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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 manage large amounts of delegates and usercallbacks in C# async http library

I'm coding a .NET library in C# for communicating with XBMC via its JSON RPC interface using HTTP. I coded and released a preliminary version but everything is done synchronously. I then recoded the library to be asynchronous for my own purposes as…
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Need pvr.vbox KODI addon build instructions for Android and iOS

I'm very interested in KODI addon. Especially I want to know about the pvr.vbox kodi addon. The following link is one for the VBox Home TV Gateway PVR Client https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.vbox. But there are only build instructions for…
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XBMC Kodi Subtitles Not Showing

I am trying to get a subtitle track to play with a video, but my subtitles are not appearing. This is the srt file: https://adbience-staging.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/podcast_srt_english_b9e728d9-7953-4ff6-b287-e150be3d4b45 My code is as…
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How can I run an addon in the service addon in Kodi with python

I am developing kodi add-ons using python scripts and xml's.I created an service addon will be automatically started when Kodi start. The part that in addon.xml work for this job is in here: extension point="xbmc.service" library="addon.py"…
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Save settings value accessible globally in KODI

I'm writing Multiple Add-ons for a personal build of KODI. What I am trying to achieve is: Service(Add-on A) will authenticate the box using its MAC Address. Service(Add-on A) will save a token(T1). Service(Add-on B) will use T1 and load movies if…
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Results not showing after search term entered from keyboard

I am learning to develop an addon for Kodi and need to implement a search functionality. I found some resources online to get user input from keyboard and then calling an API with the search term to fetch results. The API is being requested fine but…
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How to compile XBMC from source code

I want to compile XBMC from source code and i have an error about dependecies.This are the steps i follow : 1. `$git clone git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git` 2. `$cd $HOME/xbmc` 3. `$./bootstrap` 4. `$./configure` checking for a BSD-compatible…
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How to use URL resolver

Is it simple how urlresolver works? How do I use it in my addon? Do I just import it and it's going to work or do I have to call it somehow and give the embedded link I get from the web site? Can someone give a clear understanding or point me to a…
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Update XBMC library from Python script

I'm trying to write a script that will run the 'update library' command on my XBMC. When I try to run: url = 'http://root:libreelec@%IP_ADDRESS%:12345/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Scan"}' r = requests.get(url) I see…
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Correct way to implement multi-folder menus

I'm a bit stuck trying to implement a multi-level folder grouping. The top level folder lists a few line items, each of which plays a track. What I'm trying to accomplish is have one of these items be a folder which leads to another playlist (since…
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Webrequest and stream, does not read between [ ] c#

I am trying to read a json string from a webrequest. I use the HttpWebRequest because the server need authentication. I can read the answer string, except the data between the [ ]. the answer should look like this: { "id": 1, "jsonrpc":…
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Can't kill process from shell script

On Raspberry Pi I have a script file in /etc/init.d folder named "instore". After I execute the command service instore restart the omxplayer process should stop. But this is not the case. The relevant part of the script: do_start () { …
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Kodi add-on - Small title in player

How can I get put these information to Video file when playing on Kodi Player. shown in picture below 'Beck - Mutations' I have searched every where and find nothing. normal code is like this. li = xbmcgui.ListItem('Title',…
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XBMC Stream Video

Can XBMC stream video to a web interface that I can access with my mobile phone without the need to buy a slingbox
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Python 2.7 and xbmc plugin

I have the code below programmed with Python 2.7.10. import re, urllib, urllib2 def penazadi(): reqazadi = urllib2.Request('http://web.tv/embed/live/97294') reqazadi.add_header('Referer', 'http://tvizle.kurtcebilgi.com/azadi-tv') …
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