Playback fails frequently with Emby for Kodi
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
I am reasonable sure the issue is with the local http server the E4K add-on uses to work around the new Kodi 18 limitations about adding plugin links directly into the Kodi DB. From the logs it looks like at some point the local http server can not be contacted by the local Kodi player. The way this works is the internal db has a link to the local http server and the local server returns a strm file with the location of the actual file. However in the above log some of the local connections ar
