Hey all,

i have the playonhd with the latest firmware. Downloaded YAMJ and i can generate a jukebox successfully. I can access it on my playonhd, no problems so far.

But when i try to play the movie it either says 'unable to locate..' or 'unknown file'.
The movies do play when i browse to them on the playonhd, and are .mkv files.

I have tried all kind of things for the nmtpath and playerpath setting. Which comes to my first question, what is the difference between the 2?
I have tried relative paths, absolute paths, no difference it just wont work .
Here is my situation:

PC has the movies.
Workgroup: WORKGROUP
PCname: SPECIESXX-PC
Share: Movies
Subfolder: Test
(The Movies folder is fully shared and i can play movies from my playonhd.)

Now my libraries.xml files.... what do i set there? nmtpath or playerpath, and how should it look like?
I have tried so many things it is to much to list them all. But any suggestions how it SHOULD work are appreciated .

Thx in advance!

How are you accessing the movies from the POHD?
Via explorer, a shortcut, or have you modified the startup script?
You must use a relative path for the POHD to find the movie files, but the exact syntax depends on how you are accessing the files from the POHD.
If it's via a shortcut in the GUI, and both the index.htm file and movies are in the root of the shared folder, then the playerpath statement in the library.xml file should read
<playerpayth>file://../</playerpath>
If you're accessing the movie files in any other way please post details

AndyA,

I have all the movies all ./movie directory of my PlayonHD HDD1 (e.g. /HDD1/movie).
I generated the index.htm on /HDD1 itself.
If I want the movies to be accessible from both PlayonHD itself and from other Macs in my house, is there a universal one-for-all playerpath?

Pls advise. Thanks.

Hi
So your movies are on an external HDD, index.htm in the root and movies in the movies subdirectory.
External USB disks usually appear in /tmp/usbmounts on the PlayonHD Mini, and the first disk is sda1
In this case the playerpath statement in the Library XML file would need to read
<playerpath>file://../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda1/movies/</playerpath>
The index.htm is in /tmp/usbmounts/sda1, the relative path needs to 'walk' back to the root of the mini and back down to the movies directory
You may want to Telnet to the mini first and check in /tmp/usbmounts to confirm your disk is listed as sda1
Let me know how you get on

Apology. Forget to mention that HDD1 is the default internal harddisk that comes with my PlayonHD.
Its exact path in the system is /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1.
My movies are in /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/movie.
index.htm is in /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1.

I want to
- watch the movies in my PlayonHD FROM my other macs.
- if possible, watch movies in other macs (jukebox files generated in macs) from my PlayonHD.

I will try out what you say when I get back home later.

Thanks.

Hi

For the playerpath, then try
<playerpath>file://../../../ /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/movies/</playerpath>
You will have difficulty maintaining one set of jukebox files for use everywhere, due to the peculiarities of the PlayonHD firmware - I currently have two sets of Jukebox files

Hi, i have found the problem, but now the solution .

I have the following structure on my Pc HDD:

E:\Movies -> contains movies
E:\Jukebox -> contains jukebox (seperate folder to increase load time in playonhd cause it will scan everything for index.html file)

When i try to play a movie in the jukebox in the playonhd it says unable to locate file. Unless i browse to the Movies folder first once, then it will work. So it seems a logon problem?

Help please .

Thx in advance.

It could well be a logon problem
If you edit the playon startup file to mount the shares at startup, then you will get over this problem
The playerpath statement is still a relative path, but 'walks' to the root of the playon and back down again from index.html to the movies directory

ok thanks gonna try that. If i can find how to but i think i will be ok

Hi
There are other posts in te forums from myself and others with info on this topic
If you still need help then PM me