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I have a peculiar problem when trying to play movies from my network. Basically, they won't. If I play a movie local to the system, it works fine. If I play a movie via FTP, it works fine. However, when I connect via SMB, it will read the folder system, but when I try to play a file, it just thinks for 30ish seconds and then acts like I never asked it to play the file. This was not a problem with previous versions of XBMC, now is this a problem if I try to play the files over the network in Windows.

Here is a copy of the log file as it pertains to trying to play a file.

21:57:31 T:56421024 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://192.168.1.11/Media/Movies/Z/Zombieland (2009).mkv
21:57:31 T:56421024 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):Tongueut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:57:31 T:2907687792 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:57:31 T:2907687792 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
21:58:02 T:2907687792 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for smb://192.168.1.11/Media/Movies/Z/Zombieland (2009).mkv
21:58:02 T:2907687792 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
21:58:02 T:2907687792 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
21:58:02 T:2907687792 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
21:58:02 T:56421024 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
21:58:02 T:56421024 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):Tongueut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:58:02 T:56421024 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
21:58:02 T:56421024 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
21:58:02 T:56421024 ERROR: Unable to open audio mixer
You'll get better performance out of samba shares if you have the OS mount them.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1063074
Thanks. That did the trick!