Android TV Box Upgrade & Player Error

[meccano]

My older Android 9 TV Box stopped working so I purchased a new Android 11 box.
I reinstalled the same TV Box software but now I find that most non-mp4 videos will
no longer play under NextPVR/Kodi/knewc, I receive "Player Error" instead.  From the logs it appears that
transcoding takes place within NextPVR, not sure why.

When I first play the identical video (Honda Insight - Garage.avi) from within Kodi Settings File Manager
it plays ok which seems to imply that the TV Box hardware/software is ok with it.

Windows 10
NextPVR 6.1.3.230521
Kodi 19.5
knewc 2.9.4

Attached are the logs.  Any ideas about what's going wrong?  Thanks.

[mvallevand]

Looks need to be zipped and under 2MB and be sure to include the Kodi debug logs (or a link to a paste)

I haven't use knewc for years but I am not surprised that the Video Library isn't working well. Not sure why your NextPVR and Kodi are running old unsupported versions.

Martin

[meccano]

Sorry, I have deleted one file and uploaded the logs again.

My software is slightly old as I'm trying to ensure that <ActiveScreenSaver>FullscreenRandomPhoto</ActiveScreenSaver> continues to work.  It stopped during one upgrade.

[mvallevand]

I still need the Kodi debug log. Maybe show it playing from the Kodi video library too.

The random photo screensaver is fixed in the next version.

You may also want to to try the file in uidroid on your new Android box, I'd recommend it over Kodi with knewc.

Martin

[meccano]

The KODI Debug Log is named seqimunumu.txt
The random photo screensaver is fixed in the next version of what exactly? knewc?

The problem with uidroid is that I need 2 copies running concurrently.
Now I use Kodi and Wonderbox.

No hurry.

[mvallevand]

The random screensaver is fixed in the next version of NextPVR. There may never be an update to knewc.

Sorry missed the log though. It is a NextPVR issue sub would need to address. NextPVR is sending the wrong Content-Type from the Video Library and Kodi respects it.

Code:

curl -I http://172.16.3.3:8866/stream?f="K:\Samples\Honda+Insight+-+Garage.avi"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 1182270
Content-Type: video/MP2T
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:29:11 GMT
Server: Kestrel

What do you mean by two copies of uidroid? You can have multiple clients running from different Android boxes at the same time.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Sub is passing the expected Content-Type in the upcoming v7 release. Hopefully that will fix your problem.

You never answered my question above " What do you mean by two copies of uidroid?" Still not understanding why you need knewc. On Android you can launch udroid from Kodi.

Martin

[meccano]

Looking into this further I generated a debug log on my older Android 8.1
TV box which works fine.  It appears that the root cause is that the
path substitution feature in Kodi advancedsettings.xml no longer works.
Why this should happen on Android 11 is beyond me and I found
nothing in the Kodi support forum to explain this.

Because of this, Kodi does not use smb as expected and switches
to NextPVR streaming which results in the error that you pointed out.
I will continue my investigation.

Yes, in hindsight, the updated uidroid client does seems to work well with
modern mp4 video files but it continues to randomly fail with my collection
of older videos.  The advantage of the Kodi player is that it works with
99% of my files.  Sure I could convert all my older avi, mov, mpg, ts files to mp4
but that would take quite a while.  I needed 2-3 Kodi players in the past as
I used to run multiple NextPVR recording servers.

I will start training my SO to use uiddroid instead, she doesn't access
my older videos much.

David

[sub]

You would have been ok with mkv/mp4/ts files. Next release will give correct content type for avi files and a couple of the other less common file types.

[mvallevand]

I see in your advancedsettings this comment <!-- Note the difference between the usage of forward and backslashes -->

So what if you change D:/ to D:\ ?

Some older video especially Divx do work better in Kodi. That one example played in uidroid which is why I asked but mpg ts and mov should be ok but it also depends on the h/w in the box.

It is actually pretty easy to change servers in uidroid, but using Kodi pvr.nextpvr would be your best bet since you can enable them all.

Martin