Just a silly question, when I full screen it it shows black screen??

just a second or few, then we'll have the display. Don't really know if that is normal.

I also got same problem and question with BGOOD..Any help please

oh no. I feel blessed with guys like u. I've searched many times before but as usual 1 leads to another that has no real point of direction. sorry for being noob, how to search in superrepo? download superrepo first? I also keep records for every file that I can get to. i'm trying out then only get an android player with digital output (important for me). thanks for helping.

Since mashup is no longer available, what is the closest add-ons to it, last time we have icefilms and 1channel from xbmchub; now renamed to tvaddons. But tvaddons also no longer working, must be temporarily but I find it takes so long to recover.

I follow your recommendation xbmctorrent, eventhough it's not as nice as mashup (no cover) but it definitely faster.

icefilm failed on me today when it asks to update 2013 metadata so i deleted it.

Just installed Kodi to my Minix Neo X-8 and also my HTPC. Added the xbmctorrent and bbts. Very good.

Any guys here know where can I download the popcorn time apk for Android. The Kodi website does not seem to work.

Thanks again for the guidance on how to install xbmctorrent and bbts

mind share how to search other m3u rather than bbts

I am try to avoid whatever related to 'torrent' due to download lack of performance and waiting time prior to that. Most of my personal preference goes to real time streaming just what we had in the good mashup. Too bad the good mashup now no more. I wonder why all of the sudden, must be the team been threatened under the law. About icefilm, yes I agree that their library not updated to the latest and I already removed the source.

From the tone for that mashup guy, he's like frustrated with all that stupid comments people throw at him for something that he does it for free

Anyway, PB is ok eventhough my 10mbps unifi only can go as fast as 1.5mbps download. the video will start as soon as it reaches 1%.

to edit anything, u need es file explorer on yr device as file manager can only read, can't see hidden files or edit. get es file explorer in playstore - it is one very impt app u must must hv on android. then click on tools, "show hidden files".

to edit that file after u open es file explorer, path:
home/android/data/org.xmbc.kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.xbmctorrent/resources/site-packages/xbmcswift2/urls.py
open with editor, use remote control menu button to activate edit function, then edit and save.

it is easy if u know; confusing if u hv never used android or es file explorer. required use of both remote and mouse plus diff with pc mouse makes it tough for new users. so, practice, get used to it!

q5ii... kodi does work, no problem. u hv may installed a corrupted version or the migrated folder is corrupted. try again. remember to save a copy of .kodi or .xbmc folder on usb drive using file explorer. if not, it is a nightmare to reinstall all those repos, addons and plugins.
but... i fear q5ii may not be able to take xbmctorrent. i tried that, see my next post. but bbts livetv will work.

it is normal, it will load everytime u open kodi. if wifi, it may take up to a full minute.

i hv to say i dont know anymore.... as these repos get outdated, changed. dont even know where to find it again if i need to. i have it because it is in my "always saved copy" of org.xbmc.kodi (or org.xbmc.xbmc.). try googling or perhaps some kind samaritan can post the link for you. if u have the link, can dwnld the link direct with xbmc like fusion. otherwise install via zip file in usb.
if buying android, pls buy from a seller who can help u with or preinstall all these apps/addons.plugins. w/o help, it is tough. xbmc/kodi can be a b**** for starters!

get popcorm time, excellent for devices with sufficient flash memory.
go to bottom to find it. v2.3 is still the latest.



This post has been edited by AVFAN: Nov 16 2014, 11:47 PM

bro ctvtec,

i must thank you again for posting the above as it got me spending hours on xbmctorrent - testing, trying to understand how it works, why the script failures, any solution, reading a hundred posts in kodi forum!

let me share my findings with those who have not got xbmctorrent working or got it working but yet to play a full length tv episode or movie.


since late 2013, steeve the developer has left it incomplete with bugs, unfinished biz. he has moved on to do pulsar which is a similar but closed app, can't edit like xbmctorrent. we can guess this is becos he feels the heat from the legal side, need to drop it and go do something similar but will not land him in jail.

thousands of users feel frustrated becos it is such a great addon. but it is probably becos it has so much potential that it pose some great risks to steeve. maybe more so for the power n $ people who simply won't let it be born normal, for now. there is a fork called "stream" which is a also an addon to xbmc but it doesn't work for me.

after reading 65 pages of this kodi forum, some of which pertain to xbmctorrent, i will highlight this major problem bugging many users:


it is the same experience i had with my androids. however, kodi forum members seems to say it works fine on mac and rpi. so, those who have tried it, please confirm xbmctorrent works good for u for full length video (not 15mins), what device, anything unusual noticed...

