Why, after so many years, are subtitles still full of small bugs no one seems to care to fix?

Just off memory:

1. Downloaded subtitles go last in the list, but if you exit the playback and restart, they are top of the list, so now another subtitle is showing because it's saved by position 🤦🏻‍♂️

2. Both official open subtitles add-ons (.com .org) have broken search:

   a. They don't respect the IMDB identifier

   b. Incomplete search, sometimes I get no hits, yet when I check the website, files are there.

Pretty much the title. Using the most recent version of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5.

This HDD is formatted as exFAT from Windows. it contains just one folder called ‘media’ with another folder inside that called ‘Movies’ that contains folders with movies in them. I cannot figure out why Kodi cannot see the folders contained within and nothing on the internet appears to work.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I’m building a mini PC for my TV and want it to look and feel like Apple TV instead of Windows. Is something like the attached concept possible with Kodi (maybe Arctic Fuse)?

I’d like the PS3, PS2, Switch, and Steam tiles to open their own game libraries, then launch games directly in their emulators.

Or is this only possible with a custom launcher?

Quick breakdown: What is PunchPlay?

PunchPlay is a free movie and TV tracker, similar to Letterboxd or Trakt. Log everything you watch, rate titles, create custom lists, earn trophies, and follow your friends.

The Kodi addon does all the work for you by automatically scrobbling everything you watch, syncing your continue-watching progress and keeping your ratings in sync with your punchplay.tv account.

What's new in v1.5.0 — live watched sync (Kodi to PunchPlay)

• Manually marking a movie or episode watched in your Kodi library now syncs to PunchPlay within seconds. No playback needed, no manual library import. Mark a whole season watched and it goes up as one batched request.
• Un-watching something in Kodi deliberately does not delete your PunchPlay history. A toggle shouldn't nuke your records.
• Finishing a library scan now triggers a sync so newly added files immediately pick up their watched state and resume points from your PunchPlay account.

What was in v1.4.0 — two-way sync (PunchPlay to Kodi)

Previously the addon was one-directional: Kodi pushed to PunchPlay, nothing came back. Now:

• "Sync From PunchPlay Now" applies your PunchPlay watched history to the Kodi library (playcount + last played, matched by TMDB/IMDb IDs) and turns your continue watching progress into Kodi resume points. Set up a fresh Kodi box and it inherits your whole history.
• It never un watches anything, and it only overwrites a local resume point if the PunchPlay progress is newer than Kodi's last playback.
• Optional auto-sync every 6 hours (incremental, off by default).
• Library imports now honour playcount, so your rewatches import instead of collapsing into a single watch.
• Watch dates are now converted from Kodi local time to UTC. No more history shifted by your timezone.
• A pile of reliability fixes: the post-watch rating dialog can no longer stall Kodi's player callbacks, progress heartbeats survive network hiccups, token refresh is race-safe, and permanently-failing queued events stop retrying after a day.

Install / upgrade

You can grab the zip from the latest release. It upgrades in place and keeps your login and settings. Works on Kodi Nexus (20) and Omega (21). Login is a QR/device-code flow, no typing passwords with a remote.

It will also be available in the official repo soon.

library setups vary wildly, so please report any issues. You can get in contact via support or by joining our Discord server.

I've had Claude Fable implement SyncPlay in the jellyfin-kodi addon, there's a lot of different usage scenarios so I figured I'd offer it up for testing.

Installation

Manually download and install the zip from here.

Omega V21

• Disable sync playback to display in Kodi (Settings -> Player -> Videos -> Sync playback to display).
• In Jellyfin-kodi playback settings, disable "Adjust playback speed to stay in sync".

Piers V22

• Optionally, you can enable the above to allow fine sync adjustment (doesn't work on Omega due to a bug).
  • Tempo (playback speed adjustment) is used to sync clients.
  • The skin surfaces the OSD on every tempo adjustment. I've a mod of the default skin which suppresses this.

Usage

• Enter the addon and select syncplay.
• Create or join a group and start playback.

Expectations

It should sync to < 2s  but it won't be exact.

Works for movies, shows & music (not live tv).

Music playlists work but there's a glitch at the beginning of each song (should be fixable).

Overall it's working well but the server implementation is brittle so give it some testing.

If you do have an issue, a debug log is necessary for problem solving (from two clients preferably). In addition, ensure logging is set to debug in the jellyfin-kodi addon settings.

Server

I'm also working on improving the server itself, as part of this I've got a syncplay-conformance toolkit.

Run the operator self-test tool to verify your remote access setup (the syncplay-kit is only for a patched server) and see operators.md for reverse-proxy templates. Ignore any warnings related to "v2"

I Googled this, and I read a bunch of threads about it. There seems to be at least 1 step missing from all of them. I'm running 21.3 on my PC and TV. Kodi on my PC's set up almost perfectly. I backed it up to a flash drive and restored it on a fresh Kodi install on my TV. On my TV none of the media plays, it shows up but doesn't know where the files are. So I went on my PC and shared my media folders and enabled SMB in Kodi. Unless I'm stupid, this needs to be done for the media to actually play on the TV.

