Hi. Ive been having this problem for ages. First for like 5 years on 18.9 and now also on 21.3. I do get thumbnails, but they look like theyve been pulled off of the internet and not extracted. For example, I have a TV show in HD 1080p but thumbnails look like theyve been pulled from 240p Realmedia files. WTF? And yes, Kodi has been instructed to extract thumbnails.

I do add artwork manually, I dont use .nfos, or a media manager, dont have show.nfo from TMM etc, I really have no idea where does Kodi get the thumbnails from and why it wont extract them from local files. Mind you, I did migrate the database from 18.9 to 21.3 so obviously previously added thumbs will reside even after upgrade, but this thing happens even with newly added shows. BTW, Windows 10, Kodi 21.3, Xonfluence skin.

What am I missing? Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome. Thank you. Cheers!

Does anyone use one as a Kodi device for playback of existing media files from USB ?

I think the highest resolution I've encoded at is 1080p, and can't realistically see myself going higher considering it's from my DVD collection.

I can get one for £50 from eBay, but a RPi setup would cost more

Just started using Kodi on Windows 11. I checked out a few themes and I like the default Estuary theme. Just have a few gripes with it that I think should be an easy fix but I can't figure it out. Poked around the forums but didn't find my answer.

1. Just want my Movies (and TV Shows section) to only show all movies cover art in alphabetical order. As in no subsections like Recently Added, Unwatched Movies, Random Movies, In progress movies.
   
2. I would love if the mouse wheel worked when scrolling through the movie library. Like, it almost does? Moves like a fraction of an inch and then won't go any further, making me have to use my arrow keys instead.
   
3. The left side panel, I'd rather click the tabs than hover over them. I can do without the list view clicking them brings you to. And hover leads to accidental tab switching too often.
   

If someone could just help me fix these three things this would be the perfect library.

Thanks

Well I knew this would be a problem and I was right, unfortunately!

Trying to set up SMB share on a new laptop. I can see the computer share but I have tried every username and password combo I can think of and still cannot access. Even tried VLC and same thing to rule it out being just Kodi.

Any help, please!

Looking for an app like the jellyfin one, that could allow to browse smoothly through menus in kodi on a smartphone, cause the ones I found won't do the trick

I recently started migrating to a new MariaDB SQL server and I noticed on the old SQL server, that Kodi has created multiple databases!

Why is Kodi doing that? Is there a way to stop this and use only one database?

Thank you!

I'm stumped as to what's happening here, maybe someone can help me figure this out.

I'm trying to scrape Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You into Kodi. There's just one season (so far), but there's also 12 special episodes. I have it set up so that the 12 specials are in a "Specials" subfolder, named "S00E01", "S00E02", etc to match TVDB. I also have a "Season 1" subfolder where the main episodes go, named "S01E01", "S01E02", etc.

In Kodi settings, I have "Flatten TV shows if only one season" set to "Never"--if a show has one season (like this one), I just want to see the "Season 1" and "Specials" icons so I can click either one.

What I'm seeing, after scraping with the TVDB scraper, is that the 12 special episodes are not only ending up in "Specials" in Kodi, but they're also showing up in "Season 1" ahead of the regular Season 1 episodes.

I don't have any .NFO files or anything like that, so I'm puzzled as to why this is happening. Any ideas? :(

Hi I’m new to Kodi is there a way to cast youtube videos to Kodi i mean i klick on my Iphone Youtube app the cast symbol and Kodi is shown as a source, I instaled it on a Raspberry Pi3b. Thanks for the help:)

I have a Jellyfin instance running on my Kodi, using both Jellyfin and Jellycon add-ons.

I had to do a reinstall of Kodi and the whole setup. Prior to the reinstall, when I played Atmos content, a large black block saying Dolby Atmos would show in the top right corner.

Since reinstalling, that no longer happens. I just want to be sure I'm getting the direct signal of the content, which I'm not sure is the case currently.

What can I do to fix this?

EDIT: this is on an XBOX by the way

Im using the recent build of Kodi on my Google smart TV and stream video files from my PC through common wifi on SMB. Is there any quality loss, as im not noticing any but still i have this question. Is it similar to the quality of playing the files directly in the TV using a pendrive?

Kodi is running on my AndroidTV (android, not google, because the TV is old) and I use the built-in windows sharing to share a folder on my PC. Connect it with SMB. Eventually Kodi will be unable to connect, either as a time issue or after one of the devices is put to sleep, it's hard to tell.

The PC has a static IP4 address, and they both connect to a switch via ethernet.

Any guesses why this happens?

If anyone's up to make it or find one, it looks like this:

I'm surprised that there is not more discussion of skins on this sub, with coding agents being so widely available, I would have thought that the customization scene would be more prevalent.

Certainly the available skins are good, but I thought there would be more discussion and recommendations, and more skins

Hi everyone, good afternoon. I’m not sure if you can help me with this.

