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Not sure if it's supposed to be like that or not, but does the External Player feature of Emby Theater only work for local media? I have a NAS on my network that hosts the media and Emby Server on it. With my computer on the same network, I have Emby Theater installed. I'm using Arch, Gnome Wayland with a Nvidia card and Emby Theater is a big mess, probably due to poor support from Wayland with Nvidia cards. Trying to playback a video with Emby Theater is not an option right now since the media plays but the video goes black on and off every second until eventually it's completely black with only sound coming out. Even the UI, part of it disappears or cuts when I scroll, etc... Anyways, my local MPV player plays videos fine on the other hand. It's just Emby's built-in MVP that I have problem with. I've tried the External Player feature with the following settings: Player path: /usr/bin/mpv Command Line Arguments: {path} Any media I try to play ends up being played in the internal player instead. The message from Terminal: fs access result for path: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/mnt/tvshows/My Show/Season 1/My Show - S01E01.mkv' That's basically the local path of the media if my machine was the server. From my client machine, I don't have access to that path. Thus my thread title question: Does the external player feature only works with local media? Or is there a way to tell Emby Theater to let the external player stream from it? Emby Theater 3.0.19 Emby Server 4.7.14.0