Nginx http/2 with Kodi

[banderson1311 5]

I am seeing this same issue using Emby for Kodi on the Firestick.  I am using direct paths playback and seeing it freeze every 30-60 seconds on multiple firesticks.  I confirmed that playback was fine using the Emby app on my phone.  This started within the last few days (I believe it worked with no issues on Friday).  I am attaching both the Kodi and Emby logs in case that helps.  Let me know if there's anything else I should try.

embyserver.txt kodi.log

[quickmic 1336]

First, issue:

failed to load addon settings from special://profile/addon_data/plugin.video.emby/settings.xml

 

Seems emby for kodi settings are corrupted -> special://profile/addon_data/plugin.video.emby/settings.xml

This can happen on power cuts. Do you have a backup of kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.emby/settings.xml ? Can you restore it?

If not, I'm afraid you have to reset your emby for kodi settings.

Edited November 9, 2020 by quickmic

[banderson1311 5]

Thanks.  I'll take a look at the settings.  I'll also check the logs on the other devices that were giving me similar behavior to see if the same error is present there.

[banderson1311 5]

I restored a backup of the configuration file and resolved that issue.  Interestingly I was unable to reproduce the random stopping today on each of the different devices where this was occurring yesterday.  I'm not sure what changed.  I'll continue monitoring and if I notice anything will get an updated log.  Thanks for your help.

[banderson1311 5]

I've been seeing this issue intermittently again.  I'm attaching the Kodi and Emby server logs for the most recent occurrence.

@Happy2Play please move all of my posts from this topic the to Kodi section. Thanks.

embyserver.txt kodi.log

[quickmic 1336]

Please try disable UPNP in kodi.

[Samuel77 1]

Hello, sorry for my delayed response. I have attached the embycon debug log below. Please note I'm still having the random stopping when watching something on "HTTPS" Port 443. It's happening both on embycon and also on emby android app ONLY when I use "HTTPS". No issues whatsoever if I use "HTTP". The following issue only started happening since the new emby server update (4.5-4.5.2 ). On old emby server (4.3.1) I had no issues direct streaming/direct playing with the HTTPS protocol. Hope you can figure out what's causing this issue. Thank you.

kodi.log

[quickmic 1336]

@Luke

Propably it has something todo with HTTP/2 SSL error log msg here:

2020-11-11 01:56:54.759 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|Closing HTTP connection: <httplib.HTTPSConnection instance at 0xb0d026e0>
2020-11-11 01:56:56.087 T:12285   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Stream error in the HTTP/2 framing layer(92)

 

Edited November 11, 2020 by quickmic

[Happy2Play 8252]

@banderson1311 Please follow this topic for updates.  Follow button top right

[quickmic 1336]

@TeamB

 

Please check these log records:

2020-11-11 01:56:46.170 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.play_utils|DEBUG|Sending POST progress started: {'ItemId': u'1368023', 'PlaySessionId': u'a74dcd5b1a1942d88c7a5897a581dd32', 'QueueableMediaTypes': 'Video', 'PlaylistLength': 1, 'MediaSourceId': u'fef2872848c4243295f9586ea6fb7ea2', 'IsMuted': False, 'PositionTicks': 25933420410L, 'IsPaused': False, 'CanSeek': True, 'VolumeLevel': 100, 'PlayMethod': 'DirectStream', 'PlaylistIndex': 0, 'RunTimeTicks': 31150002441L}
2020-11-11 01:56:46.171 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|downloadUrl
2020-11-11 01:56:46.181 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|Before: {server}/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2020-11-11 01:56:46.194 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|After: https://emby.popcorney.xyz:443/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress

 

Focus here: "'RunTimeTicks': 31150002441L"

and here:

"'PositionTicks': 25933420410L"

That doesn't seem right -> L

 

Edited November 11, 2020 by quickmic

[banderson1311 5]

6 hours ago, quickmic said:

Please try disable UPNP in kodi.

It was already disabled in Kodi.  I did turn off port forwarding in Emby server which cleared a lot of errors from the Emby log.  Not sure if that would have any correlation to the Kodi issues.  I also tweaked a few settings in Kodi.  I'll keep an eye on this and see if the issue reoccurs.

