Yes certainly. To me Kodi is the best player and with real debrid you will get a lot of high quality links, you also have many options to configure.
In the past I used Cinema apk, Cyberflix and but I noticed that sometimes the links took too long to load, even with RD. About builds, there are good but I think they slow your device and most of them has broken addons. What I like to do is just use the basic Kodi interface with my favorite addons. I highly recommend Homelander, you can find it in the the crew repo. Itās fast and you get a lot of links with it.
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Thank you Big Dave. Iāve been reading everything I can on Kodi / RD! My apprehension is I donāt know whether I need the both of them to eliminate the constant buffering. I experience when viewing Bee TV & cinema. I did view the KODI app installation on YouTube. I pursued it about halfway and I was officially confused. My question is do I give up some buffering by only installing Real-Debrid without Kodi? Thank you in advance for any suggestions and help.
I use Stremio with Torrentio ONLY. We watch all the movies and series weāre interested in with plenty of seeders. Very little buffering especially on720 which my Nvidia Shield Pro AI upgrades to 1080. RD will be an upgrade, but not necessary, IMO. After you have done all the anti buffering suggestions on TP, if you still have a problem with buffering, change the channel on your modem. I am also hearing buying a new modem with DOCSIS 3.1 is a game changer but havenāt bought one yet.
Here is the simple answer. Real Debrid is pay to use so it increases available streams and may get you some better streams. This is from a novice and what I immediately noticed.
Hereās my answer, imo apks can be a pain in the ass, so to answer, use kodi and a debrid service and kodi addons, which are 3 different things that you will use. The addons you can try out if you dislike one delete it and get another. With kodi and addons I think you need at least 1.5gb of free space for decent function so keep an eye on that, like many have already said, you donāt need more than 3 or 4 addons. If you get lots of buffering, first check your isp download speed with analiti or similar. If you donāt know or want to learn kodi, then take BigDaveās and the other members advice about stremio.
Hi Miki, sorry im slow responding. Thank you for the explanation about the forks. I thought the Kodi install was the very basic install. It only got bloated when you installed a build like say Diggz or similar. I love the Diggz builds, they have almost everything i need for watching my old tv series and uk/european soccer matches. I live in Spain so getting streams for these are so much better than Spanish tv, and paid subscriptions.
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The simple answer is YES
There is no difference between Native KODI and a KODI Fork. Both are just KODI. You can have either or both of them. But that is just the Shell. you need to add a Build or individual Addons on top
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Big Dave, I took your advice and downloaded Stremio. what a game changer! Thank you so much for the advice and note recommending the app.
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If youāre running Kodi on a firestick, how exactly do you add a USB drive?
If you use the search at the top of the page and look for increase fire stick storage youāll find lots of articles on precisely how to do this. Iāll give you a link here that I found right away, using the search, that will help you out.
As others have said, it is strictly personal preference. However, I have used Firesticks, ONN and Nvidia (all with RD) over the last 10 years and have found this to be the most reliable: Nvidia Shield TV Pro on my main TV/system with Kodi (no builds because add-ons change too frequently). I have four add-ons and primarily use Seren and The Crew. They work great most of the time. I also have four apkās that I use as backups primarily: FilmPlus, BeeTV, Cinema and TeaTV. You absolutely must have RD because you get very few high quality streams without it. I also use SurfShark VPN. Just make sure you have enough download speed when using a VPN so that you get at least 25mbps as Troy suggests. It does cut down your speed by around 2/3. I have found that oftentimes your network might be the culprit in excessive buffering. Check the modem/router and your WAPās if you have them. These things do fail occasionally. Good luck!
Ah, an OTG cable, now I understand. Thanks Miki (and TroyPoint).
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