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Kodi is a cross-platform, open source media player. Versions < 14.0 were called XBMC.

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.

reference: About page from the Kodi website.

XBMC is the old name for what is now known as Kodi. XBMC is still the proper name if you are referring to an old version of the program (e.g., XBMC v13), but versions as of v14 and the project itself is known as Kodi.

reference: What is Kodi? What is XBMC? Intro FAQ on the Kodi wiki.

Kodi is a media player application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium.

Kodi has a comprehensive API, allowing 3rd party plugins and addons to be developed.

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How does home screen work in Kodi(XBMC)?

I was wondering how the scrolling through options feature works in kodi.. Here, I can only scroll through Videos, Music, Programs etc options when the mouse pointer is near the bar, if the mouse pointer is in any other part if the screen, scrolling…
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How to parse json elements using python?

I got json data using opener.open method. Now I want to reference its elmentS. I tried the following code but i get error! Furthermore , I want to get the value of token= only for the link2 . Could any one help me fix this error and get value of…
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How does video players display video grater than native resolution of monitor?

I have a 1920x1080 resolution MP4 video file. It is encoded using H.264 video codec. My monitor's native resolution is 1280x780. I am able to play this video file in vlc player or using totem player without any issue. Can somebody explain me how…
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how to redirect URL with .m3u8 extension to php script using .htaccess?

I want http://www.mywebsite.com/play.m3u8?id=1234 to redirect to http://www.mywebsite.com/play.php?id=1234(play.php will produce the actual m3u8 url) using .htaccess rewrites rules! (In another word I want to "package" it into a fake .m3u8 file so…
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Kodi(XBMC): Using Files.PrepareDownload (Invalid params. error)

when i try to get fanart url with Files.PrepareDownload, it responses error. first I get movies with VideoLibrary.GetMovies: http:///jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc": "2.0", "params": {"sort": {"order": "ascending", "method": "title"}, "properties":…
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How to play redirected m3u8 stream on kodi/xbmc?

I am having issues with playing redirected .m3u8 streams in XBMC/kodi. I have the following php script that i call it like this : http://www.MyWebsite.com/getStream.php?channel=12 if i use the above link in kodi/xbmc it never plays it ! could any…
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Browse for plugin/addon dialog - kodi custom addon settings.xml

I am busy building a plugin for myself for my xbmc/kodi media center running on a raspberry pi. The plugin is an alarm clock which will execute certain actions at a user set time. Pure and simple. The actions that I would like to be able to take…
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How to enable Media info view for Kodi video add-on?

I am creating list items with xbmcgui.ListItem() but I can not switch list view to Media view in GUI. Looks like only List, Big list, Thumbnail and Wide views are available. Basically I would like to make something like in TestTube addon. It…
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How to make sure that while will stop in every respect

I'm writing a script for KODI and I have discovered an infinite loop when there is a code error. This loop means that I have to login to another account or restart my computer to stop KODI. My question is therefore, how do I make sure that while…
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How do you dual-boot xbmc and raspbian with an existing raspbian OS without overwriting the contents of the existing raspbian OS

How do you dual-boot xbmc and raspbian with an existing raspbian OS without overwriting the contents of the existing raspbian OS          Hi, I am a confused raspberry pi user looking for some help. i have a raspberry pi 2 model b, and I am…
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A simple Script to extracting a zip file

Good Evening all, I think I'm not understanding the zipfile structure properly heres the code import xbmc import zipfile targetzip = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.tester/test.zip') extractto =…
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Python - shutil How to select multiple directories for deletion with similar names

I have a Directory called "master" inside I have sub directories as so. |master---- |test.directory.one |test directory.two |test.directory.three |test.directory.four |test.directory.five …
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Folder Missing But No confirmation

Ok, Hi everyone, this is my code to delete a specified folder, It is cross platform compatible and designed for Kodi. I've had help from the devs there but there is a bit of code missing, more information at the bottom of the code. import…
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Cross compiling my c python extension for kodi / xbmc android

I need to compile my c extension that is invokable by python in kodi. Can anyone please list the steps involved. I think I have actually cross compiled the c extension but it wouldn't work with kodi.
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Extract/decode Javascript variables from html into python

I'm trying to extract, with python, some javascript variables from an HTML site: I can see the content of "nData" in firebug (DOM Panel) without…
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