Kodi playercorefactory.xml repo

A set of playercorefactory.xml files for kodi to play videos in an external player or record the video.
There is also a set of bash script to record the outside of kodi using the terminal

Files are part of this youtube tutorial

kodi record any video by using ffmpeg, rtmpdump, vlc and mpv as external players

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hhhG5qUoXlpmIjqv2eEBukAeJSVNsdX

Youtube video showing you how to set up the kodi-playercorefactory repo

kodi playercorefactory.xml git repo - kodi recording videos 27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It92vzpK9xo

documentation

https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/kodi-playercorefactory/tree/master/docs

mac osx set up

https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/kodi-playercorefactory/tree/master/macosx

linux set up

Step 1 - download the kodi-playercorefactory repo with git

create a git directory in your home

mkdir -p ~/git

cd ~/git

git clone https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/kodi-playercorefactory.git

Step 2 - create the symlink to the playercorefactory.xml file

symlink from one of the playercorefactory.xml in the git repo to where the playercorefactory.xml is

symlink syntax

ln -s /path/to/source /path/to/destination

ln -s ~/git/kodi-playercorefactory/linux/combined/playercorefactory.xml ~/.kodi/userdata/playercorefactory.xml 

you should also be able to use an alias on mac osx and the windows equivilant

to update the repository change directory to the kodi-playercorefactory

cd ~/git/kodi-playercorefactory

then run the git pull command to pull down the latest changes from github

git pull

Step 3 - bash scripts set up

add the $HOME/git/kodi-playercorefactory/bash-scripts directory to your bash path

edit your .bashrc in your home directory im using vim to edit the file but you can use any text editor

vim ~/.bashrc

add the code below to your ~/.bashrc to add the $HOME/git/kodi-playercorefactory/bash-scripts directory to your bash path

the default file path is your home-directory/git/kodi-playercorefactory/bash-scripts if you have downloaded the git repo to a different path then change the code below accordingly

set PATH so it includes the kodi playercorefactory scripts

if [ -d "$HOME/git/kodi-playercorefactory/bash-scripts" ] ; then
		PATH="$HOME/git/kodi-playercorefactory/bash-scripts:$PATH"
fi

The scripts are already executable so you dont need to chomd +x the scripts

source your ~/.bashrc to pick up the scripts

. ~/.bashrc

see below for location of the userdata folder for your operating system

Important note for curl and wget scripts

the curl and wget scripts must not be run in the background

Location of the userdata folder

Operative system File path
Android Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/ (see note)
iOS /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/Kodi/userdata/
Linux ~/.kodi/userdata/
Mac /Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Application Support/Kodi/userdata/ (see note)
OpenELEC /storage/.kodi/userdata/
Windows Start - type %APPDATA%\kodi\userdata - press

usage

You can press c on the keyboard on a video link to bring up the play using menu and then select a player and begin recording

On some video links you need to open the video first and then press y on the keyboard to bring up the play using menu and then select a player and begin recording

press y on the keyboard while a video is playing in kodi to bring up the play using contextual menu, you can then choose from one the players in the playercorefactory.xml, to play the video in an external player or record the video stream

You can also select a recording duration from the play using menu

players

each ffmpeg player also has a recording duration for 30min, 1hr, 2hrs

• ffmpeg
• ffmpeg aac audio fix
• ffmpeg x-forward http header
• ffmpeg user agent referer http header
• ffplay
• ffplay x-forward http header
• ffplay user agent referer http header
• vlc play
• vlc record
• vlc play and record
• mpv play
• mpv record
• mpv play and record
• curl download video
• curl download video - useragent referer http header
• wget download video
• wget download video - useragent referer http header

bash scripts

The rip-ffmpeg.sh bash script can also set a duration for the recording using the ffmpeg time option -t 00:00:00
Using the hours minutes seconds syntax

rip-ffmpeg.sh textfile.txt -t 00:00:00

• rip-ffmpeg.sh
• rip-ffplay.sh
• curl record m3u8 video stream
• wget record m3u8 video stream

background recording from kodi

When you use one of the players to record a video from kodi by using the play using contextual menu the video is recorded in the background and does not open a terminal window

each ffmpeg player in the playercorefactory.xml file also has a player with a recording duration for 30min, 1hr, 2hrs

so you can specify how long to record the video for

eg:

• ffmpeg
• ffmpeg 30mins
• ffmpeg 1hrs
• ffmpeg 2hrs

if you dont specify a recording duration you have to manually find the process id of ffmpeg and kill it to stop recording

find the process id with ps aux | grep ffmpeg

ps aux | grep ffmpeg  

or by using pgrep ffmpeg

pgrep ffmpeg  

then kill the process, replace PID with the process id you got from ps aux or pgrep

kill PID  

foreground recording in the terminal

Save the url of the video from kodi by press y on the keyboard while a video is playing in kodi to bring up the play using contextual menu, then selecting the save url option which will echo the url into a text file on your desktop

You can then use one of the bash scripts and pass in the location of the text file with the url of video, as an argument to script and it will download the video in a terminal window in the foreground

Kodi wiki Userdata directory

http://kodi.wiki/view/Userdata

Kodi wiki External players - playercorefactory.xml

http://kodi.wiki/view/External_players