preludeinsanity 0 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 HI, First off let me say I love Media Browser. I have a 900 movie collection and this program is awesome. I have used MB2 in the past and have upgraded and used MB3 for the last ~4 months? I even have the android app and have port forwarded it outside of my lan and it works great with the data throttling settings. I have the MB3 server on the same machine as the movie database, I am using MBC to view the movies in WMC on the server machine. When I load MBC on a second, third, fouth machine I am having issues with playback. I can playback some movies but others simply will not work. My copy of 8 mile is an avi file. I can pull up the folder on the other machines and play the file with windows media player on the remote machines, I can also play the file with windows media center on the remote machines, However, when I open media browser classic in Windows Media Center and scroll to the movie, I press play and I receive an error stating that windows media center can not open the file. It makes no sense, I can open the file through my computer and open the file with windows media center and everything works fine. Help please. .. I have opened the 8096 port on both computer firewalls, I see all the movie posters and the meta data downloads correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972 14 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Did you also made a UNC share of the folder containing the avi file? (See here for more details) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preludeinsanity 0 Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Thank you for the response. Yes the harddrive is the F:. It is shared and everyone has full control, the only folder on the hard drive is the movies folder. It is shared and everyone has full control. I have also mapped the network drive to the other computers. I can pull the movies up on the mapped network drive and tell them to play in windows media center and everything works out correctly. However if I use windows media center to go to media browser and then try to open any movie, I receive an error stating that windows can not open the file.?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preludeinsanity 0 Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 It has to be an issue with media browser classic, as I just tried to install media browser theater and I am able to play any movie with media browser theater, but classic still wont play the movies. I have also added the movie library to the videos media library in windows media center and I can play the movies through the window media center video interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution ebr 14912 Posted April 4, 2014 Solution Share Posted April 4, 2014 Mapped drives are almost always going to be a problem. Can you try using the path substitution feature on the server to change that to a UNC path as suggested above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preludeinsanity 0 Posted April 8, 2014 Author Share Posted April 8, 2014 Apparently I didnt read the whole article. I already had the folder shared on the network as described in the article so I must have rushed through it and didnt notice the part about adding the shared network path to the library. I added the path substitution on the server dashboard and everything works great. Thank you for your time and response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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