VLC doesn't load subtitles from NAS in KDE (does in GNOME)

[toudi]

hello.

when i was using VLC in GNOME, it had (still does i think) something called gvfs - some kind of transparent layer which allows to operate on remote files as if they were local (it creates the hidden directory ~/.gvfs where it mounts the remote shares).

in KDE (dolphin) i am able to view movies with VLC from smb shares, however VLC doesn't load subtitles from remote locations. Is it possible, that i am missing some configuration option or is it just not supported ?

The same functionality works in Mac OS version of VLC, proboably because Mac OS mounts the remote location rather than reading it 'on the fly'.

Is there something i could do (other than manually mounting the location via console / mount -t cifs ?) (for example write some script / extension / etc ) ?

i searched KDE forums for this and the opinion there was that the program itself (i.e. VLC) needs to implement support for kio (the argument was that Dragon Player supports loading subtitles from kio).

(i'm using VLC 2.0.1 on archlinux if that's relevant)

best regards,
toudi.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC cannot scan remote directories (unless they are mounted), thus it cannot find the subtitle files. Please mount the directories.