I am trying to build a movie library and use it with VLC. As I have already my movies spread over different disks and directories I wanted to use "symbolic links" (alias) for the files, creating only the "movie name" directory, the VIDEO_TS directory and placing "movie.jpg" within "movie name" and the alias within VIDEO_TS.

(by the way, is it possible to show the image bigger ? It appears very small....)

For some reason VLC fails to open the video file (mkv) from the movie directory, although if I navigate to the directory using RB the file is correctly played (i.e. the alias is good enough for VLC to open it).

Thank you !

The following are the errors displayed by VLC (using 10.5.1, VLC 0.8.6d and RB 1.8.7):

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access_file: file /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv is empty, aborting 
access_file: file /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv is empty, aborting 
main: no suitable access module for `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
access_file: file /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv is empty, aborting 
access_file: file /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv is empty, aborting 
main: no suitable access module for `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv'

 
and then more details:

 
main debug: adding playlist item `VIDEO_TS' ( /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS ) 
main debug: creating new input thread 
main debug: waiting for thread completion 
main debug: thread 2957045760 (input) created at priority 37 (input/input.c:265) 
main debug: `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS' gives access `' demux `' path `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS' 
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS' 
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate 
dvdnav warning: cannot open dvdnav 
main debug: creating access '' path='/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS' 
main debug: looking for access2 module: 6 candidates 
vcd debug: trying .cue file: /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS.cue 
vcd debug: could not find .cue file 
main debug: using access2 module "access_directory" 
main debug: pre-buffering... 
access_directory debug: opening directory `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS' 
access_directory debug: starting directory playback 
main debug: adding playlist item `Shrek.mkv' ( /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv ) 
main debug: received first data for our buffer 
main debug: pre-buffering done 1408981 bytes in 0s - 688323 kbytes/s 
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='directory' path='/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS' 
main debug: looking for demux2 module: 1 candidate 
main debug: using demux2 module "access_directory" 
main debug: looking for a subtitle file in /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/ 
access_directory warning: unimplemented query in control 
main debug: `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS' successfully opened 
main debug: EOF reached 
macosx debug: input has changed, refreshing interface 
main debug: closing input 
main debug: removing module "access_directory" 
main debug: removing module "access_directory" 
main debug: thread 2957045760 joined (input/input.c:412) 
main debug: creating new input thread 
main debug: waiting for thread completion 
main debug: thread 2957045760 (input) created at priority 37 (input/input.c:265) 
main debug: `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' gives access `' demux `' path `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate 
main debug: creating access '' path='/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
main debug: looking for access2 module: 6 candidates 
vcd debug: trying .cue file: /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.cue 
vcd debug: could not find .cue file 
access_file debug: opening file `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
access_file error: file /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv is empty, aborting 
cdda debug: trying .cue file: /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.cue 
cdda debug: could not find .cue file 
cdda warning: could not open /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv 
main debug: creating access '' path='/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
main debug: looking for access2 module: 6 candidates 
vcd debug: trying .cue file: /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.cue 
vcd debug: could not find .cue file 
access_file debug: opening file `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
access_file error: file /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv is empty, aborting 
cdda debug: trying .cue file: /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.cue 
cdda debug: could not find .cue file 
cdda warning: could not open /Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv 
main error: no suitable access module for `/Users/jaga/Movies/Shrek/VIDEO_TS/Shrek.mkv' 
macosx debug: input has stopped, refreshing interface 
main debug: thread 2957045760 joined (input/input.c:412) 
main: nothing to play

Last edited: 05.02.2008 12:26:08