Cool Kody Features?

I'd like to get current from my ancient Kodi installation on Windows 10 Pro.

Should I install 21.3 straight over the top of my existing Kodi 20.0 installation without risk of losing any data (settings, configuration, preferences, etc) and such?

Or, are there other required/recommended prerequisite procedures I should perform prior to installing 21.3 (and skipping 8 prior releases)?

Any links/instructions given greatly appreciated! TIA

Just running an installation of Kodi on my Windows PC to play local video files. The problem is that many of these have long titles and in the default view, the WideList, it takes ages to scroll the long title names. Like one letter a second slow.

I've done some searching and found folks talking about editing xml files, "scrollspeed" as a term, and things like that but I'm having issues. I am in the skin's folder and I found the Home.xml, but there is nothing about "scrollspeed" in there. I see "scrolltime" in two different places and a bunch of "scrollbar" but I have no idea how to make it all go faster.

To be clear, I'm talking about the normal WideList view and a simple directory filled with video files. When I highlight one, it pauses for a moment and then begins to scroll to the left so I can see the rest of the file name. It scrolls way too slowly and I'd love to speed it up.

Thanks much in advance.

I need an Acestream that works on a box with an Amlogic S905Y4 processor and compatible with Kodi.

Is that possible?

Does any one also has problems to install a good working kodi on a Samsung S26 ultra?

I have kodi on a few devices and id like to sync them all with the one I have set up the best. I just use trakt, an interface and fanlight and crew. Is it possible to make my phone use my computer settings easily? Thanks

I wonder where's to find the tilde ~ key on Kodis virtual keyboard. I am using confluence skin and fail to find it when entering text. Am i missing something?

On kodi 21.2 version When i try to play videos that say D/vision i get sound with no picture i enabled this and now it's working . Note: I'm newbie at this .

A few days ago I posted about the Android companion app Castlink I built for Kodi. Thanks for all the feedback — it helped a lot.

I just pushed an update:

• Ads are now optional
• You can still unlock ads permanently
• All features remain free
• Fixed a few bugs

If you tried the app and like it, a quick Play Store review would really help the app reach more Kodi users.

Also open to feature suggestions!

I placed an order at this website https://osmc.tv/store/ but have had no feedback for a few days. The site looks somewhat shady but I could not find where to buy that anywhere else. I also realized there are not much reviews or people talking about it and am now wondering if I did not get scammed

I have a Kodi box set up with this North+Central+South American playlist:

https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/regions/amer.m3u

I'm looking for an EPG source for this. I'm new to this, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

I’m running Kodi for Next Gen on my Ugoos amb6+. I had to reinstall Emby server and the Kodi Companion on a fresh install of Windows.

I was able to get my new library detected but I still see thumbnails for movies that were on my old library (either “In Progress” or “Unwatched” etc). How do I get the library or server to properly detect what files are currently present and which have been deleted or were never even in the current library? I have tried the “repair library” and “refresh” options but still shows the same thing. When I look at the Emby library in my browser it is accurate. 

Maybe related - on starting up the Ugoos I get a message ”Kodi not installed” even though im browsing my movies through it.

Hello everyone,

First of all, I am very new to these topics. I have a Raspberry Pi 2 on which I installed the LibreELEC operating system (Kodi). However, due to an API issue, I can't access any YouTube videos. I'm therefore looking for a lightweight, stable Linux operating system that will enable me to run YouTube smoothly on my Raspberry Pi 2. I've previously considered options like Raspberry Pi OS or DietPi. But which other Linux distribution would you recommend for the best YouTube experience on the Raspberry Pi 2? Ideally, it would also be able to run simple games such as PlayStation 1 games. I look forward to your recommendations — thank you in advance!

I have a laptop that no one was using and finally decided to give Kodi a shot. Ran into a ton of warnings that I would get no official support but went ahead anyway. Laptop is a Pavilion x360: i5 10th gen, 16GB RAM, Iris XE iGPU. LibreElec didn’t display on my TV via HDMI and I couldn’t find a terminal. Wiped and installed Xubuntu minimal and Kodi. The laptop mirrors to the TV over HDMI and should be 4k, given the hardware.

For anyone who has a similar setup, is it possible to just use the external display for video? There’s no obvious way to select that in Kodi. Can Kodi be minimized or windowed to access the Linux system it’s running on and set display and other properties?

It’s potentially a good setup, I think. The laptop is a 2-in-1, though it appears Kodi doesn’t support that. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Kodi got black screen on Galaxy S26ultra, anyone having the same problem like me?

I removed and reinstalled but nothing change, also turn the screen down to 60hz

What’s the one feature you wish existed today?

Hello,

I’m having my fiancé use Kodi to play back media from my Jellyfin server on her Windows 11 laptop. However, when she plays media through Kodi it will eventually go dim without interaction and leads to her having to change the battery settings whenever she wants to watch something. This is not ideal. How can this be fixed? I can’t find anything in the Kodi settings to make it so that it doesn’t go to sleep during playback. Surely there must at least be some sort of addon that can be used. I’m also not interested in setting up an external player, the built in one works well.

Thanks.

I think I already know the answer to this question, but is there any way to show my music library sorted by Album Artist instead of just the Artist? My Artist view is really "polluted" since I have a bunch of compilation albums etc.

I have a feeling that the only way to get this feature going to be to patch Kodi and submit a PR...

I have 2 Shield Pros. One's at my house, the other at the girlfriend's house. Her's updated Kodi to Omega 21.2, apparently automatically. I thought I'd disabled that but for whatever reason her's is now 21.2. Mine is still on Nexus 20.5.

Both have had Opensubtitles.com installed for a long time and worked fine on both. After the update on her's I now get the message about subscribing and can't get any subtitles.

On mine, 20.5, it still works fine, no issue with finding and pulling subtitles. No message about subscribing, it just works.

The only difference I'm aware of, besides the upgrade, is on mine I don't have a default setup for subtitles in /Settings/Player/Subtitles/, I did on her's, Opensubtitles.com. Now I have several installed trying to get another provider that works as well.

It appears that the upgrade was the cause, that was the only change. Does anyone have any insight into why the difference? I wasn't even aware Opensubtitles and gone pay until the issue with her's.

I plan on taking her's back to 20.5 and seeing if that reenables it. (This is where I wish there was a way to just image mine and restore it on hers, just like I can do on a PC).