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Pulsar addon for XBMC/Kodi
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'Play using...' does not work #94

Open erik360 opened 9 years ago

erik360 commented 9 years ago

Related to my feature request #88.

There is a problem with Pulsar playing to another instance of Kodi on the same network via UPnP. The problem is that Pulsar somehow loses the link to the remote player and stops streaming locally. The remote player will continue to play whatever has already been buffered, but then hangs. You can see on the Pulsar machine that no network activity is taking place by the Pulsar daemon. This can be reproduced two ways:

1) Start a stream with Pulsar. During playback, press the 'Y' key on the keyboard to bring up a dialog to change the playback device, and pick the network player. The playback controls will disappear from Kodi, above sequence of events takes place.

2) Modify the advancedsettings.xml file to change the default local playback device to the remote player:

<video>
    <defaultplayer>upnp_device_name</defaultplayer>
</video>

Now, anything played locally defaults to play on the remote UPnP device (neat huh?). However the bug above still applies. Playback starts, the local Kodi mini playback controls disappear, and remote playback continues until the buffer runs out.

Both of these scenarios work with XBMCtorrent / KMediaTorrent. However those have some trouble with some weird torrents. And I prefer to be on an actively developed code base anyway.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

valnermedeiros commented 9 years ago

im experiencing the same issue here! hope it get fixxed soon