When attempting to play a movie over samba using vlc, it gives error:VLC is unable to open the MRL 'smb://user@server/movie.mpg'. Check the log for details.
Sorry, but you have already reported the same thing in bug 306860. If you think bug 306860 should not be close as duplicate, then just reopen it. Why report the same thing again?
That was for 4.5, this is for 4.9.1, so the version is different.
Sorry, but bug 253547 is "since 4.5.2", not "in 4.5.2" . If you don't think bug 306860 should be closed as duplicate of bug 253547, then just reopen bug 306860. But don't create another report for the same problem.
Then it's not a duplicate because this only started happening for me around 4.8
Sorry, but VLC does not use KIO. If you have problem playing movies on an smb share in VLC you need to report that to the VLC app developers.
What about dragonplayer, that tries to download the whole file without streaming it.
(In reply to comment #6) > What about dragonplayer, that tries to download the whole file without > streaming it. dragonplayer uses Phonon to play media files and Phonon has a known issues of not working correctly with KIO. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257903. A ticket you should already be familiar with. But then again without knowing or understanding how KIO works you simply want to blame it. How is KIO at fault when none of the Phonon backends actually use it natively? Which one of those backends use KIO? That means Phonon essentially does not use KIO. So how is KIO supposed to provide streaming in that case? I personally am not going to get into the gvfs vs kio debate. It has been rehashed to death. Feel free to search online Until such time that Phonon decides to support streaming over KIO, what you are trying to do with it will never work and there is not one thing KIO can do about it. There is already a standing ticket in the correct location.
Oh and Martin already told you he was working on adding KIO streaming support in libVLC here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257903#c13.