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Cecile Lilien

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Problem 1.a. When I import video files into the Content > Movies folder, they appear as a File Media Source as expected, as long as I click and drag them directly into UE4. If I try to bring them in via File Explorer, they do not appear in UE4, however, other files, like JPGs will.

Problem 1.b When I click on the File Media Source, I am not able to see the video, but I can see that the File Media Source is linking to the file name. Not sure if this is an issue, but after watching countless tutorials, and looking into the UE4 docs, it seems like I should see the video play here. I have added a pic below to show what I mean.

Problem 1 c (The main problem): After bringing in the File Media Source, I create a Media Player, which I open. I then double click the media file in the section below the video, wait a few seconds, and then can see the video showing in the Output section next to Video Texture. That media texture will also show the video, and I can add it to a material and watch the Video display on any 3D mesh.

Ever since getting version 5 of Malwarebytes on my Windows 11 system, Windows Media Player Legacy (v12) won't play .mp3, mp4 or other any media files.
I eventually get "not responding" in the media player, and also get one or both of the following errors ... "The RPC server is unavailable / The remote procedure call failed"

RPC services are running, and I've tried all suggested built in Windows troubleshooters, removed and re-adding media player
The new media player works, as does VLC, but I'm one of many that prefer the old WMP

I did try turning off the individual protection settings and also all of them at once which helped at first, but after a couple of successful views, problem came back.
I just tried turning off Malware & Pup protection by itself, same thing, worked a couple of times and problem came back
I also cleared any settings in WMP that might connect to the internet, even disable network adapters with no change

The fix may possibly take up to 60 minutes to complete

If the tool needs a restart please make sure you let the system restart normally and let the tool complete its run after restart.
The tool will make a log named Fixlog.txt in the same folder you ran the Farbar program from. Please attach that log on your next reply.

Important: items are permanently deleted. They are not moved to quarantine. If you have any questions or concerns please ask before running this fix.

I've recently started using Roku Media Player to stream music from a UPnP server built into my router. This works OK but RMP is somewhat lacking in features. For instance, it would be nice to see the time elapsed and remaining in the current track. Are there any other channels that can connect directly to the UPnP server without having to run something like Plex on another computer?

I only know of one other functional DLNA player for Roku devices (other than RMP), and that is Chaneru. However, I don't think development has continued with it. I do know that when I was using it before RMP was released, it was extremely slow to use. I don't think it has much improvement in the video playback. Chaneru also offers its own server product, so perhaps it works better with that. Plex and Emby player channels cannot connect to DLNA servers, only their own server products (their servers do offer a DLNA output, but the players won't see the DLNA side).

That said, RMP does show time elapsed and time remaining if you pause the playback. I tested this with both video and music. Yeah, not convenient to pause playback to see those numbers. But they are there.

EDIT: I just reinstalled Chaneru and at least on my Ultra 4800 the channel won't even load. As I mentioned, I don't think development has continued with this channel, so RMP may be the only channel option left for DLNA playback.

I've used Emby, but if I'm not mistaken it requires the Emby server running on a PC to take content from the DLNA server and send it to the Emby Roku channel. Plex seems to work the same way. I'd like to avoid having to run a PC just to stream music. RMP can directly access a DLNA server, so I was hoping there were other channels that could do the same thing.

Thanks for the suggestion. I installed Chaneru, but all it does is show a splash screen and return to the home screen. Not a big surprise that an 8-year-old app doesn't work. I'm sure I'll get used to RMP eventually.

Thanks for the info. I have a SSD containing my movies connected to the back of my Roku streambar via USB and use the RMP to access it. Seeing as I have over 700 films the RMP is torturous, but I really don't want to have another computer running 24/7 just to access my film library. Always open to suggestions here.

On a whim I plugged my USB directly into my Samsung smart tv, lo and behold! it recognized my USB and it has a media player (SMP.) The SMP is better than the RMP, but not by much. One nice touch is that the SMP shows my mp4 files in two horizontal lines, sorted alphabetically, with images from the files. It gives some basic data such as file name, type and size, but there is no sort or search function.

I suspect that every smart tv with a USB input also has a media player, though it may be primitive. The next time I need to buy a tv I will bring along a thumb drive with some media files to see if the tv will play the files.

Yes, virtually any "smart" TV will recognize an attached USB drive. I have Samsung sets, and I don't think their player is as good looking as RMP. There's zero metadata (assuming your media has that available) and it is just as limited for audio codecs and captions as RMP is. But if it plays your media better than RMP, that's all that matters until Roku gets their head out of the sand and puts some effort back into RMP.

Honestly what the **bleep** is wrong with them leaving such gaping hole in the development side of these apps?! I don't know what the company makes as far as profits but seriously get your **bleep**ing act together you could hire live 5 people who were great developers and they probably could churn out a product or an improved version of this app. What the **bleep** do you guys do at Roku headquarters?! You are honestly asking for a competitor to come do it better, and I'd jump ship in a **bleep**ing second. Your search sucks, app store garbage, no internet browsing capabilities, you guys are like the tivo or streaming I can't wait for somebody to put you guys in your place you lazy sacks of **bleep**. Rant done.

I am struggling with the custom integration alexa media player, yesterday it did not renew the login/cokkie and all alexas stopped working from within HA. After relogin with my credentials, it started working again.

Download SMPlayer for free A quick look at SMPlayerSMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux withbuilt-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. Itdoesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be ableto play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers thesettings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but youhave to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will beresumed at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audiotrack, subtitles, volume...SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winningMPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audioformats. But apart from providing access for the most common anduseful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like thepossibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.Play all media formatsSMPlayer supports the most known formats and codecs:avi, mp4, mkv, mpeg, mov, divx, h.264... you canplay all of them, thanks to its built-in codecs.You don't need to find and install third party codecs. See a list of all supported formats

SMPlayer includes many advanced features like video and audio filters, change of theplayback speed, adjustment of audio and subtitles delay,video equalizer... and many more. 2 in 1 devices with touch screens are also supported.

A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this media player building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.