[Slothrop]

Hi.

I'm running two AppleTV2 boxes using the latest nightly (20111210), a MySQL database running on a Win7 Enterprise box and sharing stuff from a harddrive connected to an Asus RT-N56U router (SMB-share).

This has been running fine (i.e. database set up, populated, and played from) for a few weeks, but recently I've begun having trouble when I try to play movies or tv-shows from the library; I receive the error "This item is no longer available, would you like to remove it from the database".

However, if I go to play the files through f. ex. Videos -> Files -> - Filmer*, it plays just fine! (The same dirs which I've added to the library)

* "- Filmer" being the name of my movie subdir on the shared drive, maps to \\rt-n56u\AiDisk_a1\- Filmer

- Another thing of interest (?) is that it seems to add things to the library that I copy to the disk, so obviously it can access it.
- I can sometimes play my videos through the library way.. It seems to be possible more often with movies than tv series.

I have attached a log file where I boot into XBMC (sorry for all the library auto update crap, please see time stamps further on), try to play a movie [at 21:44:09 and at 21:44:34]. I think I then also tried to play a TV show using the library, and at last I entered the SMB share and played a file successfully this way.

http://pastebin.com/Hh1tSRPR


Thankful for any help I get. I know that using a FTP share would be an option as the router can share using that as well but I'd really prefer the SMB method.

Best regards,
Slothrop

[Jester]

Read here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM...ns.2Ffixes

try this:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=959354

[Slothrop]

Hi, and thanks for your reply.

Read here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM...ns.2Ffixes

Are you running the latest nightly? Yup.
Check your logs for clues. I'm not too skilled at this.. What I can find is unix_err:'16' error : 'Invalid argument
Do you have Firecore Media Player installed? No.
Have you verified proper ownership of your settings?
Is an Apple software update crashing XBMC? No.
Are you using a feature rich skin? Check to see if you're running out of memory. Don't think so.
Have you run out of space on your ATV2? No.
Does your xbmc.log have any SQL errors? No (see above for unix error).

try this:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=959354

This is only valid if my SMB share is on the Win7 machine, right? I'm sharing via my router, though my MySQL db is on the Win7 machine. However, I've also tried this fix which didn't help.


BR
Slothrop

[Ned Scott]

Some networks seem to sometimes have problems when using the SMB network names instead of IP addresses. You could export your library as a single XML file, then use the find/replace feature of a text editor to replace every instance of "rt-n56u" with the IP address. Then re-import. (save a backup of your original export, before the find/replace, incase this doesn't work).