Emby Theater and Gamebrowser external players not running

[lonelycode 0]

Hi,

 

I have Emby Theater installed on Windows (7) HTPC, and gamebrwoeser installed as a server plugin:

• Game directory i set up as per instructions
• Gamebrowser platforms are all set up
• Game library is accessible and scanned as part of media library
• External players set up for all platforms with the {path} and options as described in the forum elsewhere with the appropriate command line options for each

I have two issues:

 

1. When trying to hit "play" on the game screen, I get a spinner and nothing else, no error, and no emulator, it just spins and then eventually gives up. I've changed the path to the external player to be notepad.exe and I get the same behaviour, so the shell isn't even being invoked.

 

2. The second issue is that Emby isn't scanning the folders properly, and only some games (SNES / SegaCD, PS1) have the play button and metadata, while Genesis games do not have one.

 

The first issue is more of a problem, because in the old WMC plugin the games always launched. But I really like ET (and have a premium sub) so would like to get this feature working as well. I noticed someone else had a similar issue but no resolution at all.

 

I can't find any useful log messages either - where can I find the logs for the ET client?

 

Hope someone can help :-S

 

M.

[Luke 38824]

Hi, welcome. If you can zip up a sample games library for me and send it to me, I'll test it out. Thanks.

[Lioooo 0]

Hi Luke

 

I have the same problem !

 

Can you please test the below PlayStation1 game ?

 

direct link is 

 

https://dl3.loveroms.com/r/Playstation/L-O/Medal%20of%20Honor%20[sLUS-00974].rar

 

Waiting your reply please

 

Thanks

 

Lioooo

[vinc010 0]

Hi, I have exactly the same problem too and I don't find any solution on the forum.

Please help me.

 

Vinc

[Luke 38824]

Hi @@vinc010, can you please describe your problem in more detail? thanks !

[vinc010 0]

Yes, of course.

I have an HTPC with Windows 10 64 bits, Emby Server and Emby Theater installed on it.

I recently installed gamebrowser with instructions found on this topic : https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/16380-gamebrowser-guide/

In plugin configuration page, I have :

 

 

In Emby Theater, I configure as instructions too :

 

 

But when I want to play a game, I get a spinner and nothing else ; no error and no emulator launched :

 

 

When I try to launch a game in command line, all works fine :

 

 

Thanks for your help @@Luke....and happy new year !

 

Vinc

[vinc010 0]

up please.

[Luke 38824]

have you tested those exact arguments on the command line? the arguments in your command line screenshot are different from your emby theater configuration.

[vinc010 0]

If you're talking about the fullscreen argument, I've try this three methods and they are all working (not that the drive letter is different because i'm on an other PC):

 

[vinc010 0]

Up please.

Edited January 14, 2017 by vinc010

[Luke 38824]

@@vinc010, try switching to lowercase {path}

 

I am pushing out an update to allow it to handle all casing. thanks.

[vinc010 0]

Thanks for the reply @@Luke.
I have already tried this solution that unfortunately generates the same problem.

I also tried to put the arguments on the same line (contrary to what marked in the options) but still the same.

Is it possible, in a log file, to see the exact command line that is executed?

Edited January 20, 2017 by vinc010