Playback failed. One or more items failed to play

I keep getting this error occasionally. Sometimes restart works, sometimes it doesn’t. I tried reading the log but I’m way out of my depth so any help is appreciated

Aside from the FEN plugin errors, I had a similar one for a while in another addon (I changed the link to the example link, of course.) :

2025-11-10 13:50:22.500 T:2293    error <general>: Open - Unhandled exception
2025-11-10 13:50:22.501 T:2293    error <general>: Open - Error opening https://s02.testowastrona.pl/900b05bf422d1634/kompletnielosoowyfilm.mkv?download_token=12345667

Reducing the buffer size and readfactor to defaults helped, and then experimentally increasing it to 256MB.

     Buffer Mode: 4
     Memory Size: 256 MB
     Read Factor: 2.00 x 
     Chunk Size : 131072 bytes

The CFileCache buffer in Kodi was getting clogged, and only a restart helped for a while.

Try it - maybe it will help you - I’ve been looking for a solution since June.

Yeah it was the cache. It’s an old box but I found a clear cache setting in Fen and it fixed the issue.

Experimenting with the buffer size and read factor is how I got this old thing to play large remux files

Appreciate the help!

what device you got?

For this specific issue it’s a Vankyo X95 Max (Amlogic S905x2). But I also have a H96 Max (Rockchip, forget which model). They’re from years ago and were just collecting dust until now

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In my case it was not related to the plugin cache - only to the curl cache in Kodi itself

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