Bug 282963

Summary:	Dolphin is unable to stream video files from samba shares
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Otso Helenius <kde>
Component:	smb	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, adawit, cfeck, dpmacdonald, peter.penz19
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.6
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Otso Helenius 2011-09-28 10:52:28 UTC

Version:           1.6.1 (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

Opening a video on a samba share with VLC gives the following error:

Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'smb://myserver/myshare/myvideo.avi'. Check the log for details.

Opening it with Totem causes dolphin to copy the file to local computer entirely before playing it. Dragon player does nothing at all.

I've installed Nautilus and all the videos stream without problems from the share in any video player. I don't need to copy them to localhost before playing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open a samba share in dolphin, try to open a video file on the share.

Actual Results:  
Described above.

Expected Results:  
Opening videos should work similarly to Nautilus.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-09-28 13:59:38 UTC

Does the .desktop file for VLC indicate that it supports the smb:// protocol?

Comment 2 Otso Helenius 2011-09-28 14:07:16 UTC

The /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop file contains:

X-KDE-Protocols=ftp,http,https,mms,rtmp,rtsp,sftp,smb

Comment 3 Otso Helenius 2011-11-09 00:33:46 UTC

Bug still relevant on Dolphin 1.7 & KDE 4.7.2

Comment 4 dpmacdonald 2011-12-07 20:43:51 UTC

I work with video and this is a problem for me in kde, as well.

Comment 5 Otso Helenius 2011-12-13 17:38:05 UTC

Actually this isn't restricted to vlc. Also playing mp3-files with Amarok, Audacity etc. results in the entire file being copied to local /tmp before opening it. I'm unable to stream *any* audio or video files with Dolphin.

Dolphin: 1.7
KDE: 4.7.3

Comment 6 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-30 09:36:49 UTC

I just checked this with vlc in KDE SC 4.8 RC1. It streams video files as expected. 

As for totem, I think that is the expected result since it does not understand KIO. 

As for dragonplayer, which phonon backend is used? I have similar problem when using gstreamer backend, but vlc bachend works fine.

Comment 7 Otso Helenius 2012-06-18 13:25:22 UTC

I'm running KDE 4.8.3 on F17 and this bug still exists on my system. I can't get Dolphin to stream anything to VLC whereas opening the files with Nautilus still works without a problem.

This is a clean F17 KDE spin install. The /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop file in this release also contains: X-KDE-Protocols=ftp,http,https,mms,rtmp,rtsp,sftp,smb

Comment 8 Dawit Alemayehu 2012-10-16 22:24:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> I'm running KDE 4.8.3 on F17 and this bug still exists on my system. I can't
> get Dolphin to stream anything to VLC whereas opening the files with
> Nautilus still works without a problem.
> 
> This is a clean F17 KDE spin install. The
> /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop file in this release also contains:
> X-KDE-Protocols=ftp,http,https,mms,rtmp,rtsp,sftp,smb

Then you probably have another vlc.desktop file entry in your local configuration directory that does not contain the X-KDE-Protocols entry. You might want to check if there is a ~/.local/share/applications/vlc.desktop. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253547#c31 for the details.

Comment 9 Dawit Alemayehu 2012-10-16 22:25:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 253547 ***