for android, i tried everything i can think of, but there is no simple permanent solution. editing urls.py and torrent2http.py were necessary to fix a couple of scripts failure errors but there are more!! cant find more fixes by googling. quite a shame, really.

at this time, my understanding for xbmctorrent on androids is this:

.. seems to need high internal memory; older androids with smaller internal memory (2-4gb) will have that "play 10-15 min then stop" problem. using ext hdd and path spec won't work. something to do with internal memory partitions, i think. and i suspect this is the same problem why small memory androids (like himedia q5ii) can't stream 1080p from popcorn time, even if u use ext hdd.
.. new androids with emmc 8 or 16gb shud work but... clumsily.
.. wat i noticed: the playback is from the online streaming n not the saved data; the data is captured and saved, yes. here is the problem - once the downloading of the full file is complete, the buffer for playback reduces to zero, so it stops playing. u can specify to keep the video and not delete it upon exit but that only helps in one way - u playback later like any other saved video. which is better than nothing, of course!
.. becos the streaming buffer stops a couple of minutes after file dwnld is complete, i tried reducing the dwnld speed (can do that in the addon configuration) to match the playback speed. this is tricky as every file is diff in size, broadband speed may not be always stable. i have yet to get great results but so far, 500KBps cap for a 720p 1gb mkv file or 200KBps cap for a 300MB mp4 file seem to get me close. this is, of course, untenable for long term use but at this time, i see no other way but this way or the "playback after all is saved on hdd" way.
.. unlikely there will be good solutions as elvis has left the building, so, that's it...

sorry for the long write up - just something for android users who r planning to try xbmctorrent. good luck!

and please share n correct me if i got certain things wrong, tq.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Nov 16 2014, 11:57 PM

~answered already

This post has been edited by alien9: Nov 17 2014, 11:21 AM

tried MyIPTV apk (someone sell on lyn) on FireTV and IPTV apk (from lelong). Both not working. maybe android compatibility issue. xbmc and spmc have issues on FireTV. always crash when try to run LIVE TV and Youtube videos.

Hi, I'm using MediaElch to scrape my movie. Is it normal that it took quite a while to complete scraping one movie? And there are some movies that unable to download the poster, and even if I download it manually, it just failed.

Hi AVFAN,

Sorry I did not know that you have problem running it on Android.

Just for my knowledge, what is your XBMC cache setting? Did you set it to cache to local drive (cachemembuffersize=0)?

If you do, set it non local, e.g. cachemembuffersize=104857600, see if it makes any difference?

Setting the cache to local might give problem, as it is essentially doubling the required space for xbmctorrent.

yes, i played with all of them!
buffersize changed from 0 to 100mb, 500mb, 1gb, doesn't work. in fact, it doesn't even start to play. so, back to zero.
i do not think the buffersize is the problem here.
set to local or ext, same result. setting to local is not a problem for my android as it has 6gb available for that.

the only semi-successful way is to tick "save", so the file is saved as it is played, not deleted even at exit.
but the same problem will happen - at the point the whole file is dwnlded and saved, the buffer reduces to zero and finally playback stops.
in this setting, since the file is saved, never mind, just playback like any other saved file.
that allows complete watching but is troublesome to stop halfway, play again. plus, need to manually delete file later.
that's what i do now - a poor solution.

can u confirm that on yr rpi, u can playback all the way from start to finish a 45min or 2hr show w/o "script failure: xbmctorrent"?

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Nov 18 2014, 04:29 PM

Let me test it again tonight, and get back to you later.

Guys, correct me if I'm wrong here. One Live TV m3u for example B.B.T.S. requires its own PVR client. If I want to add Malaysia Channel m3u, I would need to use another PVR Client. Kinda weird no?

p/s: I'm testing out BBTS IPTV Simple Client

This post has been edited by alien9: Nov 18 2014, 05:17 PM

Yes AVFAN. I watched the series Super Natural 720P with 5.1 DTS using xbmctorrent on my Minix Neo X-8H. Unifi speed 10Mps.
Running time is 45 minutes, no buffering and no problem. Very smooth.

I just follow the setting that you wrote in your previous post.

If I tick "save" does that mean the file is save to the android memory? And need to be deleted manually. So far I cannot find any big file being saved in my android.

I also run xbmctorrent on my HTPC. Here there is no need to modify any file. Just enable the addon and everything running smoothly.