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Revision as of 23:56, 27 February 2015
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Video playback |
The main feature of XBMC is playing back videos. This page describes the controls, features, and settings related to video playback.
On screen display (OSD)
When playing a video full screen you can bring up the on-screen-display controls by pressing ↵ Enter or M or on remote the OK (or the equivalent button on your remote control).
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Mini player controls
While in the GUI you are able to browse all of XBMC and even look at pictures while playing music or videos. During GUI playback you can call up the Mini player controls at any time. In the default skin Confluence, you can do this two ways:
Sidebar
While the sidebar tab is present and while media is playing, bringing up the sidebar/blade menu by navigating to the left will reveal a small selection of player controls.
Window
A pop-up window with mini player controls can be brought up in Confluence while media is playing. For a keyboard press M while video is playing in the background.
OSD audio and subtitle settings
- Volume
- Allows you to adjust the playback volume
- Volume amplification (dynamic range compression)
- Allows you to adjust how much the audio range is compressed, making the loud and soft sounds closer in volume. This is useful when watching movies with loud sound effects such as explosions at night.
- Audio offset
- Adjusts how long that the audio is delayed in relation to the video. This is useful when viewing poorly synced videos.
- Audio stream
- If the video file contains more than one audio stream you can select them here.
- As of v12 Frodo, XBMC will auto select audio language based on your global settings. See: Settings/Appearance#International.
- Stereo upmix
- Outputs stereo to all speakers
- Audio output
- Select output device for the current stream
- Enable subtitles
- Enable or disables subtitles. Subtitle tracks with the "forced" flag are unaffected by this and should always display.
- Subtitle offset
- Adjusts how long that the subtitles are delayed in relation to the video
- Subtitle
- Allows you select which subtitles are displayed
- As of v12, XBMC will auto select subtitle language based on your global settings. Also - Set as default for all Movies is now Set as default for all Videos. See: Settings/Appearance#International.
- Browse for subtitle
- Allows you to browse the filesystem for the file used to display the subtitles
- Set as default for all videos
- Selecting this will make the current settings the default
OSD video settings
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- Zoom amount
- Allows you to control how much that the view is zoomed into the video.
- Vertical shift
- Determines the amount a the video is shifted up on vertical axys on current display (helpful for projectors)
- Pixel ratio
- Allows you to adjust the pixel ratio that the video is displayed at. This can be used to adjust videos that are not displaying at the proper aspect ratio.
- Postprocessing
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- Brightness
- Adjust brightness
- Contrast
- Adjust contrast
- [VDPAU] Noise reduction (only visible when VDPAU is in use)
- Select level of noise reduction for video content
- [VDPAU] Sharpness (only visible when VDPAU is in use)
- Select sharpness amount to apply to video content
- Non-linear stretch
- When enabled the stretching method doesn't look so wide in middle of video area ?
- Stereoscopic mode of video
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- Stereoscopic mode inverted
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- Set as default for all videos
- Selecting this will make the current settings the default
- Video calibration
- Opens the Video calibration window
Video bookmarks
Subtitles
Kodi supports both stand-alone subtitle and embedded subtitles. Most major subtitle formats are supported. Kodi can also search and download subtitles directly from full screen playback.
Skip steps
Video library | Video playback | Video playback |
Note: This page applies to both video & music playback unless specifically noted.
Skip steps is a new seeking function that has been implemented into Kodi as of v15, and is a method of additive skipping (also known as additive seeking) that applies to both videos and music. This allows the user to skip backwards and forwards with the left and right cursor keys (this is the default keyboard and remote mapping), and by pressing these keys multiple times they can skip with increasingly larger steps.
New Action ID behavior for Kodi v15
The following Action ID's are now forwarded to the new seeking function:
- StepForward
- StepBack
- SmallStepBack - note this action is going to be removed as it is now replaced with the new
seek(##)
built-in command.
Configuration
The settings can be found in the Settings -> Player under Videos and Music
Skip steps - This allows you to set the number of skip steps and the value for each step, the default values available here are -30 min, -10 min, -5 min, -3 min, -60 sec, -30 sec, -10 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, 60 sec, 3 min, 5 min, 10 min, 30 min.
Skip delay: This is the amount of time Kodi waits for you to press the left or right key again (if using the default keyboard and remote mapping) , before actually performing the forward or backwards skip, can be set to None and from there in 250ms steps until 3000ms.
Additive skipping
Additive skipping (additive seeking) is a method of having increasingly larger skip steps the more times you press either the left key ← or right key →, you need at least one skip step configured for either the positive or negative direction together with having a skip delay set.
Note: If you press either the ← or → more times than there are configured steps for that direction, then the last configured skip size value will be summed up for each subsequent key press.
