From kde Sat Mar 13 18:30:56 2004 From: Nathan Toone Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:30:56 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] mp3-playback from a network-drive Message-Id: <200403131130.56977.nathan () toonetown ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=107920281528197 >> Am Samstag, 13. März 2004 14:36 schrieb Janne Ojaniemi: > > 1) If I try to open the file with an application, nothing happens. I have > > tried with three different apps and here's what happens: > > I have the same problem. My solution is to mount the filesystem from the > W2K with smbmount to the local filesystem. Then it will work. I think (but I'm not 100% sure) that the problem is with KIOSlaves. When you access a file using smb:// (or fish:// or ftp:// or http://, etc), the KIOSlaves wrap around the protocol to allow you to do things like copy, rename, and open. However, for smb://, since the filesystem is not mounted on your machine, it actually downloads each file before playing it. I would bet that if you gave your media players enough time, they would probably start eventually (after having downloaded the entire file) The best way to play music over a shared network is to mount the network to a local mountpoint. -Nathan ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.