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hello, here the log.

http://pastebin.com/rnGtBkmX

the file will not play, but we get an OK back.

Moved to jsonrpc support

Are you saying it plays if tried from within XBMC?

Yes, and it is also working if I change to a local file instead.

For example: c:\test.mkv

With Eden this was working on remote system.

Regards
Christian

Are you trying to use an UNC path? First of all these should start with \\ and not // but IIRC support for UNC paths was completely removed but I could be wrong.

yes, unc path. Can please anyone of the developers reproduce this, so we know if it is a bug or by design?

We also tried with \ instead of / and received an error pharsing.

Chrisitan

Backslashes need to be escaped so if you want to send
over JSON-RPC you actually need to send
and the same is required for any other backslashes in the path (not just the leading ones). That's why you receive a parsing error.

I would say we tried this also... With no success...

Christian

I'm sorry but "no success" is not a useful error report at all. There can be a thousand reasons why it doesn't work. You need to provide

• your exact JSON-RPC request
  
• the response you get
  
• a Debug log (wiki) with JSON-RPC debugging enabled
  

From your initial log it looks like the JSON-RPC request succeeded but XBMC didn't find a way to actually play the file.

Yes and this seems to be a bug. Because as mentioned if a local path/file is used it works. Same files, just local on c: drive.

See post #9

With local files it is working, this is ok for me. I don't know if I can provide any logs again. I just reported this because it seems to be a bug or is not supported anymore. A dev responsible should be able to test this within minutes. I am not a developer and this xbmc machine is not at my home and the option to test a 3rd party person is required.

This person told me it is little and confusing documented and should be used path or file now with Gotham.

try smb:// instead of \\