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I have XBMCbuntu running on 1 PC with XBMC 12.2. Here I enabled the UPNP sharing in the configuration. Now I want to watch videos on another PC with Windows 7. Here is also XBMC 12.2 running. When I add the UPNP share in the videos section everything is OK, I can see the whole list of series and movies. Actually, when I try to watch something, nothing happens and after a while I get an error that it could not play back the video and that I should check the logs...


Here is the part of the logs where it goes wrong (on my client PC (the Windows machine)):
Code:
23:18:50 T:3508  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: http://10.0.0.12:62862/%25/460A43D4C539E2A3258F4E0577BD7BA1/S09E02.mkv
23:18:50 T:3508 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
23:18:50 T:6064  NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
23:18:50 T:6064  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
23:18:50 T:6064 WARNING: XFILE::CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 22
23:18:50 T:6064   ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
23:18:50 T:6064   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://10.0.0.12:62862/%25/460A43D4C539E2A3258F4E0577BD7BA1/S09E02.mkv>
23:18:50 T:6064   ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [http://10.0.0.12:62862/%25/460A43D4C539E2A3258F4E0577BD7BA1/S09E02.mkv]
23:18:50 T:6064  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
23:18:50 T:6064  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
23:18:50 T:3508   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [upnp://367c5498-825c-e8cd-1cf5-a584a0adf8b2/videodb%3a%2f%2f2%2f2%2f11%2f-2%2f510%3fseason%3d-2%26tvshowid%3d11/]
23:18:50 T:5640  NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
23:18:50 T:3508  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
23:18:50 T:3508 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
23:18:50 T:3508  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
23:18:50 T:3508  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting

Before I used this same Windows PC to watch videos on another Windows PC (server) and everything went well. So I think I should look for the problem at the server PC (XBMCbuntu).

Could this maybe be a firewall issue? I already check iptables but shows an empty list...

I'm out of options at the moment. Any one another idea? Many thanks!!
Found the problem! The problem was that the media disks were not automatically mounted on the Linux machine. I have to activate them by using the directory browser in XBMCbuntu and click the mounts. I think I can fix this problem with fstab? I will look into that this weekend.
Yes fstab will fix that.
I think I might have a similar problem with my audio. I recently updated to Ubuntu 13.04 and am using XBMC12.2. I was on 12.04 and everything was working great. I have managed to sort out most problems now but I still am having a problem using my desk pc to read anything on the XBMC server. It can see the play lists, but it cannot see anything inside the playlists. Is this the same problem or do I need to post elsewhere? Updating these things is always a recipe for error and frustration.

Here are some error lines from my log





21:06:29 T:140385996343168 ERROR: XLCDproc::Connect - Unable to connect to host, LCDd not running?
21:06:29 T:140385996343168 ERROR: XLCDproc::Initialize - Connect failed. Retry in 4 seconds.
21:06:33 T:140385996343168 ERROR: XLCDproc::Connect - Unable to connect to host, LCDd not running?
21:06:33 T:140385996343168 ERROR: XLCDproc::Initialize - Connect failed. Retry in 8 seconds.
21:06:34 T:140385445381888 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
21:06:41 T:140385445381888 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 3 times.
21:06:41 T:140385445381888 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
21:06:41 T:140385996343168 ERROR: XLCDproc::Connect - Unable to connect to host, LCDd not running?

21:09:11 T:140385084827392 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting special://profile/PartyMode.xsp
21:10:33 T:140384730593024 NOTICE: Thread CMusicInfoScanner start, auto delete: false
21:10:33 T:140384730593024 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting /media/JukeBox1/Blues/1-MISC/New Folder/
21:10:33 T:140384730593024 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting /media/JukeBox1/Classical Various/Bach/Goldberg/
21:10:33 T:140384730593024 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting /media/JukeBox1/Country/Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels - The Gram Parsons Anthology 1/New Folder/

21:15:34 T:140385996343168 ERROR: Could not find FILE referenced in cue, case sensitivity issue?
21:15:38 T:140385996343168 ERROR: Previous line repeats 19 times.
21:15:38 T:140385996343168 ERROR: Open - failed to open source </media/xbmc/JukeBox1/Country/Alejandro Escovedo/2006 - The Boxing Mirror/08 - Sacramento & Polk.mp3>
21:15:38 T:140385996343168 ERROR: MP3Codec: Unable to open file /media/xbmc/JukeBox1/Country/Alejandro Escovedo/2006 - The Boxing Mirror/08 - Sacramento & Polk.mp3
21:15:38 T:140385996343168 ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file /media/xbmc/JukeBox1/Country/Alejandro Escovedo/2006 - The Boxing Mirror/08 - Sacramento & Polk.mp3
21:15:38 T:140385996343168 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder
21:15:38 T:140385996343168 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [/media/xbmc/JukeBox1/Country/Alejandro Escovedo/2006 - The Boxing Mirror/08 - Sacramento & Polk.mp3]