Matt

The more observant of you will have noticed that we've had some issues getting this version out to everyone, so some of you will have received this already depending on what channel you use (Flatpak, Google Play, winget community repos...). No matter, it's here for everyone now. While work is well underway on our next major release, with Alphas already out for Kodi 22.x "Piers", this doesn't mean we've given up on 21.x "Omega", as that's very much still our current release. So, with minimal fanfare, we present to you a package of changes, bug fixes and backports that we like to call Kodi 21.3 "Omega". Full changelog from 21.2 here. Release Summary Major user-facing changes include: Video Added HDR support on Xbox One Fixed Blu-ray playback on Linux Fixed audio/subtitle issues when resuming Blu-rays Fixed handling of HDR10 light metadata changes Fixed subtitle selection for ISO 639-1 (two-letter) language codes Library/Sources and Management Improved speed of video library rescans Fixed multi-episode files overwriting the first episode Fixed info dialog for certain Movie Versions Fixed some false positives detecting Movie Versions Music Fixed CDDB lookups using Gnudb.org's CDDB API Fixed album search failing for artist names Audio Fixed rare Pipewire crash when connecting/removing audio devices PVR Fixed crash when a PVR stream is stopped via remote app Peripherals Added support for Turkish keyboards on Linux Fixed enabling and disabling Pulse-Eight CEC adapters Fixed the Delete and Alternative Insert keys on macOS Fixed minor visual glitches when managing peripherals Addons Fixed updating add-ons after 25 days of inactivity (extended to ~68 years) Skin/GUI Fixed busy dialog crash when multiple dialogs are opened Fixed suspend dialog remaining open after the system wakes up Improved touch support for slider dialog arrows Network Added support for HTTP Basic Authentication Fixed some network streams failing due to interrupted HTTP/2 transfers Updated libnfs to v6 for embedded platforms Updated CA certificates to 2025-07-15 from the Mozilla CA certificate store I know we always say this, but, genuinely - sincere thanks go out to everyone who's helped to identify, isolate or fix any issues. If you know of anything that's still irking you, please, post in the forums, or raise an issue on Github, as we can't fix what we don't know about. As this is a point release, there are no major changes since the previous version, and you should be fine to install this straight over the top of any existing Kodi 21.x installation - indeed, this will happen automatically on many platforms. However, as for all software installations, back up your userdata beforehand if you've any doubts or have anything you can't afford to lose (and definitely do this if you're going for a major version upgrade). A list of all changes for this version can be found at GitHub. If you want to read back on the full history of v21 itself, or of previous versions, you can find the corresponding articles in the relevant blog posts. Application deployment on different platforms (notably the Microsoft Store) can vary considerably due to circumstances outside of our control, so just be patient, and the update will inevitably find its way through. Windows Store/Android Deployment Due to the internal and external hoops we need to jump through, it might be a little while before the update appears for you, and that's before our usual staged approach to deployment. Sit tight, and it will be with you in due course (maybe the next week or two). View the full article

Merry Christmas 2025 from PreShow Experience This is a 4k Merry Christmas bumper with 5.1 audio. File Information Submitter Matt Submitted 12/11/2025 Category Holiday Bumpers View File

Thanks for uploading that. I have a copy of it somewhere that I showed during one of my horror movie nights a few years ago, and it did a good job of setting the mood.

I haven't seen Pumkinhead in a really long time. How did it hold up?

Anyone watch any good horror movies this year?

Here are all the current holiday bumpers: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/17-holiday-bumpers/

The image needs to be in a subfolder.

PreShow doesn't have an option to pause between videos. The workaround would be to create a black image and use the slideshow module between them to set the pause time, or to create a short blank video to play between the elements that is set to whatever time you want the pause duration to be. Out of curiosity, why do you want the pause?

Awesome. Glad you got it working.

So, here we go once again - development (and developers) never actually sleep, so we're pleased to present the first public preview of our next significant release: Kodi v22, "Piers". This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, it is also an Alpha release, so there's a very good chance that something won't work the way it's intended to. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, which is kind of the point of releasing it: please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any regressions you wonderful testers come across. So, all that aside... what's actually changed? Video/audio Upgraded to FFmpeg 7 Audio book chapter support Movie Versions/Extras full redesign Movie Sets support setting info and artwork Better stream selection Automatic cleaning of cached images/artwork Blu-ray multi-episode support New Blu-ray episode selection menu Blu-ray episodes now have their own progress, media info and artwork Library import/export now handles Blu-ray episodes Episode ranges are now supported and shown in the library Movie Versions/Extras are now supported for Blu-ray discs PVR New Recently Added Channels (plus new widget) New Providers window (requires skin support) New Custom Timers Improved channel groups Improved saved searches Improved recording functionality Improved EPG search 1-minute EPG resolution (requires skin support) Games Shader support (from Google Summer of Code 2017/2019) Improved mouse and keyboard support GUI Reduced memory usage for single- and dual-channel textures Improved performance and memory usage on OpenGL and OpenGLES Improved large texture image quality with better performance on slow devices Implemented front-to-back rendering for better performance (OpenGL(ES) only) Network Improved SMB GUI settings Support for SMBv2.0 devices lacking SMBv2.1 features such as "large MTU" Fixed connecting to Windows SMB servers with no password Drastically improved performance at listing large SMB directories Platforms Windows/Xbox Initial Windows ARM64 desktop support Python 3.13 on Windows/Xbox Enabled XAudio2 sink for Windows desktop (was previously only on Xbox) Enhanced Video Super Resolution feature with 10-bit SDR support (Intel and Nvidia) and HDR10 (Nvidia) Android Enabled file sharing to other apps and players Improved channels on the home page Upgraded to Android 15 Minimum Android version is now 7.0 Android support for 16KB page size LG webOS New unified media pipeline Linux HDR passthrough on OpenGL (was previously only on OpenGLES) Support for the Wayland Color Management protocol, therefor supporting HDR on Wayland with compatible compositors Make Kodi work on systems using a Turkish locale Peripherals Improved OSMC Remote support Improved Pulse-Eight CEC Adapter support Improved Flirc support Known issues Scanning for new content will fail if local NFO files are present (fixed for Alpha 2) Filesystems that use milliseconds can trigger a rescan If you love life on the bleeding edge of new, you can get Alpha 1 from here. Select your platform of choice, and look in the "Prerelease" section. Again, though, please: expect some breakage, don't use this as your daily installation unless you know how to get things working again, and please share your experiences back with us so we can really get going on those bugs. And take a backup first! As usual, in the full spirit of open source, you can see what's changed since v21.2 here. View the full article

@MidnightWatcher is correct. External players don't pass the chapter changes through kodi’s code like the internal player.

There are 3 ways to handle what you are asking for. I don't think I would recommend an action file for what you are asking for, unless you are playing the audio file on another device. If that is the case, I would recommend option 3 with just the image. Here are the options in order of difficulty. Option 1 - I think you can select an audio file as a file in the video module. The visuals associated with it may vary from system to system, so you may get flickering or a generic background. Option 2 - Change the audio file to a video and add it as a video module. Option 3 - Add a slideshow module and add an image, which can just be black, to a folder within your slideshow content, set your audio file as the music and set the time for the module to be just longer than your audio file.

Awesome. Glad you got it working.

The updated file is also in the alpha of the latest version in the repo.

I think the https option has been there for a long time and that they are now just removing the http option. I think there's a good chance you are correct and the update is tied to a new app version, which sends the instructions to the bridge.

The way that they implemented the https is a bit strange. They require that the security certificate be passed to the hue prior to submitting the api web request. Getting the Hue lights to work in PreShow is already difficult for most people. Even if I provide instructions for how to do it, I think it would end creating more confusion and get me into more tech support than I can handle for it. My current solution should be considered temporary, but that may not change how to proceed. The issue is that the https link gives a security error, which is what PreShow will see instead of connecting to the bridge. The current fix is to ignore that error, so that the https works like a standard http link and passes calls to the bridge. Ultimately, people will probably have to change the http to https in their action files. At some point I'll go in and see if I can add code into PreShow to handle passing the security certificate to make it easier for people. I'm not sure if that will require additional changes to your action files or not at this point.

