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Even better, the ability to sort by them.

I've seen the flag add-ons for the "country node" (how the HELL do I even access or view said node?) but that doesn't help me at all.

I have been collecting a large international media list for many years, and I've watched so many niche indy films that it's frustrating to forget what country they came from and not having an easy way to see within kodi.

Good afternoon all, are there any tools of some sort to help the library sync?

I have approximately 622496.97GBs of movies and shows hosted on another platform, the library is synced via webdav so i know its going to be time consuming, but at this moment its doing nothing but scanning ghosts? on 1 device the first scan got to around 2k movies before being interrupted, and once resumed it seems to just loop in on itself and not add anything new. On a 2nd xbox now and it's appearing to do the same thing

Have hundreds of films on a hard drive, and had to reset Kodi. I've done it before, and normally simply sync the trakt add-on and it syncs my watch history to those files and ticks them off. This time I can't get it working.

Reauthorised, reset the shield, but for some reason it only marks about 10percent of the films as watched even though a majority of them are watched at least once on the trakt app.

Any ideas? I've been trying to get it to properly sync for hours now

For years now, I have a Synology DS218 NAS in my home network and Kodi on several devices, to watch my movie collection. Everything always worked well.
This week, I changed ISP, got a new modem. Hooked the NAS up again (cable) and now I'm in trouble.
Had to change IP address, ok. Kodi can see the shared folders on the NAS (via NFS), but when I try to open one of the network locations, sometimes it works immediately and I can start playback of movies in all subfolders, no problem. Most of the time, though, Kodi keeps loading/hanging for minutes before it either finds the location or crashes. When I change from one location to another, again, it takes minutes or crashes.
This happens on all devices (Nvidia shield, laptop, Chromecast). The NAS is not being used by other people or devices, just Kodi. I didn't change any settings on the NAS, just the IP address has changed.
When I use my Windows laptop and explorer to navigate to the NAS, there is always immediately connection and playback, but when I use Kodi on that same laptop, I have the same issues as Kodi on all other devices, so there's something between Kodi and my NAS that's being weird, but I can't figure out what it is.
Deleted cache, deleted and remade connections, even re-installed Kodi. Still the same behaviour.
I already deleted and added locations again (which is also hit and miss, it either works directly or - most of the time - takes minutes/crashes to get connected.

I'm going nuts here, have been trying to get it fixed for two days and I'm starting to gnaw on my screens. Can anyone please help me?

Am I the only one who absolutely hated the Omega splash screen? 😂

It bugged me enough that as soon as Kodi 22 Piers hit beta, I decided to make the jump.

I'm running Kodi on an old pc with Lubuntu, and after using it for a bit, I'm really glad I switched.

A few things I've noticed:

- Video actually looks a little crisper to me.

- Overall, it just feels more polished than 21.3 on my system.

The downside? Since I'm on Lubuntu, there aren't packages available yet, so I ended up building Kodi 22 from source. That was... an adventure. Chasing build dependencies and compiler issues wasn't exactly my idea of a fun evening (actually, I'm lying. There was nothing good on TV and I had 2 hrs of fun).

Still, now that it's running, I'd do it again.

Anyone else running Kodi 22 on Linux yet? Have you noticed any performance improvements, or is it just placebo on my old hardware?

Hi everyone, I have a folder on a Linux server that I share over my local network using Samba. I have no issues when viewing content via VLC on my PC, but if I try to watch a movie (around 30GB) on my Fire Stick 4K, it freezes to buffer every 10–15 seconds. The Fire Stick's built-in speed test shows 80 Mbps, and I have no problems with any other streaming service; it’s only slow with the Samba share. Do you know how I might fix this?

EDIT: Never mind, I see TVDB appears to be having issues that is likely causing the problem I wrote about here.

I'm running the current standard Kodi Omega. I'm trying to scrape this TV show into my Kodi library: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/ah-my-goddess

In my TV Shows folder, I have this particular one in a subfolder titled "Ah! My Goddess" to match what it says in TVDB. Inside that, I have "Season 1" and "Season 2". Inside those, the files are named appropriately--"S01E01.mkv", etc. So everything looks right, and I've been using Kodi for a long time so I think I know what I'm mostly doing.

But this show will not scrape. There's no error, it just doesn't show up in the list of TV Shows. I tried renaming the folder to "Ah My Goddess" figuring that maybe it's the exclamation point screwing it up--no luck. I tried adding the year--so, "Ah! My Goddess (2005)". No luck.

I'm stumped. I could use a local .nfo file, I know, but I'm trying to figure out why this one particular show out of my hundreds of shows will not scrape :( Any ideas?

