XBMC won't stream video after formatting cpu hd

[Bullitt]

i have formatted my hardrives and reinstalled win xp. after that, when trying to stream video from my computers hard drive thourgh xbmc it won't play. but the wierd thing is that the "old" video files which i had before formatting my computer are streaming and playing as normal. all the files are in the same folder.

anyone has a idea how it could be fixed?

[tjohns43]

since you can see the old movies it doesn't seem to a network problem but a windows problem.

i would try two things. first unshare and then reshare the folder on the pc and reboot. can you now stream the videos? if this doesn't work move all the movies out the shared folder to some other "temp" location. then move all the movies back from the "temp" location to the shared folder.

i had this same issue between my xbox and pc and moving the files out of the shared folders and back in actually worked for me. apparently from what i am told from this form is the windows does poor job of keeping track of the shared permissions so everynow and then it loses track.

[Bullitt]

thanks for the reply. i tried your diffrent suggestions but it does not help. actually now i can't play the "old" movies either. ???
but the files are still in the list, but nothing happens when you click them.

i have also tried to move a movie file to the f:drive on the xbox, but even that file does not play. furthermore i have also updated the xbmc.

seems to be completly wierd. altough the only files which will play is .iso.

do you have any ideas? could it be some problem with my d-link firewall (but it worked before formatting my drives on cpu and .iso are playing). would really appreciate some help.

[Bullitt]

my xbmc.log is saying the following

27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice -----------------------------------------------------------------------
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice starting xboxmediacenter. built on dec 16 2005
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice q is mapped to: harddisk0\partition1\apps\xbmc
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice log file is located: q:\xbmc.log
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice -----------------------------------------------------------------------
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice setup directx
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info available videomodes:
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info found mode: 720x480 at 50hz,
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info found mode: 720x576 at 50hz,
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice load settings...
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice loading t:\settings.xml
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice getting hardware information now...
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info using analog output
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info ac3 pass through is disabled
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info dts pass through is disabled
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice checking resolution 10
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info av pack: standard
27-12-2003 04:04:17 info av flags:
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice setting autoresolution mode 6
27-12-2003 04:04:17 notice loading q:\xboxmediacenter.xml
27-12-2003 04:04:20 notice loaded q:\system\players\mplayer\iso639-1.xml
27-12-2003 04:04:20 notice loaded q:\system\players\mplayer\iso639-2.xml
27-12-2003 04:04:20 notice initialize assignment:[dhcp] network ip:[192.168.0.3] netmask:[255.255.255.0] gateway:[192.168.0.1] nameserver:[0.0.0.0]
27-12-2003 04:04:20 notice use dhcp
27-12-2003 04:04:22 notice xbfilezilla: starting...
27-12-2003 04:04:22 notice xbfilezilla: started
27-12-2003 04:04:22 notice checking the date!
27-12-2003 04:04:22 notice start dvd mediatype detection
27-12-2003 04:04:22 notice initializing playlistplayer
27-12-2003 04:04:22 notice load default skin:[project mayhem iii]
27-12-2003 04:04:22 error invalid rss url set referenced in skin
27-12-2003 04:04:23 notice initialize done
27-12-2003 04:04:23 notice running the application...
27-12-2003 04:04:23 warning kernel32.dll fake function disablethreadlibrarycalls called
27-12-2003 04:04:35 error cmplayer::openfile() smb://bullitt/xbox/when a stranger calls/stress-wasc.scr.xvid.avi failed
27-12-2003 04:04:35 error playlist player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [smb://bullitt/xbox/when a stranger calls/stress-wasc.scr.xvid.avi]
27-12-2003 04:04:37 error cmplayer::openfile() smb://bullitt/xbox/when a stranger calls/stress-wasc.scr.xvid.avi failed
27-12-2003 04:04:37 error playlist player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [smb://bullitt/xbox/when a stranger calls/stress-wasc.scr.xvid.avi]
27-12-2003 04:04:39 error cmplayer::openfile() smb://bullitt/xbox/when a stranger calls/stress-wasc.scr.xvid.avi failed
27-12-2003 04:04:39 error playlist player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [smb://bullitt/xbox/when a stranger calls/stress-wasc.scr.xvid.avi]
27-12-2003 04:04:40 error invalid rss url set referenced in skin
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice storing total system uptime
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice saving settings
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice stop all
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice stop time server
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice stop dvd detect media
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice stop fancontroller
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice stop daap clients
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice stop python
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice clean cached files!
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice unload skin
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice unload sections
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice destroy
27-12-2003 04:04:45 notice stopped
27-12-2003 04:04:46 error exception in capplication::render()
27-12-2003 04:04:46 notice application stopped...
27-12-2003 04:04:46 notice running the application...

help needed.

[tjohns43]

i am by far not a expert. it seems that its not a network problem if you moved the file to your xbox and it still won't play. i was looking at the log and the file you were trying to play was "when a stranger calls/stress-wasc.scr.xvid.avi". this is probably a stupid question by why is there so many ".: in the file name? if you rename to .avi will it play on from your local f drive on your xbox?

[spiff]

that log only says 'something went wrong'

that we heard from you already. enable debug logging (hold x+y while xbmc starts) to get useful logging.

[Bullitt]

thanks for the help so far.

have made a new log and posted it at a pastebin (http://pastebin.ca/78861)

as you can see i have tried to play both .avi and .iso.

would really appreciate if you had some idea what is wrong and how it could be fixed

[spiff]

starting xboxmediacenter. built on dec 16 2005

i have no idea what bugs were and were not present back then.

stuff that caught my attention; the insane cache rate. 8mb? that's like 1 min of movie compressed with mpeg4.

[AcdReign]

by any chance did you change your motherboard to one based on a via chipset?

i built a fileserver last week with a via based board and ran into an almost identical problem. turns out my 200gb maxtor diamondmax 10 ata100 hard drive and my motherboard don't get along.

i had to resort to moving my 200gb drive back to my main machine. after speaking to a lot of people about the issue, i believe that updating the bios on my drive will resolve the issue.

now if only i had enough space to backup 200gb of data to another drive... *sigh*

[Bullitt]

no, same motherboard as before. i have only formatted my harddrives and reinstalled windows xp.