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Note: this article assumes you are using XBMC v10.0 Dharma or a later version. Earlier versions of XBMC such as v9.11 Camelot do not support key modifiers

...us with the development of Kodi. Whether you have contributed to the Kodi/XBMC project in the past or not, please consider doing so now.<section end="intr ...d other platforms) to your friends and family, we are sure they will enjoy it too.

The guide for Windows users is located here: [[Git Usage Windows]] == Clone the XBMC main repository ==

...PVR]] add-ons are installed. In the future this will be something the user can manage from within the Kodi GUI, but for now they must be installed outside ...]'''). If you're not sure, you probably already have it installed, as that is how you normally install Kodi in the first place.}}

== Where do I start on Linux? == ...ate README for Ubuntu Linux available in the [https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc XBMC Foundation git repo on GitHub].

If you wish to run some code automatically when Kodi starts, you can do so by creating a service add-on.<br> ...n the [[userdata]] folder, this is deprecated.<ref>https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18356</ref>)

...all a new version of Kodi on Debian 10 (buster) stable you need to install it from backports like so: <code>sudo apt install -t buster-backports kodi</co Here are a some notes related to uploading Kodi to Debian and having it synced to Ubuntu.

...us with the development of Kodi. Whether you have contributed to the Kodi/XBMC project in the past or not, please consider doing so now.<section end="intr ...d other platforms) to your friends and family, we are sure they will enjoy it too.

sudo apt-get install xbmc Any program examples, i.e. code that you will type in is shown thus;

:''Nominations for the XBMC Foundation Board Elections 2020", as written by Ronie'' It's the end of August, meaning it's time for the yearly XBMC Foundation board elections again.

...audio concepts as a foundation for understand why some things work as they do.<section end="intro" /> ...e Encoded Formats Kodi must decode the audio to PCM in order to manipulate it for volume control.

...elp translating Kodi into your native language, first thing you need to do is to [https://kodi.weblate.cloud/accounts/register/ sign up at Weblate].<br/> You can create a new account or use an existing Google, Facebook or Github account.

...ating your library may take a few minutes, so be sure to give Kodi time to do its thing. Stopping midway will mess up the updated DB. }} }} ...s. You don't want to find yourself starting your library from scratch, and it's better to be safe than sorry.

=== What is Kodi? What is Leia? === :Kodi is the new name for XBMC media center. "Leia" is the [[Codename_history|codename]] for version 18 of Kodi, just as "Krypton"

...s harder to maintain and Jenkins also offers a wide variety of plugin that can be used to benefit further development and testing. The ''helpers'' contains like the name says helpers that can aid in doing quick builds like ''build all platforms'' or uploading of Kodi

<section begin="intro" />'''VDR''' ('''The Video Disk Recorder''') is an open source PVR backend application for Linux designed to allow any comp ...VDR''' have been done and and configuration of the PVR client addon for it is complete.<section end="intro" />

...y as possible. Besides these builds it also hosts all the add-on which you can find in our official kodi.tv repository. The actual mirror list is generated automatically and can be found by appending <code>?mirrorlist</code> to the URL of any mirrored f

...pository|Official Add-on Repository]] is included with Kodi by default and is maintained by the Kodi team. ...pository functionality was first introduced in the Dharma version of Kodi (XBMC at the time)

<section begin="intro" />[[w:LIRC|LIRC]] (Linux Infrared Remote Control) is an open source package that allows users to receive and send infrared signa ...the to-the-right-of-the-kernel aspects of LIRC. '''This is why LIRC setup can be so confusing.'''

...of Kodi that accepts remote device input on all platforms. EventServer API is used to program event clients and simplifies interfacing input devices with ...s for commands from event clients. Anything that can communicate using UDP can be an event client. Many event client software packages are currently avail

...d to be played in unless custom '''[[External players|external player]]''' is configured or addons make use of a other video player. Kodi's internal VideoPlayer is capable of playing DVD-Video and Blu-ray Disc as well as most other popular

...or more simply, the method by which changes to the codebase are recorded. It offers many advantages to the Kodi development team, among them the ability ...lling to allocate at least that much disk space before attempting to clone it.|Disk space requirements}}

Kodi Add-ons are extensions that can be run from inside the Kodi GUI. ...d to our official repository if submitted by the add-on developer. Add-ons can also be published in other repositories or as stand alone zip files anywher

:''Nominations for the XBMC Foundation Board Elections 2019", as written by DarrenHill'' ...on coming up, meaning it's time for [https://kodi.tv/about/xbmc-foundation XBMC Foundation] board elections again.

