I’m a long time user of XMBC and then Kodi, and over the last few months I have slowly been upgrading to each new version one by one to get current. I have an issue with Kodi since upgrading to v16. I have just tried upgrading to v17.1, but the problem persists.
I have one movie in particular that stopped playing, despite it showing as Watched…since we’ve watched it before. The movie is “The Money Pit”, which is a DVD image (Filename = “Money Pit.iso”). When I select the movie in the Movie library it says “This file is no longer available. Would you like to remove it from the library?” I said yes and rescanned, but the same problem persists. If I go into the Videos section and manually browse to the file, it plays fine…it’s only in library mode that this problem exists.
I removed the movie from the library, renamed the file to “The Money Pit.iso”, rescanned the library, and now the movie plays fine. So then I went through my list of movies and sure enough every one I’ve come across that starts with “The” in the title has the exact same issue. Since I have manually ripped all my movies, I took out the word “The” from the beginning of the filename for every movie that starts with it so movies are properly alphabetized in my folder.
Here’s my log file, which should contain everything from initially trying to play it, then re-adding to the library, then renaming and re-adding to the library, and then successfully playing.
[Edit log] http://pastebin.com/TizsBCum