Kodi beginner’s guide Kodifi (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free

Kodi beginner’s guide Kodifi (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. In this guide from kodi-xbmc.com, we’ ll give you all the basics required to master and enjoy your Kodi media center and turn it into a streaming station. In order to do so, after briefly detailling its main features, we’ ll show you how to install Kodi on your computer, which add-ons to set-up, along with a few tips and tricks to enhance your experience. Disclaimer : please remember that streaming movies and TV shows might be against your local laws. Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Table of Contents Features......................................................................................................................................................3 Install Kodi : an easy process.....................................................................................................................4 Installing add-ons : the easy way...............................................................................................................4 Setup SRP..............................................................................................................................................5 Install the right add-ons.........................................................................................................................9 Our favorites add-ons..........................................................................................................................12 Genesis : easely stream your media.........................................................................................................12 Genesis subtitles..................................................................................................................................13 Share Genesis library across devices...................................................................................................15 More Genesis Tips and tricks..............................................................................................................17 Epilogue...............................................................................................................................................18 Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Features Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Install Kodi : an easy process Installing Kodi is a very easy process that can be accomplished in just a few steps. 1. Browse to the official website downloads page : http://kodi.tv/download 2. Select the version of your liking (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc). 3. Install it, like any program you would install on your system. Check our Youtube Channel in order to see install videos. Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Installing add-ons : the easy way Best way to configure Kodi is by using the SuperRepo. It is a repository containing thousands of up-to- date add-ons for Kodi, enhancing its features. Setup SRP Go to Kodi Settings > File manager : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Select Add source : Enter the following URL, "http://SRP.nu" (without quotes) : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Once done, it should look like this (notice SRP as name of media source) : Now go to Settings > Add-ons : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Then choose Install from zip, browse to the SRP repo you just added : Select your correct Kodi version (ie, Isengaard, Jarvis, etc) then the « all » zip file : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Allow it some time to install the Add-on, once it is done, you should see it under Add-ons > Install from repository, as shown in the picture below : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com That’ s it, SuperRepo is installed! Install the right add-ons Now that SuperRepo is installed, you can start installing "real" add-ons to Kodi. In order to do that, browse to Add-ons > Install from Repository and select SuperRepo [All] . From here, all the add-ons are sorted by categories, like video, music, subtitles, etc. You browse the list and install add-on you like. In order to install an add-on, just browse until you find it’ s name (they are alphabetically ordered) in the right category, highlight it, press Enter and select Install. Let’ s install a great streaming add-on : « Genesis » Browse to System > Settings > Add-ons and select Install from repository : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Select the SuperRepo All Repository : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Go to Video add-ons and scroll down to Genesis : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Hit enter while highlighting the add-on and select Install : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Wait for the little pop-up in the bottom right corner. It’ ll confirm you that Genesis has been successfuly installed : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Repeat those steps for all the add-ons you want to install. Our favorites add-ons Please find below a list of our favorites add-ons, we use at Kodi-XBMC.com. Please note that some are in SuperRepo, and others in the official Repo that is installed by default. This means, you should browse Add-ons by using the « All repositories » menu entry : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com • Video Add-ons → Genesis • Subtitles → OpenSubtitles (Unofficial) • Subtitles → Popnapisi (with following credentials : login : « asdasd », password : « asdasd », without the quotes) • Subtitles → Addic7ed Genesis : easely stream your media Genesis is a great add-on that let’ s you stream movies and TV Shows under Kodi, let me share with you some great Genesis tips and tricks. Genesis subtitles Did you know that you could enable automatic subtitles in Genesis? Yup! In order to do so, just navigate to the Video Add-ons > Genesis > Tools, this is the where Genesis is configured, and Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com tweaked. Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com When we talk about Genesis settings, this is the right place, and it looks like the picture below. Now select the Settings : subtitles line, and configure it to suit your likings. Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Share Genesis library across devices If you are using Kodi on several devices, then you might consider sharing your Genesis library across several devices. This is really easy, let’ s do it! Go to Genesis settings, as explained above. Then, Library Settings, and edit the Movies and TV Shows paths in order to use a network location (eg. your NAS), as shown below with before / after picture. Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Before change (please note the default path: special://...) : After change (please note that we are using NFS share on a NAS) : Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Highlight Movies folder, hit C on your keyboard (or right click), select "Set content", and choose the Movies scraper you want to use. Repeat for the TV Shows folder with the wanted TV Shows scraper. Now hit the Update folders button, that’ s it! More Genesis Tips and tricks Notify trakt.tv of your watching by adding your trakt.tv credentials in Gensis settings as shown below. Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com Edit source priority in order to use the Auto play feature. Once you have used Genesis a little, you’ ll notice that some source are more reliable than some others. Write down the sources that works well for you and increase their priority in the menu shown below. Epilogue We have just seen how to configure Kodi so that it can be used a streaming platform, offering the same kind of features than Popcorn time. However, Genesis being based on a direct download protocol, it is far more secure than the latter one based on P2P, for more info on this point, check our post. Feel free to visit our website, at kodi-xbmc.com to get up-to-date news and information for you media center. Kodi Beginner’ s Guide V.1.0 - kodi-xbmc.com uploads/Geographie/ kodi-beginners-guide.pdf

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