Hi, On Son, 18 Mär 2007, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> I'm trying to view videos on a SMB share on another machine. > > After navigating to the share with Konqueror (using the smb:// url), I > can right-click on any video and select "Open with..." and select a > variety of players: noatun, kaboodle, kmplayer, VLC, xine, etc. However, > none of them seem to work, except for VLC. Furthermore, VLC downloads > the entire file to a tempfile before playing it, which seems an > unnecessary delay. > > All of the solutions I've found on Google involve mounting the share to > the filesystem. I'd like to avoid this for several reasons. First, > Windows doesn't have to do this, so I think Linux should be able to as > well. Secondly, I sometimes want to play media from a variety of shares, > and, being on a laptop that I take to places, they're not all available > at the same time. I don't want to have to have a handful of > mountpoints, and and have to manage which ones need to be mounted at > any given time. Lastly, I've noticed that, if I have a share mounted, > and then I suspend my laptop and take it someplace else, and then wake > it at someplace from where I can't get to that share anymore, it causes > Konqueror to just lock up for a couple of minutes. > If you can offer a mounting solution that avoids all of those problems, > then I might pursue that avenue. Otherwise, I don't see why there isn't > a player that can stream over SMB (or any other network protocol). Isn't > VLC supposed to understand network streaming? Is there a change I need > to make to KDE to get it to pass the URL of the file instead of > downloading the file locally? > Lastly, if KDE is downloading the file locally, why don't noatun, > kmplayer, and kaboodle working with it. From watching the network > traffic, I can tell that KDE is downloading the file (just like with > VLC) but, with VLC, I see a little download progress bar as the file > downloads, then it finishes, then VLC gets launched. With the others, > the player gets launched immediately, doesn't play anything, and then I > see the network traffic. Anybody know why? first.. its always a goot idea to post a mail per problem. The problem you encountered is, the KDE-Filesystem, there is also a Gnome-Filesystem (KDE-VFS vs. Gnome-VFS) both filesystems have the annoying feature, that only PURE Kde/Gnome programs work with them like a real filesystem. All other applications are "simulated" that means .. copy the file to a local tmp-dir and then .. play/edit/.. For KDE and windows-shares try, smb4k, its a fine tool which mounts the filesystem nativ, but has a nice browser and hides the whole mounting thing. -- Florian Reitmeir
