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[Pirlo1966 22]

Hi

 

I replaced paths on Emby server: volume1/Media/Film/Movies by \\NAS1815\Media\Film\Movies

 

Whenever I try to play a movie form Emby Theater with MPC-HC as an external player, MPC-HC opens but indicates it cannot find a file?? What am I missing? Should I do something extra besides replacing paths?

 

Playing the same media directly for MPC-HC works well.

 

The ET-log when launching  a movie:

2015-08-08 23:27:14.4124 Info - App: C:\Program Files (x86)\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe "\\\NAS1815\Media\Film\Movies\3 10 to Yuma (2007)\3 10 to Yuma (2007).mkv" /play /close /fullscreen
2015-08-08 23:27:14.4244 Debug - ApiClient: ReportPlaybackStart: Item 15948721cd70ceadb367a80c00452f49
2015-08-08 23:27:14.4244 Debug - ScreensaverManager: Calling SetThreadExecutionState to prevent system idle
2015-08-08 23:27:14.4244 Debug - ApiClient: POST http://192.168.1.100:8096/mediabrowser/Sessions/Playing?format=json
2015-08-08 23:27:14.5125 Info - ApiClient: Received web socket message: PlaybackStart
2015-08-08 23:27:14.5255 Debug - ApiClient: Received 204 status code after 102,0964 ms from POST: http://192.168.1.100:8096/mediabrowser/Sessions/Playing?format=json
2015-08-08 23:27:15.0390 Info - ApiClient: Received web socket message: UserDataChanged
2015-08-08 23:27:21.8207 Debug - ScreensaverManager: Calling SetThreadExecutionState to allow system idle
2015-08-08 23:27:21.8207 Debug - ApiClient: POST http://192.168.1.100:8096/mediabrowser/Sessions/Playing/Stopped?format=json
2015-08-08 23:27:21.8337 Info - ApiClient: Received web socket message: PlaybackStopped
2015-08-08 23:27:21.8337 Debug - ApiClient: Received 204 status code after 15,0137 ms from POST: http://192.168.1.100:8096/mediabrowser/Sessions/Playing/Stopped?format=json
2015-08-08 23:27:22.3792 Info - ApiClient: Received web socket message: UserDataChanged

[d00zah 127]

Try //NAS1815/Media/Film/Movies. You've left the Windows world.

[Pirlo1966 22]

Thanks for pointing that out but it's not the answer: file still cannot be found by mpc-hc 

[d00zah 127]

Apologies. I use MPC-BE w/ content stored on NAS without issue. & looking at the library config, the original path was correct from Emby's perspective.. Does your NAS spin-down drives when idle? Perhaps it's not waking quickly enough to MPC-HC's initial request?

 

Do you get  the same result playing the file via web client?

Edited August 9, 2015 by d00zah

[Pirlo1966 22]

d00zah, no worries. thanks for hrelping.  And you helped! 

 

I looked closer at the log and saw 3 slashes /// ... So I replaced paths as follows:

 

 volume1/Media/Film/Movies by \NAS1815\Media\Film\Movies instead of \\NAS1815\Media\Film\Movies.

 

And now all is okay! The example path replacement on the server dashboard is somehow misleading because it gives as an example \\my server\....

[d00zah 127]

Glad you found it. I was doing some testing & was going to suggest issuing the command (based on log snippet):

 

'C:\Program Files (x86)\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe" "\\\NAS1815\Media\Film\Movies\3 10 to Yuma (2007)\3 10 to Yuma (2007).mkv"

 

from the command prompt to remove Emby from the equation. If that worked...

 

Curious... you're using path substitution? When adding libraries, I just browse to the NAS path I want to add (no substitution) & I've never had an issue. Seems like an unnecessary layer of complexity. YMMV. Enjoy!

[Pirlo1966 22]

Path substitution because I cannot browse to (or manually ad) the NAS path when adding libraries. No idea why.

[d00zah 127]

Hmmm. Just noticed thread in the Synology section... must not have all the kinks worked out yet. My understanding is that path substitution applied to Windows drive-letter path issues. In light of the server being hosted on a linux OS, my original path suggestion stands. & should eliminate the need for path substitution.

 

Wish my NAS had the horsepower (& support)  to offload the server function. A project for another day...

Edited August 9, 2015 by d00zah