Gentlemen,
it all started with me replacing my router, and having issues with configuring external USB disk plugged into router as a samba share, like I did before. After all, I made my external disk visible as FTP share using software supplied with the router. The disk content is unchanged. Hardware/software I use for Kodi: Intel based PC with fullscale Ubuntu 14.04
Now for the problem – I used to watch VIDEO_TS folders by highlighting (aka selecting) them and clicking Play. I can’t do it anymore. Individual video files still played Ok.
Initially I thought that the problem is caused by me also updating my Kodi from Frodo to fresh Jarvis stable release. But I also have some old Kodi installed on FireTV stick, and after re-mapping source for videos from old SAMBA share (which does not exist anymore) to a newly established FTP share, I have same issue on FireTV stick – can’t play VIDEO_TS folders. The file content itself is visible, if I descend inside VIDEO_TS I can play individual video files.
So I think the issue may be in switching from SAMBA to FTP, not in Kodi update.
LAST UPDATE: I plugged external disk straight to my Ubuntu PC, to exclude remote share from consideration – and Kodi can play VIDEO_TS folders this way!
So the question – what is wrong in having external disk access configured via FTP? Do I absolutely need it as SAMBA or some other protocol?
Thanks!
Just in case, a small extract from the log:
20:06:19 T:140096630073344 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: ftp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@<MY FTP SERVER>.asuscomm.com:21/sda1/Boris/Videos/Movies/<MY MOVIE NAME> (2013)/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
20:06:19 T:140096630073344 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
20:06:19 T:140094786762496 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
20:06:20 T:140094786762496 ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat – Failed: FTP: couldn’t retrieve (RETR failed) the specified file(19) for ftp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@<MY FTP SERVER>.asuscomm.com:21/sda1/Boris/Videos/Movies/<MY MOVIE NAME> (2013)
20:06:20 T:140094786762496 ERROR: Error on dvdnav_open
20:06:20 T:140094786762496 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream – error opening [ftp://<MY FTP LOGIN>:<MY FTP PASSWORD>@<MY FTP SERVER>.asuscomm.com:21/sda1/Boris/Videos/Movies/<MY MOVIE NAME> (2013)/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO]
20:06:20 T:140094786762496 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
20:06:20 T:140096630073344 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [ftp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@<MY FTP SERVER>.asuscomm.com:21/sda1/Boris/Videos/Movies/<MY MOVIE NAME> (2013)/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO]
20:06:20 T:140096630073344 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
20:06:20 T:140096630073344 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
20:06:20 T:140096630073344 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
20:06:20 T:140096630073344 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
20:06:20 T:140096630073344 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit