Hi,

I have a playonHD mini with all my movies on a read-writable NFS share. Yamj can access and modify it. I am on MacOSX and Linux. No windows boxes here.

I used several Mac and linux applications to create my jukebox. The jukebox is created, I can browse and select movies in Yamj. I already experimented with skins: everything works fine.
But ..... when I click OK to start the movie it can't be found: "unable to locate <movie name>"

I prefer to use moviejukebox directly but I'm willing to change as I simply want it to work.

My configuration:
As said, I have all my movies on an NFS share. All my movies are in their own subdirectory as I also use Thumbscanner (Perl alternative to thumbgen).
Seen from my playon my NFS share is here: /tmp/ramfs/volumes/video

And more specific:


My library.xml is (as currently moviejukebox runs from my linux server that has the disks connected)


Now I know (think) that the error is in my "playerpath", but what should this playerpath be?
I know the above mentioned settings is incorrect, but I have changed it to all kind of paths, after reading so many topics about it.
I also tried the relative path w.r.t. the video folder that contains the index.htm.
So I tried both "../SD_VIDEO" and "./SD_VIDEO".

Note that Yamj always asks to scan the jukebox. When I answer yes, it does it's job seemingly successful as I see no errors, but I still can't play my movies.

Hi

The HD Mini needs a relative and not absolute player path, and won't work with any other format
For the two examples you've given, you need to amend them to walk back to the root and then down to the index file directory again: -

<playerpath>file://../../../../../tmp/ramfs/volumes/video/HD_Movies/</playerpath>

<playerpath>file://../../../../../tmp/ramfs/volumes/video/SD_VIDEO/</playerpath>

YAMJ on my system runs on Windows, and I've got my Videos share mounted to /tmp/ramfs/volumes/Videos on the mini. My playerpath is set to

<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/ramfs/volumes/Videos/</playerpath>

This works ok on my system

Hi,

thanks for your reply. I added the path in my library.xml for both playerpaths, but now my mini complains about "Unable to service request".
This happens after I have selected the index, select Other, select All. Then the error occurs.

Now in the moviejukebox.properties file is a "mjb.playerRootPath" variable.
I have now set that to "mjb.playerRootPath=file://../../../../../tmp/ramfs/volumes/video", equal to the playerpath in the library.xml. I also tried a couple of other values, but alas.
What is it in your properties file?
And what's the difference?

Sorry.

It DOES work!

I forgot one vital step. When starting Yamj it asks to "Please update if this is the first time loading....". I didn't do that as it had never helped in the first 324.634.789.412.908.456 times.
I decided to do it completely according the rules and let it do it's lenghty job and now it's working.

After weeks and weeks of frustration, I can now enjoy it.

Thank you!

Thank you so much......I really appreciate this topic..to both of you actually!!

THANKS!!

Now I'm really convinced playonhd sucks! I've never seen a consumer product you have to spent weeks and weeks to get it properly working! OMG.. this is really my experienced and its not even working all the time...i consider myself a techie being in IT networking with unix background at that...sigh..