Plex’s add-on for Kodi is now free for everyone — Plex Pass no longer required

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One of the best things about Plex, the popular media center app, is that it has always supported a huge range of devices and platforms. That support even includes a Kodi add-on, which you can install directly from within Kodi by navigating to the Video Add-ons section. To use Plex’s Kodi add-on, however, you historically had to be a Plex Pass subscriber, which costs $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year. That changes today because Plex has announced that their Kodi add-on is now available for anyone to use for free. So if you’re running a Plex server, you can now get the full Plex experience right from within Kodi, without having to switch apps or pay anything.

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Final version of Kodi 17.4 released with several bug fixes

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The Kodi team has released the finished version of Kodi 17.4. They’re still hard at work on Kodi v18, which will bring some new features, but in the meantime, they’ve released this new incremental update to address some bugs in the latest public version. The easiest way to install or update to the new version on a Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, or Fire TV Edition television is to use myDownloader app and enter bit.ly/kodi174app in the URL field.

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Kodi releases version 17.4 release candidate with several bug fixes

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The Kodi team has just released version 17.4 RC1 of their great app. They have already been underway on v18, their next big release, but are also working on 17.4 to address bugs that can’t wait for v18 to be completed. This is a release candidate, so it’s not fully vetted for issues just yet, but if you’ve had any crashing issues, you might want to give v17.4 RC1 a try. The easiest way to install it on the Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, or Fire TV Edition televisions is by using my Downloader app and entering bit.ly/kodi174rc into the URL field on the home screen. Minor updates like this new one never add any new features and are only released to improve the stability of the last major release, which was v17.

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Element’s Fire TV Edition television allows sideloading 3rd-party apps like Kodi

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With any new Fire TV device, the first question I’m always asked is whether or not you can sideload 3rd-party apps, like Kodi, onto it. Element’s new Fire TV Edition televisions were no exception when I asked what you guys wanted me to check out. I’m happy to say that sideloading on these TVs is fully supported in the exact same way as it is on Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The option to enable “ADB Debugging” and “Apps from Unknown Sources” are present in the TV’s settings exactly where you expect them to be. I was able to install my Downloader app and install both Kodi and SPMC without any issues. Sideloaded apps also appear on the home just fine, both in the recent row and in the app row.

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SPMC version 16.7 released with patch for subtitle security vulnerability

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SPMC, the popular Kodi fork, has just released version 16.7.0 of the media player app. This update contains a patch for the subtitle security vulnerability that Kodi fixed last week. It’s recommended that all SPMC users update to this latest version. The easiest way to do so is to use my Downloader app from the Amazon appstore and enter bit.ly/spmc167 into the URL field on the home screen of the app.

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MrMC updates add native Emby support, custom OSD timeout setting, and more

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The guys behind MrMC, the media player app from the developers who originally brought Kodi to Android devices, have been quite busy since the last time I wrote about the app. They have released 4 recent updates to MrMC and are now at version 3.0.4 of the app. Those updates have brought support for the Emby media server, improved playback, new setting options, numerous bug fixes, and more. Read more ›

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Kodi releases version 17.2 update with important security fix [UPDATE: 17.3 has now been released]

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The Kodi team has just released version 17.2 of their great media player app. They’re still working on the next big release, “Leia” v18, but have release this new intermediate version because it contains an important patch to a security vulnerability that could allow malicious subtitle zip files to access your device. Read more ›

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New Amazon Fire TV app launches Kodi automatically on boot

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A new app for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick has been released called OnBootKodi. As the name suggests, the app does just one thing, which is to automatically launch Kodi as soon as the Fire TV finishes booting. The app can also be configured to launch Kodi once a certain amount of time has passed after the device boots, however I was unable to get that feature to work. Read more ›

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Fire TV update 5.2.4.1 causing poor 24p video playback in MrMC, Kodi, and SPMC

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If your Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick has received the 5.2.4.1 software update, you may be experiencing poor video playback within MrMC, Kodi, and SPMC. The developer of MrMC has emailed me letting me know that the updated version of Fire OS does not handle switching the video output to a 24Hz refresh rate correctly. This is a feature videophiles use to achieve perfect 1-to-1 synchronization between the frames in a video and the rate at which the display updates, but with software version 5.2.4.1, it results in jerky stuttering video. Read more ›

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Leaked log file indicates sideloading and Kodi work on Fire TV Edition televisions

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The most common question I get asked for any new Fire TV hardware is: can you sideload 3rd-party apps like Kodi? The upcoming Fire TV Edition televisions, which run the Fire TV’s operating system without the need of a set-top box or Stick, are no exception. All indication so far is that these televisions will function very much like a Fire TV set-top box, but the question of whether you can sideload apps like Kodi remains. While we won’t know for certain until the televisions ship later this year, I have found evidence that indicates both sideloading and Kodi will work with Fire TV Edition televisions. Read more ›

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