"Play using..." UPnP supported?

[darqman]

Does PKC support playing to a networked UPnP player from the "Play using..." context menu in Kodi? I'm using direct paths and I can't get it to work. Just thought I'd ask if it's something that should work before I spend too much more time trying to figure it out.

[darqman]

Well I think I may have answered my own question. I turned on debug logging and inspected the log file and found this which leads me to believe UPnP players are not supported by PKC. The reason I want to do this is Kodi's player has severe framerate issues with my Sony projector in my dedicated home theater. The Oppo 203 doesn't have these issues. Oh well, I'll look for another solution.

2021-04-09 15:09:00.494 T:21811 DEBUG : ------ Window Deinit (DialogContextMenu.xml) ------
2021-04-09 15:09:01.082 T:21811 DEBUG : OnPlayMedia smb://BRAINDAMAGE/Multimedia/Movies/Rambo (2008).mkv
2021-04-09 15:09:01.202 T:21811 DEBUG UPNP::BuildObject: Building didl for object 'smb://BRAINDAMAGE/Multimedia/Movies/Rambo (2008).mkv'
2021-04-09 15:09:01.207 T:21811 DEBUG : ScanForExternalSubtitles: Searching for subtitles...
2021-04-09 15:09:01.308 T:21811 DEBUG : ScanForExternalSubtitles: END (total time: 101 ms)
2021-04-09 15:09:01.309 T:21811 ERROR <CUPnPPlayer[aacbad18-1dd1-11b2-9295-d77b6cc7df7b]>: PlayFile(smb://BRAINDAMAGE/Multimedia/Movies/Rambo (2008).mkv) failed to find a matching resource
2021-04-09 15:09:01.309 T:21811 ERROR <CUPnPPlayer[aacbad18-1dd1-11b2-9295-d77b6cc7df7b]>: OpenFile(smb://BRAINDAMAGE/Multimedia/Movies/Rambo (2008).mkv) failed to open file

[croneter]

Hold on, PlexKodiConnect did it's job and passed the file to play to Kodi. Then it's entirely up to Kodi to do whatever.

Looks like your PKC direct paths are not configured correctly and Kodi can simply not access that file! Nothing to do with UPnP

failed to open file

[darqman]

That's weird because my direct paths play the files fine in Kodi's native player.

[croneter]

I would try in the Kodi forums with that log excerpt. As explained, PlexKodiConnect's job is done.