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HOW TO - Synchronize libraries between multiple devices

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Hello everyone, I have 3 Fire Tv devices on which I installed Kodi.
The media I access are on a Sinology NAS, how can I synchronize the libraries of the 3 devices so that I don't lose the playback point when I switch devices?
Thanks for the support <3 <3

New Kodi infolabel - ListItem.Theme

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Now that Kodi P… is in its initial stage, I believe it’s an opportune moment to propose a new feature. Many users enjoy listening to a few seconds of the main theme from a TV show or movie while browsing their library—it’s undeniably cool. It requires users to add a theme.mp3 file to the movie or TV show folder. Subsequently, the skin relies on a Skin Helper add-on to verify whether the file actually exists on the hard drive before playing it. Unfortunately, this approach is quite inefficient, especially on less powerful devices.
I guess it would be much better if, when updating the video library, Kodi would check if a theme.mp3 file exists, and if so, then the path would be added to a new field in the video library. Afterward, that path should be available through a new infolabel, for instance ListItem.Theme (much in the same way as ListItem.Trailer).
This would make much easier for skinners to add this feature and would certainly make browsing much snappier. Even if a skinner wouldn’t want to use it when browsing media in his skin, it would be very useful for adding a button in the Info Dialog screen and let the user listen to the theme. Thanks!

IPTV simple PVR client usually freezes

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Hello,
a few minutes ago I had another error and stream freezed on "buffering %0"

Code:

2024-05-01 20:35:26.127 T:5337 info <general>: CVideoPlayerAudio:: Process - stream stalled


here is the debug file: https://paste.libreelec.tv/destined-anteater.log

Somewhere in the internet mentioned about this: https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/solved-...alled/1071
and a person mentioned like this related to this error:
Quote:This is known issue in Amlogic HEVC driver. There is not enough dynamic buffers. We already increased them from 8 to 12, but this video need 16. You can fix this by shell command:
echo 16 > /sys/module/amvdec_h265/parameters/dynamic_buf_num_margin

Is there anything that we can do for RPi5-based libreelec?

You might say "go to ask on libreelec forum", but at least libreelec is kind of kodi. And I thought may be developer could see my topic here.. Thanks in advance.

New plugin "Just Lists Of Movies"

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Hi,
(first sorry if my english in not perfect. French guy hereWink)

I would like to show you a new plugin i have been working on for the last few days.
I find often myself scrolling and scrolling in my video library without knowing what to watch so I decided to build this plugin to help me choose good movies to watch following lists of film recommendations provided by recognized websites

This plugin displays lists of movies classified into different categories. It tries to find these movies in your library so you can watch them without waiting.
The lists have been scraped from reputable sites and converted into a JSON format usable by this plugin. The lists of movies are stored and so downloaded from a server located at https://jlom.fly.dev

The plugin is pretty basic (heavily inspired from the video plugin tutorial). And I really want to keep it simple.

The code is in my github repository https://github.com/lbnt/plugin.video.jlom
You will find a functional release to test here https://github.com/lbnt/plugin.video.jlom/releases (I suppose you know how to install a plugin from a zip)
The dependencies are : script.module.requests (to download the lists) and script.globalsearch (because my search function in the library is basic and globalsearch can be called as  a fallback)

There are already more than 40 lists available. Some categories don't have any list yet. It is a work in progress.

Please test it, make it crash or simply enjoy it!
Your comments are more than welcome.
You can also suggest new list or build it yourself to be added to the server (I can give some advices and scripts to simplify this job).
The json format of the list is also very simple. The movies info are copied from TMDB api call.
You can find  an example here : https://jlom.fly.dev/folder_list?id=BFI-...f_all_time

Thanks

BEST KODI RETRO GAMING FRONTEND AND BEST NON-KODI FRONTEND

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Dear Friends

I would like to build a retro games console. I've already bought three or four of these retro consoles on AliExpress, but I'm not happy with any of them. Either certain roms don't work, the artwork for the games are missing, the console is buggy, slow or freezes, then again there are dozens of different roms for one game or it's a Korea rom release and can't be understood ...

