If anyone thinks they may be able to advise but needs extra information from me I'll supply whatever I can - though having tried debug logging on the server and for ET nothing relevant seems to be reported.Īlthough the problem could be circumvented by ripping all the bluray discs to HDD using MakeMKV or similar, I would like to get direct disc playing working which seems to have been achieved successfully with ET by others.Įdit: ET (3.0.3), Emby Server (3.5.3.0) and VLC (3.0.4) being used are the latest stable versions. I'm hoping I've missed something obvious and someone in the Emby community will be able to put me back on the straight-and-narrow. I've scoured the forums but have not been able to find any similar problem reported. I've even tried using different users at both the Emby and Windows level (standard user and administrator) in case it may have been a permissions issue but the same result. bat file definition for the external player that would then invoke VLC, as I have done within WMC, but again ET did not seem to try to invoke the. If I set up a desktop shortcut replicating the VLC bluray parameters above, this plays bluray discs fine. If I (temporarily) replace the last two command line arguments with and set VLC to be used for video files, playback of all HDD-based media I've tried is fine through ET, though obviously via VLC rather than the ET internal player. Having turned logging on for VLC it seems that ET is not invoking VLC at all so the error message would appear to come from ET itself.
\\Emby Server\Shared Emby Movie Stubs\Early Man (2018)\Early Man (2018).bluray.disc My metadata/artwork is not held with the media folders.
Emby Server is running on a different PC on the home network and I'm using a stub for the disc library entry. Unfortunately I'm always getting a "HeaderPlaybackError" message returned by ET with direction to insert a disc, despite a bluray disc being present in the one-and-only optical drive in the client PC running ET.
As part of preparation for a planned conversion to ET from WMC I have set up an external player entry for VLC to play commercial bluray discs in ET - my VLC install has appropriate 64-bit libaacs and libbdplus updates.