PlayBack fails on kodi when Firefox kodi cast a video

[cmoulliard]

Issue

PlayBack fails on kodi when Firefox kodi is casting (we click on the start button of the extension) a video
Here is the log message reported by kodi

2025-01-23 14:13:33.920 T:174839   debug <general>: OnPlayBackStarted: CApplication::OnPlayBackStarted
2025-01-23 14:13:33.920 T:223702   debug <general>: easy_acquire - Created session to https://auvio.rtbf.be
2025-01-23 14:13:33.929 T:174839   debug <general>: CPlayerGUIInfo::InitCurrentItem(https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251)
2025-01-23 14:13:33.952 T:223702   debug <general>: CCurlFile::GetMimeType - <https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251> -> x-directory/normal
2025-01-23 14:13:33.953 T:223702    info <general>: Creating InputStream
2025-01-23 14:13:33.953 T:223702   debug <general>: CurlFile::Open - <https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251>
2025-01-23 14:13:33.955 T:223374   debug <general>: Loading settings for https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251
2025-01-23 14:13:33.983 T:223702   debug <general>: CFileCache::Open - <https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251> opening
2025-01-23 14:13:33.983 T:223702   debug <general>: CurlFile::Open - <https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251>
2025-01-23 14:13:33.990 T:223702   debug <general>: CFileCache::Open - <https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251> source chunk size is 0, setting cache chunk size to 131072
2025-01-23 14:13:33.990 T:223702   debug <general>: CFileCache::Open - <https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251> using single memory cache sized 20971520 bytes
2025-01-23 14:13:33.991 T:223704   debug <general>: Thread FileCache start, auto delete: false
2025-01-23 14:13:33.991 T:223702    info <general>: Creating Demuxer
2025-01-23 14:13:33.991 T:223704   debug <general>: CFileCache::Process - <https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251> source read didn't return any data! Hit eof(?)
2025-01-23 14:13:33.999 T:223702   error <general>: Open - error probing input format, https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/hpi-19251
2025-01-23 14:13:33.999 T:223702   error <general>: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
2025-01-23 14:13:33.999 T:223702    info <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2025-01-23 14:13:33.999 T:223704   debug <general>: Thread FileCache 0x31e19f000 terminating
2025-01-23 14:13:34.000 T:223702   debug <general>: Thread VideoPlayer 0x31e087000 terminating
2025-01-23 14:13:34.002 T:223373   debug <general>: OnPlayBackStopped: CApplication::OnPlayBackStopped

[regseb]

RTBF Auvio isn't supported by Cast Kodi.

You have an error in Kodi, because the extension looks for a video in the link you provide, it finds nothing (because there is no specific code for RTBF) and so it sends your link directly (maybe Kodi will read it).

You'd have to develop a scraper for RTBF that extracts the video URL. I looked a bit, but I couldn't find the video URL. yt-dlp has a extractor, but I don't know enough Python to understand how they do it.

[cmoulliard]

According to the yt-dlp ticket, there are a couple of issues : new url of rtbf auvio not supported and DRM protection