I moved last week, and finally got around to plugging in the raspberry pi today, connect it via Ethernet, and plug in my external HDD. When I tried to test it out though, I can still sign in and access my whole library but nothing will actually play. I’m not really good at this stuff but I’d appreciate any help (and patience) you guys would be willing to give me. As mentioned, I’ve got it set up on a raspberry pi. It all worked fine before the move. If anyone has dealt with this before I’d appreciate some tips. At the old place I set up a static IP for it too if that helps at all.

  • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not really sure what I’m looking at, but the most recent log is called FFmpeg and then a whole bunch of numbers and letters. I opened the file and most of it didn’t make any sense but at the end it reads

    Error opening input file file:/[path to file I was trying to view]/[file name].
Error opening input files: Input/output error

    The rest makes no sense to me, I’m not really sure how to read it all.

    • abominable_panda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This seems to be a file permission issue

      On console can you do

      ls -la

      Inside the media folder and see the owner user, owner group and permission?

      If you want to do quick and dirty test do

      chmod 777 <filename>

      Then try and play that file.

      If that works, try 775 and then 755 to tighten the permissions a bit

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        My pc is still boxed away somewhere so I’m trying to get this done on mobile currently and the console is just not having it, so if no one else’s tips help I’ll give this a try when I unbury my pc again. I’ll write another comment if I need more help. Thanks.