The Dev just implemented my request for universal asian font like Thai few hours ago.





Please switch to NotoUniversal so your IPTV* EPGs in asian characters are readable.

*IPTV has been heavily revamped with proper m3u8 supporting HLS protocol. Most channels can be watched without disconnection now.

This post has been edited by sonypshomer: Jan 2 2025, 06:20 AM

Should I pm for the source😝

1st page

My Nvidia Shield 2017 low storage issue has become critical, and I'm not that android savvy to root the device and use adb method to delete the files that have accumulated over the years, reducing the available space to less than 1GB. No conventional methods of deleting cache and thumbnails will solve this. Some people mentioned that older Shields have a WiFi log called supplicant.log or wpa_supplicant.log that can bloat up to 9GB, and you can't even search these files with any file explorers. Nvidia Dev has recently updated the Shield with a hotfix that allows users to choose whether to log or not. However, the fix did not delete the existing files, causing them to grow larger with everyday use. This is crucial since Kodi will keep crashing when streaming media due to a lack of space. After reading some forum discussions:

Solution 1 : Factory reset
Solution 2 : Root shield> adb wireless/ usb wired to PC/ find the file with terminal (learn some linux commands like sudo etc

Anyway i attempted #2 half way and forgotten that the device need to be rooted. According to some people who was succesful with solution 2 took 10 hours to delete the 9GB file.

So nope today i factory reset my shield and solved the problem. Now it has almost 10GB of space after brand new Kodi installed.

Now that my beautiful setup is gone, and I'm back to square one. Some long-forgotten issues have resurfaced as I try to restore that perfect setup. Here are some tips I want to share for those who want to achieve the same or are new to Kodi. Trust me, I will use this post as a reference too when I face issues myself.

1. Kodi installation

Get Kodi 22 Piers (unreleased but this is worth it cause Kodi 22 can play mpd with clearkey support which will make your Tivimate and OTT players obsolete apps, ready to be uninstalled and forgotten) Now with Kodi 22 watching assteruk is just like how it meant to be with no delay, no disconection, in high definition, surround sound, directly from it source and not via 3rd party server like right now.

Development build Kodi 22 for all platform https://kodi.tv/download/

When Kodi 22 officially released later just overwrite like usual no issue. Kodi script will take care of everything.

2. Issue able to access network but files invisible

After installing and beginning the setup process, you might notice that the addon zip files you wanted to install are not visible on the network. For example, while your Shield can access the directories on your PC, they appear empty. Do NOT meddle with any Kodi network settings like SMB, NFS, or anything that forum users might suggest. Stop right there. The issue lies with your Shield/Android device:

Find this setting in your device > app > and set permission to kodi ALLOW ALL THE TIME


3. Addons installation Issues

Just when you thought all the zips file now are visible, you will face installation fail due to some dependencies requirement are not met. No worry the culprit is this:-

Not just you have to toggle to unknown sources but also you have to set "Update official addon from" to "ANY REPOSITORIES" in system settings


4. Skin Installation

To install the Arctic Fuse Mod, which I highly recommend, you need to follow these steps to avoid failure due to dependencies from the original Arctic Fuse skin. First, install AF2 from the Jurialmunkey repo . Once AF2 is successfully installed, you can then proceed to install the AF Mod without any issues.

AF Mod forum https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=379344

Direct download https://officerkd637.github.io/repository.o...erkd637-1.0.zip

5. TMDBhelper Issues

TMDBhelper is a Jurialmunkey addon that compiles a beautiful database of movies and TV shows, complete with posters, wall art, fan art, wikis, and more. It integrates seamlessly with all of Jurialmunkey's skins, like the Arctic series and AF Mod. However, the database does not include actual sources. To play the content, you need a third-party player. For high quality, high-resolution video with multichannel surround sound, I recommend Elementum, which is torrent-based.

Here to get Elementum (any OS)

https://github.com/elgatito/plugin.video.el...tum-0.1.106.zip

Here's how to connect elementum to TMDB

type in URL https://bit.ly/tmdbplayer and follow it instruction



To prevent a dialog to pop up instead of directly let elementum find the source, click configure player

Set like this and save



And you're done. No VPN, No RealDebrid needed.

6. IPTV setup in the next post.

Stay Tune

This post has been edited by sonypshomer: Jan 13 2025, 08:35 AM

You can always try and mount a USB drive for your shield if you have storage issue and transfer all apps to the external drive

wpa_supplicant.log is part of the shield OS not apps, cannot be accessed without rooting. The hotfix can only be seen in developer menu giving user an option to log or not. But no option to clear the log.



Older shield will log this everyday and growing bigger. Even after you delete all the apps this file still there.

TLDR:-

#KODIPROP created by KODI Developer thus the name KODI
#KODIPROP header is still being used by all streaming service today including Netflix, Hulu, even Astro
And they still hate KODI, Youtube even ban KODI content.

That's the irony.

Just checking if drama cool working at your end? Thanks

dramacool.bg

you can watch everything in their website using browser but not via kodi.

