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Now I need to find a way to implement this smb-to-http proxy thing... Honestly speaking, I would not recommend such an endeavour, since it is likely to be hard, slow, buggy, and insecure :) It is better to just wait for VLC to port over the SMB plugin. Fair enough. I'll advise the users to use ES F...

Hi Edward,

Thanks for the quick response.
That makes so much sense now.

Now I need to find a way to implement this smb-to-http proxy thing...

Hi there, I'm currently building a new version of Subloader for Android, adding the ability to download subtitles for video located on Samba network shares. I use jcifs to list video files and write srt files next to them. Everything works great. But I can't find a way to play the samba video file i...