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Can I use Linux VLC player to play movies on net drive without downloading content?

Asked by tom conarty

Everything is working fine with my recently downloaded version of this fine VLC software except for the fact that I cannot play a movie (mp4 format) when the content is located on a NAS attached drive on my home network. I am able to see the drive and the file from my machine but when I go to open it with the VLC player I get the error message "There is no input plugin to handle the location of the movie." If I download the movie to the PC and then play with VLC, everything is fine.
I already downloaded some other plugins but apparently have not got the right one(s) yet for this. My question is: Is this doable without downloading the movie to my PC from the NAS drive? If so, which of the gstreamer(s) to I need. I thought I already got most of the "ugly" plugins but could you help with this matter?
Ultimately, I will want to do some streaming but first I wanted to do that which is stated above.
Thank you for any help.

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Best Léa GRIS (lea-gris) said : 		#1

Your problem seems related to accessing a SMABA share (your NAS drive) though VLC.

Your accesses to the SAMBA shares within Gnome desktop and related Gnome applications make use of the Gnome VFS feature.
Currently, Ubuntu version of VLC does not handle Gnome VFS calls for use of the Gnome mounted SAMBA shares.

Alternatively to using Gnome VFS SAMBA share, I suggest you to use fusesmb which is a userland SAMBA share access.

Once your shares are mounted inside your home directory tree, any programs can use it using regular filesystem calls and it does not need to know about the specif Gnome VFS features.

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tom conarty (tconarty) said : 		#2

Thank you very much for your thorough and very quick response. The action you pointed me to was exactly the solution to my problem. It took two tries because on the first time around I did no read the full thread as thoroughly as I should have and I missed the qualifier on the setting for fusesmb that is: fusesmb/media/network/ -o nonempty. It was the -o nonempty qualifier that I set on the second pass that did the trick.
Again...thank you very much. I really like the VLC package and it was easy to stream once I got to my content from your response.
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