[TeamB 2352]

9 hours ago, quickmic said:

@TeamB

 

Please check these log records:

2020-11-11 01:56:46.170 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.play_utils|DEBUG|Sending POST progress started: {'ItemId': u'1368023', 'PlaySessionId': u'a74dcd5b1a1942d88c7a5897a581dd32', 'QueueableMediaTypes': 'Video', 'PlaylistLength': 1, 'MediaSourceId': u'fef2872848c4243295f9586ea6fb7ea2', 'IsMuted': False, 'PositionTicks': 25933420410L, 'IsPaused': False, 'CanSeek': True, 'VolumeLevel': 100, 'PlayMethod': 'DirectStream', 'PlaylistIndex': 0, 'RunTimeTicks': 31150002441L}
2020-11-11 01:56:46.171 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|downloadUrl
2020-11-11 01:56:46.181 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|Before: {server}/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2020-11-11 01:56:46.194 T:12178  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|After: https://emby.popcorney.xyz:443/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress

 

Focus here: "'RunTimeTicks': 31150002441L"

and here:

"'PositionTicks': 25933420410L"

That doesn't seem right -> L

 

Its just a python print thing, I don't think it is actually transmitting that

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17473195/how-to-avoid-the-l-in-python

[Kilian 0]

For info, I think I'm having the same issue while streaming from Kodi using the EmbyCon addon. In my case, files always stop at the same exact moment if I leave them playing so it's easy to reproduce. If I just forward the video before a minute laps I can get to the end of the video. 

Last logs I see on Kodi:

2020-11-12 10:39:53.572 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.play_utils|DEBUG|Sending Progress Update
2020-11-12 10:39:53.573 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.play_utils|DEBUG|Sending POST progress started: {'ItemId': u'678598', 'PlaySessionId': u'4ac0b364df744c359700da59f2cc4a8e', 'QueueableMediaTypes': 'Video', 'PlaylistLength': 1, 'MediaSourceId': u'd2b931cdc97ccf80245905df1ee48e81', 'IsMuted': False, 'PositionTicks': 1519780120, 'IsPaused': False, 'CanSeek': True, 'VolumeLevel': 100, 'PlayMethod': 'DirectStream', 'PlaylistIndex': 0, 'RunTimeTicks': 14201090087}
2020-11-12 10:39:53.573 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|downloadUrl
2020-11-12 10:39:53.579 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|Before: {server}/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2020-11-12 10:39:53.583 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|After: https://<<hostname>>:443/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2020-11-12 10:39:53.583 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|Connection: HTTPS, Cert checked
2020-11-12 10:39:53.593 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|EmbyCon DownloadUtils -> Returning saved UserID: 111111111
2020-11-12 10:39:53.593 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|EmbyCon DownloadUtils -> Returning saved AccessToken: 111111111
2020-11-12 10:39:53.593 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|EmbyCon Authentication Header: {'Accept-Charset': 'UTF-8,*', 'X-Emby-Authorization': u'MediaBrowser UserId="111111",Client="Kodi EmbyCon",Device="EmbyCon",DeviceId="402E298D8C844CAFA7622FA4743DA869",Version="1.9.106"', 'Accept-encoding': 'gzip', 'X-MediaBrowser-Token': '1111111'}
2020-11-12 10:39:53.593 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|HEADERS: {'Accept-Charset': 'UTF-8,*', 'User-Agent': 'EmbyCon-1.9.106', 'X-Emby-Authorization': u'MediaBrowser UserId="1111111",Client="Kodi EmbyCon",Device="EmbyCon",DeviceId="402E298D8C844CAFA7622FA4743DA869",Version="1.9.106"', 'Accept-encoding': 'gzip', 'X-MediaBrowser-Token': '42ccb53c6f7245debdc0f02d54d9ff38'}
2020-11-12 10:39:53.593 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|Content-Type: application/json
2020-11-12 10:39:53.593 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|POST DATA: {"ItemId": "678598", "PlaySessionId": "4ac0b364df744c359700da59f2cc4a8e", "QueueableMediaTypes": "Video", "PlaylistLength": 1, "MediaSourceId": "d2b931cdc97ccf80245905df1ee48e81", "IsMuted": false, "PositionTicks": 1519780120, "IsPaused": false, "CanSeek": true, "VolumeLevel": 100, "PlayMethod": "DirectStream", "PlaylistIndex": 0, "RunTimeTicks": 14201090087}
2020-11-12 10:39:53.694 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|HTTP response: 204 No Content
2020-11-12 10:39:53.694 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|GET URL HEADERS: [('content-length', '0'), ('access-control-allow-methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS'), ('strict-transport-security', 'max-age=31536000'), ('server', 'nginx/1.19.3'), ('connection', 'keep-alive'), ('date', 'Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:39:53 GMT'), ('access-control-allow-origin', '*'), ('access-control-allow-headers', 'Accept, Accept-Language, Authorization, Cache-Control, Content-Disposition, Content-Encoding, Content-Language, Content-Length, Content-MD5, Content-Range, Content-Type, Date, Host, If-Match, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match, If-Unmodified-Since, Origin, OriginToken, Pragma, Range, Slug, Transfer-Encoding, Want-Digest, X-MediaBrowser-Token, X-Emby-Token, X-Emby-Client, X-Emby-Client-Version, X-Emby-Device-Id, X-Emby-Device-Name, X-Emby-Authorization')]
2020-11-12 10:39:53.694 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.downloadutils|DEBUG|Closing HTTP connection: <httplib.HTTPSConnection instance at 0x60000adbf9a0>
2020-11-12 10:39:53.696 T:123145324613632  NOTICE: EmbyCon.resources.lib.tracking|INFO|timing_data|download_url|1605173993.57|1605173993.7|{server}/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2020-11-12 10:39:57.706 T:123145310584832   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Stream error in the HTTP/2 framing layer(92)