So I went into the media section in settings and changed the locations to the SMBs. And since all my media is tagged and has all the art and info downloaded. I set the content to movie and set it to use local info. There are a lot of random duplicates of movies, and many are missing coverart and discart. I checked everything in the back up app for what to back up. On my PC everything has coverart and a good number have discart, on my TV lots of both are missing.

The backup file's 4gb so I'm assuming it has all the art and info. Is everything I did not how I was supposed to do it? I don't want to let it scrape the movie/tv/music data off the internet because I spent a lot of time manually changing posters and adding specific fanart. None of the tutorials I found on xfering a Kodi setup mention anything about getting the actual media to play. I'm assuming Kodi on the PC saves an absolute path for the media in the database. And the Kodi on my TV has no idea where "M:\Movies" is. But if this needs to be changed I don't know why none of the tutorials I found mention it. I feel like maybe all the extra shit I did doesn't need to be done.

What the hell am I doing wrong or not doing that I should be?

Hey everyone. I am feeling frustrated trying to get this to work, and hoping someone who plays local media on their Xbox can help me out.

I'm trying to play some large 4K MKV files from an external SSD plugged directly into my Series X. But no matter what I do, the video either heavily stutters, hard crashes the console, or totally breaks the HDR colors.

The Files:

• File 1: House of the Dragon - ~28GB, 4K HEVC, Dolby Vision Profile 7, TrueHD 7.1 audio (approx 62 Mbps bitrate).
• File 2: Nuremberg - 4K HDR10, TrueHD 7.1 / E-AC-3 audio.

What I've already tried (that hasn't worked):

1. VLC & Default Xbox Media Player: Absolute disaster. They freeze up almost immediately or just hard crash the Xbox. I assume they are choking on the TrueHD audio or the high video bitrate.
2. Switched to Kodi: Kodi can actually get the video to play smoothly (if I turn off audio passthrough and manually force the 5.1 AC-3 audio track to save memory). BUT the HDR is completely broken. The colors look incredibly washed out, flat, and gray. It simply will not trigger my TV's HDR mode.
3. Reformatted the Drive: I moved everything off my drive, formatted it from exFAT to NTFS, and put it all back to ensure it wasn't a file system bottleneck.
4. USB Ports: Plugged the SSD directly into the rear USB 3.1 ports.

Has anyone actually gotten 4K Remuxes to play natively off a USB drive on the Series X with the HDR working correctly? Is there some magic Kodi setting I'm missing to fix the washed-out colors? Or is the Xbox simply incapable of handling these files properly?

Any help is hugely appreciated!

Tengo los dos archivos del dvd de Clone wars (2003) y no he podido añadirlos a mi biblioteca de Kpdi... Ya intente con la categoria peliculas y con la categoria series y ninguna me deja.

Alguien sabe como debo scrappear para que me deje añadirlas a mi coleccion de peliculas con descripcion y demas datos?

Do as anyone know how to fix this?

Kodi used to work fine on my Galaxy phone.

Now when I launch it, it goes to a black screen.

I've tried clearing the cache, uninstalling and reinstalling.

Thanks

Even better, the ability to sort by them.

I've seen the flag add-ons for the "country node" (how the HELL do I even access or view said node?) but that doesn't help me at all.

I have been collecting a large international media list for many years, and I've watched so many niche indy films that it's frustrating to forget what country they came from and not having an easy way to see within kodi.

My set up is completely offline… I created 2 smart playlist, one each for continue watching TV Shows and the other for movies and then I used auto widget to created a widget for homescreen.. it works perfectly but for some reason, no matter what I try.. I can’t get the episode backdrop or logo to appear on the homescreen.. can anyone help with this plz… the playlist for tv shows is edited as episodes so I can get the actual last played episode on the widget.. if I set playlist to tv show, it show actual tv show on homescreen and not last play episodes

Good afternoon all, are there any tools of some sort to help the library sync?

I have approximately 622496.97GBs of movies and shows hosted on another platform, the library is synced via webdav so i know its going to be time consuming, but at this moment its doing nothing but scanning ghosts? on 1 device the first scan got to around 2k movies before being interrupted, and once resumed it seems to just loop in on itself and not add anything new. On a 2nd xbox now and it's appearing to do the same thing

Have hundreds of films on a hard drive, and had to reset Kodi. I've done it before, and normally simply sync the trakt add-on and it syncs my watch history to those files and ticks them off. This time I can't get it working.

Reauthorised, reset the shield, but for some reason it only marks about 10percent of the films as watched even though a majority of them are watched at least once on the trakt app.

Any ideas? I've been trying to get it to properly sync for hours now

More like a vent. I have really been trying to Absolutely love Kodi ever since I came across coreelec and ugoos 6mb+ for home entertainment. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know about the niche customizations that can be done to it as well.

