12.2 Does not play HEVC indexed files if filename contains international chars

  • If file name the of series episode using international characters, for example Czech/German, and I try to run it from the series menu, a message appears that the file does not exist and offers to delete the entry. If I try to run the file from the file menu, it cannot be run. This appears in the RPi5 OS 12.2.0. If I remove international characters from filename, it works. Files comes from Raspberry OpenMediaVault NAS server.

  • Upon deeper analysis, I found that the problem lies elsewhere. If I delete a series using the "Series" menu, this item disappears from the list, but not all items in the database. As soon as I rename some files (or replace them with a file with a different extension, for example, or change the diacritics) and add the series to the database again, some records remain original. Only some, I haven't come up with any rules. That's why the attempt to play the file ends with an error. Because I was replacing old AVI files with HEVC encoded MKV files, I mistakenly linked it. So the error is in deleting and adding items in the database.

  • So the error is in deleting and adding items in the database.

    Do you use the Kodi built-in database (SQLite), the Kodi database addon (MariaDB) or a database installed somewhere else? You should try to change it, to see if the bug remain the same. If you use Kodi on multiple device, the joint database it's an advantage, maybe you should think to install to your NAS server (if it's always on). Kodi-MySQL