VLC Trouble playing from NAS [TrueNAS]

[BrownZeus]

Hi everyone!

 

So I have a NAS running TrueNAS that hosts my video collection and I recently came across an issue with playing certain .mkv files.

 

It just refuses to play certain files off my NAS. Originally I thought it had to do with streaming such large 4k files, however it appears its only certain 4k .mkv files.

The same files, when I copy them off my NAS onto my local machine and play, there are no issues.

 

I've already tried messing around with MTU sizes, no luck. I have uninstalled and reinstalled VLC, and tried deleting the plugin cache.

 

I don't think my Samba version is to blame given other videos of various resolutions and size from the exact same file location on the network have NOT given me issues while a small subset has given me issues.

 

I don't know what else to try. I did try googling it and I'm pretty confident I've tried most of the things recommended from the first few results off google.

[Bdavis]

What issues do you have when trying to play the files? What is your network connection speed?

[BrownZeus]

1 hour ago, Bdavis said:

What issues do you have when trying to play the files? What is your network connection speed?

"VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:[filepath and filename]"

Checking the log its complaining about a whole bunch of the plugins even before I deleted the plugin cache and reinstalled VLC.

 

Not too sure what my local wifi speed is but my WAN speed is 300mbps from my ISP so I imagine my gateway wifi is capable around that speed. As previously mentioned I'm able to play my other videos off my nas just fine, just a particular subset

[Bdavis]

Try transcoding the videos to another container or codec standard using handbrake.

 

You could also try using plex.

 

Have you tried the solutions listed here?https://www.alphr.com/vlc-unable-open-mrl/

[BrownZeus]

On 1/28/2023 at 11:30 AM, Bdavis said:

Try transcoding the videos to another container or codec standard using handbrake.

 

You could also try using plex.

 

Have you tried the solutions listed here?https://www.alphr.com/vlc-unable-open-mrl/

I have tried this, unfortunately no luck. I'll probably do a conversion. Thanks for the attempt to help!