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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 to fetch xml data to write in a database

I'm working on a Python script to read the xml data from a server and storing the xml data in the database. When I create the database, I can see that it will write the list of xml in a database without fetching for each data and it did not create…
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Parse XML to store in a database

I'm working on a Python script to read xml data from a web server. I also want to store the data in an sqlite database, but I still have no idea how to parse the xml data prior to storing the data. Here is the current code: import xbmc import…
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parsing xml site using elementtree

import elementtree.ElementTree as ET import urllib name = name.lower().replace(' ','%20') id_search = 'http://services.tvrage.com/myfeeds/search.php?key=ag6txjP0RH4m0c8sZk2j&show='+name tree = ET.parse(urllib.urlopen(id_search)) root =…
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XBMC Text are not displaying

I'm working on my python script as I would like to change the language using xml when pressing on the enter button of the keyboard. Hello UK …
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Error when build XBMC binary for Rasbperry

I follow this instructions for build and install XBMC binary in raspberry PI (Occidentails), but when delete sse2 instructions from makefile i see this error when try to make: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pi/xbmc-rbp/lib/libdvd' In file…
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How XBMC synchronizes subtitles with the video timeline

I am trying to find a way to synchronize my XBMC script with the video being played. My script needs to get the current time of the video being played and send it to some other server. This I made but have a problem getting the current time of the…
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Raspberry Pi - Openelec - Buffering Issues

I have installed openelec on the Pi, and I'm using an external hardrive (western digital 1tb elements, ac powered). It automatically mounts on boot. It plays all my standard movies perfectly, but when it comes to my blueray and hd movies (over…
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Using GPIO buttons to control Raspbmc

I am trying to write code for a car xbmc project. I made my own button keypad with pull-down resistors and plugged into the GPIO ports. Installed python and the GPIO addon. My goal is to catch button presses, and if the button is held for 1.5…
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Bash script TAR by Filetype is not gzipping the specified filetypes on recursive command

Simply put, I did an exhaustive library update on my network to be compatible with XBMC. Now that it's done, I thought it wouldn't hurt to periodically make a backup of the nfo,bub,srt,jpg,tbn files (everything except any video file) that are in the…
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How to play XBMC media on a mac

I have a small linux box hosting openELEC, XBMC (Frodo), and I want to play its media on my mac. I cannot seem to find any clients suitable for playing the content. Is anyone familiar with a piece of software capable of streaming media from my uPnP…
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compile XBMC for iOS error with missing binary operator before token "("

I'm compile XBMC for iOS with the following configuration: $ cd $HOME/XBMC $ cd tools/depends $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure --host=arm-apple-darwin $ make I get the following output: >/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile…
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HTTP sources with h5ai appear empty in XBMC

I'm having some trouble adding a custom source to my XBMC set up. I've got an Apache2 server up and running that I use to stream movies to my computer and would like to include it as a source in XBMC. I'm no web server expert, but I managed to get…
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How to use Python's twisted.internet for XBMC add-on development?

I just tried to use the Python module twisted.internet for an XBMC add-on that I am currently writing. When I tried to execute my add-on, I got an exception that I could not understand. I was quite suprised when I noticed that the following lines…
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What version of Python does XBMC 12.0 (Frodo) use?

It would be more appropriate to ask this question on the XBMC forum, but it is down for maintenance and weekends don't last forever! What version of Python does XBMC 12.0 use and/or require a plugin to be written in? The prerequisites section here…
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Importing a python module into XBMC for use within an addon

I'm trying to import the python module, requests, into XBMC. I downloaded the zip of the module from github and placed the requests folder into the resources/lib folder of my XBMC addon. I then renamed the folder to script.module.requests and added…
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