MovieWiz not seeing DVD's on PCH

[Mr. Camaro]

Both \\Intelquad and \\Tera should not have any passwords. I can reach both of them from a computer on the network that does not have a login password.

I think it is resolving the path. If I'm on the Windows XP computer running GBPVR and I "Ping Intelquad" or "Ping Tera" they both respond and show the correct IP.

Here I tried to Play a movie on Intelquad (A windows Share) It looks like it can't see it at all.

2009-01-28 21:31:14.828 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: PlayMovie()- ENTER-"A Fish Tale" (2000)
2009-01-28 21:31:15.937 VERBOSE [6] MovieWizCore: MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Attempt to locate \\Intelquad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale.DVD
2009-01-28 21:31:15.953 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: MovieEntry.ArchiveLocations- Caching Archive Subdirectories
2009-01-28 21:31:15.953 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Unable to resolve: \\Intelquad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale.DVD
2009-01-28 21:31:15.968 ERROR [6] MovieWiz: PlayMovie()- Does not exist: \\Intelquad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale

[mvallevand]

As I said you should try changing to \\##.##.##.## notation or the host file. pinging doesn't test the local system level.

Martin

[Mr. Camaro]

Are you meaning add it to the host file on the GBPVR computer? I just gave that a try and it did not seem to help. I read I might have to stop the DNS_Client_Service, so I stopped and started that, but still have the same problem. I can try changing to an IP address. If I do that, do I need to change it in all the places that I have "Intelquad" in the script?

On the PCH I can now telnet and drill all the way to the movie like this...

/ # cd /mnt/\\\\Intelquad\\Movies
/mnt/\\Intelquad\Movies # cd DV
/mnt/\\Intelquad\Movies/DV # ls
A Fish Tale
/mnt/\\Intelquad\Movies/DV # cd A\ Fish\ Tale
/mnt/\\Intelquad\Movies/DV/A Fish Tale # ls
AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS

[mvallevand]

Yes the PCH and GBPVR need to be the same however you do it, the client just looks adds /mnt/

Yes that is the Windows hosts file, in linux it is /etc/hosts but that won't help, the share on the PCH is working fine.

Martin

[JavaWiz]

Both \\Intelquad and \\Tera should not have any passwords. I can reach both of them from a computer on the network that does not have a login password.

I think it is resolving the path. If I'm on the Windows XP computer running GBPVR and I "Ping Intelquad" or "Ping Tera" they both respond and show the correct IP.

Here I tried to Play a movie on Intelquad (A windows Share) It looks like it can't see it at all.

2009-01-28 21:31:14.828 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: PlayMovie()- ENTER-"A Fish Tale" (2000)
2009-01-28 21:31:15.937 VERBOSE [6] MovieWizCore: MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Attempt to locate \\Intelquad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale.DVD
2009-01-28 21:31:15.953 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: MovieEntry.ArchiveLocations- Caching Archive Subdirectories
2009-01-28 21:31:15.953 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Unable to resolve: \\Intelquad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale.DVD
2009-01-28 21:31:15.968 ERROR [6] MovieWiz: PlayMovie()- Does not exist: \\Intelquad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale

From the box that MovieWiz is running on, can you open a dos box and type

dir "\\Intelquad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale.DVD"

If so, then MovieWiz should be able to see it also. This implies that there is a computer on your network with the name Intelquad AND it has a share defined called Movies.

[Mr. Camaro]

Sorry I've been out of the country for a few weeks. I tried to type that in a DOS box, but since there is no "A Fish Tale.DVD" directory it says file not found. Typing in

dir "\\IntelQuad\Movies\DVD's\A Fish Tale"

works and shows me the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders.

The part of the log that looks suspicious to me is

2009-01-28 21:00:48.843 VERBOSE [6] Sending MVP Video Playback Request: \\Tera\share\Movies\Growing up Bradyvideo_ts\VIDEO_TS.IFO

It looks like it is adding and extra "video_ts" to the file name that is not needed, and messes up the string.

[mvallevand]

Did you try and play the file from GBPVR's Video Library?

Martin

[JavaWiz]

Can you play this DVD image from the GBPVR server directly (ie not thru the PCH)?

Try to play it thru GBPVR directly, then try on PCH. Send both log files.

[gehing]

Hello,
I still have the same problem with playing DVDs on the PCH with the newest version. As you can see in the earlier post,

2009-01-28 21:00:48.812 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: MovieEntry.ResolvedMovieLocation- Resolved to: \\Tera\share\Movies\Growing up Brady.DVD
2009-01-28 21:00:48.828 VERBOSE [6] MovieWiz: PlayMovie()- Growing up Brady
2009-01-28 21:00:48.843 VERBOSE [6] About to request DVD playback of: \\Tera\share\Movies\Growing up Brady
2009-01-28 21:00:48.843 VERBOSE [6] Sending MVP Video Playback Request: \\Tera\share\Movies\Growing up Bradyvideo_ts\VIDEO_TS.IFO
2009-01-28 21:00:48.843 VERBOSE [6] Video file not found, request not sent

there is a backslash missing between the folder name Growing up Brady and video_ts. It's the same in my log. How can this be solved?

Regards,
Gert

[mvallevand]

There are 3 potential problems here.

1. The NMT and the MVP don't support playing media from all shares. I wrote a utility to simplify this linked here http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=43067

2. The NMT startup script needs to be correct.

3. There does appear to be a trailing back slash problem. Once 1 and 2 are working try to play the file in the standard video library.

Martin