Guardian Hope 117 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I have Emby Server on an Ubuntu Server install and have ran into some trouble that I didn't have several days ago: Emby for Kodi doesn't play any content. I have verified that Emby Server is at least able to read and display the content by navigating to it via a web browser but Kodi can't. I have included two log files as I initially thought it was H.265 - one is h.265 and one is h.264: H.264 (this one has gone through several computers): 05:48:49 T:9380 NOTICE: Creating InputStream 05:48:49 T:9380 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [/mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/Gossip Girl/Season 1/Gossip Girl 100 revealed.avi] 05:48:49 T:9380 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() 05:48:49 T:18204 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 1, path [plugin://plugin.video.emby.tvshows/48c2ad170e05d479a3543cfdad1f2381/?dbid=609&mode=play&id=071fee1aaac8dc4aea4edf6c775fe13b&filename=Gossip+Girl+100+revealed.avi] 05:48:49 T:18204 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile() 05:48:49 T:18204 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit 05:48:49 T:18204 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting 05:48:49 T:18204 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile() 05:48:49 T:18204 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit 05:48:49 T:18204 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting 05:48:49 T:167068 NOTICE: EMBY Player -> Clear playlist properties. 05:48:49 T:167068 NOTICE: EMBY KodiMonitor -> Method: Player.OnStop Data: {"end":false,"item":{"id":609,"type":"episode"}} H.265 (The Last Ship): 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY ClientInfo -> DeviceId loaded: 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: Using Image Cache Thread Count: 0 -> 1 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlaybackUtils -> Play called. 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlayUtils -> Verifying path: /mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/The Last Ship/Season 2/The Last Ship S02E02 HDTV 720p x265 AAC.mkv 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlayUtils -> Can't verify path, assumed linux. Still try to direct play. 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlayUtils -> File is direct playing. 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlaybackUtils -> Playlist start position: 1 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlaybackUtils -> Playlist plugin position: 1 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlaybackUtils -> Playlist size: 2 05:56:47 T:152696 NOTICE: EMBY PlaybackUtils -> Play as a regular item. 05:56:47 T:181876 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: /mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/The Last Ship/Season 2/The Last Ship S02E02 HDTV 720p x265 AAC.mkv 05:56:47 T:181876 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED 05:56:47 T:185824 NOTICE: Creating InputStream 05:56:47 T:185824 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [/mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/The Last Ship/Season 2/The Last Ship S02E02 HDTV 720p x265 AAC.mkv] 05:56:47 T:185824 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() 05:56:47 T:181876 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 1, path [plugin://plugin.video.emby.tvshows/c9348761b787eb1a352e6e9391053d41/?dbid=883&mode=play&id=b342c962850cb8de4cdda4d470505b41&filename=The+Last+Ship+S02E02+HDTV+720p+x265+AAC.mkv] 05:56:47 T:181876 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile() 05:56:47 T:181876 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit 05:56:47 T:181876 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting 05:56:47 T:181876 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile() 05:56:47 T:181876 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit 05:56:47 T:181876 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting 05:56:47 T:152316 NOTICE: EMBY Player -> Clear playlist properties. 05:56:47 T:152316 NOTICE: EMBY KodiMonitor -> Method: Player.OnStop Data: {"end":false,"item":{"id":883,"type":"episode"}} I have already tried resetting Kodi's database, clearing the cache, etc. It seems to be related to how its reading it from HGFS. When I use the file browser and just browse to the location on the RAID Array (actually formatted at NTFS) Kodi opens it up and starts playing the files with no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellomade 140 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Search this sub forum for 'path substitution'. Your file paths are incorrect and need to be defined as network paths. Ex. : \\YourServer\Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian Hope 117 Posted January 26, 2016 Author Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) Search this sub forum for 'path substitution'. Your file paths are incorrect and need to be defined as network paths. Ex. : \\YourServer\Share Wouldn't that be the case if it was Windows' Emby Server reading a CIFS network share and not a VMWare Ubuntu Server reading folders shared to it by VMWare Workstation 12? Yes, it's true that it is also available as the Windows Network Share "\\ServerName\Share" since I used to use Emby Server for Windows until it stopped working (web server refusing connections) but the mount point of it on Emby Server running on Ubuntu Server via VMWare is that exact path. (I saw the path substitution thing before making this post but didn't think it applicable given how Emby Server is supposed to be accessing the files through the VMWare Ubuntu Server virtual machine and that post was related to Emby Server on Windows rather than Linux) Edited January 26, 2016 by Guardian Hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellomade 140 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Kodi can't see mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/Gossip Girl/Season 1/Gossip Girl 100 revealed.avi because it only understands SMB or NFS shares. From Server Dashboard go to Library - Path Substitution and try: mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/ To: \\EmbyMedia\TV Shows Or enter the direct smb path to your library when you set up your library. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Guardian Hope 117 Posted January 27, 2016 Author Solution Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) Kodi can't see mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/Gossip Girl/Season 1/Gossip Girl 100 revealed.avi because it only understands SMB or NFS shares. From Server Dashboard go to Library - Path Substitution and try: mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/ To: \\EmbyMedia\TV Shows Or enter the direct smb path to your library when you set up your library. I had to make a few adjustments to account for the fact it was in reality accessing a drive on the client via the VMWare Virtual Machine as when I tried to mount either an nfs or an smb share (CIFS technically, now; regular smb was replaced by CIFS except on older systems) within Ubuntu Server from the HGFS mounts it couldn't "direct play" and fell back on Emby's web client according to Kodi's log. Knowing I never removed the shares from Windows hoping that @@Luke and I would get to the bottom of what was going on with Windows' Emby Server not successfully starting up on Windows 10 Pro Redstone I simply used path substitution to specify the physical node rather than the VM's share which I subsequently had removed. So rather than mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/ to \\EmbyMedia\TV Shows the solution was to map mnt/hgfs/EmbyMedia/TV Shows/ to \\AHMS\Media\TV Shows which is the actual windows share and do the same for all the others - substitute VMWare's HGFS share path for the Windows CIFS share path. This is now solved even though I can't mark it as such. Edited January 27, 2016 by Guardian Hope 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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