This is my first post here and hope that somebody can throw some light on this strange/weird issue.
After installing atv flash (black) v1 and previous versions (on both 4.3 and 4.4.2) - I can install media player and have set up my files to access my “Samba” (SMB) Shares on a NAS. However when clicking on a file it states - “Playback error - An error occurred loading this content”.
The files that I am trying to play are divx / mkv - usual video files. XBMC plays them fine. Am I being a noob??
Having exactly the same issue. Could see all my media but couldn’t play back from my NAS. However, I have an additional problem now where by I cannot even move the media from watched to All or Unwatched.
The files are on my DS411, but this has an iTUNES service which publishes to my network. So if I go to any iTunes client I can view the NAS under ‘Shared’ and play the media. Likewise, I can play the media directly on any MAC I have by opening the file on the NAS using Quicktime.
On your Media player, I can see all of my TV programs, I can see the artwork etc, and I can see the menus is the same as a normal Apple TV. The file even loads before failing so I don’t understand why.
As per my original post at the top, these files are “Standard” divx/xvid, mkv’s such as those that can be downloaded on the internet.
There is nothing different about these files and anything I attempt to open with the media player it refuses. I would suggest that it is probably not the files that are at fault - but the SAMBA/SMB implementation.
The strange thing is that although these folders have user/password requirements - I would have expected the files to play considering it would not let me browse the folders without the correct username / password.
I am about to try to put some of the same files on a different NAS with Windows Shares (SMB/SAMBA) without any permissions (on the folders) to see if this highlights the bug.