This is the normal info display when the film is running! It is in every Kodi version !
@panni something happened with P4K on RPi (LibreElec).
It just wonāt open anymore. Keeps loading only.
I suspect it has something to do with Kodi 20 (Nexus) reaching Beta.
Here is the log:
kodi.zip (29.4 KB)
@panni Kodi 20 RC1 is available for Android TV
I installed. And guess what? The same thing that is happening on the Raspberry Pi is now happening on Android TV
I donāt know if you are still maintaining this addon but can you please have a look now since you most likely will have access to a hardware that runs Android TV?
I will try to investigate how can I provide later some logs from Kodi running on my NSTV.
It will be hard. Because itās crashing the whole thing.
Please, let us know. This addon is the only way I can play AV1 from Plex today
PS: Iāve edited this post to add log from Kodi running on the Nvidia Shield TV.
Hope it helps this time.
kodi.log (189.8 KB)
Is there anyone else seeing this behavior?
(After running P4K it stalls on the loading screen)ā¦
Can anyone else reading please download KODI 20 RC1 for Android TV and test if Plex for Kodi normally opens?
Iām starting to get desperate here. I believe @panni doesnāt believe on my reports.
Iāve tried everything. I did even run behind a VPN (with multiple IP addresses from multiple geographic locations) to no avail.
I spoke with some devs from the LibreElec project.
The issue that is preventing Plex for Kodi to properly load on the the latest Kodi 20 Release Candidate 1 is due to Python 3.11
Iāll take a look at the changes in py 3.11; itāll be hard to test effectively, as I have no Linux-GUI dev environment right now and donāt plan on building one.
Please donāt forget: Iām not the maintainer of this addon. Iāve merely added a couple of features and fixed it to work for the last two stable Kodi releases.
I am also seeing this on CoreELEC Nexus Beta1.
Hi @panni
Glad to see youāre back.
You can count on me to run some tests if you see fit. Maybe I can learn a thing or two in the process.
A new feature that need to be added is allow av1 since thereās more now support for transcoding/direct play on the newest Plex servers released.
Feel free to contact me anytime.
I have Shield TV Pro 2017, and Plex for Kodi wonāt open for me eitherā¦
(I am on Kodi v.20 Release)
Just a heads up.
Kodi 20 is ready. It will be released officially on a day or two.
Did you look into the newer python issue?
Please, let us know.
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Hopefully it gets sorted. I really donāt want to move away from Plex for Kodi. Every other client blows in comparison
We have a big problem.
What is happening? If you look at my old posts during the development of Kodi 20 I mentioned this issue that is now blown open for everybody.
I was able to engage @panni in last June, I think. He tried to help but on his test bed, he wasnāt able to see what was happening.
Only in earlier December, I was able to understand why that he wasnāt seeing anything I was reporting.
The reason is that he (@panni) added new features and maintained Plex For Kodi using Windows. Everything worked until this year because the python version used was the same on Windows, Raspberry Pi, and Android.
This has changed now. On Android and Rpi (and probably other SBCs) the python version demanded is now 3.11
If you download Kodi 20 for Windows you will see that P4k it is working. At least It is working on my laptop.
I fear that will take another person to chime in on this issue (porting P4K to python 3.11)
Unfortunately, I canāt code. I donāt know hard it would take to port P4K for Kodi. I already looked into the code. But I have no idea where to go.
I tried to talk to some LibreELEC devs but they think Plex stills maintain this addon and politely told me to ask Plex to fix it. I was even under the impression that it doesnāt seem to be much work to do it. But I have no clue how to do it.
P4K It is the official Plex Client for Kodi in name only on the Kodi Repositories. I honestly think Plex let us down.
Big Time.
Iāll get to you probably beginning of next week with some test builds. Your latest log only shows inspect.getargspec as an error, which is fine, because that function has been deprecated before and has now been removed in 3.11, replaced by getfullargspec.
We might stumble upon certain other changes, but if youāre willing to go back and forth with builds (and are able to install those), we should get there fairly quickly, if nothing bigger broke.
And yes, this addon has been pretty much abandoned as it seems; Iāll try to keep it alive as best I can.
Hi @panni.
Feel free to contact me for anything you may need. Iāll gladly help you out. You can DM me to make things even faster.
I canāt code but Iām not afraid of testing this and filling bug reports.
You did fantastic work keeping this addon alive and running solid. I can attest to that. I have used it a lot!
It is a shame that Plex totally disregarded it. Maybe in the future, other people could help you maintain it and add some must-have features which may appear. I noticed that End Credits skipping is just around the corner.
This is a whole new conversation. Letās not get ahead of ourselves here.
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Iāve just sent you a test build via DM. This might work with your setup; it has an AV1 DP toggle setting implemented already.
End credits skipping should be a fairly straight forward feature to implement, as Iāve implemented the intro skipping for P4K back in the day.
Edit: Be sure to turn off auto-updates for the addon or itāll be overwritten. You might also need to install its dependencies.
Kodi 20 with my P4K fork is at least working on LibreELEC with a test build.
Iāll update the Donāt Panic repository in the upcoming days.
Edit: Works on Android as well.
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Thank you very much for maintaining this addon, for me it is the best way to watch plex, I have been using it for many years.
I am using fire tv 4k max and have upgraded to Kodi 20 and to my surprise it turns out that the addon plex verrsion 0.3.5 does not work. It shows the plex logo and from there it does not advance. I have returned to the 19.5 that there works perfect.
If it would be possible to update it would be fantastic.
Thank you very much.
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Great news ! ThƩecode of this add on IS on a gitlab ?
It exists on Github, but you can use the repository (will be linked there as well); Iāll update the original post and the repository once itās done.
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Updated Donāt Panic repository. Please test.
0.4.1 (Kodi 20)
Initial PlexMod for Kodi release, based on my plex-for-kodi forkās develop branch
Add support for Kodi Nexus (20) on LibreELEC and Android
Add AV1 toggle and AV1 direct play support
Rename addon to āscript.plexmodā
Add all non-plex-conform features of the develop branch as default features
0.4.0 (Kodi 18, 19)
Initial PlexMod for Kodi release, based on my plex-for-kodi forkās develop branch
Rename addon to āscript.plexmodā
Add all non-plex-conform features of the develop branch as default features
Edit: I currently have problems accessing raw.githubusercontent.com due to GitHub proxy issues. The repository should work but I canāt test it right now.
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