Many users watch their favorite content online using Kodi as a streaming service for movies and TV shows. A less known feature of Kodi but an externally useful one is downloading media files to your local storage. It has significant advantages over streaming, as you can watch it any time without buffering issues or searching for working sources. Also, you don’t need an available internet connection as the viewing is done offline.
An easy way to download movies and TV shows is to use Real Debrid
If you have a Real Debrid account, you can download movies and TV shows from the Real Debrid website. It works with any add-on that is linked to your Real Debrid account. Just start playing the movie or episode that you want to download. After a few seconds, stop playing and go to https://real-debrid.com/downloads. You will find there your watched media, and you can click Download to download the media to your local storage. That’s it, fast and simple.
Here is how to download movies and TV with an add-on:
This method works for most of the popular add-ons like Umbrella or The Crew.
This part should be done at least once to enable this feature and choose the directories where the movies and TV shows are downloaded to, or when you want to change the directories.
- Launch Kodi
- Click Add-ons
- Click Video add-ons
- Hover over the specific add-on
- Click the menu button
- Click Settings
- Hover over Downloads
- Click Enable downloads to enable it
- Click Movies, choose the directory where you want the movies to be stored and click OK
- Click TV, choose the directory where you want the TV shows to be stored and click OK
- Click OK to save the settings
For every movie or TV show you want to download, you need to do the following:
- Select the movie or TV show you want to download, so the list of sources shows up. Choose one of the sources and click the menu button
- Click Download at the menu
- A popup appears with the downloaded video name and size, click Confirm
- You will get a message periodically with the download progress in percentages. Once the download is completed a popup appears indicating that it was successful.
- The video will be stored under the directory you chose
Here is how to download movies and TV shows with the Elementum add-on:
Elementum is an add-on based on torrent, and it works differently from the other add-ons. Find here how to install and configure it. Look for the section in the tutorial explaining how to download media files to local storage.
After downloading, you can watch the video with Kodi or use your favorite media player.
That’s all, now you can download movies and TV shows and watch them offline. Enjoy it!