Hello forum,
I have huge problems with playing certain files (mp4, flv, mkv, etc), that I have on my drive for some time now.
Must say in advance, I migrated from RPi2 to the RPi3 and from OE7 to LE8.
I was using OE5 on the RPi2 for a looong time, and all the files in question played very well.
I then migrated to OE7, but did not play the old files since then. Then another migration to the RPi3.
Now on the RPi3 I wanted to play some of these old files again and discovered, they where not working anymore. Kodi just showed "Some files did not play blah blah". I thought, well, OE7 seems quite dead, lets go to LE8!
But, alas, same problem.
I enabled logging and took a look at it and what I found was quite interesting.
In the same folder where I have some of these old files, there was a leftover RAR file File80.part04.rar, from some time ago.
It seems when trying to play some videos, Kodi wants to open the part rar file (for what reason I do not know) and when this failes, the video player dies.
Seems to be some kind of bug hitting OE as well as LE.
Logfiles are here:
kodi - Pastebin.com
Any ideas on why this might happen?
edit: When I delete/move the rar file(s) the problem is gone and the files play!