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sja1440 · 2019-03-30, 20:19

This is weird. The problem is back again with the freshly created kodi configuration.

I'll have to go through each of the changes that I made to see what causes this problem. I only have three AddOns (so far):
* TVHeadEnd
* East Anglian Film Archive
* British Council Film

I'll post back if I find out what is causing this.

sja1440 · (This post was last modified: 2019-03-31, 15:25 by sja1440.)

The problem occurs whenever the following
UPnP / DLNA -> Look for remote UPnP players
UPnP / DLNA -> Allow remote control via UPnP
two settings are true

Setting them to false and restarting Kodi resolves the issue.

[Edit: this problem also exists with Kodi on Fedora - it is easy to reproduce]

**fritsch** · 2019-03-31, 12:12

Does your network have a computer that anounces upnp player capabilities?

sja1440 · (This post was last modified: 2019-03-31, 15:17 by sja1440.)

When you say "announcing upnp player capabilities" do you mean a computer that is discoverable via something like upnp_info and which reports that it is a Media Renderer? If you do then we have an AVR which reports that it has "Device Type: urn: schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaRenderer:1".

Though as far as I am aware we do not use such features even if they are present. There are adult children around so I cant be 100% sure.

My own usage of UPnP is pretty basic and only uses the Ubuntu Kodi's ability to be a Media Server.

**fritsch** · (This post was last modified: 2019-03-31, 16:43 by fritsch.)

You can enable UPNP component logging and see what you get in the log? After reenabling: UPnP / DLNA -> Look for remote UPnP players

Edit: What happens if you press "c" open with Videoplayer?

sja1440 · (This post was last modified: 2019-04-01, 08:06 by sja1440.)

Here is the requested log: dimivaligo (paste)

The various IP addresses mentioned in the log are:
10.0.2.5 The Ubuntu Kodi machine
10.0.2.6 The AVR that I mentioned above
10.0.11.130 One of my daughter's android devices.

When I press "c" nothing happens.

**fritsch** · 2019-04-01, 08:22

c on the file you want to play, then choose VideoPlayer. Okay, but I think we have the culprit. Kodi trying to playback via the AVR / UPNP. So disable upnp renderer, please.

sja1440 · 2019-04-01, 20:05

Sorry, I didn't explain myself very well. When I pressed "c" after having selected a ts file, I was asked to select from the options: Play, Information, and Mark as viewed. I selected Play, the popup disappeared and nothing else happened.

I'll keep set to false:
UPnP / DLNA -> Look for remote UPnP players
UPnP / DLNA -> Allow remote control via UPnP

If you need me to carry out any more tests don't hesitate to ask.

sja1440 · 2019-04-07, 16:25

(2019-03-30, 10:09)wsnipex Wrote: there was another report of a broken fedora kodi package. You can try our flatpak version instead

Indeed, flatpak version would have been the best solution to this problem.

sja1440 · (This post was last modified: 2019-04-07, 16:29 by sja1440.)

In the end it seems that, when using Kodi on Fedora the best solution is to use the Flatpak version as I found with a separate issue:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2843406

With the Flatpak version of Kodi the UPnP problem of this thread does not occur.