Strm Files Pointing To Local Files Cannot Be Played

[Eagleheart 0]

I have a stream file (S00E01 - My Conquest Is the Sea Of Stars.strm - attached) which is just a local path to the location of the real file. The real file is in another library on the same Emby server and can play back fine from that other library folder, but it will not play through the strm file. I attached what I think are the relevant logs. I am just trying to play through the web app on the host pc for testing.

Any idea what the issue is here? I ran into the same problem with a number of different files I tried to set up this way. Attempting to use symlinks and hard links gave the same error window as well, but not sure if that's related to the issues with the strm files failing.

embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-4c31b40d-ba52-4510-ac8a-adc7a1e3c3a1_1.txt S00E01 - My Conquest Is the Sea Of Stars.strm

Edited 15 hours ago by Eagleheart

[Jmackay82 45]

@Lukethis looks like the same issue i reported with http pointing strm on windows client

[GrimReaper 4928]

5 hours ago, Eagleheart said:

I have a stream file (S00E01 - My Conquest Is the Sea Of Stars.strm - attached) which is just a local path to the location of the real file. The real file is in another library on the same Emby server and can play back fine from that other library folder, but it will not play through the strm file. I attached what I think are the relevant logs. I am just trying to play through the web app on the host pc for testing.

Any idea what the issue is here? I ran into the same problem with a number of different files I tried to set up this way. Attempting to use symlinks and hard links gave the same error window as well, but not sure if that's related to the issues with the strm files failing.

embyserver.txt 832.37 kB · 1 download ffmpeg-transcode-4c31b40d-ba52-4510-ac8a-adc7a1e3c3a1_1.txt 19.45 kB · 2 downloads S00E01 - My Conquest Is the Sea Of Stars.strm 107 B · 2 downloads

Don't think that's a strm files issue per-se (which generally work just fine locally - I have a lot of specials strm-linked to respective movies), but a combination of AVC Hi10p profile and mkv container and ASS subs on Firefox (which is notably the weakest of the bunch for media consumption). Have you maybe tried playing that item from some other, more media-friendly browser (Thorium, Chrome, Edge...?) or playing it without subs selected/using external text-based subs (.srt)? 

Edited 10 hours ago by GrimReaper

[Eagleheart 0]

If I play the file through the same Emby web app directly without using the strm file, it works fine. So I'm not sure it should have anything to do with the media itself? It should just play it the same as if playing it directly, no?

I did just try another browser (Chrome) and that did not work.

Playing it without subs actually does work, but that doesn't do me much good since I need to be able to play it with subs. Hmm. So it seems to be a combination of both routing through the stream file and having subs enabled.

[GrimReaper 4928]

20 minutes ago, Eagleheart said:

If I play the file through the same Emby web app directly without using the strm file, it works fine. So I'm not sure it should have anything to do with the media itself? It should just play it the same as if playing it directly, no?

I did just try another browser (Chrome) and that did not work.

Playing it without subs actually does work, but that doesn't do me much good since I need to be able to play it with subs. Hmm. So it seems to be a combination of both routing through the stream file and having subs enabled.

Try obtaining external srt subs and place them in the same folder as strm file (name them identical as strm)? You can also extract those ASS subs to srt with the tool of your preference (like SE), it literally few-seconds process.