GhostRider 46 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) Hi Updated to version 2.9.6 of desktop Emby Theater today. Since then I have been unable to get my external player working. Tested from the command line and PowerDVD starst and plays file - so PowerDVD is OK. I have checked the Emby Theater settings many times, they look OK to me: However, from Emby Theater PowerDVD always starts up at main menu and never plays the file. It looks like the {path} setting is not being passed to PowerDVD. Any suggestions please? Does 2.9.6 work with the new Emby server 3.2.70? Edited January 20, 2018 by GhostRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 i don't have powerdvd but i tested with vlc and it's working fine. @ can you reproduce? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Testing now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 I have PowerDVD 17, too. I was able to use it as an external player. Try using the PDVDLP.exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Thanks doofus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) Thanks Doofus for testing. Unfortunately using PDVDLP.exe does not help. I still get the default PowerDVD screen startup. I think it is a permissions problem. I installed on a general user account. This is the one that fails as I described. If I go to the AppData\Roaming\Emby-Theater\system folder right click on Emby.Theater.exe and select run as Administrator it plays the movie! Obvisouly I cannot be entering the admin password each time, any suggestions what is going wrong on my installation? Edited January 20, 2018 by GhostRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Wouldn't the simple answer be to give that account administration privileges? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) Afraid not that would mean the whole family would get admin access to the HTPC, keen to keep the viewing account as a general user. I just tried reinstalling without that additional driver for remote control, alas that did not fix the issue. Something odd going on as it all used to work with the previous version 2.8.3 Edited January 20, 2018 by GhostRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Try opening the properties and chose run as administrator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) Found the solution, it was a Windows config issue and not an Emby issue. Somehow my homegroup setting had got messed up. I had to create a new homegroup and then get the other PCs to join this new homegroup. Once that was setup Emby theater was able to pass the path OK to PowerDVD and Theater works from a general user account. My best guess is that the Windows 10 Creators Fall update trashed the home group when it forced its way onto my server PC just before Xmas, not sure how the old 2.8.5 on the HTPC kept access but updating to 2.9.6 seemed to have finished the connection. Edited January 20, 2018 by GhostRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 I've had an issue with needing to use a homegroup, in the past. Glad you figured it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 I've had an issue with needing to use a homegroup, in the past. Glad you figured it out Thanks for helping with this Doofus, sorry to have troubled you with the testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Thanks for helping with this Doofus, sorry to have troubled you with the testing. It's fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannygp87 2 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 (edited) Found the solution, it was a Windows config issue and not an Emby issue. Somehow my homegroup setting had got messed up. I had to create a new homegroup and then get the other PCs to join this new homegroup. Once that was setup Emby theater was able to pass the path OK to PowerDVD and Theater works from a general user account. My best guess is that the Windows 10 Creators Fall update trashed the home group when it forced its way onto my server PC just before Xmas, not sure how the old 2.8.5 on the HTPC kept access but updating to 2.9.6 seemed to have finished the connection. Hi, how did you exactly fixed it? I have the same problem as you. From the command line, powerdvd works nicely but from Emby it just opens but doesn't start playing. My player path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDVD18\PDVDLP.exe and then the command: {path} Even if try opening both emby and powerdvd as administrator, it still doesn't work. I don't use homegroup at all, as my server is not on the same network, so I don't really understand how that could be a problem. Also, homegroup has been deleted from Windows 10: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17145/windows-homegroup-from-start-to-finish Thanks! Edited May 6, 2018 by dannygp87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 (edited) Hi Using an external player it is playing the movie file directly so you need to be able to access the file on the server. I use Homegroup for this as it is so easy to setup file sharing. Shame on Microsoft for removing this in the next version of Windows 10, fortunately I am still on version 1709 of Windows 10. I find using PowerDVD.exe is better than PDVDLP.exe (launch policy). launch policy calls PowerDVD.exe anyway and having this extra step makes returning to EMby difficult. When using PowerDVD.exe then you close PowerDVD Emby will pop up as it monitors the exe file in the command line arguments. For your problem the diffcult part will be accessing the file on the server. Are you able to mount the remote file system on your server from File Explorer on the client PC? Edited May 6, 2018 by GhostRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannygp87 2 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Hi Using an external player it is playing the movie file directly so you need to be able to access the file on the server. I use Homegroup for this as it is so easy to setup file sharing. Shame on Microsoft for removing this in the next version of Windows 10, fortunately I am still on version 1709 of Windows 10. I find using PowerDVD.exe is better than PDVDLP.exe (launch policy). launch policy calls PowerDVD.exe anyway and having this extra step makes returning to EMby difficult. When using PowerDVD.exe then you close PowerDVD Emby will pop up as it monitors the exe file in the command line arguments. For your problem the diffcult part will be accessing the file on the server. Are you able to mount the remote file system on your server from File Explorer on the client PC? Thanks for the quick answer! I have also tried with PowerDVD.exe but it doesn't start playing, although as you say, Emby minimizes when I click play and then comes back when I close PowrrDVD, so I will use it. I can't mount the server on the client PC, but the files are always Direct Played without problems because I have a good connection and peering between the server and the client PC. In fact, if I use MPC-HC as the external player in Emby, it works flawlessly. So, the problem seems really to be with PowerDVD interpreting/accesing the filepath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 (edited) Heads up for you guys. Window 10 1803 is removing homegroup. I just upgraded all three machines, and my network went away It's reverting back to workgroup, which works just fine. But the upgrade disabled two services that were needed. These two: So if you lose connectivity, check them. Edited May 6, 2018 by Doofus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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