Cannot launch external player

[devidin]

Bug report

Your Environment

• Netflix add-on version: current
• Operating system version/name: Windows 10

Used Operating system:

• Android
• iOS
• Linux
• OSX
• Raspberry-Pi
• [ x] Windows

Describe the bug

Playing Netflix content works fine with Kodi's internal player, but when I try with an external one, like MPC-HC or VLC, it does not work.
With MPC-HC I receive a message saying that it cannot read the stream.
With VLC I get some more details in the logs, see at the bottom of the message

Expected behavior

Show the movie

Actual behavior

Cannot read stream

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. configure any video to be read by an external player
2. launch a Netflix movie from the addon

Possible fix

Debug log

The debug log can be found from this link:
(logs from my specific configuration, see below)
startvlc.log
vlc.log

Additional context or screenshots (if appropriate)

vlc logs seem to report a format error from widevine stream:
"xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : Namespace prefix widevine on license is not defined"

Installation

• I'm using other Netflix Repo
• I'm using a different source
  playercorefactory.xml.txt
  startvlc.bat.txt

Other information

Using external players like MPC-HC would allow to have better image and sound

Screenshots

[CastagnaIT]

the addon not handle the playback

the addon only provides a netflix manifest data to inputstream addon. so inputstream addon manage the streams, and communicate to Kodi what streams link to use

you have to ask in the forum kodi if exsists a way to manage externally the DRM streams
i have some doubts that this may work

[devidin]

Hello, Thank you for your feedback Stefano. I followed your advice, and posted a question on Kodi forum. Just in case, here is the link: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=349435 And thank you for your add-on, very useful! Kind Regards, Yves ADAM

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