If you can include them via text with backtics, that's much easier to read.
Permissions look super good.
In that same window, can you run ffprobe on the file as well in the bazarr container? That seems to be the command failing.
docker exec -it bazarr bash
ffprobe /data/tvshows_shared/Game of Thrones/Season 06/Game of Thrones (2011) - S06E01 - The Red Woman [HDTV-1080p].mkv
If that does error, share the output. If it works though, that seems back to something with the mapping maybe? We've been through all the permisison and your container can see the mergerfs and rclone mount properly and read the files as tested by the head command.
Yes, I use linuxserver/bazarr as well. But the owner of bazarr refuses to help me. He says: "error indicates there's an issue with your drives, can't help you".
Hmm. I might offer to him the output of the ffprobe from the container and see if he/she has a different approach as that's as far as my Bazarr knowledge goes.
I'm not sure what else to check as we really went through the bottom up and that all looks good to me.
If Python state that it's an I/O error, it's clearly because the operating system is telling it that it is. There's no interpretation and nothing to be fixed in Bazarr here.
I had the OP open a docker shell as the user and permissions are fine, heading the file is fine and ffprobing the file is fine so the container can see the file perfect as it can open it by the output above.
The error seems to come form Bazarr so the file can be opened unless something I'm doing in the docker testing is wrong as all the screenshots are above along with the output.
I removed the permission commands from the rclone systemd like gid, uid, dir perms file perms and umask. Now the folders shouldn't specific permissions and owner from rclone. If I manually do chmod 777 nothing changes. The folder with all the files have chmod 755 and when I run chmod -R 777 it's still 755.
And that ffprobe worked from the docker so I'm not sure what I'm missing or not asking as I'm not a great docker user by any means. I'm just trying to figure out what I've missed asking as the file can be ffrpobe'd which would normally tell me permissions/file itself is but the app is tossing an error for some odd reason.
I run everything as root so it makes no difference. Running as another user is not possible. I/o errors are commonly caused by permission issues just so you know.
Goddamm... this user is inside the LSIO container and it's by default. You can't change that... I suggets you do some reading about docker and LSIO images.
So adjust the command as the right user and we should see the issue:
docker exec --user abc -it bazarr bash
ls -al /data/tvshows_shared/Game of Thrones/Season 06/Game of Thrones (2011) - S06E01 - The Red Woman [HDTV-1080p].mkv
ffprobe /data/tvshows_shared/Game of Thrones/Season 06/Game of Thrones (2011) - S06E01 - The Red Woman [HDTV-1080p].mkv