Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 If I use PotPlayer as the external Player, then what is the path to the media file being played? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37186 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Hi, are you asking about what potpkayer requires or how to enter it into emby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 What I need to know is how do I enter it into emby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 8 hours ago, Barbablanca said: What I need to know is how do I enter it into emby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 But just typing in "{path}" doesn't work. Doesn't there need to be am environmental variable to point the player to the correct media file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, Barbablanca said: But just typing in "{path}" doesn't work. Works for me. That is the variable.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eigeplackter 75 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Same here, even though i put some other variables there too: Â 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 I still get an error message "type Error: cannot read property 'toString' of undefined' and I changed my parameters to what you suggested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, Barbablanca said: I still get an error message "type Error: cannot read property 'toString' of undefined' and I changed my parameters to what you suggested Are you sure you've entered full path to the player (including executable) and not only folders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 I entered it as: C:\Program Files\DAUM\PotPlayer\PotPlayerMini64.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 And is that the path in your system? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 Yes. Now the player launches, but I get a message about "failed to start playback. Unable to connect to the requested server" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Is your media local or remote? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 All my media is on local drives. Emby is set up to play internet trailers before the main attraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 minute ago, Barbablanca said: All my media is on local drives. Emby is set up to play internet trailers before the main attraction. Then check your firewall settings or disable those internet trailers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 I still get the error message even when I skip the trailers and go right to the movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Are you sure you've disabled trailers as PotPlayer shouldn't be trying to connect externally then and you shouldn't be getting "Unable to connect to the requested server" error since you're playing local content? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 I disabled Cinema Intros, but the trailers still attempt to load. If I just play the trailer preview, it plays fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3328 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 minute ago, Barbablanca said: I disabled Cinema Intros, but the trailers still attempt to load If you disabled Cinema Intros, trailers should not attempt to play. Are you using some other plugin, like Vantage Point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37186 Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Did you research the potplayer command line? What did you find? Does it even support the command line arguments in this format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbablanca 2 Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 After all of this I finally managed to get Emby playing files using PotPlayer, BUT it appears that the original media file isn't being played because the Dolby Digital/DTS display isn't being triggered on my receiver which implies that a stream is being played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37186 Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 If you make sure the emby theater machine can directly access the path used in emby server library setup and then it will pass the original file path to the external player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Barbablanca 2 Posted December 19, 2022 Author Solution Share Posted December 19, 2022 My bad ...I overlooked the audio settings menu where which formats such as EAC3, DTS, DTS-HD, etc can be set for pass through. Everything working as it should. Thanks for the help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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