hanime.tv site playback issue

[dootsie5times]

First let me say I'm not providing a log file since there is never any error in playback.

For hanime.tv and first around 2 pages of titles (most recent) exhibit playback issues in the addon. Older titles play fine.

When playing one of those most recent titles, the file will play fine for a little while and then it will jump backward slightly to a previous point for no apparent reason. It will then play forward a little and will then jump backward again. If you hit the "jump forward" key it will take a huge jump and not the 10 sec normal one. And, sometimes when you hit the "jump forward" key like twice it jump WAY forward (maybe 2 or more minutes) instead of the normal 20 seconds. Basically it jumps all over the place. Also, when these crazy jumps start happening, and actual timer counter min:sec may seem to be correct, but the actual place in the file is definitely not.

Strangely, the slightly older titles do not do this at all.

If you require a log file I can provide one, but I'm not sure how much help that will be.. I've tried playing the same files through a web browser in Windoze, and they then play correctly. I'm really not sure what's happening at all.

To the best of my knowledge, I think this weird issue started around 6-9 months ago. Previously, this problem didn't exist.

BTW, my internet speed is 300meg so it's not related to lag.

If you require anything to help diagnose this problem, let me know.

[dootsie5times]

Sorry, I've been VERY sick and still feel like crap. I just played https://hanime.tv/inter?r=%2Fvideos%2Fhentai%2Fsuccubus-yondara-gibo-ga-kita-1 and left it play the whole way through, no pauses or forward/backward jumps. I paid special attention to the timer counter. On it's own after about 5 min in it would jump backward, go forward a little, then jump back again, then go forward (sometimes it would repeat sections over). This continued throughout the entire video. However, the timer itself kept moving forward like normal. It's almost like someone edited the video and copied and pasted sections out of order and then re-saved it. I know this is not the case since if I download the video from the site in Windoze it is fully intact.
I am playing the video through the addon under Coreelec version 19.4 on an Odroid N2+ box.. Like I said before, the slightly older videos on the site play fine. Let me do some more testing tonight and get back to you on this.

[dootsie5times]

When you paused that video for 10 minutes, did it buffer ahead or not?

[ErosVece]

It's an issue with the site (or how Kodi handles those m3u files from hanimel). A m3u file is the video split in dozens of parts, and it serves that to your video player. Somehow during the playback of one of those parts, it stops (connection error or something)...and retry playing that part again. That's why you see the video jumping back in time.

[dootsie5times]

Ok, so then why does it happen to only the first 2 or so pages of titles and not every title on the site? Also, some times when you hit the "jump backward" button it actually jumps forward.

[dootsie5times]

Ok, I did some testing which took a while.

From title Joshi Luck 4 through title Isekai Meikyuu de Harem wo 1 if you go to around 3/4s of the way through the video, let it play a few seconds, and then hit the jump back arrow/key, it will actually jump forward in the video. Starting from JK Genkai Koubi: Goui Sounyuu de Bachibachi Niku Anaka 2 and going onward into the listing if you again go to around 3/4 point and then hit jump back, it will jump back exactly as it should.

I have no idea why this is happening, but it is VERY annoying.

[ErosVece]

In the coming update (or use the github downloader custom site, to grab it now, https://github.com/dobbelina/repository.dobbelina/issues/1022) you will be able to play the mp4 videos, they play normal. You only need to register an account on the hanime site

[dootsie5times]

Can you please tell me what you discovered was causing this crazy behavior when playing them through the addon without a hanime.tv account? I'm VERY curious.

[dobbelina]

A fix will be available in the next update Hanime play mp4 videos

[ErosVece]

Can you please tell me what you discovered was causing this crazy behavior when playing them through the addon without a hanime.tv account? I'm VERY curious.

I didn't fix those m3u8 links, like I said before...it's something how they serve their files or how Kodi handles them. I can't do anything about that. If it works with earlier videos and not with the current ones, says that they changed something.

If you go to their site, and go to a video, you see under the video a download button. That is a mp4 file you can download. As you can see, you get a recaptcha (I'm not a robot thing) on the download page, it's hard with Python to handle those. But I figured out how to bypass that, but you'd need a free account for that.

Also, as a member, you can earn coins....to become premium. With premium you get the 1080p videos. Earning coins is clicking an ad every 3 hours in the Hanime mobile app......or, search on Google or here on Github for a script that you run in the background, that does it for you 🤣 With that script it takes around 4 a 5 days to get Premium.

[dootsie5times]

Is there a way to have Kodi try to use a different player other than the built-in default one to see if it would handle the newer files correctly?

[ErosVece]

See https://kodi.wiki/view/External_players

[ErosVece]

@dootsie5times It looks like that this update https://github.com/dobbelina/repository.dobbelina/commit/23ba87db948b02584003f7d6ab1bc5ab4fc75143 will fix playing the m3u8 (no member) videos. I tested 2 videos, and I haven't seen it jump back. Also in the debug log I don't see it failing a segment and starting over.

[dootsie5times]

Did the update. Now none of the titles on hanime.tv play at all. They start to queue and then just stop as soon as the timer appears on the bottom.

[ErosVece]

Okay, so you did the update to 1.1.77.

I justed tested it again on my laptop, phone, tv (android tv) and my Odroid N2 running Coreelec. And it played without problems.

Can you try the other resolutions? So in Cumination settings -> Host & Resolver -> Preferred maximum video quality.....set this to 'Ask'. And when you play a video, start with choosing the lowest quality.

Also, can you make a debug log?

[dootsie5times]

Odroid N2+ 19.4

Tried your suggestions, all resolutions, no joy.

Log attached.

kodi.log

[ErosVece]

OpenStream - Unsupported stream 1001. Stream disabled.

You have an outdated inputstream.adaptive: v19.0.3.1 The latest for the Kodi v19 versions is v19.0.7.1

Also your Kodi is outdated, for v19 is 19.5 the latest. But you can also upgrade to v20.1

If you can't update inputstream.adaptive through addons, here's the download: https://addons.coreelec.org/Amlogic-ng/19.5.1/arm/inputstream.adaptive/inputstream.adaptive-19.0.7.1.zip

[dootsie5times]

Updated to 19.5. Inputstream wouldn't update correctly so used your download to do manual. Rebooted. 1) Tried to play older file from hanime favorites 2) Tried to play newer file from hanime directly

Same Problem.

Log attached.

kodi.log

[ErosVece]

It looks like that inputstream.adaptive under 19 doesn't support encrypted streams.

I'll make a toggle in the settings, where you can choose 'the old way' for hanime.

[ErosVece]

Updated to 19.5. Inputstream wouldn't update correctly so used your download to do manual. Rebooted.

1. Tried to play older file from hanime favorites

2. Tried to play newer file from hanime directly

Same Problem.

Log attached.

kodi.log

It's been added: https://github.com/dobbelina/repository.dobbelina/commit/03e01ecba331366fa9f14186a28b14f86a89ff0c

[dobbelina]

Fix released in 1.78, closing thread.