Since I know Kodi and would like to have one interface for everything, I would like to install a frontend in Kodi and customize it nicely with widgets and everything. But so far I've failed miserably at the complexity of the possibilities Kodi has to offer. But now that I want to tackle this, the first thing I did was find all the frontends that are available for Kodi. If I have to roll up my sleeves, then I want to end up with the best solution in every aspect and nothing should fall by the wayside during the evaluation.

And now you come into play, dear friends 😆

Who can help me and show me the best way to play games in Kodi and recommend a front end? Three things are absolutely important to me:

1. very stable
2. as lean as possible
3. highly customizable

What should I look out for? For the sake of completeness, I have listed everything that is available for Kodi or that I have heard of:

- Internet Archive Game Launcher
- Kodi Launcher
- Advanced Emulator Launcher
- Kodi Retroplayer
- Rom Collection Browser
- Retrobat
- Retroarch

If there is no reasonable solution with Kodi, I would also like to know which front end you would recommend among the following. The list should be pretty exhaustive. What can you recommend for non-Kodi front ends?

- Bigbox
- Launchbox
- Emulation Station
- Retrobat
- Retroarch
- Batocera
- Hyper Base
- Playnite
- Retropie
- Lakka
- OpenEmu
- Nostlan
- Lutris
- Simple Launcher
- All Stars Launcher
- Pegasus
- GameEx
- AttractMode
- QuickPlay
- SimUI
- Retro FE
- GameHub
- Metropolis Launcher
- Feel
- SkeletonKey
- Hyperspin
- MGalaxy
- Emuloader
- Terminal Launch
- Maximus Arcade
- EmuCon
- EmuCenter 2
- Lus Space
- OpenELEC Huh
- LibreELEC Huh
- CoreELEC Huh
- EmuELEC Huh

Can anyone give me one or two recommendations of Kodi and also non-Kodi front ends? A justification would also be very important to me. Try to consider my three main points in your recommendation and always be hardware-independent.

As I said, I would prefer a front end that runs on Kodi. But since I also have an arcade game machine, I would also like to have another recommendation. So far I have installed GameEx on my arcade.

Thank you very much. I appreciate any answers and support you can give me. With this much variety, it's just impossible to know everything.

Rob

VIDEO, MUSIC DATABASE ON NETWORK SHARE

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Dear Friends

I have several Android Kodi clients at home and an smb share on my qnap nas to my videos, music and roms.

Unfortunately I need to update every single client if I add new mediafiles on my NAS.

How can I place my kodi databases on my nas share in order to update all kodi clients with a single database refresh.

Is there also a way to centralize all settings files, that all clients get updated as son as I change any settings of one client?

Do you have any additional ideas of centralization of data in order to prevent redundancy and extra work?

Thanks for your help
Rob

Kodi on RPi5 since yesterday "Stillframe detected" and "Read - Error" issues

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Hello All,

My setup is the following: I have a QNAP NAS connected to the Telekom Router + Kodi connected to Telekom router (both wired 1gbts) Kodi is connected via HDMI to an AV Receiver, then the receiver is connected to the TV. I had no issue so far to watch DolbyAtmos 7.1 4k HDR10 content from Kodi until today.

Now I have no clue what happened, but all items (4K, 1080p, 720p, SD content) stops after certain time. Of course 4K stops like 20-30sec after start, SD content goes for like 1-2 max 3 mins. I checked the connection bandwidth in the QNAP APP, it goes up like 1-40mbtis (depending on the content) as I start the film, then it drops dramatically, after that Kodi stops. According to my knowledge, no updated (FW, whatsoever) happened on QNAP NAS, Kodi, Router side. It is killing me because after sever hours of testing and debugging i can only think it is a joke for 1st of May Big Grin

