chjohans Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 (edited) I've been using Emby since long before it became Emby, and the Emby for Kodi plugin since it was released. Playback has always been rock solid with Emby for Kodi, that is until a few months ago. Since then playback fails way too frequently in Kodi with the message "One or more items failed to play. Check the log for more information about this message.". It also takes a while (typically 20-40 seconds) before this message appears. Usually it will actually start playing the stream exactly when this message is being shown, and of course the stream stops playing as soon as I click OK to get rid of the message. So the stream actually starts to play about 9 times out of 10 this message is shown, when it's not the message will just show without the stream playing. When this happens every subsequent attempt will fail the same way, the fix seems to be to restart Kodi. Extremely annoying since Kodi takes a while to restart because of my massive list of Live TV channels. It happens almost daily so it's most annoying. All this started about 3-4 months ago, about the same time as I upgraded to Kodi Leia, but I can't say for certain that it was exactly the time when I switched to Leia. But before this started playback was always rock solid, and I have this exact issue on all my six Kodi installations, and with two different Emby servers. It just happened again so I'm attaching the kodi log from the client and the server log from the Emby server just a couple of minutes after I had this issue. I tried to restart the stream 4 times, and every time I had the issue I describe above. Please have a look at this most annoying issue. Oh and I have a Emby Premiere lifetime key in case that matters at all. kodi.log embyserver.txt Edited October 4, 2019 by chjohans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 How does the web app compare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 I only have playback problems with Emby for Kodi, if your question is if I have similar problems in the Emby web app. The web app, Emby for Roku, Emby for Apple TV and Emby Theatre, none of them have this playback problem. It's *only* happening with Emby for Kodi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abescalamis Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 I also have the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 Could this please get some attention? This has been an issue for months, and it happens so often that I prefer not to use Emby for Kodi at all until this is solved. See the attached log files from both Emby and Kodi when this happened four times in a row. This happens more often than not when trying to playback something from Kodi, and when it has started happening it seems like a restart of Kodi is necessary to be able to play something again. And after playing 2-3 titles it starts all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamB Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 This is a volunteer based project and not a core official Emby project, volunteers are not always available and some time there will be a delay in responding and answering questions. I had a quick look at your logs and can not see anything that jumps out at me. Unfortunate it has been some time since I fully understood the inner workings of the Emby for Kodi addon. I author the EmbyCon addon and they both work in the Kodi space but have slightly different approaches. You could try EmbyCon to see if playback works, if it fails in the same way you can start to look at other factors bot addon related like network or Kodi version etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 Thanks. Since I have this issue with all my Kodi installations, and since I've see others posting about the same issue, I will wait for some more insight from the developer before I start looking for other factors. It also happens on a clean Kodi installation with no other addons, and my network is rock solid and for sure not the cause of this. Hopefully someone will have a look at this sooner rather than later as it's been like this for a few months already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noustaa Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Hello, sometimes i get the same error in kodi with emby for kodi addon. 100% of the files in my library are .STRM files. Is it the case for you as well @@chjohans ? or do you have true video files in your library ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 No .strm files in my livbrary, mailly .mp4 and .mkv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noustaa Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 okay, it was just to know if the cause is related to the file format. Obviously it is not related. Thanks, lets wait and see if we get any news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Sure, thanks for stepping forward with the same issue, the more people experiencing this the more likely it is that it will be fixed. Hopefully sooner rather than later, this has already been going on for months and I more or less stopped using Kodi to playback my Emby library because of this - pretty annoying since I use Kodi for live TV (since Emby is not really any good at that), and now I have to keep switching to another Emby client to playback my Emby libraries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e2zippo Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 I'm having issues with this as well, running Coreelec with Emby for Kodi. A restart usually solves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) We also experience this sometimes, can’t find a pattern, it’s really strange. Only strm files here. Looks like something goes wrong with the playlist setup. Look at your „current playlist“ window. Probably it looks different than normal when playback doesn’t work anymore. Try to clear the playlist and check if playback works again. Looks like the problem doesn‘t trigger if you always start playback via context menu -> playback But it’s generally hard to find a real pattern here from my testings, so my statements are quite vague :-) Edited October 11, 2019 by horstepipe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0z3n Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) Yep you guys are not alone, same behaviour on my box, as described below. I was speaking to Angel about it a couple of weeks ago but haven't heard back in a while. Hope she's doing OK! https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/77587-playback-failed-one-or-more-items-failed-to-play-occurs-randomly-and-inconsistently/ Edited October 11, 2019 by fr0z3n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e2zippo Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Yeah, I noticed she's been awol for a while, like you said, hope she's doing Ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans Posted October 11, 2019 Author Share Posted October 11, 2019 I'm having issues with this as well, running Coreelec with Emby for Kodi. A restart usually solves it. Yep, a restart solves it until it happens again after having played a few titles. And a restart is pretty annoying for me as I have a lot of Live TV channels with big TV guides so it takes "forever" to restart Kodi. Until this is solved I just avoid using Emby for Kodi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Is this a beta kodi version, or stable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noustaa Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Stable for me 18.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0z3n Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 18.3 nightly and 18.4 stable / android os both experience the problem for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjohans Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 I'm using 18.4 stable, but this has been ongoing for many months, about since I upgraded from Kodi 17 to 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e2zippo Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Running stable here. 4.2.1.0. Kodi Companion 2.1.4.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0z3n Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 Yeah seems it's consistent across most emby versions on kodi 18. At first I thought it might be specific to my Android device but seems much wider spread now on this thread. Hopefully the good team finds a fix soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Are you still running into this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noustaa Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 (edited) Will give you feedback here if i face that problem again Edited October 18, 2019 by Noustaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0z3n Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Yes sir still happening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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