Bug 157255

Summary:	Wish KMplayer / Phonon supported KIO slaves like fish, ftp and smb. See bug #157143
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Rune Jensen <jensrune>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde_bugzilla_2, mboquien
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Rune Jensen 2008-02-06 13:02:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

See bug #157143.

It would have been nice if KMplayer supported KIO slaves and URLS like fish://rune@tvbox/movie.avi and smb:// urls for samba shares.

Especially fish would have been nice :-).

Regards
Rune Jensen

Comment 1 Jordi Polo 2008-04-21 13:47:09 UTC

It is working for me in KDE Version 4.00.70 (KDE 4.0.70 >= 20080418)
in dragon and KMplayer 

At least fish, I have no smb:// to test

Comment 2 Médéric Boquien 2008-11-08 21:43:28 UTC

Hello Rune,

Please test with the latest released KDE if your wish has been fulfilled or not.

Thanks.

Comment 3 Rune Jensen 2008-11-10 21:59:15 UTC

It works, but kmplayer copies the entire file locally before starting playback, meaning you have to wait until gigabytes of data is copied over the network first.
Maybe this is a KIO fault ?

Regards
Rune

Comment 4 Stephan Sokolow 2009-01-28 19:20:39 UTC

I'd assume that behaviour stems from the use of MPlayer as a backend. Since it's a slave process rather than a decoding library, you can't just hook in arbitrary I/O backends. MPlayer only supports a minimal subset of the schemes KIOSlaves are available for. The only real workaround would require a FUSE filesystem or something else that could fool MPlayer into thinking it's doing local file I/O when it's really going through KIO.

Comment 5 Jonathan Marten 2012-02-29 13:23:24 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 157143 ***