Playback issues with Kodi and Jellyfin

[Rawlivit]

I have LibreELEC running on a laptop attached to my TV. This runs Kodi and the Jellyfin plugin, where Jellyfin is synced with the Kodi database so you can browse the Jellyfin content as if it were native on Kodi. I also have the Kodi sync queue plugin installed in Jellyfin.

When playing media, it will often (not always) cut out after 30 mins or so. If you resume playing, it works, but often will cut out again a second time not that much later (say, 40 min mark, just before end of 45 min show).

Jellyfin itself is installed as a docker container on a desktop PC running Linux Mint. It has Traefik as a reverse proxy infront of it, and is accessed via an https domain which has a local DNS record on pi-hole. The desktop PC running Jellyfin and laptop running Kodi are on the same network, laptop on wifi and desktop on LAN.

Jellyfin version is 10.10.5

I have tried bumping up the cache amount in Kodi as I thought perhaps it was a network issue, but that didn't seem to help. I did find it went away for a while when i ran a LAN cable to the laptop, but it seems to have started again so that might have been a coincidence.

Any advice to troubleshoot this is appreciated! I read the FAQ but it just says "WIP"

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share your full jellyfin log via privatebin.net?

[Rawlivit]

Here's the log from a couple of days ago when it happened a couple of times: https://privatebin.net/?5c5b0ca6eecc21f9...NWzZu2RBGw

Hopefully that helps.

[TheDreadPirate]

I don't see a server side cause of this issue. Does Kodi produce logs?

[Zyxin]

On my Shield TV with Kodi and the Jellyfin addon, the playback would stop and buffer/stutter in the first few minutes. It seemed to be related to running Jellyfin with a reverse proxy. The solution I found was this:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellycon/iss...1936934875

You have to add these lines to the advancedsettings.xml

Code:

<advancedsettings version="1.0">
<network>
  <disablehttp2>true</disablehttp2>
</network>
</advancedsettings>

It might work for your issue as well.

[Rawlivit]

I don't see a server side cause of this issue.  Does Kodi produce logs?

It does, but a little awkward to access full logs. I have been waiting for the issue to happen again so I can check the recent logs, but it hasn't happened in a couple of days. It seems very intermittent.

On my Shield TV with Kodi and the Jellyfin addon, the playback would stop and buffer/stutter in the first few minutes. It seemed to be related to running Jellyfin with a reverse proxy. The solution I found was this:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellycon/iss...1936934875

You have to add these lines to the advancedsettings.xml

Code:

<advancedsettings version="1.0">
<network>
  <disablehttp2>true</disablehttp2>
</network>
</advancedsettings>

It might work for your issue as well.

Thanks! I will give this a go and see if it helps! As above, it hasn't happened for a few days, but I will check back in the next time it happens (hopefully never after I add this )

[jibarofoss]

I'm having similar issues on JellyCon with Kodi. The issue is definitely not my network, I tested the link speed between my client device and server using iperf and it fluctuates between 850~920 mbps (wired connection). I too tried messing around with the cache options to no avail. I'm pretty certain the issue is squarely with Kodi.

[Rawlivit]

Just checking in to say I made the change to disable http2 above, and have also disabled hardware encoding. Now it's a couple of weeks later and have had no issues.

Edit: Checking in some time later, I re-enabled hardware encoding and we are still good.