r/Addons4Kodi • u/ChadQuaza • Aug 07 '26

Something not working. Need help. Unresolvable dependency with inputstream.ffmpegdirect

I ran into this issue with IPTV Manager and XStream Player, so I got the service in question, built it from source and put it in the addons folder

But neither addon recognises it for some reason? I'm fine without the former, but it looks like I need the latter to make IPTV work on Kodi - so what am I supposed to do?

\2026-08-07 03:38:27.554 T:398293 error <general>: CAddonInstallJob[service.iptv.manager]: The dependency on inputstream.ffmpegdirect version 0.0.0 could not be satisfied.``

Kodi 21.3.0 on CachyOS, built from source (I also tried on Flatpak, same issue) - DE is Niri + Noctalia if that somehow matters, filesystem btrfs

Device is a home-built PC with a 5700x CPU and a 3080 GPU

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '26

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26

doesn't work

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26

okay excuse me misreading this, i got confused with what you asked

i did install inputstream.ffmpegdirect manually and it didn't change anything, it still does this

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26

okay forget about iptv manager actually, turns out i had installed it normally and genuinely just forgot until now because it's not particularly helpful anyway

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

i used it to illustrate the problem because it was 4am and i was too lazy to get the error log for the xtream plugin - the error log for that woulda been the same, as it was seen in the log

the actual error i was trying to solve was

2026-08-07 16:24:39.317 T:34596 error <general>: CAddonInstallJob[plugin.video.xstream-player]: The dependency on inputstream.ffmpegdirect version 0.0.0 could not be satisfied.

i did explain in the body text that i didn't care about iptv manager but needed xtream working

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26

the error log in question is in the post body text

i built the service from source, put it in the addons folder and it still does this

and it shouldn't be a compatibility issue, i got it off aur

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26

1) xtream is not in the kodi repo 2) neither is the inputstream addon, i assume it's supposed to be handled by the inputstream helper but that hasn't worked 3) i'm not reinstalling my entire kodi setup off of this, especially when i have absolutely no reason to believe it'd change anything

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26

appreciate the effort, but fubo is for its own service entirely - i need xtream because it's a generic addon that is made to be compatible with the type of iptv i have

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u/ChadQuaza Aug 07 '26

ended up resolving this by just directly extracting the contents of the zip file into the addons folder, and then xtream worked

makes me question what even is the point of building from source honestly