I recently switched to Kodi 18 with the Emby addon (didn’t use Emby before), so I’m not sure if it could be an Emby bug but I don’t think so.
Steps to reproduce : go to Settings -> Media -> Videos and set the “Default select action” to Show information. Then go back to the home screen, under “TV Shows” and click on any TV Show in the “In progress TV shows” list. You will be greeted with the show information, but if you click “Play”, instead of taking you to the show episodes, nothing happens and you get back to the home screen.
I enabled debugging to get as much logging as possible, but the error is easy to find in the logs. Here it is:
13:41:22.831 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: Radio UECP (RDS) Processor - new CDVDRadioRDSData
13:41:22.831 T:140735696679872 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: smb://192.168.10.160/Videos2/Series/How The Earth Was Made/
13:41:22.832 T:140735696679872 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
13:41:22.832 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: LinuxRendererGL: Cleaning up GL resources
13:41:22.832 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: CLinuxRendererGL::PreInit - precision of luminance 16 is 16
13:41:22.832 T:123145385517056 DEBUG: Thread VideoPlayer start, auto delete: false
13:41:22.834 T:123145385517056 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
13:41:22.861 T:123145385517056 DEBUG: CSMBFile::Open - opened smb://192.168.10.160/Videos2/Series/How The Earth Was Made/, fd=-1
13:41:22.862 T:123145385517056 INFO: SMBFile->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://USERNAME:[email protected]/Videos2/Series/How%20The%20Earth%20Was%20Made'
unix_err:'3' error : 'No such process'
13:41:22.862 T:123145385517056 ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [smb://192.168.10.160/Videos2/Series/How The Earth Was Made/]
13:41:22.862 T:123145385517056 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
13:41:22.862 T:123145385517056 DEBUG: OnPlayBackStopped: play state was 1, starting 1
13:41:22.862 T:123145385517056 DEBUG: Thread VideoPlayer 123145385517056 terminating
13:41:22.862 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: OnPlayBackStopped: play state was 3, starting 0
13:41:22.862 T:123145388199936 DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnStop from xbmc
13:41:22.862 T:140735696679872 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [smb://192.168.10.160/Videos2/Series/How The Earth Was Made/]
13:41:22.863 T:123145388199936 DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 1, from xbmc, message OnStop
13:41:22.863 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: Playlist Player: no more playable items... aborting playback
13:41:22.863 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x24, sym: 0x000d, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
13:41:22.863 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: CDirectoryProvider[videodb://inprogresstvshows]: refreshing..
13:41:22.868 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x24, sym: 0x000d, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
13:41:22.878 T:140735696679872 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
13:41:22.878 T:140735696679872 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
13:41:22.878 T:140735696679872 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
13:41:22.878 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: DeleteRenderer - deleting renderer
13:41:22.878 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: LinuxRendererGL: Cleaning up GL resources
13:41:22.886 T:140735696679872 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
13:41:22.887 T:140735696679872 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
13:41:22.887 T:140735696679872 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
13:41:22.888 T:140735696679872 DEBUG: Radio UECP (RDS) Processor - delete ~CDVDRadioRDSData
It looks like Kodi is trying to play a video instead of opening the path in the season browser. Here is the full debug log, in case it can be useful : https://pastebin.com/raw/N3Whj1Bm
Do you have any idea why this is occurring? This is happening on Mac OSX Sierra but I experience the same issue on my Nvidia Shield TV.
Thank you!