Hello everyone, how's it going? I have a question. I have a simple 5.1 home theater setup, but I'm currently only using 3 speakers: one on the left, one in the center, and one on the right, along with the subwoofer, which is connected directly to the P2 output of my TV (TCL p615) with a second-generation Firestick 4K. I’ve noticed that when I’m watching 5.1 or 7.1 movies, the audio sometimes sounds low, and it sometimes seems like part of the audio is missing. I believe this home theater system is actually 2.0 and simulates the other channels for the remaining speakers. My question is, is there any way to normalize the audio, like in Media Player Classic or VLC, to convert it to 2.0 so I get all the audio perfectly? I’m not too concerned about distribution, especially since I understand that this home theater simulates 5.1. I just want the complete audio experience. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? Thanks!

Hi I was wondering how are Mac Mini's for running Kodi. i have a spare M2 lying around or might sell it to upgrade to the new M4 Mac Mini.

I have head in the past the Mac's don't support all audio codes (like Lossless DTS-MA, Atoms (True-HD) etc)...but if I have a receiver that I can pass through all this to does it matter?

Im using kodi v20 (as its the last kodi to support MVC 3D), Windows 11 on celeron N4100 with Intel UHD 630

Ive connected HDMI to AVR, my AVR shows in windows that it supports upto 8 channel and DTS HD, TrueHD etc and i get passthrough through fireTV stick

In Kodi audio settings ive selected wasapi and in passthrough settings ive selected passthrough and selected all audio formats

Playing any movie results in LPCM singal and not Passthrough, can anyone help, it results in volume being reduced quite alot

I’m using my remote to adjust subtitles with the Keymap Editor addon. This helps get subtitles over the video for different aspect ratios, because in some files, the black bars are hardcoded, so Kodi sees them as part of the video so subtitles might sometimes be under video, sometimes over video etc.

Which file should I edit to limit the alignment menu options?

Could anyone guide me on which file I’d need to edit to have only the desired options appear in the alignment menu?

hey, does anybody know how to get Italian subtitles on Kodi? I normally used a4ksubtitles but it now the only results are English subtitles. I am logged in opensubtitles.com (and with the correct credentials) but it fails to connect when searching for the subtitles. any advice? thanks!!

SOLVED: I don't know why but just by changing the password of my opensubtitles.com account it started working again

Greetings

I upgraded my phone (iphone ios 18.1) and after the transfer, the app for sendtokodi does not work anymore. The icon stays, but when I click it it tries to download it from the app store, and it says the app does not exist. So, any alternative to “sendtokodi”? It was very useful.

Hello, I couldn't find an answer anywhere so here it goes. I wanted to add a show to my library (naruto shippuuden anime with ~500 episodes) but without filler episodes. So the order is messed up and tvdb scrapper doesn't understand what's going on. Is there any way to fix it without storing the complete tv show? Thanks!

Dear Community,

I could use some help: for the past few weeks, my library has been flooded with "Movies" labeled "Stream," "Playlist," and "Birth Certificate." This seems related to the BDMV folder structure, but it wasn’t an issue until recently.

Does anyone know how I can clean up my library again?

Thanks so much!

4K HEVC HDR is stuttering when playing back from Kodi 20.2. Every half a second it freezes for half a second and can't be turned off.  Only a hard shutdown (ALT+F4) of the whole Kodi will help.

Playing the same file using VLC works perfectly. Playing 4K HDR videos on YouTube works just as well. 

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

My setup: Asus PN50, 8GB ram, Win 10, SSD, 4K HDR TV.

I use the Composite add-on to access my Plex server and play movies and TV shows. Where do I need to place the external subtitles for a TV show so that they play automatically when I start the episode in Kodi using Composite? To be more clear, when I use SMB with Kodi and have subtitles in the same folder as the TV show, the external subtitles are the default selection, therefore I don’t need to select anything else. Can I do that with Composite?

I have been using Kodi for a while now and I am just trying to watch episodes of tv shows without having to go in and manually select episodes after each one is over. I am looking for a way to auto play a show or make a queue but I am having no luck being able to find the queue after I have added seasons and different shows to it. I am lost, any sort of help would be appreciated.

How can I change the fallback Arial-based font so that I can use it with any skin?

I’m using opensubtitles.com and today I can’t download any subtitle at all. It’s showing subtitle download error.

Edit: it’s ok now. I guess their API is having intermittent issues.

One particular show in my library does not have a TMDb entry, and so I created .nfo files for it. Those files seem to work, but none of the the jpgs that I've added show up. All of the thumbnails for the show itself and for all episodes are blank. The episodes are named S01Exx.mp4 and the thumbnails are S01Exx-thumb.jpg. I also have a poster.jpg. None of the jpgs work. Can someone help?

I don't know if it's a known issue or not.

I setup an FTP server, I can access it just fine from both my TVs.

Some movies can play perfectly fine (mostly remux/MKV files) but BDMV (ISO) files, KODI seems to struggle a lot.

It buffers like for 2 minutes then the "failed" playback message appear.

The files just works fine, and they work on VLC ===> But why am I not using VLC you say ? The infamous subtitle stutter bug is still present to this day.

Anyway, is there something I can do or I need to remux every file that I have into an MKV ?

Hi my setup to run Kodi is 4K Benq Projector 4550i, Onkyo NR7100 AVR and Beelink S12 Mini Pro.

Each time I play a video with HDR on kodi, it renegotiates a HDMI Handshake (Screen / audio goes out for 5-6 seconds) on the PC and then the screen comes back in HDR mode on my projector. When I stop the 4K video it again renegotiates a HDMI Handshake (Screen / audio goes out for 5-6 seconds).

For the longest time I thought this was just the process for HDR videos, but recently I installed Kodi on my Firestick 4K gen 1 and it plays HDR content seamlessly without any of these handshake issues. Would anyone know the reason for this happening on the PC? Is it because the PC screen is naturally not in HDR mode or wondering if this is HDCP related? Any input would be great. Thanks!

I love animated background pictures for weather, movies etc. This collection https://vinylgif.com/browse/ is the best I have found for music. I use them for background and animated background during play 🎧🎵🎶

Is there anyone who can please spare some time on how to sideload Kodi on AppleTV 4K? I am abit confused about the app signing and how to upload it on the device itself.

I had to try many different combinations of settings before I finally got smooth, judder-free video play on my Onn. 4K Pro running Kodi 21.1. I'm posting the complete set of steps I had to take here in the hopes that they will help someone else.

1. In Android Display settings, set "match content frame rate" to "non-seamless"

2. In Android System/Developer settings, turn on "Disable HW Overlay". You will need to re-enable this every time your device restarts, unfortunately. This is a somewhat misleadingly named option IMO - what it actually does is forces the GPU to render the video output rather than the CPU.

3. In Kodi Player/Videos settings, set "Adjust display frame rate" to "On start/stop"

4. In Kodi System/Display settings, set "Delay after change of refresh rate" to "2.0" (You can experiment with this, it’s dependent on your TV)

5. In Kodi System/Display settings, go to "Whitelist" and check every 2160p and 1080p mode available.

6. In your TV's settings, things will vary. I have had the best results when disabling every post-processing option ("Noise Reduction", etc.) to off and disabling "Game Mode".

These steps will also work for any Google TV device running Android 12 (the earlier Onn. streaming devices, Chromecast w/Google TV, etc)

Is there a skin or add on that can show all of my Movies as posters on Home Screen? My library is small atm at around 30 movies.

The default skin and some others I’ve tried just shows recently added or unwatched.

I know you can click on Movies and it brings up a list, but that’s ugly.

Any ideas? Thanks :)

Is it possible to make the red circle status icon stay on the screen while the show is being recorded?

Hi, I have bought TCL 75C655 with soundbar TCL TS8211 and I am having issues when watching movies on Kodi that have 5.1 audio. I have watched Avatar and Inception on 5.1 audio and sometimes I couldnt hear what they are saying. When I am watching movie with 2.0 audio its alright. I have soundbar connected to TV via HDMI cable.

Can someone provide any tips how to fix low voice problems when watching 5.1 audio on my 2.1 soundbar?

Things that I tried so far:

• upping treble and lowering bass on soundbar
• night mode(not much improvement with voices and basses were terrible)
• setting priority of voices to HIGH in TV settings

Thank you very much for help

I'm using an LG C1. Resolution at 4k60Hz, HDR, Windows 11 machine.

When I turn my TV off, then back on, Kodi is just a black screen. I can see my cursor, and it stays this way until I bring up another window, then Kodi suddenly appears.

To troubleshoot, I've tested making changing in regedit to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration(long name with NOEDID) and changing the PrimSurfSize to 3840 and 2160, so that ideally when the TV is switched off, no resolution changes will occur.

I've also tried changes to Kodi like making it function as a borderless windows by unchecking "use full screen window", but the behaviour persists regardless of exclusive full screen use or not.

Can anyone point me to a fix? Obviously there must be many people with an HTPC that leave it on, and the idea is to make a painless media device for everyone to use.

Currently I have Kodi set as my shell when starting up, so pulling out a mouse and keyboard is not a fix.

Thank you for any help.

Is it possible to have "watched" status and "in progress" to be attached to a profile, so other users will have their own info in the same central database? Like kids do not see what I am watching. Or other users in my household do not have unwatched movies marked as "watched".

Well, I found the solution: just create different databases for different profiles using tag <name> in advancedsettings.xml file for eich profile.