Any movie that uses Dolby vision has been having a low frame rate and occasional stuttering. I'm using Superman 2025 for testing because the many rotating shots make it very noticeable when the frame rate is off.

I'm running off an Nvidia Shield 2019 pro with the Jellyfin for Kodi add-on. My tv is a TCL Qm6k Pro which does support Dolby vision. I have tried enabling Dolby vision compatibility mode and that has made no difference, I've also messed around with all of the video player settings that seem relevant but I cannot find anything that helps. When I turn off Dolby Vision on the shield it outputs in HDR 10 and I get smooth playback

I use Kody because the native jellyfin app always transcodes dolby vision for some reason. when I play off of the Jellyfin app I get smooth playback but no Dolby vision.

I also have a 4K Blu-ray player and when I put a 4K disc with Dolby Vision in, it plays with Dolby vision and I get smooth playback

Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

Multiple video files have multiple audio streams and sometimes default to a language foreign to me. Is there any way to remove specific streams from the files themselves or make Kodi default to English streams? Like, make it search for the word English amongst the streams and pick it automatically?

Hi everyone, ​I am having a really frustrating issue with Kodi on my Android device. Whenever I try to launch the app, it refuses to open properly and just stays stuck on a permanent black screen ​I have been actively following up on this issue and trying to find a solution. I've already downloaded and tested several different versions of Kodi including the stable release, beta versions, and various nightly builds but absolutely none of them worked for me. They all result in the exact same black screen ​Why does Kodi do this, and why is only a black screen visible upon startup Could someone please provide a real, working solution to fix this black screen issue on Android? ​Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

I am experienced and competent with plenty of tech, but only ever dabbled with Kodi before. I was put off because of how much it felt like a computer interface: folders, Pictures, Games etc. I know that I can remove a lot of this but it still felt very much NOT a TV.

We use Google TV at the moment - both native on Sony TV and on Chromecast devices. Usually watching BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Stremio, or Netflix. I don't have a need to access music or photos in anyway, nor my own library of content.

I am aware of how slow the UX for Google TV is - and feels like it is getting worse. I want a similar experience, but faster.

Ideally I want easy searching across multiple services (Stremio does this ish) and ability to access both live and on demand TV programmes.

Is Kodi my answer? Can anyone give me some screenshots/clips or search terms to encourage me to put the effort into this?

Bought a Google Streamer and like it more than my Nvidia Shield, but having problems with Bluetooth ear buds intermittently cutting in and out when watching something on Kodi. Will work fine for a length of time then get static/cutting out. Tried it with 3 different earbuds and the same thing. Never happened on my Shield.

Tried all the suggestions from a Google search (mostly disabling Dolby audio/surround sound), but still happens.

Any suggestions?

Hi all,

I'm having an issue with a skin. It's Xonfluence, actually, but I'm hoping they're more Confluence related and so people here might be in the know. The Xonfluence forum isn't very active.

Issue 1- I've added a custom item to the main menu (TV, TV Shows, System, Games, etc.) And then I rearranged the order of the items. When I move my custom item to a different place, I end up with two entries for my custom item. And so I have to hide one and add my shelf items or whatever to the other. And I don't always guess right and end up changing the wrong one.

Tracking and fixing that overall issue might be arduous, I understand, so I'd be happy just being able to workaround it. I assume there's a reference file somewhere in the bowels that I can just open and edit, removing the duplicate(s). How would I do that?

Issue 2- Regarding shelf(?) items. The sub options directly below the main menu items. For system it's something like: Settings, Info, Add on Browser and a couple others I forget. I'd like to rearrange those, but they don't seem to actually reference anything. Meaning if I go to replace one, there are no options that go to any of the setting shelf functions. I can add an add on, favorites, etc. but there's no pointer to these same shelf functions. I'd like to rearrange the order of them first, and also maybe remove some, and would like to know how to restore it if I change my mind.

Any help?

Android TV, Kodi 21.2

Thanks!

I've googled left and right, haven't found anything definitive, and i just need to make sure i haven't missed something, by asking here:

Every time i add a movie folder, and let TMDP do its thing, i always end up with ~170 movie sets i didn't even want to begin with. As far as i know, there's no way to stop this from happening, i really don't wanna manually go through some 7-900 individual movies, in order to remove them from a set, and IIRC Kodi doesn't feature any kind of bulk delete movie sets function either.

(Edit: Forgot the part of this issue entirely, sorry) I do want to make my own few sets, but having 170 extra is gonna make making a few of my own very tedious.

Have i missed a step, am i unaware of some options or methods to fix this?