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Further to my previous post, I have found a stream that does work.
I had tried numerous TV show episodes and all gave the "one or more items failed to play" error (Bondi Vet, Kids in the Hall, etc) and also Live news (Regina, Toronto, Winnipeg) which also failed to play. All of these play without issue on my Android phone which is on the same WiFi network as my Kodi is (no VPN or anything fishy...).
Then by chance I tried David Attenborough's Reef series and it played fine.
After that I thought perhaps I need a Premium account at CBC instead of a free one, even though the free one seemed to give me everything via the Android app... So I signed up for the free 30-day Premium.
I can now play Kids in the Hall and Paul O'Gradys For The Love of Dogs, but no Bondi Vet and none of the Live Regional feeds.
So...it seems that having Premium account made some difference but still doesn't allow access to everything that can be accessed via the Android app. Even a non-premium free account allowed me to see everything I tried with the Android app, albeit with ads. So there's a difference between what's available and what the Kodi addon can access.
Happy to assist in testing further changes to the app...
Cheers
Robert
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2018-04-29, 05:24
(This post was last modified: 2018-04-29, 05:28 by WildPhydeaux.)
No worries at all, judging by your engagement in this thread you seem to doing a great job at supporting and refining this excellent addon and its very much appreciated!
In retrospect, although I turned on curl and ffmpeg specific logging, I'm pretty sure I didn't toggle full debug. I'll do that and paste a proper log file for you.
The system is an OSMC Vero 4k, with an AArch64 processor. A dedicated Kodi box, no Android in sight...
Cheers,
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2018-04-29, 18:04
(This post was last modified: 2018-04-29, 18:40 by kodaksmith.)
If the CBC add-on is not working for you then try the following steps to remove the add-on cache to see if this fixes the problem.
ESTUARY
With the new Estuary skin that comes with Kodi 17 Krypton:
1. Go to Gear icon (System) and press Enter.
2. Go to File manager and press Enter.
3. Go to Profile directory and press Enter.
4. Go to addon_data and press Enter.
5. Go to plugin.video.cbc and
Keyboard: LONG PRESS Enter
MCE Remote Control: Press DVD Menu
to pop up a menu.
6. Go to Delete and press Enter.
7. Go to Yes and press Enter to confirm delete.
8. Press Escape twice to go back to main Kodi menu.
CONFLUENCE
With the older Confluence skin that came with prior Kodi versions:
1. Go to System -> File manager and press Enter.
2. Go to Profile directory and press Enter.
3. Go to addon_data and press Enter.
4. Go to plugin.video.cbc and
Keyboard: LONG PRESS Enter
MCE Remote Control: Press DVD Menu
to pop up a menu.
5. Go to Delete and press Enter.
6. Go to Yes and press Enter to confirm delete.
7. Press Escape to go back to main Kodi menu.
Now that the addon_data cache has been deleted, try again to play a show.
These steps worked for me with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) add-on version 4.0.3 to play the pilot episode of "Burden of Truth".
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Tried the above with no success. Nothing I tried to play today worked, even the couple ones that did play yesterday no longer play. All are online and play fine using the Android app on my phone. Weird indeed, but Micahg is on the case whenever he can, I've no doubt!
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2018-04-30, 23:44
(This post was last modified: 2018-04-30, 23:47 by newsbeast.)
Great post!
What I end up doing when the addon won't work properly even after and especially after an update, I uninstall the addon and delete the folder in .../addon_data/plugin.video.cbc
Might seem extreme but it has resolved most issues when all else has failed.
Another thing I did to help along the addon on my hardware: I set up an advancedsettings.xml file to increase the cache. Performance is now improved overall on all streaming addons that I use. go figure. ymmv
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On this latest Kodi install on LM I also just tried deleting the only file that was in "addon_data/plugin.video.cbc/" which was settings.xml (which contains username and password). Made no difference.
Also tried deleting the entire directory, same result and either entering an username/password into the addon configuration or leaving them blank makes no difference also. It runs first with an error and second run crashes Kodi.
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Robert
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2018-05-01, 20:08
(This post was last modified: 2018-05-01, 21:24 by WildPhydeaux.)
Time to get creative...
Installed Kodi from the Play Store onto my Android mobile phone. Installed CBC addon, left it with no credentials.
First tried S08E01 of Bondi Vet. Popup telling me to go to the CBC website and sign up for an account.
Tried Kids in the Hall, S01E01. Same error as noted in my previous posts.
Tried Live TV, Regina feed. Same error.
Took mobile phone off of my LAN WiFi, onto cell provider system. Restarted Kodi.
Bondi Vet gave same message about creating account. Entered credentials into CBC Addon and tried Bondi Vet again. Noted an "Authorizing device" message followed by... successfully playing the episode.
Other items seem to play fine also.
Determination:
1. Some material from CBC requires an account (unknown if free or paid account is different, other than commercials) and some material does not.
2.The issue I'm having with the CBC Addon is likely unrelated to the platform I'm running it on and more to do with something LAN related, although I was able to view a couple videos successfully a couple days ago.
So, any ideas of where to look? It's a pretty simple LAN, nothing very elaborate, all clients are a wired except mobile phone. I have reasonable bandwidth and very little utilizing it. I guess the obvious place to start is the router. Are there any specific requirements to look for there?
Then again, it may not be the LAN specifically because I can successfully use the CBC Android app on my mobile phone while connected WiFi to the LAN. So something specific to the way Kodi utilizes the LAN, although, I have experimented with other streaming video addons with Kodi in the past with no errors.
Cheers
Robert
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I want to thank micahg for his wonderful work.on.this add-on. I created the original one and he's taken over and done a better job than I ever did.