Monday 20 May 2019

Kodi, inputstream.adaptive and Netflix not working...

In a previous post, I mentioned how I finally solved an issue with the Netflix add-on for Kodi and how items didn't play properly but sound worked fine. It was due to the Raspberry Pi not being powerful enough since it has to do software decoding.

However, I did an update from 9.0.1 version of Libreelec to 9.0.2 and for some reason, Netflix wouldn't even play the video.

Looking through the logs I could see that the /usr/lib/kodi/addons/inputstream.adaptive/ directory couldn't be found which lead to a lot of Googling and no answers. I tried uninstalling, re-installing inputstream.adaptive and tweaking with its settings, even changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to a different location... all in vain.

How did I solve it? I uninstalled the Netflix addon, and reinstalled it.

I removed all settings prior to the removal, but you might not need to do that. I just didn't want to have to deal with it not working and thought it might be a good idea.

So, there you go. Neflix not working on Libreelec (doesn't matter which version) on a Raspberry Pi. Uninstall the addon and add it back in! Why? Not sure... but at least it's working now.