...'' CD Ripping has become a legacy feature after Kodi 16. The functionality is still there, but no further development has been done from that moment.}} ...PVR]] add-ons are installed. In the future this will be something the user can manage from within the Kodi GUI, but for now they must be installed outside

...ou have an existing Movie, TV Show and/or Music Video library.'''}} If you do not have an existing video library, you will need to create one by followin ...ll record any files missed when an Update Library is performed. If the log is currently empty, or lists no missing movies, TV Shows or episodes, then per

...'t already have the Team Kodi (team-xbmc) PPA added, then you will need to do so in order to install the PVR client add-ons. See... '''[[HOW-TO:Install_K # Quit Kodi if it is already running

...phaned database entries are independent from the Kodi library status which is managed by Kodi [[https://kodi.wiki/view/List_of_built-in_functions#Library Once authenticated, the following can be used to identify active databases on which to work:

...y checking through all your music, looking at timestamp and file size. But it only actually scans the tags from those files that are new or changed. ...those that have libraries in the order of tens of thousands of songs, this can be a very time consuming process. For this reason there are three ways to p

...he profile being used. This is ideal for systems that have multiple users. It works much the same as setting up individual users on your home computer.<s {{note|While profiles do allow to share the same Kodi instance with multiple users, they are not a s

...ge summarizes the add-ons system introduced in the Dharma release (v10) of XBMC. This system allows third-party developed enhancements to Kodi to be distr ...a an XML file named <code>addon.xml</code>. In addition, some other files can also come with the add-on, such as <code>icon.png</code>, <code>fanart.jpg<

'''AudioEngine''' or ('''AE''') refers to XBMC's new audio system. AudioEngine replaces SDL and brings some of the external dependencies into XBMC, and wraps up all the different media types for mixing, samplerate conversi

...Skype or similar. Kodi is set to only use PulseAudio if you have installed it and running.<section end="intro" /> ...situation to change, so thanks to the new '''PulseAudio Sink''' users now can run a normal Ubuntu desktop.

...style="float:right;">{{Google Play}} [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.xbmc.kodi/ <img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9103935/14702535 ...ole Android smartphones and tablets are not the main target platforms they do have limited support as well.<section end="intro" />

...hand coded one, with one whose code is '''generated''' as part of building XBMC. There are several advantages to this approach including: ...will be defined in terms of a C++ library independent of the fact that it can be called from a scripting language.

...possible to let a media source point to more than one target or path. You can accomplish this through the User Interface or by directly editing the sourc ...hem is implemented (e.g. old paths using Q: are now stored using special://xbmc etc).

...most or all of your videos and music to also be the MySQL server, but this is not required. {{redv|'''Please Note:'''| Do not manually create the MySQL/MariaDB databases on your database server. Se

...Code 2017 project]], we have a working Python 3 interpreter for Kodi. That is why on Kodi DevCon 2017 Team Kodi decided that we will switch to Python 3 i ...nd submitting them to the official repo. This way, when Kodi with Python 3 is released, we won’t have a situation when we have no working addons.

...API, and offers a more secure and robust mechanism in the same format. It is based upon the [http://jsonrpc.org/spec.html JSON-RPC 2.0 specification]. ...user of Kodi will have to grant said client access. The design of JSON-RPC is that most methods should behave roughly the same and maintain consistency w

...nfamiliar with the project, here are a few resources that may help explain what we are about. ...to Kodi, and 300-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 70 languages. For more information, see the page '''

<!--'''This page is currently work in progress. Kodi has applied as mentoring organization for ...nfamiliar with the project, here are a few resources that may help explain what we are about.

...s, find corrupted files, and much more. The script can work on any OS that can run Python 2.6 or higher.<section end="intro" /> ...hon script that can be used to interrogate the texture cache database, and can also be used to remove - with absolute precision - those database rows and

...s SoC chipset is what can playback common video codecs smoothly using Kodi/XBMC.<section end="intro" /> ...ted VPU (Video Processor Unit) that is optimized specifically for this job is considered essential for almost all Android devices to be able to smoothly

...or Kodi. You can also consult the examples at the end to see how this file is laid out depending on if you are developing a skin or script. Every <samp>addon.xml</samp> file has the same basic structure, this example is for a video plugin:

...nfamiliar with the project, here are a few resources that may help explain what we are about. ...to Kodi, and 300-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 70 languages. For more information, see the page '''

...//forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=301 Kodi GSoC 2020 subforum]''' so we can open a dialogue about any project you’d love to cover. To propose a proje ...to work together according to the [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline GSoC schedule].

...ty and dedication of over [[Translations|200 volunteer translators]], Kodi is available in 72 languages and useful no matter which continent you're on. ...ation for the first-generation Xbox game console (no longer supported) but is now officially available as a native application for [[Android]], [[BSD]],

device driver. If you are unsure whether your remote is an eHome remote there is a device called "Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver" or

...ts of using NFS instead of SMB are its low protocol overhead (which allows it to send data across a network more quickly) and its use of simple [http://e {{warning|NFS does not use usernames or passwords as logins; it uses a UNIX-based "userID" (UID) alone.}}<section end="intro"/>

...nt. The information on this page might also contain errors or be outdated. It might also contain ants, and their antsy antics. '''[[Official_Kodi_Wiki:Ge ...for GNU/Linux with support for most popular emulators, Wine and Steam. It can be integrated into Kodi with [https://github.com/RobLoach/lutris-kodi-addon

...he advancedsettings.xml file does not exist by default. You have to create it first!'''}} }} ...tro" />The [[advancedsettings.xml]] file, which does not exist by default, can be created by a user in their '''[[Userdata|userdata folder]]'''.