Here is the part from the log where I found the error:
2024-05-01 19:15:31.273 T:1080 debug <general>: Thread JobWorker 3618632320 terminating (autodelete)
2024-05-01 19:15:31.273 T:1088 debug <general>: Thread JobWorker 3484181120 terminating (autodelete)
2024-05-01 19:15:31.799 T:1103 info <general>: CVideoPlayerAudio:Tonguerocess - stream stalled
2024-05-01 19:15:32.051 T:1100 debug <general>: CPtsTracker: pattern lost on diff 167000.000000, number of losses 1
2024-05-01 19:15:32.051 T:1100 debug <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::GetPicture - flush buffers
2024-05-01 19:15:32.051 T:1100 debug <general>: CVideoPlayerVideo - Stillframe detected, switching to forced 23.976024 fps
2024-05-01 19:15:33.870 T:1091 error <general>: Read - Error( -1, 110, Connection timed out )
2024-05-01 19:15:33.870 T:1091 error <general>: Process - <smb://192.168.2.117/Filmek/Movies/-4K-/Oblivion.2013/oblivion.2160p.mkv> source read failed with -1!
2024-05-01 19:15:33.871 T:1089 error <general>: ffmpeg[0x32063b8]: [matroska,webm] File ended prematurely
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 debug <general>: CVideoPlayer::SetCaching - caching state 1
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 debug <general>: CDVDClock::SetSpeedAdjust - adjusted:0.000000
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 debug <general>: CVideoPlayer::SetCaching - caching state 0
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 debug <general>: CDVDClock::SetSpeedAdjust - adjusted:0.000000
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 info <general>: Process - eof reading from demuxer
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 info <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 info <general>: VideoPlayer: eof, waiting for queues to empty
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 info <general>: Closing stream player 1
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1089 info <general>: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::WaitUntilEmpty
2024-05-01 19:15:33.872 T:1100 debug <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::GetPicture - flush buffers
2024-05-01 19:15:33.880 T:1103 debug <general>: CDVDAudio:Tongueause - pausing audio stream
2024-05-01 19:15:33.880 T:1103 debug <general>: CDVDAudio::Resume - resume audio stream
2024-05-01 19:15:33.880 T:1103 debug <general>: CVideoPlayerAudio - CDVDMsg::GENERAL_SYNCHRONIZE
2024-05-01 19:15:33.880 T:1089 info <general>: Waiting for audio thread to exit
2024-05-01 19:15:33.880 T:1103 info <general>: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
2024-05-01 19:15:33.880 T:1103 debug <general>: Thread VideoPlayerAudio 3496260224 terminating
2024-05-01 19:15:33.880 T:1089 info <general>: Closing audio device

I am thinking of a network issue, but which side?

I tested and I can stream from QNAP NAS over TV without any problem. All movies are played.
I do not have Router reset, or any other issues, all wired cables are exchanged (not solved anything, so i put the old ones back)
It all content are affected not just high Gb content?

Here is my cache settings:
<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>239460608</memorysize>
<readfactor>10</readfactor>
</cache>

Kodi 20.3 with Libreelec 11.0.6.
4Gb RPi5

For me the really strange thing is that I am using this setup since months now, never had any issue, now today all of a sudden nothing plays normally Big Grin

Does anybody has any additional tips or tricks what I can try to sort this out?

Thank you for any advise!

Strange home menu problem on Chromecast Google TV

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Hi,
I have been using Eminence without problem on Kodi on Chromecast Google TV. I've made my own shortcuts to my movies, my series and so on without any problems.
But some days ago Kodi auto updated to Kodi 21 and Eminence stopped working. I turned off auto update on my Google TV and uninstalled Kodi and sideloaded Kodi 20.5 so that Eminence worked again. The problem is that I can't figure out how to get the shortcuts working correctrly again. 

This is how I setup the menu items:
1. I go into "Customize home menu" and create a new shortcut.
2. I press "Choose Item for menu".
3. I press "Video Library".
4. I press "Sources".
5. I press the Video Source that I have added.
6. I press "Create menu item to here".
7. I choose to Display "Movies".

When I press the menu item that I created I should end up at the movies in my source but instead I end up in Script.Skinshortcuts.
This image show where I land when I press the shortcut that I created. "Film" is the name off the source.

