knewc - Video Resarts and FullscreenRandomPhoto Screen Saver

[meccano]

I was recently forced to upgrade NextPVR from 6.1.3.230521 to 7.0.2.250621
in order to resolve issues with the Schedules Direct JSON support.
I also upgraded from knewc 2.9.4 to 2.10.1.

Ever since, I appear to have 2 main problems:

1. If I play a file under the Videos menu, it starts ok.  If I interrupt
the video (Last.Week.Tonight) and then attempt to restart it, the restart always hangs.
I have to stop the video hang, play it from the beginning and skip forward
to my desired location which is a big pain.

2. One of my favourite features, the FullscreenRandomPhoto no longer works - <ActiveScreenSaver>FullscreenRandomPhoto</ActiveScreenSaver>.
When the screen saver is initiated, the Kodi error message "No Favourites Found"
appears instead as shown in the attached photo.  knewc stops.
If I press ESC to clear the error message and restart knewc
then the screen saver starts up, but eventually fails again.

Any ideas?  Attached are the NextPVR and Kodi logs.

[mvallevand]

1. The seek issue could be the file or the obsolete version of Kodi you are using, it looks Kodi can't seek to the number that NextPVR told it too. That is outside the addon't control.

Code:

2025-09-18 15:57:43.103 T:8609    DEBUG <general>: CDVDVideoCodecAndroidMediaCodec::AddData current state (2)
2025-09-18 15:57:43.104 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:1 dts:667808000.000000 to get to start point at 668000000.000000
2025-09-18 15:57:43.104 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CVideoPlayer::CheckContinuity - wrapback :2, prev:668001000.000000, curr:667867000.000000, diff:-134000.000000
2025-09-18 15:57:43.104 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:1 dts:667840000.000000 to get to start point at 668000000.000000
2025-09-18 15:57:43.105 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:1 dts:667872000.000000 to get to start point at 668000000.000000
2025-09-18 15:57:43.105 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:1 dts:667904000.000000 to get to start point at 668000000.000000
2025-09-18 15:57:43.105 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:1 dts:667936000.000000 to get to start point at 668000000.000000
2025-09-18 15:57:43.106 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:3 dts:667970000.000000 to get to start point at 668000000.000000
2025-09-18 15:57:43.106 T:8601    DEBUG <general>: CheckPlayerInit - dropping packet type:1 dts:667968000.000000 to get to start point at 668000000.000000

2. That message comes up because I exit my UI clients after 10 minutes. If you want you can edit emulate.py and change this line

https://github.com/emveepee/X-NEWA/blob/...te.py#L639

to a number larger than 600 (10 minutes) of no keyboard activity.

Martin