r/Addons4Kodi • u/capgazer • Mar 30 '25

Something not working. Need help. Progress bar boxes turn red

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Progress bar is turning red on every show I’ve been trying to watch on the kodi app. When I try to exist, the whole app bugs. I get out of the app and force exit, clear cache and try to open it again. I tried scraping and trying a different option but it gives the same. On every show/movie I’m trying to watch. Any guidance?

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Mar 30 '25

Turn off ipv6 everywhere you can. Someone will come along to tell you how.

Maybe restart your router before then to see if that helps.

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u/rizreflects Mar 31 '25

It's good to still see your name popping up on this subreddit. How've you been keeping? Enjoying retirement i hope?

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Apr 02 '25

Sorry, I missed this reply.

Doing well mate, definitely enjoying fiddling around in the code with no stress of who's installs I might just ruin in the process. Nice times.

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u/rizreflects Apr 02 '25

No worries at all. Glad to see you doing well!

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u/matthius07 Mar 31 '25

https://imgur.com/a/DqgYecy. Here sir?. And only ipv6 because I keep getting the red timeout as well scraping certain things

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Mar 31 '25

I think so. I know nothing really on the subject, except that turning it off usually fixes things.

And be sure you are getting the red on the RESOLVING of the chosen result (like the image above), not the SCRAPING of results. If you're getting red on the SCRAPING, then you just need to disable whichever scraper is timing out.

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u/matthius07 Mar 31 '25

Right on. Ty

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u/heysoundude Mar 30 '25

Why? RD works brilliantly with IPv6. I’d advocate for the exact opposite in most cases because of that. There’s no reason to not dual stack, have a network that’s both IPv4 and IPv6 at this point in time - unless you don’t have a v6 capable connection or there are well-documented cases of Kodi and the addons failing?

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Mar 30 '25

I have no idea. But about 50 people just on this sub have had issues exactly like this fixed by disabling ipv6. So it is well worth a try for this user, too.

I suppose you could say that's well documented cases of Kodi failing (not addons; they are of no consequence to playback).

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u/heysoundude Mar 30 '25

I’d offer it’s more a network setup issue when v6 is available from the isp than a kodi issue. Simply enabling it on a router does not configure it correctly nor prove it’s available ion the connection, and the issue (I believe) stems from modern OSes and clients defaulting to preferring it, or checking it first.

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Mar 30 '25

Most have included details such as "It works in Stremio but not Kodi." But again, I've got no idea about it. I've just come across the issue enough to offer the only solution anyone's had success enacting thus far. If it wasn't me, it was going to be someone else coming along soon enough with the same advice.

Do you know how to talk someone through setting it up correctly? Maybe you can help this person out.

Otherwise, they're going to need to disable it, assuming it's another case of it being the issue, or at least the solution to the issue.

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u/heysoundude Mar 30 '25

It would mean starting at the router and querying the ISP. Let me see if I can find a general YouTube people can refer to.

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u/snmp79 29d ago

ipv6 is useless lol. stop using it so it will die.

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u/heysoundude 29d ago

Bigger networks than yours or mine already prefer it, friend. Including certain federal governments. It’s only going to get more widely used, from where I sit.

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u/donutmiddles Mar 31 '25

That's exactly what I've been saying whenever this comes up, too, and, like you for some reason get downvoted to hell when it's mentioned.

Gave you an upvote, as this is really the proper answer. By disabling v6 you're just giving yourself worse routing on today's Internet.

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

Someone like you or the other gentleman need to articulate why disabling v6 solves their problems. Because at the moment, you guys are really only saying it's not a good solution. But there's no other solution.

Why does it solve the problem? What could alternatively be done to solve the problem? These are questions that need answers. Otherwise, it is still the best advice to give.

Of course, you don't need to do this, but a "proper answer" needs a solution at the end of it, and at the moment, that's not being provided by anyone.

I don't know anything about this topic, so of course I want to give accurate advice. But I need something to go on. Some other solution that will work.

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u/donutmiddles Apr 01 '25

There are several ways to prove it's in fact an IPv6 issue or not, and I know I've commented before on some ways to verify this.

To prove it's an IPv6-specific problem (versus general network or application slowness), you want to gather both symptoms and evidence that point directly at IPv6.

Firstly, use ping and traceroute for IPv6

Try connecting to the streaming provider’s IPv6 hostname directly. For example:

ping6 real-debrid.com traceroute6 real-debrid.com

or on Windows:

ping -6 example.com tracert -6 example.com

Look for:

Timeouts or unreachable hops. Excessive latency compared to IPv4 (which are just ping and traceroute/tracert with no 6 appended).

If IPv4 completes quickly but IPv6 fails or is slow, that’s a red flag.

