[Alfa60]

Installed a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 and then installed Kodi from the Ubuntu repository - version 15.2, with "apt-get install kodi"

Everything worked flawlessly from the start, I can play all kind of media files EXCEPT ISO images or VIDEO_TS directories. That was working perfectly well in my previous installation of Ubuntu 14.x + Kodi 14.x.

For an ISO, the LOG file just says:

22:29:36 T:139839437584832 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: /media/WD2000_1/ISO_IMAGE.ISO
22:29:36 T:139839437584832 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:29:36 T:139837877438208 NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
22:29:36 T:139837877438208 NOTICE: Creating InputStream

And for VIDEO_TS folders, the same:

22:46:42 T:140611576228288 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: /home/kodi/DVDFOLDER/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
22:46:42 T:140611576228288 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:46:42 T:140610003388160 NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
22:46:42 T:140610003388160 NOTICE: Creating InputStream

In both cases Kodi shows the spinning "Executando" message, but keeps stuck at Kodi file browser screen. System becomes completely unresponsive, nothing happens and I need to kill the kodi.bin process by hand in a terminal, as the interface stays completely unresponsive to keyboard and mouse.

Can somebody bring some light to this? Do I need to install something else in Ubuntu 16.04 to support ISO/VIDEO_TS playing in Kodi?

[wsnipex]

Try with one of our PPAs.

[Alfa60]

Try with one of our PPAs.

EDIT: Ok, I confess. I didnt read the Linux FAQ. Now I did it, and the FAQ answered this uninstallation question.

What do you recommend in a case like this? That I add the Kodi PPA and upgrade the ubuntu installed 15.2 to the PPA version, or do you recommend to purge the ubuntu version completely and then adding and installing the PPA version after purging the old one?

[Alfa60]

Ok, now playing ISOs and VIDEO_TS folders is working perfectly well.

It was indeed just a matter of removing the "official" Ubuntu Kodi 15.2 packages with:

sudo apt-get remove --purge kodi-data kodi kodi-bin

and then proceeding the install as it is instructed in HOW-TO Install for Linux

Thank you wsnipex.