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daplan

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 10

[SOLVED]Using VLC to watch content on a SMB share

Hello Everyone

I have run into the exact same problem as discribed in this now closed thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144673. Everything worked fine four days ago (Kernelupdate and some other stuff I can't remember. Monthly update using pacman -Syu). Now I am not able to play any video files from my NAS using 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 error I am receiving in VLC is the following:

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=192.168.1.105,share=qmultimedia/Movies/Deutsch/23/23.AVI" (No such file or directory).
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share%3Aserver%3D192.168.1.105%2Cshare%3Dqmultimedia/Movies/Deutsch/23/23.AVI'. Check the log for details.

Last edited by daplan (2015-10-23 16:12:34)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: [SOLVED]Using VLC to watch content on a SMB share

You might want to watch this thead: GVFS Updates from today (10/13/2015) breaks network shares

(nice movie choice, btw ;)

Last edited by byte (2015-10-15 17:00:06)

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daplan

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED]Using VLC to watch content on a SMB share

Thank you byte for pointing me in the right direction. Picking that movie was of course intentional . Will follow your suggested thread.

gigitek

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Registered: 2012-05-18

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Re: [SOLVED]Using VLC to watch content on a SMB share

I'm also having problems accessing video files using VLC due to the gvfs problem.
Mounting manually using Sshfs  works like a charm!

Haxxa

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Registered: 2015-10-16

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED]Using VLC to watch content on a SMB share

Confirm this problem affects me, there are workarounds but it would be nice if GVFS was fixed...

daplan

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED]Using VLC to watch content on a SMB share

Confirm this problem affects me, there are workarounds but it would be nice if GVFS was fixed...

What workarounds are you talking about?

daplan

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Registered: 2015-07-06

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED]Using VLC to watch content on a SMB share

A update (don't know which) fixed the problem. Videplayback now works fine for me. Solving the thread.