I've also tried installing Kodi 20 but I get the same problem.
I've also tried installaing Kodi on my PC and here it works to ad the shortcuts in the way described above.

Am I missing something or is this some kind off bug?

H E L P.... Using SVplayer as an external video player

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I am using an Nvidia Shield. I have the SVplayerTV app installed. I read through this https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Use_extern...on_Android
I changed one of the preset external video player configs to match the SVplayerTV app. After the change, all I get is "press okay once playback has completed".
Has anyone gotten SVplayer or SVplayerTV to work with the android version of Kodi?

Here is my playercorefactory.xml


<playercorefactory>
    <players>
        <player name="MXPlayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.svpteam.tv</filename>
            <args>--fullscreen "{1}"</args>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="MXPlayerPro" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="TPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.tiantian.android.player.app</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="DicePlayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="VLCPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>org.videolan.vlc</filename>
            <args>--fullscreen "{1}"</args>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="DicePlayerPaid" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.inisoft.mediaplayer.a</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="RockPlayerLite" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.redirectin.rockplayer.android.unified.lite</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="RockPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.rockplayer</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="BSPlayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="MoboplayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.clov4r.android.nilz</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="mVideoplayerFree" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>afzkl.development.mVideoPlayer</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>        

        <player name="Vplayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>me.abitno.vplayer.t</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="WondersharePlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.wondershare.player</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="ArchosVideo" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.archos.mediacenter.video</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="SopCast" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>org.sopcast.android</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>

        <player name="DaroonPlayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
            <filename>com.daroonplayer.dsplayer</filename>
            <hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
            <playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
        </player>
    </players>
    <rules action="prepend">
<!---
**********                   **********
********** EDIT THIS SECTION **********
**********                   **********
-->
        <rule protocols="smb" player="MXPlayerFree" />
        <rule dvdimage="true" player="MXPlayerFree"/>
        <rule protocols="rtmp" player="MXPlayerFree"/>
        <rule protocols="rtsp" player="MXPlayerFree" />
                <rule protocols="sop" player="MXPlayerFree" />
        <rule internetstream="true" player="MXPlayerFree" />
        <rule video="true" player="MXPlayerFree"/> <!-- Default for anything else not listed -->
    </rules>
</playercorefactory>

Android + pc

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Hello my friends, I wanted to ask when I build a new build and want to change the pictures in the skin, where should the pictures be saved and how to back up the picture that after the installation from a restore it will restore everything including the pictures

Kodi 20.5 Python issues on Arch

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Kodi keeps crashing after some updates. Any way to fix this?

Here is the crashlog: https://paste.kodi.tv/ninazacumi.kodi.

This is what I get when trying to start from a terminal:
 
Code:
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Python path configuration:
  PYTHONHOME = (not set)
  PYTHONPATH = (not set)
  program name = 'python3'
  isolated = 0
  environment = 1
  user site = 1
  safe_path = 0
  import site = 1
  is in build tree = 0
  stdlib dir = '/usr/lib/python3.11'
  sys._base_executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
  sys.base_prefix = '/usr'
  sys.base_exec_prefix = '/usr'
  sys.platlibdir = 'lib'
  sys.executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
  sys.prefix = '/usr'
  sys.exec_prefix = '/usr'
  sys.path = [
    '/usr/lib/python311.zip',
    '/usr/lib/python3.11',
    '/usr/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload',
  ]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007722a6a006c0 (most recent call first):
  <no Python frame>
/usr/bin/kodi: line 181:  5686 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ${KODI_BINARY} $SAVED_ARGS
Crash report available at /home/kodi_user/kodi_crashlog-20240502_104238.log

Moved DB to MySQL sometimes very slow

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I have 2 kodi boxes ( 1 upstairs 1 down)  and recently we wanted to share the watched status between both boxes.
Setup MySQL 8 on the same server (Windows Server 2019) thats hosting all the media.
Every thing works great apart from every now and again (~ 1 out of 3) the down stairs box takes an age before you can view the media.

