[Warner306]

No promises, ok? 

I'm looking into this. 
I'm stating what I'm doing in case someone already tried and can tell me it's a waste of time. 

So I forked Aracnoz's git and asked to merge with the actual xbmc. 
There are 600 conflicts in total. 
490 to go...

To be honest I don't think this is going to work but let's see.. 

First all the conflicts needs to be solved. 
And it needs to compile without errors (this is probably where it will fail).
Finally it has to work. 

In a very simplistic view. 

So.. again, no promises.
Just wanted to post here because if someone already tried, let me know in advance so I don't waste my time with such a tedious task.

There are only 600 merge conflicts out of 10,000 commits? That doesn't sound that bad. Maybe it will work without issue. It would likely depend on whether the playback engine that DSPlayer shares with Kodi main has changed with v18 Leia.