Pirlo1966 22 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00zah 127 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Try //NAS1815/Media/Film/Movies. You've left the Windows world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirlo1966 22 Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 Thanks for pointing that out but it's not the answer: file still cannot be found by mpc-hc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00zah 127 Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Pirlo1966 22 Posted August 9, 2015 Author Solution Share Posted August 9, 2015 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\.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00zah 127 Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirlo1966 22 Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 Path substitution because I cannot browse to (or manually ad) the NAS path when adding libraries. No idea why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00zah 127 Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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