Someone needs code py into kodi to work

Youtude addon currently fail to play. instead it will ask you to sign in to confirm you're not bot or get own API key bla bla

DO NOT DO THAT! (privacy issue)

The addon is supposed to use dev account and play trailer without using anything from your personal account. Unless you insist

I suggest dont use youtube addon in kodi other than to watch trailer in AF mod skin. For Android just use smartube app which is way better handling and removing youtube ads than kodi.

Anyways before the DEV solved that sign in issue etc, i suggest use Youtube trailer addon from slyguy repo.

If you have iptvmerge already you should have this repo. thing is the Youtube trailer addon is hidden within another repo in his repo.



Install that repo 1st than install youtube trailer addon



This will replace the youtube addon and play your trailer like it used to do.

Meanwhile, I have updated the iptv playlist for kodi 22, and included some recently assteruk discontinued channels like wwe, and warna to be streamed again from new sources.

So exclusive for Kodi user, you can have these channels again. sorta


https://aseanic.github.io/

The Arctic Fuse Mod have few ways to navigate and browse channels, you can either browse the EPG and click one by one and play without closing the epg or while watching you can also browse other channel and stay with the current channel. Here's how

1. Click once it brings up the OSD
2. Click arrow down it shows what's next and previous show not just text but image on the channel u watching
3. Click down one more time, it will bring up other group and list all the channel in that group with what program currectly playing with image.

Here's the demo:-



No other IPTV app can do this not even assteruk GUI

Added Phillippines Channels

I found out that Kodi use its Recording utility to manage video on demand or VOD. While it does provide the PVR functions to save and timeshift etc but the actual recording must use other addon which until today i couldnt find any.

Meanwhile, the recording utility manages any m3u list that has been specified with parameter media=true as VOD

Here's how you can try.

Get the source from github and add it into your IPTVmerge. You will get this


https://aseanic.github.io/

The media will go directly into "recording" you can browse and play them just like any VOD

Since the souce has more than 3000+ movies you need to create another widget to view by group else everything will be dumped in one place and will take time to browse. Name it to VOD if u like (this is for AFMOD skin) Not required if you use Estuary.

pvr://recordings/tv/active?view=grouped

To access to the movie, DONT just click but Click & Hold to bring up Browse Into menu dialog. Click that to access the group by language. Again this is for AFmod skin only. You dont have to this for estuary.

Surpisingly fanart, wallart, synopsis, multiple audios and subtitles are supported.

Slyguy Youtube AutoTrailer is not supported currently for this VOD but working fine on others.

So now the long holiday can be fully utilized since dramacool in down this will be the alternative.

Happy Holiday!

Do not download anything after 27 JAN else your IPTV will break



If you already mistakendly did, just download the JAN 27 version and overwrite it.

Assteruk did it again by discontinuing more channels, lets bring them back and add more.



After i feedback the Dev, as of update Feb 3 kodi 22 now it's IPTV-safe you can download and use the lastest version. Once that done you may want to update Youtube for Trailer else error.

Note: While Kodi 22 is very stable on windows, it still occasionally crash on android but getting lesser if you use the latest version. Granted they're still under development. Hopefully everything will be ironed out for the release candidate. At anytime your IPTV fails, i mean all the sudden all channels are not working after you meddled with something, just reinstall Kodi with the similar version you're having.

Newbie here, previously only using stremio. Want to try Kodi bcs of the iptv, yesterday manage to install the apk through google play store on mi box s, but after reading your recommendation to install the v22, I uninstalled the v21 and download the v22 from kodi.com nightlies build. Download successfully but error during installation. Any idea why this happen?

The lastest build quite stable (feb 5 version) make sure you choose the correct apk for your android device.

usually for normal box choose arm64, not sure for TV though, if fail try different apk

https://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/android/arm64-v8a/master/

Still unsuccessful. Mi box S is 64bit. I tried both arm8a and arm7 same result. Thought maybe the box might have issues with installing new 3rd party app or apk directly, but then I manage to install other apk such as tivimate etc. quite weird. Never happened this issue.

Really want to try the v22, your demo video with iptv folder, nice organized setting look amazing.

According to the DEV in inputstream https://github.com/xbmc/inputstream.adaptiv...Integration-DRM



It supports Kodi v21.5, perhaps you can just install the one in play store. Kodi developers are very active on updating their app like almost every day (you can see how active they're releasing updates on their nightlies page)

Perhaps they already updated Kodi v21 to support the drm-legacy. The last time i used kodi version 21 was December, i found some of the channels didnt work until i used kodi22. Maybe you have the luck this time coz the playlist i configured is using simple drm_legacy and not the advanced drm property

hi TS ayam newbie here, recently looking to buy tvbox like svicloud, evpad etc
but stumble upon TS's post

does Kodi function the same as those tvbox in the market?

Kodi just an app. it should work on all these platforms



https://kodi.tv/download/

But Kodi is not like any IPTV or VOD app like TVbox that you can click and play, you need to set it up to your liking. Especially the skin. It has it's own functions and program. And it will be very extensive at time. Then there are addons.

Originally Kodi is just a media player that manages your own media collection like movies, TVshow, digital tv, Music for people who has terabytes of space in their NAS. But then most people do not have them. So that's when addons come in. Plethora of them. Just install what u need. games, music, concerts, p0rn, hentai, live cam, etc. But before all that get the skin 1st.