Gapless and Upnp

September 30, 2018, 4:25 pm

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Hey there!

I'm working for days to find a solution to get Gapless support for Kodi via Upnp/DLNA.
I've searched around this forum (and everywhere else on the web) to find an answer. Some say it worked for them, for most of them it didn't.

My main goal is to stream Flac files (via Tidal) from Bubble Upnp to Kodi.
The streaming itself works flawlessly, but without the Gapless Playback support the stream breaks off after each song and the time between tracks is just too high.

Kodi is running on my HTPC (Archlinux), but I've also installed it on my Windows machine and my Notebook (also Linux) to test it against (v17 and 18-git freshly compiled). I
've played with every audio setting and changed configs here and there. Nothing has helped.

As an alternative I use AllStream to redirect my phone output to Kodi. As this is an endless stream, this works. But obviously I can't display track informations and the cover in Kodi as it's a simply audio stream.

Gapless streaming seems to be a big issue in a lot of Upnp servers, even though the implementation doesn't seem that complicated.
Am I just overseeing something, or doesn't kodi support it? I've seen this question popping up every now and then for 15 years now. Shouldn't there be a solution somehow?

I'm really thankful for every answer I can get.
Thank you all in advance!

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Showing a "now playing" screen without playing anything?

September 30, 2018, 5:20 pm

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Hey!

I think I'll have to write a plugin for my own purpose.

What I want to accomplish is to connect MPD with Kodi.
When MPD is running, I want to display the now playing screen on Kodi, and make it look like it's playing the audio file on its own.

In my current understanding I actually have to play a file to show up this view. Is there a way to fake it?

Thank you!

Madnox (Krypton) Mods: Star ratings, Genre icons etc

September 30, 2018, 9:33 pm

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So as I've recently broken my damn leg, it's given me a couple of weeks of fiddling with my fave program, Kodi.
As I haven't updated to Leia as yet, I thought I'd try my hand at polishing an already great skin with a few minor mods (to the music side of things, as I reckoned it was maybe lacking just a little compared to the TV and Movies).

I've set up:
*A 5-star Album AND Track rating setup to be displayed in :Now Playing view, info view, and library view (in Musicflix) this is essentially out of ten, just utilising half stars as a 5 star system looks neater IMHO.
*A full set of around 20 genre icons (more being made) also displayed in a few different views. Also falls back to text if I haven't made a custom one like 'Reggae Synth Funk' or something.
*A minor colourisation of existing icons and a few tweaks.

Still playing with a few things, let me know what you think.



Custom home theatre icon, album rating, and custom genre icon in album view (Musicflix) ^^^





Custom home theatre icon, track rating, and custom genre icon in song view (Musicflix) ^^^ (reads individual track genre tag)





Custom home theatre icon, track rating OR Album rating (depending if info is viewed in album OR song view), and custom genre icon in song view (Musicflix) ^^^
*Currently thinking of whether to get rid of 'Rating' which is just a scraped critic rating anyway.







Custom home theatre icon, track rating AND Album rating, minor colour changes  and custom genre icon in Now Playing view ^^^
Currently making a heap more genre icons, everything including Death Metal and Grindcore, through to Pop, Folk and Electronic and heaps more. Also, the album year moved from the Album title. It looks neater I think.

What do you think?

Kodi does not run its web server

September 30, 2018, 9:52 pm

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Hello,

I have an ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine created on my home nas and I installed Kodi krypton 17.4.

I set up the web server enabling the options available on port 8998.

The issue is that the process does not run: if I run the command lsof -i :8998 no process is listening on that port.

Any idea which could be the cause? There's a way to start manually?

Huge number of movie kills my system to a crawl

September 30, 2018, 11:34 pm

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I have 6000+ movie in my collection and loading them into tmm(update) kills my system. I had to kill tmm from task manager to allow my system to be responsive.

Would it be possible to minimize memory usage?

THanks.

Can Kodi go to next song then stop and wait until play is hit?

October 1, 2018, 12:43 am

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Hi,

When the current songs is finished, can Kodi go to next song then stop before playing, and wait until play is hit?

Thanks

Is a custom HTPC the only way to have everything?

October 1, 2018, 4:02 am

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I've got a Nvidia Shield, Minix U9-H, Xiaomi Mi Box 3, Amazon TV 4k and XBox One X. All of which both have issues.
I'm looking for a one stop shop. Is an HTPC the only way?

Extended Weather Addon Skinned

October 1, 2018, 4:35 am

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Thought i share what i have Skinned so far.

Skin isnt ready for a public release jet, but couldnt resist to show already the support for extended Weather Addons, i was working on.
Nd jer, its quiet a bit inspired by the old Win8 Bing App.