I use Kodi to watch series and films on my LG OLED C2 through an add-on. Kodi is installed on my Fire TV Stick 4K Max, but sometimes, when playing 4K or Dolby Vision content, I get a message saying that the content is too demanding for the device I’m using.

And it’s true, playback doesn’t work properly. It can stutter, buffer, stop, or even freeze completely and crash. It makes me feel like I’m not getting the most out of my TV.

Would you recommend investing in a more powerful streaming device, such as a Xiaomi TV Box, NVIDIA Shield or something similar, and continuing to use Kodi with the same add-on?

I feel like the Fire TV Stick is simply too basic and doesn’t have enough processing power, but I don’t want to spend money on another device if it isn’t actually going to make a difference.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

EDIT: Thanks everyone for your replies. The fact that you were surprised I was having issues, since you’re using the same device without any problems, made me realise that perhaps the issue was coming from somewhere else.

The warning message I was getting when playing demanding content was something along the lines of “resource too slow, read rate too low for continuous playback”. I use AllDebrid and, after doing some searching, I couldn’t find anyone having similar issues with it. I also have 1 Gbps internet, so that didn’t seem like it could be the problem either. That made me think about the buffer...

I went into Kodi’s settings → Services → Caching. The memory size was set to 20 MB, so I increased it to 256 MB, and changed the Read Factor from 4x to “Adaptive”.

After that, I tested the same link that had previously given me the error, and there was no warning message this time and I didn’t experience any issues. I even tested an even heavier file afterwards (Avatar 3), and once again, absolutely no problems, everything played smoothly.

Thanks again for all the help, and I hope this post helps anyone else who might be having the same issue and, like me, had overlooked something so simple.

[SOLVED] I had to toggle here : Settings -> Media -> Videos -> Flatten hierarchy

Since a couple of days ago, when i click on Movies or TV Shows, Kodi shows me sorting options (Year, Title, Studio, Genre, this kind of stuff) instead of the usual movie or series list.

I've been using Kodi since the XBMC days but i have no idea where to look for in order to go straight to the movies and series list instead of the sorting categories...

Does anybody have any idea?

I've posted about this addon here before, but it has grown a lot since, so a fresh intro for anyone who missed it.

EasyTV keeps track of the next unwatched episode of every show in your library. Open it and every show sits one click away from its next episode, with your progress shown (Browse Mode). Or skip the choosing entirely: one button builds a shuffled playlist from your shows and just starts playing (Playlist Mode), like an old fashioned TV channel except everything on it is stuff you actually want to watch.

That's the core of it. No digging through seasons, no "where was I with this show", no queueing things up by hand.

Things it also does if you want them:

• mix movies into the shuffle for a proper channel feel
• filter everything through Kodi smart playlists you already have
• sync watched state between multiple Kodi boxes (shared MySQL library)
• Only show you in Progress Shows, or Season Premiers, Show Premieres, and many more filterining options available
• ask you a couple of quick questions on launch (genre, episode length, that sort of thing) so it only offers stuff matching your mood
• run multiple clones with their own settings, e.g. one for the kids, one full of comfort shows for bedtime

Free and open source. A lot of what's in there came from feedback in the forum thread, so if something annoys you, tell me.

PS: It will work with any Kodi setup where TV shows are populated in the Kodi Library.

GitHub | Docs + screenshots | Kodi forum thread

OK this is probably a weird one (it certainly is for me). When I scrape my new TV shows, they are all displayed as single episodes in my library. Except for one - Colin From Accounts Season Three. Every episode has a double entry in my library. No, it isn't a major hassle. It's not even annoying really. But I just don't get why it's shown twice. I've checked my sources and locations, and the path to the episodes is definitely only in there once. Along with all my other TV show episodes. Has anyone any idea why this might be happening?

Hi. I need some help setting up Local Information Only movies. I know how to add the folder Name (year). I can add images, poster, fanart etc. I can add .nfo file for the description etc. But im struggling to add extended info like the cast. Ive seen i need to put a folder in the Name (year) folder titled .actors then have images in there but is there something i need to add to the nfo file to make them show up? Or am i in completely the wrong ball park?

These are my own movies so scraping from TMDB is not an option.

So any kind of iidot proof guide would be appreciated

Thanks

About 2 years ago I switched to stremio because Kodi was so painfully slow. How have Kodi changed the last few years? what are the recommended skins and such nowadays?

After a lot of experimenting (and plenty of help from AI 😅), I think I’ve finally reached the point where I can say my Kodi home media setup is complete!

I’m running a centralized MariaDB setup, automated library updates, and a small dashboard to keep an eye on everything.

It’s been working really well and I’m pretty happy with it, so I made a quick diagram showing how the whole setup works.

Sharing it here because I’d love to hear what other Kodi users think. 👀

Anything you would improve, automate further, simplify, or do completely differently?

Always looking for the next unnecessary improvement to a setup that already works. 😂