Stream your local/network content directly on Kodi without having to setup FTP, SMB or anything else.
Install the latest release with:
$ npm install -g playonkodi
If you plan to hack on the code, you can instead install the development version with:
$ git clone https://github.com/ritiek/play-on-kodi
$ cd play-on-kodi
$ npm install -g .
Also make sure you have youtube-dl installed.
usage: playonkodi.js [-h] [-v] -s SERVER -p PORT [-u USER] [-P PASS] [-i INTERFACE_IP] MEDIA
Stream your local/network content directly on Kodi.
Positional arguments:
MEDIA Path to media file
Optional arguments:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
-v, --version Show program's version number and exit.
-s SERVER, --server SERVER
Kodi's local ip address
-p PORT, --port PORT Kodi's web interface port
-u USER, --username USER
[Optional] Kodi's web interface username
-P PASS, --password PASS
[Optional] Kodi's web interface password
-i INTERFACE_IP, --interface-ip INTERFACE_IP
[Optional] Interface IP to send to Kodi server
Stream a local video to Kodi
$ playonkodi -s 192.168.0.108 -p 6050 /path/to/local/media/file
Stream a video from the internet to Kodi
$ playonkodi -s 192.168.0.108 -p 6050 http://path/to/media
Since this tool now uses the youtube-dl backend to resolve URLs, so you should be able to media content from most websites (including YouTube, HotStar, and many more). Just pass the URL, and you'll know if it plays on Kodi.
Send local IP address to Kodi server manually (useful if script cannot find out the correct network interface IP automatically)
$ playonkodi -s 192.168.0.108 -p 6050 -i 192.168.0.105 /path/to/local/media/file
There maybe cases where you would want to link your local media content with external subtitles (.srt, etc.). Due to a limitation in Kodi, it cannot be done automatically (check out issue #3).
However you can install mkvtoolnix
($ sudo apt install mkvtoolnix
) to embed
external subtitles in the container itself and pass this new container to Kodi.
For example:
$ mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.mp4 subtitles.srt
$ playonkodi -s 192.168.0.108 -p 6050 output.mkv
This tool is supposed is supposed to be very minimal way to play local and network files on Kodi. It was made to quickly be able to play your local media content to Kodi server. You don't want to setup FTP/SMB (if not already), add it as a network source on Kodi and locate the media to just make the thing play
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For local media, it makes your media content available locally to the devices on the same network. Otherwise it just uses youtube-dl to resolve the passed URL.
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It then attempts to figure out your PC's local IP address.
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And lastly, it makes a network request to Kodi's jsonrpc server to play the hosted media content.