Screens with "Bing Weather Fanarts"

watch gallery

in one piece:


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Screens with "Weather Fanart Multi"

watch gallery

in one piece:


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Hope you like it.

Nd sorry for posting before its available (couldnt resist).

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No Addons working

October 1, 2018, 5:05 am

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For the last while, I could only watch tv shows, no movies would play. Now nothing works on Kodi. Generally we watch soap operas and a few reality tv shows.
What should I be doing to make Kodi work again on my android box. I tried using new addons and old ones.
Thanks for your feedback

ListItem.Thumb or Listitem.Art(thumb) how to return width or height

October 1, 2018, 5:09 am

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As the topic says is there any way to return the width or height of the actual artwork?

Thanks

Hacktoberfest - Will Team-Kodi activly take part?

October 1, 2018, 6:23 am

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@Team-Kodi; Will you actively promote Kodi development for this years Hacktoberfest?

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

Devs who sign-up and contribute at least five pull requests to public projects on GitHub during October have a chance to win a "limited edition" t-shirt.

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq

Good opportunity to promote Kodi development and maybe reach more developers?

Request - DB-View tvshowcounts not correct?

October 1, 2018, 7:07 am

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I'm using Kodi with a mysql database. In my opinion the view "tvshowcounts" is not correct.

The actual definition looks like this:

CREATE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED DEFINER=`kodi`@`%` SQL SECURITY DEFINER VIEW `tvshowcounts` AS select `tvshow`.`idShow` AS `idShow`,max(`files`.`lastPlayed`) AS `lastPlayed`,nullif(count(`episode`.`c12`),0) AS `totalCount`,count(`files`.`playCount`) AS `watchedcount`,nullif(count(distinct `episode`.`c12`),0) AS `totalSeasons`,max(`files`.`dateAdded`) AS `dateAdded` from ((`tvshow` left join `episode` on((`episode`.`idShow` = `tvshow`.`idShow`))) left join `files` on((`files`.`idFile` = `episode`.`idFile`))) group by `tvshow`.`idShow`;

This (max) results in not showing the unseen TV-shows in the right order. Every time I add a new season to an unseen TV-show this one is shown at the first place on the home screen, independend of the date when the show was added the first time at all.

So I guess, this definition is the better way:

CREATE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED DEFINER=`kodi`@`%` SQL SECURITY DEFINER VIEW `tvshowcounts` AS select `tvshow`.`idShow` AS `idShow`,max(`files`.`lastPlayed`) AS `lastPlayed`,nullif(count(`episode`.`c12`),0) AS `totalCount`,count(`files`.`playCount`) AS `watchedcount`,nullif(count(distinct `episode`.`c12`),0) AS `totalSeasons`,min(`files`.`dateAdded`) AS `dateAdded` from ((`tvshow` left join `episode` on((`episode`.`idShow` = `tvshow`.`idShow`))) left join `files` on((`files`.`idFile` = `episode`.`idFile`))) group by `tvshow`.`idShow`;

Any opinions?

Linux boxes can't access shares on windows machine

October 1, 2018, 7:40 am

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I've got two Kodi boxes running (RPi3 and ODroid) that have been running fine over the past 18 months. Both connect to a windows 10 machine running MySQL to share all of it's information. both boot up and can connect to get the information from MySQL but when I try to play it fails. When I try to connect to that machine via any Linux machines in the house they fail but I can connect from my windows machines with no problem. I've tried removing and re-adding the shares, checking permissions, turning off windows firewall but still fails to connect. I'm not sure what could have changed to this machine, It's only used as a media server for the Kodi boxes.

Problem in refreshing add-on menu list

October 1, 2018, 8:41 am

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Hi All,

I'm actually developing an add-on that displays a menu items list when launched (each item execute a specific function).

One of the menu items depends on a setting: if the settings is set to true, then the item needs to be diplayed in the menu. By default the setting is set to false.

I have noticed that if I set to true the setting, the related menu item doesn't appear until I restart Kodi (using the latest nightly of Leia); in fact even if I enter in the addon, the menu items list remains the same. Just exiting and reentering Kodi solve the issue...

I guess it is something related to Kodi cache so I was wondering if there is a way to manage this.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Alex

Looking for a method to scrape by filename

October 1, 2018, 8:45 am

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Greetings,

I am trying to use the intelligent playlists in KODI as a way to play a filtered part of my videos. This failed so far.

I understand that the thing i want is not the KODI-way of life. Playlists work only in cooperation with the media library. The media library wants its information either from a .nfo or the internet. I do not want either. The Internet has no data for my Salsa Dance Videos. And creating .nfo with just the Filename seems stupid.

