Android Error: Failed to play the selected media file

[KarylFStein]

Right after I upgraded sagex, I lost the ability to play back shows on my tablet. I understand that the client doesn't use sagex for anything, but as far as I know that was the only change between it working and it not, so just throwing that out. Playback on my phone works fine, though.

I can browse the menus fine, but when I select something to watch it says that there was a failure playing the selected media file. The path it provides in the error message is correct. I get the following in the logs:

Sending SageTV Command 20
23:14:08.282 [Media-thesteins.org] DEBUG s.m.android.gdx.MiniClientRenderer - New Player Requested
23:14:08.282 [Media-thesteins.org] DEBUG s.m.android.gdx.MiniClientRenderer - Using iJKPlayer
23:14:08.283 [Media-thesteins.org] DEBUG s.m.a.v.ijkplayer.IJKMediaPlayerImpl - load(): url: \\STEINSERVER\Recorded TV\AmericasGotTalent-S11E15-LiveResults2-25154257-0.mpg
23:14:08.284 [main] DEBUG s.m.a.gdx.MiniClientGDXActivity - Setting up the Video Frame
23:14:08.284 [main] DEBUG s.m.a.v.ijkplayer.IJKMediaPlayerImpl - Creating Player
23:14:08.285 [main] DEBUG s.m.a.v.ijkplayer.IJKMediaPlayerImpl - Sending \\STEINSERVER\Recorded TV\AmericasGotTalent-S11E15-LiveResults2-25154257-0.mpg to mediaplayer
23:14:08.285 [main] INFO  s.m.a.v.ijkplayer.IJKMediaPlayerImpl - Playing URL Using DataSource: isPush:false, sageTVUrl: \\STEINSERVER\Recorded TV\AmericasGotTalent-S11E15-LiveResults2-25154257-0.mpg
23:14:08.291 [main] DEBUG s.m.a.v.ijkplayer.IJKMediaPlayerImpl - mediaplayer has our URL
23:14:08.296 [Thread-2086] ERROR s.m.net.SimplePullDataSource - Unable to open: \\STEINSERVER\Recorded TV\AmericasGotTalent-S11E15-LiveResults2-25154257-0.mpg
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=78; regionStart=6; regionLength=-7
	at java.lang.String.startEndAndLength(String.java:504) ~[na:0.0]
	at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1333) ~[na:0.0]
	at sagex.miniclient.net.SimplePullDataSource.getHost(SimplePullDataSource.java:93) ~[na:0.0]
	at sagex.miniclient.net.SimplePullDataSource.open(SimplePullDataSource.java:43) ~[na:0.0]
	at sagex.miniclient.android.video.ijkplayer.IJKPullMediaSource._open(IJKPullMediaSource.java:33) ~[na:0.0]
	at sagex.miniclient.android.video.ijkplayer.IJKPullMediaSource.getSize(IJKPullMediaSource.java:51) ~[na:0.0]
23:14:08.298 [Thread-2086] DEBUG s.m.net.SimplePullDataSource - Close()

Phoenix Remote on the same tablet and Placeshifter on my PC both work fine.

[KarylFStein]

Strange, I just tried connecting to the "internal" IP of the server, (192.168.x.x), and playback worked. I usually connect to the external IP, (the public address my ISP assigns), even when at home and that has worked fine in the past. (I recently traveled for a couple weeks and used it almost daily--major problems with skipping, but that's for another thread...)

[stuckless]

When you are using the external IP the client is probably in "placeshifter" mode and would be transcoding the files on the fly on the server... so using the internal IP would certainly be better on the same network.

That being said, the error, showing the url as url: \\STEINSERVER\Recorded TV\AmericasGotTalent-S11E15-LiveResults2-25154257-0.mpg is also odd, since that looks like a local file playback and the URL should actually be stv:// or push://. I can't really explain why it would be trying to play the file locally, but, I do know it has nothing to do with the updated sagex... that much would be a coincidence. (core sage and miniclient don't rely on sagex at all)