? any help would be appreciated