My solution so far was to try and write or adapt my own scraper. This also failed. The instructions I found for addon-development did not help. Error messages in KODI made me just try/guess/fail/retry. I do have a background in amateur programming. I think I understand the basics of what is happening between the xml and KODI.

My questions:
Is there a scraper out there simplified enough to build the library with just DB.title = <filename> for every file? OR
Can someone offer help in understanding the mechanics of a scraper? e. g.: Does a scraper have to do trigger a request to a website or can one have KODI omit this step?

Thanks in advance

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Canada on demand

October 1, 2018, 10:45 am

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I am having problems with the addon Canada on Demand. It worked up until last month. I am able to get into it all the way to what province news I want to watch then it gives me a source error code message and check log. I cannot for the life of me get it to work... any help would be great thank you

Turn screen black on video stop

October 1, 2018, 10:46 am

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Hi!

I have installed Openhab which is a homeautomation system. i connected a motion sensor to it and i am able to start videos in my pi3 as soon as the sensor detects some motion.
After the video has been played, the screen should go black immediatly just like after the timeout of the black screen saver. The lowest setting of the screen saver is one minute.
can i change it somewhere to something less than one minute or is there another possibility to turn the screen black after the video stops?

thx

best regards
karl

Wifi issue

October 1, 2018, 10:47 am

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For some reason my wifi will not connect. I can see my wifi and the password is entered correctly however it will not connect any help would be great thank you

v18 - Leia: Crash after Start Splash; r600_drv_video.so; va_openDriver() returns -1

October 1, 2018, 10:51 am

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Hello Kodi developers,

I encountered an issue testing Kodi 18: After the start splash screen, Kodi crashes before showing the main menu.
My system:

• Ubuntu 16.04 up to date as of today: Linux ____ 4.4.0-135-generic #161-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 27 10:45:01 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  
• CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T; GPU: Radeon HD 6850
  
• Graphics Driver: AMD BARTS (DRM 2.43.0 / 4.4.0-135-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)
  
• Dual Monitor: 1680x1050 via DVI, 1024x768 via VGA
  

Output from the terminal:

Quote:$ kodi
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kodi/kodi-x11: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcec.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN11StringUtils6FormatB5cxx11EPKcz

Errors in the log (Link to Full Log):

Quote:19:11:09.813 T:140291198876032   ERROR: DBus error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs - Keine derartige Eigenschaft »CanSuspend«
19:11:09.814 T:140291198876032   ERROR: DBus error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs - Keine derartige Eigenschaft »CanHibernate«
19:11:10.257 T:140291198876032   ERROR: CYUVShaderGLSL::CYUVShaderGLSL - failed to open file gl_shader_frag_texture_lim.glsl

After starting Kodi followed by the crash, the second monitor stays dark (I used the setting for turning off the second monitor).
I tried this with the current beta version (2:18.0+git20180910.1208-beta2-0xenial) and the current nightly (2:18.0+git20181001.0201-f1ed14f-0xenial).

This seems to be graphics-related and possibly a bug due to driver/GPU combination. The file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcec.so.4 links to libcec.so.4.0.2 and exists.
My only guess would be, that the DVI port has no CEC and this is not handled correctly.
However, since Kodi 17.6 worked and the hardware is only 7 years old, this should also work somehow.

Do you have some idea if I have to install some missing packages or if I can provide more feedback?

Kodi 18 Beta 2 on Xbox One suddenly broken - no text visible on any screen

October 1, 2018, 10:58 am

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A few days ago, Kodi 18 (which had been working fine for weeks) suddenly stopped working.  When I start it, the screens display all of the expected graphics and icons, but NO TEXT is visible anywhere on any screen.

When I try to play any video (most of mine are .mkv in h.264 form), the screen suddenly shoots to "quadruple size" meaning that I can only see the upper-left corner of a vastly oversized imaged.

If I stop the video, the screen stays in the super large form, but suddenly the text is visible again.  If I kill the app and start over, I get the same general behavior from scratch.  Same if I reboot the xbox.  

I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling.  It appeared to work correctly for a short time, but then suddenly surfaced the same issues again.

Setup:  Xbox One X configured thru an HDMI amp to a 4K TV.  Videos on a Drobo 5N NAS shared over the LAN.  The Xbox is part of the "Insider's Preview Program".

What's up with this?

This surfaced one other big complaint - I could not get backup of all settings to work, so when I reinstall from scratch, it takes me forever to reconfigure all my settings again!  Please get export and import of settings working reliably!

Thank you!