CloudStream is an Android media aggregation application that streams and downloads movies, TV series, and anime via a plugin-based provider system. The app has no built-in content; all media sources are provided by community extensions implementing `MainAPI` and `ExtractorApi` interfaces. The architecture comprises a Kotlin Multiplatform library defining plugin APIs and an Android app with ExoPlayer/Media3 playback, download manager, sync with tracking services (MAL, AniList, Kitsu, Simkl, Trakt), multi-source subtitle fetching, Chromecast support, and adaptive phone/TV UI. Content acquisition relies on web scraping: over 100 built-in extractors parse video hosting sites, often using JavaScript deobfuscation (via a custom JS interpreter) and AES decryption. The plugin system supports repository-based distribution, versioning, and binary compatibility checks. While the codebase is actively maintained and demonstrates good engineering practices (MVVM, coroutines, custom adapters), many extractors are brittle due to external site dependencies, and some modules exhibit tight coupling and deprecated API usage.
This repository contains `plugin.video.youtube`, a Kodi Media Center add-on that provides full YouTube browsing, search, subscription management, and video playback with adaptive streaming (MPEG-DASH, HLS), subtitles, and multi-user OAuth authentication. Architecturally, it is a Kodi plugin with a background service, an embedded HTTP server for streaming proxy and API configuration, and a layered framework (Kodion) offering abstract base classes for context, items, settings, caching, and network requests. The codebase is substantial (262 files) and demonstrates solid engineering with reusable patterns such as a generic SQLite key-value store (`Storage`), a robust HTTP client with retry/caching hooks, centralized logging with sensitive data redaction, and an item model hierarchy convertible to Kodi ListItems. However, several components depend on reverse-engineered YouTube InnerTube endpoints and JavaScript signature extraction (`cipher.py`, `ratebypass.py`), which are fragile and known to be partially broken (signatureCipher and nsig handling are disabled). The add-on also maintains Python 2/3 compatibility shims and version-dependent Kodi workarounds. Localization is extensive but many translations are incomplete. Overall, the add-on is actively maintained and functionally comprehensive, but its heavy reliance on brittle reverse-engineering and the accumulation of legacy compatibility code introduce moderate technical drift.
This repository is a Kodi skin (theme) called Arctic Fuse 2, providing a highly customizable user interface for the Kodi Media Center. It is explicitly deprecated by the author in favor of Arctic Fuse 3. The skin implements a modular widget and hub system driven by a generator that combines JSON configuration files with XML templates to produce dynamic includes. It integrates deeply with TMDbHelper for metadata, script.skinvariables for runtime XML generation, and script.texturemaker for dynamic textures. The skin supports movies, TV shows, music, PVR, games, weather, and extensive user customization through a visual shortcut editor, color picker, and settings panels. The architecture is a classic Kodi skin with extensive use of parameterized includes, conditional expressions, and animation templates. The codebase is large and well-structured for its domain, but it is tightly coupled to Kodi's skinning engine and several external addons, making it non-reusable outside Kodi.