I'm going to release a new version of PreShow, hopefully this weekend, with a solution that should take care of this issue. I have attached the updated python file that control actions with the potential fix. The file goes in your kodi addon directory in the following folder: script.preshowexperience > lib > preshowexperience Below is a guide to where the kodi folder is. The addon folders is located inside of this, so add addons/script.preshowexperience/lib/preshowexperience to find the location where the action file goes. Android Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi Flatpak ~/.var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi/data iOS /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/Kodi LibreELEC /storage/.kodi Linux ~/.kodi Linux (Flatpak) ~/.var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi macOS /Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Application Support/Kodi Nvidia Shield (SMB) smb://<nvidiashieldurl>/internal/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi OSMC /home/osmc/.kodi tvOS /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/Kodi WebOS /media/developer/apps/usr/palm/applications/org.xbmc.kodi/.kodi Windows C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi Windows Portable <Install location chosen by you>\portable_data Windows Xbox %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\XBMCFoundation.Kodi_4n2hpmxwrvr6p\LocalCache\Roaming\Kodi\ If you don't know hot to copy the file to this location, please wait for the updated version of PreShow that will include the change. actions.py

There are a lot of things going on in your logs, with 72k lines of info. There's 1 issue that I think I've fixed in a future version, but has separate issues. Ultimately, I think I am going to create a separate version of PreShow with the bug fixes and without the metadata and then another version moving forward with the metadata. Your trivia has a lot of issues with it in the logs. There are some folders that aren't scanning correctly. I'm not sure what the issue is with it at this point though. I'll look into this further when my work lets up and I get more time, and will respond back when I have a new version.

I need to correct my statement about the YT trailers. There used to be a setting for "Ignore YouTube trailers" that was commented out at some point. I need to test it, but will add it back in an upcoming version of PreShow. I am also going to revise the setting text for Kodi trailers to be "Kodi Database (YouTube or Local)."

I get how the wording is confusion in your case. I added in the (YouTube) because for the majority of people that use kodi, their only option will be to stream YT videos since they won't have local trailers with their movies. It was something that came up a lot. You are the 1st person that I've talked to in a long time that has used local trailers with their movie files. This is a waste of storage space, but an option for you would be to copy your trailers into the PreShow's trailer folder and set that as your content. It would quickly fix the issue so that you are only getting your movies and no YT, but obviously doubles the space. I'll look into it more after I get through the current beta development process.

PreShow should read whatever is in Kodi's database. It doesn't allow you to pick within the kodi trailers to eliminate YT trailers though, but neither did CV. My guess is that you either don't have local trailers for all of your movies or you also ahve the tmdb trailers enabled. I may add an option to only show local videos for kodi trailers.

3.4.3 has bumper metadata and scoring, which is still in beta. I should have named the version in the repo with the beta tag, but didn't. If you edit the json file in the content folder you'll get different clips with different movies. I have added code that will be in a new version of PreShow to add the random functionality back in, so that it will randomly pick from the options if there are multiple clips tied for the best option or you haven't modified the json file. I also need to modify the settings for the bumpers when I get time.

Great job troubleshooting it. Looking at the log again, I noticed that it is trying to show: /Trivia/The Dark Knight UHD/Who Said It/@eaDir/The Dark Knight - Who Said It 08_a.jpg @eaDir is Synology's metadata folder. PreShow sees the file and assumes that it is an image since it has .jpg in the filename. I have added code in the next version to ignore anything in the @eaDir.

There's something funky going on with your install. It can't find settings and shows some things that don't make sense (Triva. Either the file in the repo is messed up or there was an issue during installation /configuration. Try going back to 0.3.4.1 and the make sure your settings are correct with the content folder. Scan you content again and then try the trivia again after that.