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MediaBrowser client for MediaPortal
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"Unable to play" - More descriptive error message suggesting UNC paths? #23

Open cwchapma opened 10 years ago

cwchapma commented 10 years ago

I get "unable to play" when I try to play any files. These files all play fine from Videos or TV Series. Any idea what the problem might be?

Let me know what other information might be helpful.

BTW, love the whole mediabrowser ecosystem. Thanks for contributing to it.

Clint

cwchapma commented 10 years ago

Figured out what the problem was. I used local paths setting up the files on the server. Once I changed the library paths to UNC paths, everything works great :)

It might be nice if the error message was more descriptive instead of just "unable to play". I'm guessing it might even be able to recognize that it's not a UNC path and suggest that it maybe should be?

I'm guessing this will be a common problem. I think I assumed it would be streaming somehow instead of accessing the file directly.

Thanks again, Clint

apondman commented 10 years ago

the "unable to play" message comes from MediaPortal itself so i can't change that. What i can do is add a notification on startup when the library paths are not UNC and the client is located on a different machine.

Pogman commented 10 years ago

Just been caught out by this so would agree that a notification would be great.