Cannot play DVD ISO through GBPVR on PCH

[haripj]

I have GBPVR 1.3.7 and a PCH A-100.
mvpmcx2 runs great on the PCH so far and so does MovieWiz to play movie files ripped as .mp4 files.
I tried to see if I can set it up to play DVD images stored as ISO's to get DVD menu functionality in GBPVR. I used a car reference guide DVD as my testing DVD - it is an ISO file stored on a FreeNAS server (where all the other movie files are currently).
I can access the iso fine directly through the PCH network browser and it plays fine with all the menu functionality.
Through GBPVR, Video Library cannot open the sub-folder in which the ISO resides - the permissions are open (chmod 777). MovieWiz shows the file in the list. When I play it through MovieWiz, it attempts to start playing the ISO, shows the Popcorn Hour screen for a few seconds, and then comes back to the MovieWiz screen.
I have attached -
1. GBPVR logs
2. Putty output during this attempt (I ran mvpmcx2 manually through telnet for this trial). I also gave the mount command (just 'mount') initially just to confirm the mount went o.k., so you see the initial part has the output to the mount command.
3. My mvpmc share folder - so you can see how the share/mount commands are written.

Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks,
haripj

[mvallevand]

I am confused by your share naming conventions and what you are sharing howeve Moviewiz is saying

Code:

MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Resolved to: \\192.168.76.4\FreeNas\Movies\Movies\DVD\MURANODVD.ISO

which seems to implies your share (you sometimes map to Z is called FreeNas and not DVD like you use on the PCH.

However the problem might simply by on the PCH you have used FreeNAS and on the PC you have FreeNas so changing the PCH scripts to FreeNas might be enough to have a match.

Martin

[haripj]

Aaahh - I missed that one - good pick up.
I don't know why MovieWiz is calling it Freenas instead of FreeNAS, but I think if I define that mount in the gbpvr.cgi file it should work.
By the way, I solved another problem listed in my original post (Video Library not being able to open the DVD sub-directory) by running the GBPVRRecordingService under my user account instead of Local System. I don't know why that would not work as on the FreeNAS box the permissions are wide open.
Thanks - I'll let you know if that works.

[mvallevand]

The local system account won't help on guest shares but it would solve problems if you use a mapped drive letter or the name \\FREENAS\ instead of the IP address \##.##.##.## in config.xml

Martin

[haripj]

Thanks for your help. Everything works now with the recording service running under my user acct instead of Local System acct.