VU+ Kodi Support Problem with playing Kodi 16.1 from lan shares

[poldus]

Hi. I have problem with playing Kodi 16.1 from lan shares. Shares are visible (listed) from Kodi but not playng. There are music format (ex. mp3) and video format - listed but not playable from LAN (smb). Kodi plays music and video from HDD plugged to VuSolo2 directly. My network neibourhood is not WORKGROUP but my other name network neibourhood is visible fom Kodi. Shares have users and password and when I input credinentals listing shares is OK but not playable. Kodi player goes black and nothing happened. Back key exit ok from this state.

 

[DirtyDonki]

The unc path is likely to be too long for the internal player.

Suggest you do what I had to do and that is to make sure your external source is mounted as a share within E2. Then you can navigate to it in the Kodi settings and set it as a media source. Once done Kodi will scan for media and you will be able to play using the internal player.

Mp3 playback is a bit hit and miss but if you select an item you wish to play and then hit the Menu button you can choose the internal player to play it and it should work.

 

[poldus]

Other Kodi's 16.1 in my LAN (on Windows, on TV Box android) plays the same LAN shares like a harm - on the same unc path (my path isn't longer than 255 chars). Only this 16.1 Kodi on this image (OpenPLI 5) can't play anything (audio, video - listing ok). I do (from other foums) in Kodi settings - network shares add new source //IP_SHARE/FOLDER_SHARE:445 (after login password) share is visible but not playable. I thing there is a Kodi multimedia player problem. I remember that my old BH (2.0.8) image with Kodi 13.2 played everything but Kodi hangs after exit from multimedia player. Latest BH images (3.0.2) the same problem with Kodi 16.1 . I do in main setting OpenPLI 5.0 : network -> network browser -> search Shares is visible but after login password not expandable. I changed in /etc/samba/smb.conf name of workgroup to my workgroup name and reboot. No success Kodi 16.1 don't play - multimedia player goes black on the status bar there is info :name of the multimedia file and 0:00 time. Exit from player working. Multimedia from hdd directly connected to VuSolo2 (in USB) plays ok in Kodi 16.1.

 

[Ten Below]

I did a quick test & can play mp3/flac files from both internal hdd & remotely in kodi but like you both said it will hang on exit, for vu+ users the best option for playing music files over lan is still merlin music player imo.

 

[DirtyDonki]

Other Kodi's 16.1 in my LAN (on Windows, on TV Box android) plays the same LAN shares like a harm - on the same unc path (my path isn't longer than 255 chars). Only this 16.1 Kodi on this image (OpenPLI 5) can't play anything (audio, video - listing ok). I do (from other foums) in Kodi settings - network shares add new source //IP_SHARE/FOLDER_SHARE:445 (after login password) share is visible but not playable. I thing there is a Kodi multimedia player problem. I remember that my old BH (2.0.8) image with Kodi 13.2 played everything but Kodi hangs after exit from multimedia player. Latest BH images (3.0.2) the same problem with Kodi 16.1 . I do in main setting OpenPLI 5.0 : network -> network browser -> search Shares is visible but after login password not expandable. I changed in /etc/samba/smb.conf name of workgroup to my workgroup name and reboot. No success Kodi 16.1 don't play - multimedia player goes black on the status bar there is info :name of the multimedia file and 0:00 time. Exit from player working. Multimedia from hdd directly connected to VuSolo2 (in USB) plays ok in Kodi 16.1.

Other Kodi players do not have this problem. This is generic to the E2 Media players.
For it to work with E2 the drive must be mounted and appear under:

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In Kodi you can then use the root file system option to and add that source. Then, as if by magic it will all work.

 

[poldus]

Thank's working
What I do:
ssh login password
#cd /media/net
#mkdir MyShare //dir /media/net/MyShare

winscp (ftp protocol)
login password
/etc/fstab editing by adding line not the last one (before last one I don't know end of line)
//IP._S.HA.RE/SHARE /media/net/MyShare cifs rw,nolock,tcp,user=USER,password=PASS 0 0
save

from ssh window
# mount -a
// must be thinking and prompt only
#

from winscp window make sure then in /media/net/MyShare is visible Lan share directory structure
reboot VuSolo2
From Kodi add source ONLY trouhg root filesystem /media/net/MyShare

Sorry for my English...
Thanks DirtyDonki

 

[poldus]

Hi. I have problem with playing Kodi 16.1 from lan shares. Shares are visible (listed) from Kodi but not playng. There are music format (ex. mp3) and video format - listed but not playable from LAN (smb). Kodi plays music and video from HDD plugged to VuSolo2 directly. My network neibourhood is not WORKGROUP but my other name network neibourhood is visible fom Kodi. Shares have users and password and when I input credinentals listing shares is OK but not playable. Kodi player goes black and nothing happened. Back key exit ok from this state.

