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Looks to be a storage permissions issue. I've seen this before with Android 6.x where the permissions seem to stop working, especially if you're using adopted storage.
Unfortunately there's not really any single way to fix it, if that's the case, other than doing a factory reset.
You can try using a file explorer and writing a file to the same location to see if spits out a error or change the location where the files are written, like /storage/emulated/0/Movies/. Also, make sure that you still have enough free storage space, even almost full can cause issues.
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Thank you ! I will try that tonight and come back with the results.
I do think that I've been able to save files on my devices recently, so it would be weird if Kodi was the only app that wasn't able to write files. I'll try to look into the permissions of the file system and for the app itself
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After a few minutes of testing, it seems like all the folders where I've been trying to write the subtitles have the right sets of permissions that would should allow Kodi to download the subtitles, so you might be right that something iffy is happening with Kodi's permissions. I tried disabling and re enabling its permissions through the Android settings, but that did not seem to have any impact.
So you're saying that there might not be a way to fix this issue in my case and that a factory reset might be the only way? Ouch. I guess I'll have to look into that. But if you have any ideas or other suggestions I would love to hear them, as making a factory reset is a pretty decent deal.
By the way, I am running Android 6.0.1 on my box, if that's any help.
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2017-04-11, 06:59
(This post was last modified: 2017-04-11, 07:04 by Tinwarble.)
The easiest way to test Kodi is through it's built in file manager and see if you can manually copy files into the same location using it.
As for doing a factory reset, I don't know if it will fix your issue or not. I haven't had this issue crop up on any of my devices, but I have seen others have the same issue where write permissions will suddenly stop working on Android 6 & 7 and the only thing that fixed it for them was a factory reset.
But there could be any number of reasons that the .srt file isn't being written to your selected folder. A logcat might reveal more.
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Ahahah I was a little too hot headed. I actually ended up doing a factory reset before you answered, and it turns out that it didn't fix the subtitle problem either :p
I just tried what you said with the file manager. I am able to copy and paste files with Kodi to and from all the folders that I tried.
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Thank you for moving the thread!
The teeny tiny problem is that this issue is manifesting on all subtitle add-ons I've tried. Subscene, OpenSubtitle, and BSPlayer. I tried saying that in the first post but maybe it didn't really come across. I'm not a native English speaker but I'm trying my best :p
In the first debug log, I try three times with the three different add-ons to use them to get subtitles, but each time it fails. All of those times are in the debug log.
I tried again with the clean install, and the issue is the same with those add-ons. I'll try with others to see if they work
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Thanks again for the help! I hope somebody here has an idea about my issue
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OTOH, python properly executes this equivalent code in the interpreter:
xbmc@xbmc-revo:~$ python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib2
>>> request = urllib2.Request('https://subscene.com/subtitles/title?q=Fences&r=true')
>>> request.add_header('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')
>>> request.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0')
>>> response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
>>> response.get_data()
So the problem seems linked to kodi invoking the add-ons through its CPythonInvoker.
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I just found out what was causing the issue, and I feel pretty stupid not having looked into that earlier. I am using the Onedrive for Kodi add-on, and it seems to be the issue for the failure of the subtitles, even if the subutitles are specifically set to download in a local folder.
I did not have any local video files at all, so it never occured to me to try offline, but I tried today to download and play Big Buck Bunny to see if subtitles could be downloaded while playing a local movie, and it worked.
I am going to go to the add-on's thread and try there to see if the problem can be solved. Thank you for your help !
