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Unable to play xvid type files?


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Slowcobra

After seeing that there was actual emby support on ps4 and not the dnla crapshoot I was happy. I played 1 movie the other night without an issue. Tonight I tried playing episodes of a TV show and it just hangs. I tried rebooting the PS4, rebooted the emby plugin, rebooted the jail(running on Freenas 9.10.1) is it just me and I need to look further or is it an issue with ps4 playback of xvid files?

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Slowcobra

@@Slowcobra,  Can you describe the issue in more detail? Does it start playing at all? Thanks !

Emby itself starts but when I select an xvid file it just hangs on a black screen.

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Emby itself starts but when I select an xvid file it just hangs on a black screen.

I also can confirm that I get this error but it's only on sone MPEG4 files, it's hit and miss. It's weird as Emby is transcoding the file - it's in ts segments in the temp folder - but it doesn't want to initialise the play. I can't find a commonality however...

 

Hi @@Slowcobra. I can't seem to reproduce the problem. Is it possible to provide a sample video file for testing? Thanks !

I can provide a file if Slowcobra hasn't
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mgworek

I was also having the problem. The first night I had 0 problems but after that didn't have much luck. I haven't tried in awhile. Was going to wait for the next release. Will try again if you find anything after test the clip he gave you.

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Slowcobra

Sorry been busy and haven't messed with it. I check here, about to go grab a file, and distracted by wife, dogs,oooh shiny stuff haha Glad it's not just me!

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So have tested another 15+ MPEG4 files that didn't play before your pushed fix and they all play fine. So should have reported this earlier but what a quick fix after Luke grabbed my 'test' file. You my friend are a legend.

 

Probably should open another thread for this but have noticed that when you select a file via remote control it doesn't display the file's page on the PS4 but it still plays the file when play is pushed. Nonetheless a few friends of mine will be very happy with this PS4 fix. Thanks again

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Thanks for the report. It's possible ET may just not yet have added support for the remote control command to display content. I'll double check that. Thanks.

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