Unable to browse show listing level of categories

[twhitehead]

The last level of menus started fail in the last month or so. The python log says

2024-11-08 20:55:31.752 T:4074766   error <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.cbc/gem/categories/shows-categories-documentary
2024-11-08 20:55:31.762 T:4074592   error <general>: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.cbc/gem/categories/shows-categories-documentary) failed
2024-11-08 20:55:34.695 T:4074770   error <general>: plugin.video.cbc: Unable to load cookies: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.cbc/cookies'
2024-11-08 20:55:35.140 T:4074770   error <general>: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                                    - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                                   Error Type: <class 'KeyError'>
                                                   Error Contents: 'items'
                                                   Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.cbc/default.py", line 345, in <module>
                                                       plugin.run()
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.module.routing/lib/routing.py", line 130, in run
                                                       self._dispatch(self.path)
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.module.routing/lib/routing.py", line 141, in _dispatch
                                                       view_func(**kwargs)
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.cbc/default.py", line 286, in gem_category_menu
                                                       for show in category['items']:
                                                                   ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
                                                   KeyError: 'items'
                                                   -->End of Python script error report<--

The only way I can get to the list of episodes to watch thing is to search for the program and then access it through the search results. Live TV also still works.

[micahg]

Hey, you can probably get your menus working on the catalog_v2 - but there are a bunch of shows that wont play due to this bug:

xbmc/xbmc#25580

Until playback is working I'm not sure it makes sense to continue development

[twhitehead]

Thanks. I'll give that a go. 👍

I actually ran into what sounds a lot like the bug you linked too. You could hear skips in the sound. Originally it would exit playback after a bit too. I updated the machine to the latest distro release and then the exiting resolved, but the skips were still there.

I was going through the setting and noticed the option to choose the video player. I switched to from the default ffmpeg to winevine (going off memory for the names, so should double check) and the problem went away.

[twhitehead]

Changing the player to input adaptive (not winevine) was what resolved the audio glitching issues. I will try the catalog_v2 version when I have a moment and see if that resolves the catalog issues.