[paplo]

Hey all

So my XBMC 12.3 running on a Win 8.1 machine won't play a specific movie. All my media a located on a Synology nas that also is being used for the shared library. I pulled this from the log:

10:46:06 T:35120 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://192.168.1.50/Shares/Downloads/Film/Pirates of the Caribbean Quadrilogy Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG/Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG/Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG.mkv
10:46:06 T:35120 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:46:06 T:37196 NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
10:46:06 T:37196 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
10:46:06 T:37196 ERROR: CWINFileSMB: Unable to open file \\192.168.1.50\Shares\Downloads\Film\Pirates of the Caribbean Quadrilogy Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG\Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG\Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG.mkv Error: 3
10:46:06 T:37196 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [smb://192.168.1.50/Shares/Downloads/Film/Pirates of the Caribbean Quadrilogy Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG/Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG/Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG.mkv]
10:46:06 T:37196 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
10:46:06 T:37196 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
10:46:06 T:35120 ERROR: XBMC.PlayMedia could not play media: smb://192.168.1.50/Shares/Downloads/Film/Pirates of the Caribbean Quadrilogy Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG/Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG/Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bluray 1080p x264 DTS TmG.mkv
10:46:06 T:35120 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
10:46:06 T:35120 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:46:06 T:35120 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
10:46:06 T:35120 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
10:46:09 T:37756 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true

Hope you can help me

[paplo]

Okay so I tried moving the movie to another location with a shorter path and then it played just fine. I'm thinking I hit some path length limit. If that is the case I'm just wondering how XBMC can recognize and add the movie to library in the long path, but can't play it. Any ideas?

[Prof Yaffle]

What are the permissions on the file/directory - both the original location and the new one? More likely than a directory path length limit. That said, Windows used to have a shell length limit of 256-ish characters, and it's possible that something similar is thus hard-coded into someone's SMB implementation - your full name isn't far off that.

You can test that by symlinking from somewhere else, I suppose - shorter path, same file/location/permissions.

You could equally just delete redundant parts of the file name/directory names to see if things spring into life (i.e. not move the file, just cut the "1080p...TmG stuff" out three times).

EDIT

It's actually 260: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...85%29.aspx - although that's for a local ("C:\xxxx\xxx\xx...") path. I don't know if that also applies to SMB paths, and what the difference is between listing the path and accessing the file other than "it uses different code/API calls".

[Tazz127]

I found that to get XBMC- Kodi to work you need to go to System, Video and deselect the "Allow Hardware Acceleration - DXVA2. This works Great!!!
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