[cjordahl]

It appears that Kodi 15.0 is not reading my advancedsettings.xml file from my userdata directory.

Is this a bug? Can I correct it with settings somewhere? (For now I will move my advancedsettings.xml file to /usr/share/kodi/system/)

Here are snippets from my log files, from current version as well as two older versions. It is clear my previous two versions loaded the file correctly (from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml), but current Kodi 15.0 does not attempt to load it.

Kodi 15.0

Code:

21:01:02 T:139821290883008  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
21:01:02 T:139821290883008   ERROR: Error loading special://profile/advancedsettings.xml, Line 0
                                            Failed to open file
21:01:02 T:139821290883008  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer

Kodi 14.2

Code:

20:56:41 T:139666007713728  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
20:56:41 T:139666007713728  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml
20:56:41 T:139666007713728  NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings>
                                              <network>
                                                <cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>
                                              </network>
                                            </advancedsettings>
20:56:41 T:139666007713728  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer

XBMC 13.2

Code:

11:22:28 T:140304973813696  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
11:22:28 T:140304973813696  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml
11:22:28 T:140304973813696  NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings>
                                              <network>
                                                <cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>
                                              </network>
                                            </advancedsettings>
11:22:28 T:140304973813696  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer

Kodi (15.0 Git:2f34a0c). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit
Using Release Kodi x64 build
Kodi compiled Jul 22 2015 by GCC 4.8.4 for Linux x86 64-bit version 3.13.11 (199947)
Running on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 3.13.0-58-generic
FFmpeg statically linked, version: 2.6.3-kodi-2.6.3-Isengard
Host CPU: Intel® Celeron® CPU 847E @ 1.10GHz, 2 cores available

[cjordahl]

I actually left the file in the userdata directory, but changed the file permissions from rw------- to rw-r--r--, this solved the problem.

Code:

15:45:13 T:140608879589312  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
15:45:13 T:140608879589312  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml
15:45:13 T:140608879589312  NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings>
                                              <network>
                                                <cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>
                                              </network>
                                            </advancedsettings>
15:45:14 T:140608879589312  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer

[un1versal]

Excellent glad you solved yourself. FOr which you can now full edit main post and mark this as solved.

Also in future please pastebin your debug logs and remember only complete debug logs, snippets are ok only for referring to a specific passage in log and should never replace a complete log.

[tallpr24]

hi guys. first time posting here. i have just upgraded my adroid box from 14.2 to 15.0 and now it looks like kodi is not reading my advancedsettings.xml. None of my movies will buffer the way they did on 14.2. here is a copy of my file :
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>357286400</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>20</readbufferfactor>
</network>
</advancedsettings>

the only reason i use the advance settings file is for buffering. here are the permissions i have for the file. any help with this will be greatly appreciate it.

[tallpr24]

i also tried changing it the permissions to rw-r--r-- but that did not work.

[tallpr24]

i was able to fix my problem by copying the Advancedsettings.xml to the following path /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata

the only thing i did different is install the kodi 15 from the google play store. in the past when installing from downloaded file it was going to a different path. Please pass this info on to others as i know many will have this problem if installing form google play store.

after i did this, everything works great, no buffer issues and kodi is now reading my Advancedsettings.xml the way it did before i upgraded from kodi 14.2