- Example 1
- Skip Steps: -30 sec, -15sec, -10 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 60 sec
- Skip Delay: 750ms
- This table shows what happens with multiple presses of either the ← key or the → key:
Key Presses ← x 5 ← x 4 ← x 3 ← x 2 ← → → x 2 → x 3 → x 4 → x 5 Time to be skipped 90 seconds backwards 60 seconds backwards 30 seconds backwards 15 seconds backwards 10 seconds backwards 15 seconds forwards 30 seconds forwards 60 seconds forwards 120 seconds forwards 180 seconds forwards
- Example 2
- Skip Steps: -10 sec, 30 sec
- Skip Delay: 750ms
- This table shows what happens with multiple presses of either the left key or the right key:
Key Presses ← x 3 ← x 2 ← → → x 2 → x 3 Time to be skipped 30 seconds backwards 20 seconds backwards 10 seconds backwards 30 seconds forwards 60 seconds forwards 90 seconds forwards
It is worth experimenting with Skip Delay to find the optimal setting for your hardware and the type of response you wish, for 250ms allows use of the additive function while retaining an almost instant response however this needs very quick presses for multiple presses to be registered.
Instant skipping
With no more than a single negative or positive step configured, together with Skip Delay set to none, then Kodi will instantly skip without a delay.
- Example
- Skip Steps: -10 sec, 30 sec
- Skip Delay: None
Key Presses ← → Time to be skipped 10 seconds backwards 30 seconds forwards
Note: Skip steps set to just -30 sec, 30 sec
will restore the left/right behavior found in Kodi v14 and earlier.
Custom skip step values
The available skip step values can be further customised via the advancedsettings.xml file with the <seeksteps> entry. This is an optional step for users who want more granular control over what options are available.
- Example:
- This will result in the Skip step list in the GUI of -60 sec, -50 sec, -40 sec, -30 sec, -20 sec, -10 sec, 10 sec, 20 sec, 30 sec, 40 sec, 50 sec, 60 sec
<advancedsettings> <seeksteps>10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60</seeksteps> </advancedsettings>
Adding seek built-in function to keymap
Applies to Video & Music playback
The built-in function Seek(seconds)
is used to add custom seek (skip) values the keymap, so that when a particular key is pressed an instant seek (skip) of the specified value is performed. You are able to specify a relative amount of seconds to seek (skip) within the current playing media, where a negative value will seek (skip) backwards and a positive value will seek (skip) forwards. For details on how to modify your keymap see How to customize my keymap.
- Example
- This maps a -7 sec seek to the key b and a +15 sec seek to the key n
<keymap> <FullscreenVideo> <keyboard> <b>Seek(-7)</b> <n>Seek(15)</n> </keyboard> </FullscreenVideo> </keymap>
Time skipping
Applies to video playback only
These methods allow for the input a specific value during the course of video playback to either
- Skip the specified amount
- Skip to a certain point in time
When using these methods the time values are enter in the form hh:mm:ss where h is hours, m is minutes, s is seconds
- Examples:
- Time value to enter is 45sec you would input 45
- Time value to enter is 1min 45sec you would input 145
- Time value to enter is 1hr 1min 45sec you would input 10145
Skip the specified amount
Using you remote or keyboard enter the skip value followed by either ← or → key, depending on which direction you wish to skip in.
- Examples:
- To skip 2 minute 30sec forward in the video then carry out:
- 230 then →
- To skip 1 minute 45sec back in the video then carry out:
- 145 then ←
Skip to a specific time mark
Using you remote or keyboard enter time mark value followed by ↵ Enter key.
- Example:
- To skip to the 25 minute mark in the video carry out:
- 2500 then ↵ Enter
See also
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Internet video and audio streams
Various internet video and audio streams can be played back in Kodi as if they were locally stored on your media center by using STRM files. As long as the format and streaming-method (network-protocol) is supported by Kodi, stream can be added. These are basic text files that look like <name>.strm and contain a URL to the internet stream. STRM files can also be added to the video library and can have cover art, summaries, etc.
Some internet sites may have an add-on available that can also access these media streams, rather than having to manually create STRM files. See Add-ons for more information on how to find and install add-ons.
Playlists
- Basic playlists - The Basic Playlist is a user created list of music or video that does not require a correctly scraped library as it uses the folder paths to the media files. As the playlist is based on paths, different classes of media can be mixed, like movies and episodes. The list can be created within Kodi or transferred from another media player.
- Smart playlists - Smart Playlists are a versatile feature that allow you to create customised lists of media that may be more suited to your browsing preference. They are a set of rules/filters that allow you to display a sub set of the media in your library.
UPnP
Kodi can be used as a UPnP Server that will stream its library contents to other players on the network, or it can be used as a UPnP Client that can receive music and video from a UPnP Server on the network.
AirPlay
As of v11 (Eden), Kodi has very limited support for being an AirPlay target, allowing any device/platform that can run Kodi to receive some AirPlay content.
3D
Starting in v13, Kodi supports a number of passive 3D video formats such as SBS, TAB, anaglyph or interlaced. This support extends to the Kodi GUI including subtitles and on-screen-controls.
On-Screen Video Diagnostics
On Screen Video Diagnostics, or Codec Info, can be displayed when a video is playing by pressing O, or the corresponding control on your remote.
A detailed explanation of the displayed values can be found on the Codecinfo page.