Movie Jukebox GUI

[fryster2008]

Hi All,

I've tried using the Movie Jukebox GUI. I can get the images and the info on my films on screen, but am pulling my hair out trying to get them to play. I have my egreat connected to my PC via wired cable, and my movies are stored on my G: drive. My main os is on my C: drive, I use the G: drive purely for movie files, located at G:\Movies

On my EGreat the movies are located at STEVE-PC:Movies
smb://STEVE-PC/Movies

Please help me, so that I don't spend another day trying to sort this out! My understanding is that I should be putting in location of movie files G:\Movies and that the default nmt path should be file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC/Movies

PLEASE HELP! I think the program is awesome and really want it working!

Many Thanks!

[excal]

I can't remember if its one : or two but try one of these

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC:Movies/

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC::Movies/

or

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] (IP ADRESS OF YOUR POPCORNHOUR):Movies/

[Dizingof]

Solution here:
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...32&page=19

[staffanw]

(08-07-2008 12:51 AM)excal Wrote:  I can't remember if its one : or two but try one of these

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC:Movies/

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC::Movies/

or

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] (IP ADRESS OF YOUR POPCORNHOUR):Movies/

it's one : for SMB and two for NFS so

Code:

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC:Movies/

should do it.

[excal]

ahh thats good to know staffan...thanks for the info.

[fryster2008]

Ok, I've tried all of the above, I've also tried the solution here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...32&page=19 and I still can't get my movies to play! Time to call it a day.

[staffanw]

(08-07-2008 02:54 PM)fryster2008 Wrote:  Ok, I've tried all of the above, I've also tried the solution here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...32&page=19 and I still can't get my movies to play! Time to call it a day.

Fryster, check that you have correct case as the PCH, in old unix/linux fashion is extremely case-sensitive.

[jus10case]

(08-07-2008 10:03 PM)staffanw Wrote:  

(08-07-2008 02:54 PM)fryster2008 Wrote:  Ok, I've tried all of the above, I've also tried the solution here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...32&page=19 and I still can't get my movies to play! Time to call it a day.

Fryster, check that you have correct case as the PCH, in old unix/linux fashion is extremely case-sensitive.

I found that out the hard way after 2 days of fiddling with getting NFS going to a freenas server...stupid CAP letter!

[fryster2008]

(08-08-2008 04:20 AM)jus10case Wrote:  

(08-07-2008 10:03 PM)staffanw Wrote:  

(08-07-2008 02:54 PM)fryster2008 Wrote:  Ok, I've tried all of the above, I've also tried the solution here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...32&page=19 and I still can't get my movies to play! Time to call it a day.

Fryster, check that you have correct case as the PCH, in old unix/linux fashion is extremely case-sensitive.

I found that out the hard way after 2 days of fiddling with getting NFS going to a freenas server...stupid CAP letter!

Thanks for all your help so far guys. I've tried the following using the link in one of the posts above:

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/%52SMB%54%20STEVE-PC:Movies/

and the 'traditional' approach

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC:Movies/

but neither work. I've also tried various other versions of the above but to no avail. My network share on my egreat is smb://STEVE-PC/Movies

I've also tried it with another folder that is shared on my popcorn hour. smb://STEVE-PC/Public. This just has two video files in it, and again it generates the index fine but won't play.

When I hit play in the Movies folder it even flicks the screen over to the blue NMT screen that pops up before playing some files then goes back to the movie jukebox page. I've tried various files, avi, single vob's, multi vobs, x264 but none play through the jukebox menu. HELP!!!

Thanks for all the replies so far

[staffanw]

(08-08-2008 11:05 AM)fryster2008 Wrote:  

(08-08-2008 04:20 AM)jus10case Wrote:  

(08-07-2008 10:03 PM)staffanw Wrote:  

(08-07-2008 02:54 PM)fryster2008 Wrote:  Ok, I've tried all of the above, I've also tried the solution here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...32&page=19 and I still can't get my movies to play! Time to call it a day.

Fryster, check that you have correct case as the PCH, in old unix/linux fashion is extremely case-sensitive.

I found that out the hard way after 2 days of fiddling with getting NFS going to a freenas server...stupid CAP letter!

Thanks for all your help so far guys. I've tried the following using the link in one of the posts above:

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/%52SMB%54%20STEVE-PC:Movies/

and the 'traditional' approach

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC:Movies/

but neither work. I've also tried various other versions of the above but to no avail. My network share on my egreat is smb://STEVE-PC/Movies

I've also tried it with another folder that is shared on my popcorn hour. smb://STEVE-PC/Public. This just has two video files in it, and again it generates the index fine but won't play.

When I hit play in the Movies folder it even flicks the screen over to the blue NMT screen that pops up before playing some files then goes back to the movie jukebox page. I've tried various files, avi, single vob's, multi vobs, x264 but none play through the jukebox menu. HELP!!!

Thanks for all the replies so far

ok, forget about the %52 and %54 as it is wrong, it should be %5B and %5D, but let's go back a bit first. (%52="R" and %54="T").

Can you choose STEVE-PC:Movies "Media Source" and then Browse your movies ? Yes, then continue.

Skip the GUI and make sure that the entry in the moviejukebox.properties read:
mjb.nmtRootPath=file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC:Movies/
and then regenarate the MJB files again.

Open the generated files in a browser (IE or Firefox) and point to the PLAY button in a detailed page of a movie (don't klick as it won't play on a PC), does the file name visible in the bottom part of the browser page look ok ?
Yes, the try and do a cold restart of the box. I.e. make sure that you remove the power for a couple of minutes before restart.

BTW, do you have a HDD in the box i.e. have you set the workgroup of the box to the same as the SMB-server ?

/staffan

[fryster2008]

Thanks to everyone who has helped me. In the end it was the most simple of things, the first time I tried to generate the files I must have done it wrong and this was then stored in the cache. So every time I tried a different combination it didn't matter as the info was already cached. After unplugging the egreat for a few minutes and then using the share that staffanw initially suggested file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/[SMB] STEVE-PC:Movies/ it worked!

Once again, many thanks to you all, especially staffan! I'm a very happy boy now!

[johno75]

where can you download the movie jukebox program thing for the egreat? is there a tutorial somewhere for it? I want one that will work on my EGREAT EG-M31B. Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but this is the first time i've heard of it!

[fryster2008]

(09-14-2008 07:29 AM)johno75 Wrote:  where can you download the movie jukebox program thing for the egreat? is there a tutorial somewhere for it? I want one that will work on my EGREAT EG-M31B. Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but this is the first time i've heard of it!

I have the egreat m31a, and used the popcorn hour yamj gui with no problems (other than the above)!