After a bit of trial and error, I've been able to reprodoce what you are seeing where external SRT subs will play within the addon but not outside natively from the Kodi database. I reverse engineered importing the same video and SRT files into Kodi and looked at how Kodi handles them native outside of a DLNA/uPNP server. This was to find out what other data would need to sync between Mezzmo and Kodi. In the end all Kodi does is add an entry into the streamdetails table for the movie and set the entry to subtitle but adds no other information on where the file is or how Kodi can access it. I manually made the same Kodi database entries on my test Mezzmo files and got the same results, Kodi doesn't recognize the SRT streams being served from Mezzmo outside of the addon. I suspect the default behavior is that when Kodi plays external subs from its database it expects them to be local or an SMB mount.
I was able to remux the SRT files into the video files (i.e internal vs. external) and they worked fine whether playing from Mezzmo within the addon or natively with Kodi. I realize this would mean you'd need to reencode your library. Playing from within the addon always worked for external or internal subs. One other option which worked was to copy the SRT files to a common location (either on your Kodi device or an SMB share) and then when playing a Mezzmo video from the database select browse for subtitles in Kodi and select the SRT file. Unfortunately it didn't save the browse setting between stopping and restarting playback but I think you can set a default subtitle folder for Kodi to browse.
I'll dig a bit more and see if there are any other options.
Jeff
Last edited by jbinkley60; 12-11-2020 at 12:35 AM.
An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon for both Kodi v18 (v1.1.1.4) and Kodi 19 beta
v2.0.0.1l) have been posted on GitHub. These versions contain a feature enhancement to
allow selecting different view sort options from the Kodi options menu when displaying Mezzmo
playlists.
Here's the list of enhancements and bug fixes:
v1.1.1.4 Kodi 18
• Added ability to select different view sort options when displaying
Mezzmo playlists.
v2.0.0.1l Kodi 19
• Added ability to select different view sort options when displaying
Mezzmo playlists.
There are separate links for the Kodi 18 and Kodi 19 versions. The Kodi 19 version is based upon the
latest Kodi 18 v1.1.1.4 code.
Kodi 18 link
Kodi 19 link
Click on the download source as a zip option and then to add it to Kodi by using the install from zip file option.
Feedback and feature requests are always welcome. I would like to understand how many of you use the
addon to play music from Mezzmo ? This could help guide future development.
Jeff
Last edited by jbinkley60; 12-15-2020 at 10:24 PM.
An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon for both Kodi v18 (v1.1.1.5) and Kodi 19 beta
v2.0.0.1m) have been posted on GitHub. These versions contain a performance improvement
and a feature enhancement to not add temporary files to the Kodi database from an OTA DVR
solution. Depending upon your hardware you may see some marked improvement with the speed
of displaying Mezzmo playlists.
Here's the list of enhancements and bug fixes:
v1.1.1.5 Kodi 18
• Minor performance improvement by streamlining and simplifying code
• Added detection for Live Channel temporary files from HDHomeRun
OTA software found by Mezzmo and no longer syncs them to the Kodi
database. A message in the Kodi.log file will indicate how many
were found during the sync process.
v2.0.0.1m Kodi 19
• Minor performance improvement by streamlining and simplifying code
• Added detection for Live Channel temporary files from HDHomeRun
OTA software found by Mezzmo and no longer syncs them to the Kodi
database. A message in the Kodi.log file will indicate how many
were found during the sync process.
There are separate links for the Kodi 18 and Kodi 19 versions. The Kodi 19 version is based upon the
latest Kodi 18 v1.1.1.5 code.
Kodi 18 link
Kodi 19 link
Click on the download source as a zip option and then to add it to Kodi by using the install from zip file option.
Feedback and feature requests are always welcome. I would like to understand how many of you use the
addon to play music from Mezzmo ? This could help guide future development.
Jeff
The Kodi team has released Matrix v19 release candidate 1. Initial testing with the addon version v2.0.0.1m has not found any issues. Please let me know if anyone finds anything with Kodi 19 RC1. I am not planning any feature updates until v19 has been released. At that point the addon number will be changed to align with the Kodi 18 version numbering of the addon.
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff,
I updated right after RC was released. No problems here, working fine.
Cheers,
Ron
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