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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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Python script executes manually but not through cron

I have OpenELEC installed on two Raspberry Pis. I have set up a Python script on one of the Pis that opens a network socket and listens for a connection. The following code is from a script that runs on the other Raspberry Pi and connects to the…
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How do I return string argument without brackets and quotes in Python

I'm very new to Python and so am struggling with what is probably very simply to a seasoned Python programmer. The problem below is that when the groupid argument is supplied with a value, it is evaluated to ['groupid']. Can someone please explain…
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XBMC Addon: Bad request error when using Greek text as query string

How do I set Greek letters as a query parameter? I have following URL: plugin://plugin.video.xxx-com/?isChannel=0&foldername=%CE%9A%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%9C%CE%9C%CE%95%CE%9D%CE%91+%CE%9F%CE%9D%CE%​95%CE%99%CE%A1A&loggedIn=1&mode=folder&Level=vid Upon…
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Python and BeautifulSoup encoding issue

I'm web scraping this url : http://www.rajtamil.com/category/vijay-tv-shows/ Getting stuck with this error: movTitle = str(link['title']) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 41: ordinal not in…
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Issue with xpath for python

Very new with elementtree so i'm trying to parse xml file for tv addon for xbmc. Below is the code that i'm having issue with. I think my xpath is not correct and placeholder is not working on the the attribute! This is the xml file i'm workig with…
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Parsing strings in python from xml file

Trying to parse info from a xml file that's hosted on a site. I'm making a tv addon for xbmc and my issue is that the info is all on on page and i only want to parse in sections like all of season 1! Where it only shows Season 1 in one spot then all…
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add python dependency for XBMC addon

i'm developing a XBMC addon that needs python Mechanize module. how can i add it as a dependency so while addon is beeing installed, the module gets installed too, so user don't need to install it using for example: sudo apt-get install…
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Not able to read the rtmp stream using rtmpdump

Im trying to get the below rtmp stream using rtmpdump and VLC but im getting error. type=video name=Sky Sports 2…
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XBMC - watch streamed video in local network

I have been searching for this problem for a while now. I am trying to stream a video from my computer (with Ubuntu 12.04) and I want to watch that stream with my XBMC program. Right now I am using VLC to stream the video. Is there a way to do this?…
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SimpleJSON encoding issue: Illegal character

I have the following JSON: {"StationRow":[{"Title":"XXX"},X{"Thumbnail":"http://exampletv.com/shopping/Portals/10/PropertyAgent/757/Images/6.jpg"},{"LinkCode":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4bw4y3h69I…
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Toggle process with Python-script (kill when running, start when not running)

I'm currently running an OpenELEC (XBMC) installation on a Raspberry Pi and installed a tool named "Hyperion" which takes care of the connected Ambilight. I'm a total noob when it comes to Python-programming, so here's my question: How can I run a…
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if image is exist for xbmc

I have the list of images that I wrote in xml and I can be able to run them on xbmc. Here is the list of the images in the xml: no …
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xbmc if image display statement

I have the list of images that I wrote in xml and I can be able to run them on xbmc. Here is the list of the images in the xml: no …
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function takes at least 2 arguments

I'm using a python script for xbmc program, I can open addons.py without have any problem, but I can't be able to open test.py from addons.py. I'm currently using the code on two different files addons.py and test.py. Addons.py: import…
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trying to get the id from an array

this is how i get the array below. $moviess = VideoLibrary::getMovies( array("properties" => array() )); array(275) { [0]=> object(stdClass)#68 (2) { ["label"]=> string(16) "2 Fast 2 Furious" ["movieid"]=> int(1) } …
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