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markus2107

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 50

[SOLVED] VLC / SMB: watching videos via network-computer

Hey folks,
im having problems watching videos over a network-connection.

When i open a video on a network-share via smb / vlc i get the following error message:

VLC kann die MRL 'smb://pc_name/directory/Scrubs%20-%20S03E02.avi' nicht öffnen.

I don't know weather there

* is a problem with the smb password / authentification (also i don't think so)

* or vlc doesn't knwo where the file is, because it doesn't know how to process the "smb://" (as far as i know thats a kio term)

Thanks for any advice!

Last edited by markus2107 (2012-07-08 16:27:34)

Lynden

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Registered: 2011-11-10

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] VLC / SMB: watching videos via network-computer

Just tried it out on my VLC, it uses gvfs to access files on the network.
I have two packages: gvfs & gvfs-smb

I also increased the buffer to 3000 ms from 1000ms since occasionally it would stutter.

There might be another way to have VLC access smb files, smbfs maybe? But I haven't tried that out.

Last edited by Lynden (2012-07-08 15:30:03)

markus2107

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 50

Re: [SOLVED] VLC / SMB: watching videos via network-computer

I installed the packages you've mentioned, but i'm still getting the same message.

I don't know, but would a nfs share be the better solution to stream media?

€: ok this did the trick:

# mount -t cifs //SERVER/SHARENAME MOUNTPOINT -o user=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,workgroup=WORKGROUP,ip=SERVERIP

Last edited by markus2107 (2012-07-08 16:26:41)

daplan

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] VLC / SMB: watching videos via network-computer

I have run into the exact same problem. Everything worked fine two days ago, now I am not able to play any video files from my NAS with VLC. I am able to browse content on my NAS using nemo and I can also open Pictures but I am not able to play any Video files. Does anyone have any suggestions? The problem in this post has just a workaround but no solution.

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] VLC / SMB: watching videos via network-computer

Please don't bump old topics, daplan, particularly when they're marked as solved. Open a new topic about your issue, and link back to this one if you think it is still relevant.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing.

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