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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.

Kodi, formally known as XBMC, is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs).

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No module named googleapiclient.discovery

I have been looking to implement the example Python scripts I have found online to allow me to interact with the YouTube API as per the GitHub link found here The problem I am having is with the import statement at the start: import argparse from…
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How can I turn on the Kodi webserver from the command line?

My Kodi is running as root (for better or for worse). This means the user folder is: /root/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml A quick search for web-related junk: cat guisettings.xml | grep web yields false …
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How to stream video to browser with Kodi

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this but here goes nothing. I setup openelec's Kodi on a Raspberry pi2. I uploaded a video and managed to get it to play on a connected TV via HDMI. What I can't seem to figure out is how to have Kodi…
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Vcodec id unknown :XXXX

I was trying to watch some X.mkv files on my raspberry pi. I used to have Openelec 3 and this particular X.mkv was running fine. Now I am on Raspbian running Kodi, and I got a black screen when I launched it, so I looked at the logs. They were…
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XBMC/KODI error adding addon "structure incorrect"

I'm following the KODI/XBMC hello world addon tutorial here and i downloaded the finished project from here but the problem is that i cannot edit it, as ever time I try to add a version that I edited onto KODI it gives me the error Addon does not…
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How to Stream Audio to Raspberry Pi via PulseAudio RTP Unicast?

I am trying to stream audio from a Linux Mint Desktop to a RaspberryPi 3B running LibreELEC (Kodi) using PulseAudio RTP. I can successfully stream the audio with RTP multicast: Desktop: pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp pactl…
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How to batch generate EDL (edit decision list) files for a folder of videos with different run times

How can I skip an exact amount of seconds from the start, and another amount of seconds from the end, for a collection of videos whose durations differ? This is the format for the EDL I am using with kodi 0:00:00 0:01:20. 3 So if the video is…
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kodi change settings through python

In Kodi, how can I change the settings level to expert via python code? I managed to change all configuration through an RPC to 'Settings.SetSettingValue' but using the same method with 'general.settinglevel' results with an error CSettingsManager:…
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How to call method from another kodi/xbmc addon

I am trying to make an addon which calls another script addon. Now what I want to know is how can I access methods of the second addon from the first one. If yes please someone provide me with the syntax.
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Kodi (fka Xbmc) scraper for onlinetvrecorder (otr) recordings

I would like scrape information for recordings from onlinetvrecorder (otr) in Kodi. Unfortunately the scrapers available can't handle the file format which is like Django_Unchained_15.07.03_22-45_sf2_165_TVOON_DE.mpg.mp4.avi Renaming is not an…
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Exclude a combination of characters with regex or add a letter

I'm trying to adjust KODI's search filter with regex so the scrapers recognize tv shows from their original file names. They either come in this pattern: "TV show name S04E01 some extra info" or this "TV show name 01 some extra info" The first is…
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why is this curl function getting permission denied

I'm trying to communicate with the Kodi JSONRPC api and I keep getting a permission denied. I have looked everywhere, I've tried all the curl options I can find, and none of them seem to be doing a thing. $options = array( CURLOPT_VERBOSE =>…
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How do I make a simple public read-only WebDAV server with SabreDAV?

I recently began looking into WebDAV, as I found it to be an option for letting me play a Blu-ray folder remotely - i.e. without requiring the viewer to download the whole 24gb ISO first. Add a WebDAV source in Kodi v18 to a Blu-ray folder - and it…
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Removing \r and empty spaces

How can I remove all the empty rows from my printed text using BS and Python? I'm still new, I think what I'm talking about maybe called whitespace? Current output: 02:00 - 05:00 NHL: Columbus Blue Jackets at San Jose Sharks - Channel…
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Importing video in kodi Movies Library using metatag title instead of filename

I am trying to make sense of the documentation for Kodi and Video Tagging. The documentation states: It seems that Kodi will not import a media file without a valid title in the metadata tag. This makes it the most critical tag of all. Title also…
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