[PantsOnFireAgain]

Dear all,

Recently purchased a Series X.

I have a Pi2b running OSMC upstairs, and a vid + music library shared by uPnP.

Build: latest avail from Store
Config: Eminence skin, a link/menu item (icon) added to Home, pointed directly to the uPnP library.

Symptoms:
Clicking in, displays:
Genres, Artists, Albums, Top 100 (etc etc)...

1) but if I start (select a track to play), Kodi goes full screen, but skips each track in sequence until it finishes the playlist and the result is, nothing gets played.

Other issue:
2) no thumbnails of album art are shown in the UI. Iirc, this was just an inherent limit of the uPnP functionality, which was a huge shame, and I never found a workaround.. but I wondered if there had been any update to this over the years. Seems not?
If not, is there a better way for me to share my music library so that thumbs are visible please?

3) Movies are also failing to start playback. (same uPnP setup, same symptoms as with music).
(artwork issue also the same).


---i took a dump of the log file, and it looks like it's failing to initialise the player? I took a look in Settings > Player, to see if there were any avail choices for codec/playback, but didn't see any/don't know where they are these days.

Might be something simple, anyone willing to take a cursory at my log file see what's up?

Greatful for the help.
Kind regs

my log

[izprtxqkft]

your setup is misconfigured

"Failed with code 404" on every file you try to play

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404

kodi is not to blame when the server cannot locate your files and serve them

[PantsOnFireAgain]

The error im seeing...
Believe me I've seen it a thousand times.
You may not guess, but I've been using Kodi for about 15 years in one form or another..

My Kodi install here is pretty much out the box.
The custom menu icon is just directly pointing to the uPnP library. It's obviously finding it....
Because when I enter that section, it is displaying the list of contents... music, movies... Whatever..

But it just won't start the playback.


I've verified the connection is ok, by using BubbleUpNp app on Android. Plus other apps on devices which can read uPnp libraries...

So at this point I'm not convinced it's a network config setup problem..

[jbinkley60]

The error im seeing...
Believe me I've seen it a thousand times.
You may not guess, but I've been using Kodi for about 15 years in one form or another..

My Kodi install here is pretty much out the box.
The custom menu icon is just directly pointing to the uPnP library. It's obviously finding it....
Because when I enter that section, it is displaying the list of contents... music, movies... Whatever..

But it just won't start the playback.


I've verified the connection is ok, by using BubbleUpNp app on Android. Plus other apps on devices which can read uPnp libraries...

So at this point I'm not convinced it's a network config setup problem..

If you want, you might want to try my Mezzmo Kodi addon.  It has support for Kodi UPnP servers and others.  It also has the ability to log the XML responses from the UPnP servers so we can troubleshoot questions around artwork not showing up etc..  The support forum is here.  Many folks are using it for non-Mezzmo UPnP servers.


Thanks,

Jeff

[PantsOnFireAgain]

Ok cool, let's give it a go.
Found the Kodi add-on page:

https://github.com/Conceiva/MezzmoKodiPl...and-higher

---how do I go about downloading? Is there a repo I can add to Kodi to acquire the addon?

Ps I have no intention of installing Mezzmo on any windows computer, I purely want to stick to serving my media from my RaspPi KODI box.

I'm using Kodi 20+ on the seriesX.

[jbinkley60]

Ok cool, let's give it a go.
Found the Kodi add-on page:

https://github.com/Conceiva/MezzmoKodiPl...and-higher

---how do I go about downloading? Is there a repo I can add to Kodi to acquire the addon?

Ps I have no intention of installing Mezzmo on any windows computer, I purely want to stick to serving my media from my RaspPi KODI box.

I'm using Kodi 20+ on the seriesX.

I had provided the link above to the Kodi 19+ version.  Here it is again.  Click on the green code button and download zip.  Once you install this version future updates will download automatically.


Thanks,

Jeff

[PantsOnFireAgain]

Hi Jeff, sorry yeah found the page (s) you linked, had a thorough read of the FAQs and things but couldn't see the green DL button (Im viewing on phone web browser - CHROME). I switched to desktop mode and voilà it appear. Sorry!
Cheers! Thanks!

[jbinkley60]

Hi Jeff, sorry yeah found the page (s) you linked, had a thorough read of the FAQs and things but couldn't see the green DL button (Im viewing on phone web browser - CHROME). I switched to desktop mode and voilà it appear. Sorry!
Cheers! Thanks!

Glad you found it.  You'll also need to disable the Only Show Mezzmo Servers in the addon settings View tab. 


Thanks,

Jeff

[PantsOnFireAgain]

Thanks Jeff, just installed it and we tended to that setting you mentioned.

Immediate first try are showing no artwork but .. Maybe it's possible I can work on this later (busy day ahead).

[jbinkley60]

Thanks Jeff, just installed it and we tended to that setting you mentioned.

Immediate first try are showing no artwork but .. Maybe it's possible I can work on this later (busy day ahead).

Thanks for the update.  Focus first on things playing properly.  Then we can focus on metadata and artwork much of which will be determined by your UPnP server.  Note that you should get artwork for the videos and audio tracks, if they are in your UPnP server and it provides the proper XML response so the addon can find the URLs / artwork. 

However, actor / actress images will not be displayed for Kodi information panels since those come from Kodi database queries to populate the info panels and with UPnP mode of operation for the Mezzmo Kodi addon there is no Kodi sync process.  Also, the current DLNA / UPnP specs don't have an agreed-to method of propagating this type of artwork for video / music elements.  They only get propagated via the XML response if you are browsing an actor / actress playlist.


Jeff

[PantsOnFireAgain]

I don't really have the time to spend reading through the whole wiki start to finish.

I have no quick idea what is wrong with the setup here...

Fresh install Kodi series X.
Links set up in exact same way they are on my Pi ( works ok)

I made effort to fish out and post the log, so I was definitely doing what I could...

I just don't have too much time.

If anyone else has a the time to help instead of just a 'google it' response, I welcome friendly chat. all help appreciated.

[jbinkley60]

I don't really have the time to spend reading through the whole wiki start to finish.

I have no quick idea what is wrong with the setup here...

Fresh install Kodi series X.
Links set up in exact same way they are on my Pi ( works ok)

I made effort to fish out and post the log, so I was definitely doing what I could...

I just don't have too much time.

If anyone else has a the time to help instead of just a 'google it' response, I welcome friendly chat. all help appreciated.

I understand the wiki has a lot of information.  Is there a short version here ?  I suggested the Mezzmo Kodi addon to see if it would help you play videos which had stopped working.  Are you able to play videos with the addon ?   If not, can you tell me what is happening or upload a logfile ?  Artwork is a much more complicated topic.


Thanks,

Jeff

[CrystalP]

If the Kodi on the Pi is the uPnP server, you may be hitting the bug addressed by this PR https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23711

Depends how your media server shares the files with the Pi, can you describe your system?

[PantsOnFireAgain]

Dear all,
Thanks for all your help with this, particularly thanks to @CrystalP for weighing in on this.
And to @jbinkley60 for advice with the addon mentioned.

Thanks for coming back to help again..

I believe i was possibly affected by that issue mentioned (CrystalP)...
In the end, I reinstalled Kodi from scratch, added the uPnP source again, set up menu items in Eminence etc, and all appears to be working finally.

I might still pursue Mezzmo as it seems pretty cool, but for now I can this thread resolved. Thanks all.