Its just an annoyance more than any thing as in the end it does load.
I'd rather it not though Smile

both boxes are similar spec intel 8100, 8GB ram, win 10, kodi 19.3 both worked fine no issues before MySQL shared Db

Debug log of it working normally  https://paste.kodi.tv/foxizifago.kodi

Degug log with delay of ~60 seconds https://paste.kodi.tv/turepodoqe.kodi

Both boxes do an automatic scan on startup, I usually wait for this to pop up as this is when I can view the media. Which is normally ~5 seconds after kodi starts yet, sometimes hangs for ~60 seconds or so.

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

No "watch/unwatch/all" option on unsorted files?

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Hi,

My kodi has been automatically updated on my shield and my old skin (rapier) is not yet compatible with kodi 21. So far it's fine but there's just an option that's missing.
I have a folder of videos who are not in my library but i don't have the option (in the options on the left) to filter on watch/unwatch items like I used to in my other skin. I can see that kodi still knows the state in progress, not watch or watch but I have no way of filtering with this option in the menu. It's a bit annoying.

Any help would be appreciated.

Unable to stream any link

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My box loads all links but I get nothing once I click.

set watched on season / tvshow

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Hi,

when I pews W key, the position is marked watched or unwatched. It works for tvshow or season too.
It seems Kodi looks into a plugin and gets items from the plugin. I don't see any difference between kodi waking and user walking here.
Then Kodi notifies the monitor about update show/season and next all episodes (one by one).
Great, but Kodi need only some IDs but the plugin prepare all data including images. I takes time if tvshow has 20+ seasons.

My question is how do detect that Kodi lists plugin for internal tasks (not for user UI)?
Or better, is any way to provide list of episodes for Kodi tvshow waching mark update directly (some API / endpoint in the plugin or the monitor)?

Customization of "Now Playing" screen

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Hi.
A few years back I used Kodi for my music library  (probably version 19, I'm not sure).  The  "Now Playing"  screen was minimalistic, with only the essential information for the song. Both for the control and info screens. It looked something like this:   Artist, Album, Track number, Track title.   Enough info.

https://kodi.wiki/view/File:Music-NowPla...ntrols.jpg

ImageNow I re-installed Kodi again, and the new Playing Now screen has a lot of information that takes a lot of screen space.  Like year,  stars rating,  Next Song (??)  , and all the little squares with the technical info

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ghyfviZn3oz5a4Bu6

My question is.... is there a way to customize the Playing Now screen to all this (IMO) unnecessary things?    I would like to be able to chose what fields are displayed in the Playing Now screen.
I looked at all the settings and the skin settings also but could not find anything.

Thanks so much
Gonzchi

Kodi 21 - Digital Clock Screensaver - Movement too fast

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If the bouncing movement of the "Digital Screensaver 6.0.5" is too fast, even when set to "Slow", how can I slow it down more, please?

Streams that support Audio & Video codec icons from metadata

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Currently running Omega 21 with Artic Zephyr Reloaded (AZR) as the skin and all working ok, but ...
Audio & Video icons for codecs appear on the screen, Audio seems fine as it picks up all,
however for the Video it does not show icon for files that have DV, need to amend the filename

Any skins that do not need the filename altered and interrogate the metedata to get the Audio & Video icons ??

How do I use this with embycon?

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Sorry this must be a really silly question but I'm completely blanking out and google couldn't help or I'm googling wrongly.

I always used Embruary with embycon until Kodi updated to v21.

Now I'm trying the Aeon Tajo skin but nothing shows up when I click on items like Movies, TV, etc.

How do I get the skin to populate with stuff from embycon? I think maybe Embruary did it automatically? I'm completely blanking out on how to do it.

about subtitles with tag {\an4-6} positioning

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Hello~ Guys~

I've found subrip subtitles with tag {\an4-6} cannot be moved with positioning command where as {\an1-3} is movable.
(set position to MANUAL and enabled OVERRIDE POSITION)
I've searched core code of Kodi but couldn't find the reason.
Is this because of libass's intended feature?
Any advice would be appreciated.
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