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Edit: I read in the Kodi 19 HDR Edition discussion that plugins are starting to migrate to Python 3. When that becomes widespread... that's going to be quite a big step towards the end of Kodi DSPlayer. No updated plugins means no updated scrapers. At that point... there's little left if one cannot update his/her library. 

When this happens, it will be a sad day indeed. 

I have not used external players in years, but I'd imagine the experience is still much worse? When I last tried external, proper resume points and watched states were impossible, the files would be marked watched after the start of playback. I guess I could live without this, but is there a player with comparable subtitle downloader that works well with keyboard/remote?

If someone were to ever pick this project up again, I suggest dropping Madvr configuration completely to make it a bit simpler, I assume most people interested in this have been using external configuration and filters anyway because of the updates.