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Hi, first time user. A problem with initial setup. When selecting content path I get the error "Make sure the selected folder is writable and that the new folder name is valid". I'm on the latest Nvidia Shield TV Pro. External SSD and the path is within a root folder named NVIDIA_SHIELD (as can be required for some scenarios on the Shield). Tried other folders on the SSD without luck. The SSD works fine with other apps like VLC and Plex. Tried downgrading to 0.3.0. Same result. Any suggestion?
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The feature is automatically skipped after 6 seconds. Not sure why this is happening.
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Hello, i am looking for the fury trailer in dolby digital plus with dolby atmos
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Eons ago somebody on the AVS forums made a huge collection of commercials, slides, trivia and some other stuff for back when this was HTE or. Anywho, he had put everything on a DVD and I paid for him to burn and ship me one. There's a whole lot on it. This was back when people still had DVD drives and Kodi wasn't even Kodi yet. So it's not super high quality by today's standards. But there's some great stuff. I don't just want to wreckelessly upload stuff, so I'm asking is there anything I can't
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Best Picture Winner 2023-2024 Update Pack Best Picture Winner 2023-2024 Update Pack File Information Submitter starslayer74 Submitted 04/11/2025 Category Trivia View File
Hello Kodi community. This is Scott, the founder of TheTVDB. There has been some confusion related to the availability of our API and the various Kodi scrapers for TheTVDB. Hopefully I can provide some clarity.
TheTVDB was originally written in a weekend in 2004, with features and data slowly expanding with varying degrees of thoughtfulness. Inevitably, some mistakes were made and the industry has changed considerably in the years since. Through a complete restructuring of data a few years ago, we attempted to not only correct past mistakes, but also become more flexible in how we accommodate edge cases and non-traditional series.
This rewrite forced us to create a new API that correctly represented the new data structure and was built using more scalable technology. We included a transformation layer that continued to allow the old legacy APIs to function using the new data structure, but it takes a lot of time and money to run so we can't leave it up forever. In the two years since, we tried easing the transition away from the legacy APIs:
Note that as before, our API remains entirely free for end users of the Kodi TheTVDb library scraper (and, indeed, for many other projects). We do have a subscription service for anyone wishing to support our site, but it is entirely optional and not required to use the scraper.
Our current plan is to turn off our legacy APIs at the end of 2022. All Kodi users should switch to our official TV scraper by that time, as all other TheTVDB scrapers will cease to function. Anyone that wants to try out our movie scraper as well is welcome to do so, but the scrapers are entirely separate and do not require each other to function. Note that this conversation is very much about scrapers, but the API change may well impact other add-ons which use the legacy model. We don't want to adversely impact any users, so please get in touch if you're a developer who might be affected.
I hope everyone can understand how we got to where we are and why we need to take these next steps. We're available for support within the scraper threads (TV, movies), but prefer issues to be reported directly on the Github repos (TV, movies). Detailed information about configuration is available on the wiki (TV, movies).
Thank you all so much for your ongoing support of TheTVDB through the years.
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