2014-12-16, 16:58
I moved this to the Android forum because I am pretty sure its a FireTV issue, as my OpenElec client has no issues with the identical setup...
I am having some trouble with the following, all running Gotham.
I have a Windows Gotham install that hosts everything - videos, thumbnails, mysql database etc. This is the "primary" Kodi server and all maintenance, scraping etc. is done using this machine. Everything works well with this machine.
I also have a FireTV that I'd like to be a "dumb" client. Ideally it would just have read-only access to the mysql database, movie folders etc. This doesn't appear to be possible (and please correct me if I am wrong). Movies, Music etc. are all shared properly through MySQL and all Kodi machines play back movies fine.
The issue I have is with movie thumbnails. Using advancedsettings.xml pathsubstitution on the Windows machine, my thumbnails are generated to a shared folder. This machine has generated thumbnails that work fine on the Windows machine. On the FireTV, however, I am unable to view the generated thumbnails. I also use advancedsettings.xml pathsubstitution to point to a Samba share on the Windows machine. I have verified that the path substitution is working and looking at my logs (linked below) it is attempting to write and load the correct cached thumbnail. I do not, however, want this machine to write any Thumbnails because for some reason, it generates 0kb thumbnails for all files. So instead I'd just like it to read the existing thumbnail. In order to accomplish this, I set the permissions on the shared thumbnails folder to read-only for clients using the "kodi-client" user I created on the Windows machine. This seems to work as well (I tested the link generated by the FireTV xbmc.log file and its calling the right file and can view it). But despite this, its not displaying the Thumbnail (perhaps because its failing to write it?). The error is as follows:
My full log is available here.
I also just discovered something new when I was testing the permissions. I changed the samba share permissions to allow write access for the kodi-clients. I rebooted the FireTV and the thumbnails were all there. I scrolled down through the movie list and all posters and fanart was displayed. BUT when I scrolled back up the list, the same movies were now showing blank posters and fanart. I looked at the files on the server and the thumbnails corresponding to the one I had scrolled through were now 0kb, Here is the log for that, but its simar to the above without the warnings about permissions.
I would think that a failure to write the file wouldn't cause a problem with reading it, but maybe not. So I guess I have two questions:
**EDIT**: FWIW, I also have a Chromebox running OpenElec accessing the shared XBMCThumbnails with the kodi-client username (i.e, read-only access). I get the same permission denied error, but it does display the fanart/poster, so this must be a FireTV issue(?).
I am having some trouble with the following, all running Gotham.
I have a Windows Gotham install that hosts everything - videos, thumbnails, mysql database etc. This is the "primary" Kodi server and all maintenance, scraping etc. is done using this machine. Everything works well with this machine.
I also have a FireTV that I'd like to be a "dumb" client. Ideally it would just have read-only access to the mysql database, movie folders etc. This doesn't appear to be possible (and please correct me if I am wrong). Movies, Music etc. are all shared properly through MySQL and all Kodi machines play back movies fine.
The issue I have is with movie thumbnails. Using advancedsettings.xml pathsubstitution on the Windows machine, my thumbnails are generated to a shared folder. This machine has generated thumbnails that work fine on the Windows machine. On the FireTV, however, I am unable to view the generated thumbnails. I also use advancedsettings.xml pathsubstitution to point to a Samba share on the Windows machine. I have verified that the path substitution is working and looking at my logs (linked below) it is attempting to write and load the correct cached thumbnail. I do not, however, want this machine to write any Thumbnails because for some reason, it generates 0kb thumbnails for all files. So instead I'd just like it to read the existing thumbnail. In order to accomplish this, I set the permissions on the shared thumbnails folder to read-only for clients using the "kodi-client" user I created on the Windows machine. This seems to work as well (I tested the link generated by the FireTV xbmc.log file and its calling the right file and can view it). But despite this, its not displaying the Thumbnail (perhaps because its failing to write it?). The error is as follows:
Code:
22:27:58 T:1576661984 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Open - opened Movies/National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation (1997)/poster.jpg, fd=10001
22:27:58 T:1576666048 DEBUG: int CVideoDatabase::RunQuery(const CStdString&) took 425 ms for 10 items query: select * from movieview ORDER BY dateAdded desc, idMovie desc LIMIT 10
22:27:58 T:1680871832 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Open - opened Movies/Anchorman (2004)/poster.jpg, fd=10000
22:27:58 T:1727732160 DEBUG: Caching image 'smb://192.168.1.7/Movies/Casino Royale (1967)/poster.jpg' to '5/59ad7d63.jpg':
22:27:58 T:1576661984 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Close closing fd 10001
22:27:58 T:1680871832 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Close closing fd 10000
22:27:58 T:1727732160 DEBUG: cached image 'special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/5/59ad7d63.jpg' size 320x480
22:27:58 T:1727732160 WARNING: FileSmb::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://kodi-client:[email protected]/XBMCThumbnails/5/59ad7d63.jpg
22:27:58 T:1727732160 ERROR: FileSmb->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://kodi-client:[email protected]/XBMCThumbnails/5/59ad7d63.jpg'
unix_err:'d' error : 'Permission denied'
22:27:58 T:1727732160 INFO: void XCURL::DllLibCurlGlobal::easy_aquire(const char*, const char*, XCURL::CURL_HANDLE**, XCURL::CURLM**) - Created session to http://image.tmdb.org
22:27:58 T:1680871832 DEBUG: Caching image 'smb://192.168.1.7/Movies/Anchorman (2004)/poster.jpg' to '9/998c79ac.jpg':
22:27:58 T:1576661984 DEBUG: Caching image 'smb://192.168.1.7/Movies/National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation (1997)/poster.jpg' to '7/73544811.jpg':My full log is available here.