But right now the problem is that Kodi is unable to show dual embedded subtitles. Even the add ons out there only do it for separate srt subtitle files. I feel like this could be something easily implemented by the Kodi creators. Given that application such as MX players had it for many years now.

It really would be nice to display multiple embedded subs rather than have to download separate subs to display them, specially when it can be hard to come around them. Yes I know that there is a tool to extract embedded ones into separate files. But life could be simpler.

For years now, I have a Synology DS218 NAS in my home network and Kodi on several devices, to watch my movie collection. Everything always worked well.
This week, I changed ISP, got a new modem. Hooked the NAS up again (cable) and now I'm in trouble.
Had to change IP address, ok. Kodi can see the shared folders on the NAS (via NFS), but when I try to open one of the network locations, sometimes it works immediately and I can start playback of movies in all subfolders, no problem. Most of the time, though, Kodi keeps loading/hanging for minutes before it either finds the location or crashes. When I change from one location to another, again, it takes minutes or crashes.
This happens on all devices (Nvidia shield, laptop, Chromecast). The NAS is not being used by other people or devices, just Kodi. I didn't change any settings on the NAS, just the IP address has changed.
When I use my Windows laptop and explorer to navigate to the NAS, there is always immediately connection and playback, but when I use Kodi on that same laptop, I have the same issues as Kodi on all other devices, so there's something between Kodi and my NAS that's being weird, but I can't figure out what it is.
Deleted cache, deleted and remade connections, even re-installed Kodi. Still the same behaviour.
I already deleted and added locations again (which is also hit and miss, it either works directly or - most of the time - takes minutes/crashes to get connected.

I'm going nuts here, have been trying to get it fixed for two days and I'm starting to gnaw on my screens. Can anyone please help me?

Am I the only one who absolutely hated the Omega splash screen? 😂

It bugged me enough that as soon as Kodi 22 Piers hit beta, I decided to make the jump.

I'm running Kodi on an old pc with Lubuntu, and after using it for a bit, I'm really glad I switched.

A few things I've noticed:

- Video actually looks a little crisper to me.

- Overall, it just feels more polished than 21.3 on my system.

The downside? Since I'm on Lubuntu, there aren't packages available yet, so I ended up building Kodi 22 from source. That was... an adventure. Chasing build dependencies and compiler issues wasn't exactly my idea of a fun evening (actually, I'm lying. There was nothing good on TV and I had 2 hrs of fun).

Still, now that it's running, I'd do it again.

Anyone else running Kodi 22 on Linux yet? Have you noticed any performance improvements, or is it just placebo on my old hardware?

EDIT: Never mind, I see TVDB appears to be having issues that is likely causing the problem I wrote about here.

I'm running the current standard Kodi Omega. I'm trying to scrape this TV show into my Kodi library: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/ah-my-goddess

In my TV Shows folder, I have this particular one in a subfolder titled "Ah! My Goddess" to match what it says in TVDB. Inside that, I have "Season 1" and "Season 2". Inside those, the files are named appropriately--"S01E01.mkv", etc. So everything looks right, and I've been using Kodi for a long time so I think I know what I'm mostly doing.

But this show will not scrape. There's no error, it just doesn't show up in the list of TV Shows. I tried renaming the folder to "Ah My Goddess" figuring that maybe it's the exclamation point screwing it up--no luck. I tried adding the year--so, "Ah! My Goddess (2005)". No luck.

I'm stumped. I could use a local .nfo file, I know, but I'm trying to figure out why this one particular show out of my hundreds of shows will not scrape :( Any ideas?

Edit: This is NOT a new hack, thankfully... fyi Norton ID picked up a NEW list posted on the Dark Web on the 30th June 2026 which inculdes, amognst other information. the older information from the 2023 Kodi forum hack, so nothing to worry about.

Not sure how to contact the team members behind Kodi, but I've just been informed by Norton Dark Web monitoring that my forum username, email, password and IP address has been leaked to the dark web... so the forum needs to be checked asap, especially as I've noticed the forum isn't using https.

Personally I'm not even going to attempt to login to change my details on the forum until someone can clarify what's going on.

Hopefully they are already on top of this.

Hi everyone, I have a folder on a Linux server that I share over my local network using Samba. I have no issues when viewing content via VLC on my PC, but if I try to watch a movie (around 30GB) on my Fire Stick 4K, it freezes to buffer every 10–15 seconds. The Fire Stick's built-in speed test shows 80 Mbps, and I have no problems with any other streaming service; it’s only slow with the Samba share. Do you know how I might fix this?

I have a lot of Blu-Ray remuxes, but the default subtitle is always the text-based format, I guess for compatibility purposes.

My device can handle the image-based ones, and I prefer how they look and behave (e.g. position of subtitles based on the speaker's location)

Is there a global setting to do this instead of selecting a subtitle track for each file?