diff --git a/SDK/C/src/streams.cpp b/SDK/C/src/streams.cpp
index e9dc6ff0791491889619d3eb113201a10d0343fd..ea112ad5caed1cdd75ab67277197a9b2ef65562c 100644
--- a/SDK/C/src/streams.cpp
+++ b/SDK/C/src/streams.cpp
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ ftlStream_t ftlCreateWriteStream(const char *uri) {
 	s->interval = 40;
 	s->video_fs.frames.reserve(32);
 	s->video_states.resize(32);
+	s->has_fresh_data = false;
 
 	switch (u.getScheme()) {
 		case ftl::URI::SCHEME_FILE	: createFileWriteStream(s, u); break;
diff --git a/components/common/cpp/src/uri.cpp b/components/common/cpp/src/uri.cpp
index 39ddb47e107a8a9a8dd499d9d4ab7e7e9ec1ae26..6884720d1e17cd5a222b56699ce754892ef9cd59 100644
--- a/components/common/cpp/src/uri.cpp
+++ b/components/common/cpp/src/uri.cpp
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ void URI::_parse(uri_t puri) {
 		if (getcwd(cwdbuf, 1024)) {
 			suri = string("file://") + string(cwdbuf) + suri.substr(1);
 		}
+	} else if (suri[0] == '/') {
+		suri = std::string("file://") + suri;
 	} else if (suri[0] == '~') {
 #ifdef WIN32
 		suri = string("file://") + string(std::getenv("HOMEDRIVE")) + string(std::getenv("HOMEPATH")) + suri.substr(1);
diff --git a/components/streams/src/filestream.cpp b/components/streams/src/filestream.cpp
index 412594814c597babbdb09266358b370dc8e71a6b..b25c0248e266544b0b7d76af1618756d492e10b4 100644
--- a/components/streams/src/filestream.cpp
+++ b/components/streams/src/filestream.cpp
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ bool File::post(const ftl::codecs::StreamPacket &s, const ftl::codecs::Packet &p
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	LOG(INFO) << "WRITE: " << s.timestamp << " " << (int)s.channel << " " << p.data.size();
+	//LOG(INFO) << "WRITE: " << s.timestamp << " " << (int)s.channel << " " << p.data.size();
 
 	// Don't write dummy packets to files.
 	if (p.data.size() == 0) return true;
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ bool File::begin(bool dorun) {
 		ostream_->open(*get<std::string>("filename"), std::ifstream::out | std::ifstream::binary);
 
 		if (!ostream_->good()) {
-			LOG(ERROR) << "Could not open file: " << *get<std::string>("filename");
+			LOG(ERROR) << "Could not open file: '" << *get<std::string>("filename") << "'";
 			return false;
 		}