Playback not working sometimes

[zaldwaik]

I recently started encountering this weird problem where I go through the web interface and try to play a recording but nothing happens. It happens to some recordings but not others. The files are playable directly through Kodi. Your help is greatly appreciated. I have attached the logs, around 18:47 I tried to playback wusa 9 news...

[mvallevand]

I would need the Kodi log too

Martin

[zaldwaik]

I was watching through Kodi. I enabled debug and went back to X-Newa and it worked and I could not reproduce it on any recording! But it happened at least 3 times before. So next time, I will try to produce the log before playing the file through Kodi.

[mvallevand]

It might still be in Kodi.old.log The logging I need don't need debug

Martin

[zaldwaik]

Here you go

[mvallevand]

Here you go

What I suggest happening is you left web client running all night

00:14:53 T:139814539757440 NOTICE: Samba is idle. Closing the remaining connections
00:14:57 T:139813476120320 NOTICE: http://192.168.1.3:8866/control?key=0&cl...54446969e0
02:01:42 T:139813508335360 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 631 times.
02:01:42 T:139813508335360 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
02:01:43 T:139813239899904 NOTICE: Thread FileCache start, auto delete: false
02:01:44 T:139813476120320 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 4 times.
02:01:44 T:139813476120320 NOTICE: http://192.168.1.3:8866/control?key=0&cl...54446969e0
18:41:09 T:139813363250944 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 5916 times.
18:41:09 T:139813363250944 NOTICE: http://192.168.1.3:8866/control?time=142...54446969e0
...
18:42:52 T:139813508335360 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [F:/Recordings/wusa 9 News at 6pm/wusa 9 News at 6pm_20150107_18001830.ts]

and because the share was idle so long didn't get reinitialized until you restarted something else

18:51:04 T:139814539757440 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://PVR/Recordings/wusa 9 News at 6pm/wusa 9 News at 6pm_20150107_18001830.ts

I'm not sure how to force it myself, if you don't want to exit it might be a question for OE. Alternatively try using smb://ip/Recordings/ in your advancedsettings.xml it might be a master browser issue.

Martin

[zaldwaik]

Thanks. I will change to IP and see if that works.

[mvallevand]

Thanks. I will change to IP and see if that works.

Another option is to setup Kodi to autostart x-newa/web client then you can power off and on with the power button on the Chromebox. It's about 6-10 seconds for me.

Martin

[zaldwaik]

Thanks. I changed to IP address, and the problem happened again. If it is a share related issue, then how can I view other recordings, except a specific one. It is the same share after all. Exiting and then entering the web interface does not fix it. I have to play the file from Kodi first before it is resolved. Very strange.

[mvallevand]

Thanks. I changed to IP address, and the problem happened again. If it is a share related issue, then how can I view other recordings, except a specific one. It is the same share after all. Exiting and then entering the web interface does not fix it. I have to play the file from Kodi first before it is resolved. Very strange.

I don't consider it strange, currently on my Windows laptop all my drive letter shares are showing disconnected and NextPVR wouldn't be able to play anything from the libraries either, I'd need to click on them in My Computer to reconnect, I consider this an OS thing.

For OE it's probably cache related, x-newa is finding it in the directory otherwise it would fallback to http. Perhaps try permanent mount http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=...ork_shares and change advancedsettings.xml to use the new mount points if turning.

Martin