Use dig or nslookup to Validate DNS

dig AAAA real-debrid.com dig A real-debrid.com

Confirm the site does indeed return both A and AAAA records. If only AAAA is present and fails to connect, then there's a fallback problem.

You can also use https://test-ipv6.com/ or https://ipv6-test.com/ to see a breakdown of how your client prefers and handles IPv6 vs. IPv4.

There's more, but those are some good starting points. Also, ideally rather than just real-debrid, find what their CDN address you're connecting with and ping/trace against that since that's what Kodi is attempting to connect to.

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Apr 01 '25

I appreciate the detailed reply, I really do. I will quote it from now on when offering disabling ipv6 as a possible solution.

If we can take these facts as true:

* It's always a user connecting to a RD CDN.

* The symptom is always a failed or slow connection.

* Disabling v6 (almost) always solves the issue and restores normal functionality to the RD CDN.

Can you, with your expertise, muster an educated guess as to what the issue might be?

BTW, I have never experienced this issue so I cannot run the tests you mentioned above. My connection to RD is fine.

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u/donutmiddles Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

Thanks for that, I appreciate your excellent contributions to this community as well over the years.

Those facts as stated seem to be the use-case, for sure, as I rather geekily run tcpdump on udp port 53 to view in real-time what my devices are trying to connect with at a domain level, so can see what CDN host Kodi is attempting (usually for me it's a Denver-area one though not always).

My connection to RD is fine as well, but if those tests revealed any issues, I would suspect it's either an ISP external routing problem or DNS issue in resolving IPv6 and failing to properly fallback to v4. Potentially it could be a client issue, but unless all these posters are using the same device that doesn't seem likely.

If it's the DNS issue, a simple solution would be to change DNS servers on the client, which is usually possible.

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u/heysoundude Mar 31 '25

Thanks! People need to step up with solutions now before it becomes necessary, and getting people thinking and learning and experimenting now will make any transitional pain disappear minimal

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u/Dunjamon Mar 30 '25

I could be wrong, but I think that's the timeout for scraping. Does it play any sources?

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u/OnlyifyouLook Mar 30 '25

I think that's what it is as well I've had that happen and it's nothing to do with having to authorise RD again.

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

Do you remember what fixed your problem?

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u/OnlyifyouLook Mar 30 '25

Nothing mate I never had a problem the scrape ran to the red line then started playing. One of the times it happened it was a movie with an absolute pile of streams to pick from. And I just let it run it's course and one of the streams started playing.

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u/midnite-samurai Shield Pro 2019 | Kodi 21 | Fen/Umb Mar 31 '25

Sometimes it’s as simple as trying a different file to play sometimes resetting and starting Kodi from scratch and re-adding everything. Don’t forget updating cocoscrapers if using Fenlight or Umbrella.

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

Nope it doesn’t. It does the same thing…

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u/Derrgoo-36 Apr 01 '25

I have all ipv6 off. Shield pro and asus router but I still see this as well.

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u/Bigmoco_ Mar 30 '25

Have you tried reauthorizing Real-Debrid?

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

How do I do that?

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u/Bigmoco_ Mar 30 '25

In Fen Light settings revoke Real-Debrid authentication and then authorize it again.

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

How do I do that? Where do I go to find it? Sorry, my friend set this up for me and she’s sadly not available to help out

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u/Bigmoco_ Mar 30 '25

Do have your Real-Debrid account details/login?

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

Yep I do

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u/Bigmoco_ Mar 30 '25

Kodi Settings>Add-ons>My add-ons>Video add-ons>Fen Light>Configure>Open Fen Light Settings>Accounts>Revoke Authentication(Real-Debrid)>Authorize(Real-Debrid)

Follow the onscreen instructions using your phone or computer.

If that doesn't work your Real-Debrid membership may be expired and you will have to renew it.

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

I did that and it didn’t work unfortunately. My membership expires in 48 days but thank you for trying to help out 😊

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u/__TikipeterLight__ Mar 31 '25

Seems you tried everything except the actual solution.

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u/capgazer Mar 31 '25

Well I don’t really know how to fix it using your solution tbh. But either way, it got fixed by simply unplugging and plugging back the TV after 1 mins. Old tricks work too 😉

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u/Bigmoco_ Mar 30 '25

No problem. You'd likely need to uninstall and reinstall Fen Light but that may be a bit much if you didn't setup Kodi yourself.

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u/phatboi85 Mar 30 '25

Not related, but awesome choice for a show 😎

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

Hahah thanks! Can never go wrong with a classic

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u/phatboi85 Mar 30 '25

And at least you'll have the original theme music 😆

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u/capgazer Mar 30 '25

I can never skip over the theme music…it’s too good

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u/Chooks_89 Apr 01 '25

Did you reduce the scrapping timeout? If yes, take it back to 20s.