I have mentioned this in another thread elsewhere but perhaps this is a better location.
In Opensuse 11.3 I was able to play files on my NAS drive from within smplayer over samba shares or ftp.
I would simply use dolphin to browse to the file on the nas drive (either through samba or ftp protocol), double click the .avi file and it would load smplayer and begin playing immediately.
In 11.4 I have samba set up using the same smb.conf file
However, if I double click the .avi file it copies the entire contents to the local computer before launching smplayer.
If I use smplayer’s file selector and navigate to the file on the samba share I get the message “you can only select local files”
This is a different behaviour to that from 11.3
However, using the ftp protocol from within dolphin smplayer launches immediately and begins playing.
smplayer is launched using the shortcut command
smplayer %U
Does anybody have any suggestions on a workaround or how to correct?
Using kaffeine I have no problems. Double click the file on the nas drive and kaffeine launches immediately and begins playing.