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red-lichtie

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Registered: 2015-03-08

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Are application like Amarok and VLC unusable with KDE and SMB?

I can list the files in Dolphin but when I try to play any music Amarok locks up. I have similar issues with VLC when I try to play anything from my NAS.

Does KDE need some special configuration to make is usable with TrueNAS SMB shares? Do I need to set something on TrueNAS so that KDE works?

I have full access and control of the files, I do what I want in Dolphin and on Windows I have zero issues, and when I mount shares using Smb4K everything works as expected.

What is KDE doing differently that other programs don't work with it's remote file processing? Can I configure Dolphin to use Smb4K? Or Amarok or VLC?

Any hints would be great.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: Are application like Amarok and VLC unusable with KDE and SMB?

KDE applications (like Dolphin) has the ability to browse Samba shares built in.

VLC is not a kde application , try installing kio-fuse.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-12-18 10:23:12)

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Virus1x

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Re: Are application like Amarok and VLC unusable with KDE and SMB?

Ugh, the usual KDE and SMB problems. Dolphin can see my shares just fine, but Amarok and VLC won't play nice *unless* I use Smb4K or mount them the right way.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Are application like Amarok and VLC unusable with KDE and SMB?

If you have a stable network and don't want every applications own implementation to have to exist you could also consider using the kernel SMB support via the cifs module. That will make all these correlations completely transparent to the application but since the application treats this as "any other filesystem" you can have stalls and freezes for certain calls if your network isn't stable/you are switching between networks where the share is or is not available often.

As mentioned above, KDE uses it's own abstraction layer for remote file accesses, which is generally only fully implemented by KDE applications. I'm somewhat surprised amarok has issues with this, AFAIK it should use the same logical integration as Dolphin. Any error messages in the terminal or so ?

Hmm on some own curiosity, it seems the KIO has quite some problems with streaming workflows in general... e.g. Dolphins file preview which will internally use Phonon also doesn't work on a test with a share I had lying around and there are a few bug reports for general issues here:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257903
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469454
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410001

So... yes it seems right now you'd have to opt for some mounting solution that doesn't involve KIO.

Last edited by V1del (2025-12-18 12:20:14)