2015-09-11, 10:54
If you run PlayMedia("/some/path/in/filesystem.strm") with the playlist containing video streaming links, Kodi 15.1 always opens the playlist in Music-Now playing window.
This happens with GUI playlist opening as well.
Reproduce: put your streaming video playlist (for example channels like RT, France24) in userdata/playlists/video/playlist.strm. Then you open this playlist in Kodi (through GUI or via PlayMedia).
Result: Kodi puts the links into Music-Now Playing Window (Video - Now playing is empty).
Surely a bug.
Moreover, if you select any item from this wrong Music-Now Playing window, Kodi will get lost. It will open your item (position in a playlist), then it will simply clear the Music-Now Playing playlist (both Video Now Playing and Music now playing are empty now). If you invoke Next or Previous command, it will popup: "No item to play".
If you open a playlist with music, it opens in the Music-Now playing window. In this case you don't have the list cleared whenever you move through the items.
What about Video-Now Playing window? It's always empty. Right from the start. So, Music - Now playing is filled initially (with video streaming links), but then it gets cleared by Kodi (so you simply cannot navigate with GUI on such playlists). Video-Now Playing is never filled with the streaming video links.
This should be addressed by the Kodi developers.
Haven't tested the 15.2, but pretty sure the bug is still there.
This happens with GUI playlist opening as well.
Reproduce: put your streaming video playlist (for example channels like RT, France24) in userdata/playlists/video/playlist.strm. Then you open this playlist in Kodi (through GUI or via PlayMedia).
Result: Kodi puts the links into Music-Now Playing Window (Video - Now playing is empty).
Surely a bug.
Moreover, if you select any item from this wrong Music-Now Playing window, Kodi will get lost. It will open your item (position in a playlist), then it will simply clear the Music-Now Playing playlist (both Video Now Playing and Music now playing are empty now). If you invoke Next or Previous command, it will popup: "No item to play".
If you open a playlist with music, it opens in the Music-Now playing window. In this case you don't have the list cleared whenever you move through the items.
What about Video-Now Playing window? It's always empty. Right from the start. So, Music - Now playing is filled initially (with video streaming links), but then it gets cleared by Kodi (so you simply cannot navigate with GUI on such playlists). Video-Now Playing is never filled with the streaming video links.
This should be addressed by the Kodi developers.
Haven't tested the 15.2, but pretty sure the bug is still there.
