Constant "Source too Slow" error on Kodi 18.8 during movie playback sourced at Google Drive

[gsantosoliver]

Describe the bug I get the "Source too Slow" error on Kodi 18.8 (running on Xiaomi Box S with latest Android and Firmware available) every minute of so when I try to play a movie sourced at Google Drive. My internet connection is ok, I have other device running Kodi and playing the same content from the same source at the same network correctly. I tried the Google Drive plugin currently available at the Kodi Repo and at the repo.daro.mx and got the same issue. The same issue does not happen if I use another source such as SMB or external hard drive to play the content.

To Reproduce

1. Install Kodi 18.8 from Play Store on Xiaomi Box S running the latest Android and Firmware available
2. Install and setup Google Drive add-on
3. Play 4k content from Google Drive using the Google Drive file explorer.

Your debug log file http://paste.kodi.tv/raw/hureyemogo I see several 'ERROR:' there, some of them are:

ERROR: CAddon[script.module.clouddrive.common]: failed to load addon settings from special://profile/addon_data/script.module.clouddrive.common/settings.xml
ERROR: GLES: BaseYUV2RGBGLSLShader - unsupported format 3
ERROR: ffmpeg[CCDC5970]: [hevc] Could not find ref with POC 5
ERROR: ffmpeg[CCDC5970]: [hevc] Could not find ref with POC 3
ERROR: ffmpeg[CCDC5970]: [hevc] Could not find ref with POC 0
ERROR: ffmpeg[B1A7F970]: [hevc] Could not find ref with POC 344
ERROR: ffmpeg[BAAD4970]: [matroska,webm] Read error
ERROR: Got MSGQ_ABORT or MSGO_IS_ERROR return true

[disgrace2029]

I was getting the same thing on my Shield (yeah you would figure no problem). What I did was changed the cache settings on Kodi (have to have a advancedsettings.xml file). After doing that I was able to watch movies. There may be a problem with the cache setting with Kodi and this addon.

[gsantosoliver]

I was getting the same thing on my Shield (yeah you would figure no problem). What I did was changed the cache settings on Kodi (have to have a advancedsettings.xml file). After doing that I was able to watch movies. There may be a problem with the cache setting with Kodi and this addon.

How did you do that change? Can you please paste here a sample of your advancedsettings.xml with the changes so that I can try here? Thanks.

[disgrace2029]

I was getting the same thing on my Shield (yeah you would figure no problem). What I did was changed the cache settings on Kodi (have to have a advancedsettings.xml file). After doing that I was able to watch movies. There may be a problem with the cache setting with Kodi and this addon.

How did you do that change? Can you please paste here a sample of your advancedsettings.xml with the changes so that I can try here? Thanks.

I used addon OpenWizard. In the Maintenance part there is a Tweaks/Fixes or something like and you can select a High End device and it automatically put the settings in the Advancedsettings.xml for yal

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[gsantosoliver]

I used addon OpenWizard. In the Maintenance part there is a Tweaks/Fixes or something like and you can select a High End device and it automatically put the settings in the Advancedsettings.xml for yal

<cache>

    <buffermode>1</buffermode>

    <memorysize>314572800</memorysize>

    <readfactor>15</readfactor>

</cache>

If this is all the OpenWizard does then I will edit the xml myself to match what you pasted above and try. I will let you know if it worked.

[gsantosoliver]

I was getting the same thing on my Shield (yeah you would figure no problem). What I did was changed the cache settings on Kodi (have to have a advancedsettings.xml file). After doing that I was able to watch movies. There may be a problem with the cache setting with Kodi and this addon.

How did you do that change? Can you please paste here a sample of your advancedsettings.xml with the changes so that I can try here? Thanks.

I used addon OpenWizard. In the Maintenance part there is a Tweaks/Fixes or something like and you can select a High End device and it automatically put the settings in the Advancedsettings.xml for yal

<cache>

    <buffermode>1</buffermode>

    <memorysize>314572800</memorysize>

    <readfactor>15</readfactor>

</cache>

I've tried the xml above in the advancedsettings.xml and it did not work.

[disgrace2029]

For some reason my post left out the below part, just make sure you put the < before <advancedsettings & </advancedsettings. (I had to leave it out so it would show up on here)

advancedsettings>

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/advancedsettings>

[gsantosoliver]

For some reason my post left out the below part, just make sure you put the < before <advancedsettings & </advancedsettings. (I had to leave it out so it would show up on here)

advancedsettings>

<buffermode>1</buffermode>

<memorysize>314572800</memorysize>

<readfactor>15</readfactor>

/advancedsettings>

Oh yeah - I had been using the advancedsettings.xml before so I just added the element. The final result was:

<advancedsettings>
    <video>
        <!-- VideoExtras: Section Start -->
        <excludefromscan action="append">
            <regexp>-extras-</regexp>
            <regexp>/Extras/</regexp>
            <regexp>[\\/]Extras[\\/]</regexp>
        </excludefromscan>
        <excludetvshowsfromscan action="append">
            <regexp>-extras-</regexp>
            <regexp>/Extras/</regexp>
            <regexp>[\\/]Extras[\\/]</regexp>
        </excludetvshowsfromscan>
        <excludefromlisting>
            <regexp>-extras-</regexp>
            <regexp>/Extras/</regexp>
            <regexp>[\\/]Extras[\\/]</regexp>
        </excludefromlisting>
        <!-- VideoExtras: Section End -->
    </video>
    <cache>
        <buffermode>1</buffermode>
        <memorysize>314572800</memorysize>
        <readfactor>15</readfactor>
    </cache>
</advancedsettings>

[cguZZman]

Same response as in https://github.com/cguZZman/plugin.googledrive/issues/178. I hope the buffer mod worked.