I also just discovered something new when I was testing the permissions. I changed the samba share permissions to allow write access for the kodi-clients. I rebooted the FireTV and the thumbnails were all there. I scrolled down through the movie list and all posters and fanart was displayed. BUT when I scrolled back up the list, the same movies were now showing blank posters and fanart. I looked at the files on the server and the thumbnails corresponding to the one I had scrolled through were now 0kb, Here is the log for that, but its simar to the above without the warnings about permissions.
Code:
22:54:26 T:1709607304 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Open - opened Movies/National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation (1997)/poster.jpg, fd=10001
22:54:26 T:1657612136 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Open - opened Movies/Casino Royale (1967)/poster.jpg, fd=10000
22:54:26 T:1657612136 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Close closing fd 10000
22:54:26 T:1560648432 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Open - opened Movies/Anchorman (2004)/poster.jpg, fd=10002
22:54:26 T:1560648432 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Close closing fd 10002
22:54:26 T:1657628416 DEBUG: CCurlFile::GetMimeType - http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/s54DchYWkSTCi9z7Is2IIX3qmvw.jpg -> image/jpeg
22:54:26 T:1657628416 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x67bb93a8) http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/s54DchYWkSTCi9z7Is2IIX3qmvw.jpg
22:54:26 T:1657612136 DEBUG: Caching image 'smb://192.168.1.7/Movies/Casino Royale (1967)/poster.jpg' to '5/59ad7d63.jpg':
22:54:26 T:1709607304 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Close closing fd 10001
22:54:26 T:1560648432 DEBUG: Caching image 'smb://192.168.1.7/Movies/Anchorman (2004)/poster.jpg' to '9/998c79ac.jpg':
22:54:26 T:1657612136 DEBUG: cached image 'special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/5/59ad7d63.jpg' size 480x720
22:54:26 T:1657612136 WARNING: FileSmb::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://kodi-client:[email protected]/XBMCThumbnails/5/59ad7d63.jpg
22:54:26 T:1709607304 DEBUG: Caching image 'smb://192.168.1.7/Movies/National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation (1997)/poster.jpg' to '7/73544811.jpg':
22:54:26 T:1657612136 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Close closing fd 10001[/code]I would think that a failure to write the file wouldn't cause a problem with reading it, but maybe not. So I guess I have two questions:
- Is there anyway to have a Kodi client just have the ability to read shared thubnails?
- If not, does anyone know why FireTV could be generating 0kb thumbnails when a Windows machine has no problems generating correct thumbnails?
**EDIT**: FWIW, I also have a Chromebox running OpenElec accessing the shared XBMCThumbnails with the kodi-client username (i.e, read-only access). I get the same permission denied error, but it does display the fanart/poster, so this must be a FireTV issue(?).
Code:
5:34:38 T:140352082147072 WARNING: FileSmb::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://kodi-client:[email protected]/XBMCThumbnails/d/db0ea8c2.jpg
05:34:38 T:140352082147072 ERROR: FileSmb->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://kodi-client:[email protected]/XBMCThumbnails/d/db0ea8c2.jpg' unix_err:'d' error : 'Permission denied'
