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Kodi™ (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.

Kodi, formally known as XBMC, is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs).

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How to add dash DRM license to m3u play list?

For the past few days we are trying to add DRM license key to our dash stream on m3u list. We can able to play this through shaka web player, but management need to play this through Android box with KODI/ any client app. Got few options but its not…
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How to get/set the "watched" status via Kodi's API?

I'm trying to write a lightweight wrapper on top of Kodi's JSON-RPC API (v10) using Python. I'm using the (so far very helpful) kodi-json module to do pretty much everything I need. For example, this will give me the title, position, and total…
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apt package (kodi-inputstream-adaptive) does not upgrade to newest version

I want to install this package to utilize some kodi addons. It needs version 2.4.3 at least but I can not update it to the newest version because apt thinks this is already the newest version but it definetely is not. This is what somebody else…
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Launch script from Kodi menu

I'm running Kodi 18 and I would like to add an item to the main menu which simply launches a bash script. After much searching, there is no obvious way to edit the menu (and I don't want to change themes just for that). I don't want to create an…
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Change Kodi user in Ubuntu

I have installed kodi on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. After installing I have the usual ~/.kodi folder for user "user1" and kodi runs with no problems. Is it possible to either: 1.) Change the user from "user1" to "user2" 2.) Create a new user "user2"…
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KODI How to create a playlist specifying the start and end time of the video

I use KODI - https://kodi.tv/ ultimate entertainment center Is anybody know how to create a playlist with set the start time and the end time of the video. Video can be located locally or remotely on the server. The VLC player resolved this problem…
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Unsure why beautifulsoup code won't scrape site

I've used BS a fair bit, but I'm unsure why this won't scrape as the other addons I've made for Kodi work fine. Could someone perhaps look at the code between the tags and perhaps find the bit I'm missing? The addon/python doesn't throw out any…
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Scraping links from a website using python / beautiful soup for a Kodi addon

The website I'm trying to scrape media links from (for a Kodi addon) doesn't have much in the way of class etc. markers, but each link is in some sort of unique layout. I have created the basic Kodi addon from another working one, but I'm having…
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KODI configuration for PPT,PPS files

I have been working with kodi these days. I have two servers, Server1 is for data files e.g. Videos, PPT/PPS files. And Server 2 is where KODI is installed. NOW I have done below update in KODI XMLs for configuring KODI for opening PPT files using…
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How to display list item tags in a kodi skin

I'm trying to customize the default Kodi skin 'estuary'. My plan is to display the tags of a movie next to the movie title. The skin uses $INFO[ListItem.Tag] in the DialogVideoInfo.xml template file and Kodi displays the tags nicely when opening…
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Enable Run button for Service add-on in Kodi

I am contributing to the Kodi PartyMode AutoStart add-on. I would like to add the option to manually trigger the plugin using Kodi's existing "Run" button for add-ons (which is disabled at the moment), so that users can test their settings without…
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Xcode shows ‘there was an internal api error’ when installing Kodi to iPhone

I tried downloading kodi to my iPhone6 through Xcode and iOS app singer I followed everything step by step as shown in this…
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Kodi python - how to call another addon and, if not installed but present in repo, ask to install it

I'm creating an addon for Kodi in python, and I need to create a link to open another addon that, if not installed but present in one of the repositories, Kodi will ask the user and install and open the addon. I've seen this before on youtube and…
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Acestramengine issue - related with __m2crypto

I have Arch linux. When I try to open acestreamengine, I got this error: $ sudo acestreamengine --client-console 2017-07-15 10:36:06,535|MainThread|acestream|error during startup Traceback (most recent call last): File "core.c", line 1590, in …
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Kodi jsonrpc know if an episode has been see

I trying to retrieve a list of episode of a TV Show on my Kodi jsonrpc api, it return the list of episode but only id and name instead of all attributs show in the doc http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v8#Video.Details.Episode Here is my request :…
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