 

[DirtyDonki]

The unc path is likely to be too long for the internal player.

Suggest you do what I had to do and that is to make sure your external source is mounted as a share within E2. Then you can navigate to it in the Kodi settings and set it as a media source. Once done Kodi will scan for media and you will be able to play using the internal player.

Mp3 playback is a bit hit and miss but if you select an item you wish to play and then hit the Menu button you can choose the internal player to play it and it should work.

 

[poldus]

Other Kodi's 16.1 in my LAN (on Windows, on TV Box android) plays the same LAN shares like a harm - on the same unc path (my path isn't longer than 255 chars). Only this 16.1 Kodi on this image (OpenPLI 5) can't play anything (audio, video - listing ok). I do (from other foums) in Kodi settings - network shares add new source //IP_SHARE/FOLDER_SHARE:445 (after login password) share is visible but not playable. I thing there is a Kodi multimedia player problem. I remember that my old BH (2.0.8) image with Kodi 13.2 played everything but Kodi hangs after exit from multimedia player. Latest BH images (3.0.2) the same problem with Kodi 16.1 . I do in main setting OpenPLI 5.0 : network -> network browser -> search Shares is visible but after login password not expandable. I changed in /etc/samba/smb.conf name of workgroup to my workgroup name and reboot. No success Kodi 16.1 don't play - multimedia player goes black on the status bar there is info :name of the multimedia file and 0:00 time. Exit from player working. Multimedia from hdd directly connected to VuSolo2 (in USB) plays ok in Kodi 16.1.

 

[Ten Below]

I did a quick test & can play mp3/flac files from both internal hdd & remotely in kodi but like you both said it will hang on exit, for vu+ users the best option for playing music files over lan is still merlin music player imo.

 

[DirtyDonki]

Other Kodi's 16.1 in my LAN (on Windows, on TV Box android) plays the same LAN shares like a harm - on the same unc path (my path isn't longer than 255 chars). Only this 16.1 Kodi on this image (OpenPLI 5) can't play anything (audio, video - listing ok). I do (from other foums) in Kodi settings - network shares add new source //IP_SHARE/FOLDER_SHARE:445 (after login password) share is visible but not playable. I thing there is a Kodi multimedia player problem. I remember that my old BH (2.0.8) image with Kodi 13.2 played everything but Kodi hangs after exit from multimedia player. Latest BH images (3.0.2) the same problem with Kodi 16.1 . I do in main setting OpenPLI 5.0 : network -> network browser -> search Shares is visible but after login password not expandable. I changed in /etc/samba/smb.conf name of workgroup to my workgroup name and reboot. No success Kodi 16.1 don't play - multimedia player goes black on the status bar there is info :name of the multimedia file and 0:00 time. Exit from player working. Multimedia from hdd directly connected to VuSolo2 (in USB) plays ok in Kodi 16.1.

Other Kodi players do not have this problem. This is generic to the E2 Media players.
For it to work with E2 the drive must be mounted and appear under:

Please, Log in or Register to view codes content!

In Kodi you can then use the root file system option to and add that source. Then, as if by magic it will all work.

 

[poldus]

Thank's working
What I do:
ssh login password
#cd /media/net
#mkdir MyShare //dir /media/net/MyShare

winscp (ftp protocol)
login password
/etc/fstab editing by adding line not the last one (before last one I don't know end of line)
//IP._S.HA.RE/SHARE /media/net/MyShare cifs rw,nolock,tcp,user=USER,password=PASS 0 0
save

from ssh window
# mount -a
// must be thinking and prompt only
#

from winscp window make sure then in /media/net/MyShare is visible Lan share directory structure
reboot VuSolo2
From Kodi add source ONLY trouhg root filesystem /media/net/MyShare

Sorry for my English...
Thanks DirtyDonki