Save any video stream from kodi by using ffmpeg as an external video player and dumping the stream in the background. Press c on the keyboard select the play using menu, and then select ffmpeg-save as external player to record the video in the background. You can then return to kodi and watch another video while you record a video stream in the background using ffmpeg. You have to manually quit the ffmpeg process by finding the ffmpeg process id and then quiting it. # Find the process id ps aux | grep ffmpeg # kill the process sudo kill process-id-from-ps-aux # or use killalll sudo killall ffmpeg Kodi lets you override the built in video player and use an external video player, by creating a text file called playercorefactory.xml We will define ffmpeg, rtmpdump, vlc and mpv as external players in the playercorefactory.xml, which will allow us to record video streams opened from kodi # Git repo for playercorefactory.xml file and bash scripts https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/kodi-playercorefactory # youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hhhG5qUoXlpmIjqv2eEBukAeJSVNsdX ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awZYG7NgTok

Freebsd install the latest version of yt-dlp even if you are running quarterly packages. Quarterly packages are released every 3 months which means the version of yt-dlp will be quite old freebsd yt-dlp latest release install https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/blob/master/freebsd/yt-dlp-python-symlink.org we will manually download the latest release of yt-dlp however the the yt-dlp shebang points to python3 so we need to fix issue using a symlink and alter our shell path so binaries in our home bin directory override those installed in /usr/local/bin this will allow applications that use yt-dlp in the backend to use the lastest version instead of the old version installed with pkg ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuNL0xuJe2M

How to use the new bash scripts from the kodi-playercorefactory git repo to record videos 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 # Git repo for playercorefactory.xml file and bash scripts https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/kodi-playercorefactory # youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hhhG5qUoXlpmIjqv2eEBukAeJSVNsdX ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDst0NTaPDM

Windows save url command in playercorefactory.xml updated for non english lnguages using new rip-url script I have changed the windows save url command in the playercorefactory.xml file to use a new script called rip-url which uses the bash date command to add the time and date to the text files with the url from kodi we are saving Previously i was using the Windows TIME command to add the time and date but this causes problems for people using non english language settings * Do a git pull to update * Then copy the new windows playercorefactory.xml file to your kodi userdata folder * you may need to reboot for windows to pick up the changes # kodi-playercorefactory git repo https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/kodi-playercorefactory # kodi forum http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=216111 # Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCriRR_CzOny-akXyk1R-oDQ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENxrRNj6itU