 

Edited November 12, 2020 by Kilian

[Samuel77 1]

Hey @Luke  can you pls confirm if the HTTPS connection issues are being looked into and hopefully a fix released soon? Thank u

[Luke 37024]

Can you try the beta server and see how that compares? Thanks.

[rodainas 188]

This happens to me, with embycon and embycon beta, random interruptions, server on https port 443, am using kodi leia 18.9 

[Luke 37024]

4 hours ago, rodainas said:

This happens to me, with embycon and embycon beta, random interruptions, server on https port 443, am using kodi leia 18.9 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a problem. Thanks !

[rodainas 188]

Here it is @Luke

Problem: Playback randomly interrumpted using embycon/emby for Kodi on AndroidTV/Firetv OS.

Tested on Kodi 18.9 Leia on a Firestick 4K.

The logs are from embycon from stable repository. 

But just FYI the same thing happens with Emby for Kodi (stable and beta, and version 5.0.0) and embycon (beta), also happens on Nvidia Shield.

On Kodi Log: interruption ocurred on 9:15

On Emby Server Log: interruption occured at 3:15 (Same event showed on Kodi Log, but server is on another time zone).

Saw a similar problem on this topic the user reported that the admin had to do an emby server downgrade and the problem stopped EmbyCon Streams stoping during watching (randomly) - Kodi - Emby Community 

Thank you.

embyserver.txt kodi.log

Edited December 28, 2020 by rodainas

[Luke 37024]

First of all there's no http2 being used here, at least not at the emby server level. Maybe that's happening at your reverse proxy level, if you're running one?

Secondly, there's no obvious problem either. Are you running a reverse proxy? Try disabling http2 there and see if it helps.

[rodainas 188]

Yes I use nginx, removed http2 but the problem persisted, so I edited other options on the config file, now Kodi is playing flawlessly. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Edited December 29, 2020 by rodainas

[Luke 37024]

Thanks for the feedback.

[quickmic 1336]

18 hours ago, rodainas said:

Yes I use nginx, removed http2 but the problem persisted, so I edited other options on the config file, now Kodi is playing flawlessly. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Can you please explain, what you have changed? I got similar bug reports with cloudflare in proxy mode.

 

btw, I'm using an Apache proxy and never experience such issues.

 

Edited December 29, 2020 by quickmic

[rodainas 188]

I used the config on pir8radio post as a base to modify mine.

HOW TO: emby with NGINX - With Windows Specific Tips and CSP options - General/Windows - Emby Community

I tested this config with cloudfare and so far everything is working fine, no issues.

Hope this can help.