Getting VLC to load files from SMB shares in Feisty Fawn

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Getting VLC to load files from SMB shares in Feisty Fawn

Postby OttifantSir » 29 Aug 2007 22:23

I've had some trouble loading SMB-shared drives, but am now able to see them on Feisty. Problem is, I have all my videofiles on these external harddrives mounted on a computer in network. I can access these harddrives in Feisty and have full access. But I can't see them in VLC 0.8.6c, so I can't play them in VLC. Not only because VLC can't see the drives, but also because there are no choice in the context menus to play the files in VLC, only MoviePlayer.

Sorry for this jumbled post. A better organized list:

-Need Samba harddrives visible in VLC
-Need context menus to show a choice to "play in VLC"

Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Getting VLC to load files from SMB shares in Feisty Fawn

Postby TheBurninator » 07 Sep 2007 02:41

I encountered this too. Here's what I discovered:

Using the browser in GNOME, when you access a file on an SMB share, the file path will be something like smb://server/share/file.avi
VLC apparently doesn't know how to handle the smb:// path.

In short, to fix the problem, you'll need to mount the filesystem to a directory on your computer. Try man smbmount (I think you need the smbfs package for this to work)

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Re: Getting VLC to load files from SMB shares in Feisty Fawn

Postby OttifantSir » 09 Sep 2007 23:07

I apologize for the tardiness of my response. Thank you for pointing out to me that I am remiss in my knowledge of the GNU/Linux OS. I know of the man utility, I just didn't think far enough to think of it as a possibility. I'll give it a whirl and see what I turn up.

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Re: Getting VLC to load files from SMB shares in Feisty Fawn

Postby funman » 10 Sep 2007 00:36

smb plugin does exist for vlc, but maybe it's not enabled by default in feisty builds

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Re: Getting VLC to load files from SMB shares in Feisty Fawn

Postby OttifantSir » 10 Sep 2007 10:13

Where do I find this plugin?

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Re: Getting VLC to load files from SMB shares in Feisty Fawn

Postby funman » 10 Sep 2007 12:45

in vlc source code (compile with --enable-smb)


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