Streaming from Windows 8

English Network/Internet
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I know this is a Windows 8 question but I thought I would post it here in case anyone knew much about samba on Windows 8.

The issue is, I am unable to play videos from a shared folder on a Windows 8 computer with Kaffeine, or VLC for that matter. I can see the share folders and files in “smb:/” as well as in the file selector in Kaffeine but they won’t play. If I mount the share with smb4k then it will work but when trying just to play it from the shared folder it gives the error message “Unable to find input plugin for mrl…” etc etc. If I copy the video to another computer in the house running Windows 7, it plays without error. So it looks like something that has changed with Windows 8. Or is there something hat I should try from the linux end to fix it?

openSUSE 13.2 x86_64, KDE 14

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  1. Have you turned on streaming on your Windows 8 “streaming server”?
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/getting-started-with-media-streaming

  2. You should post the complete error. The missing plugin could be important, and that could be related to the file and not the basic streaming process.

AFAIK, sharing and method of sharing is unrelated to the ability to stream. In fact, I wouldn’t even implement sharing, it’d be a waste of overhead resources. A direct network connection specifying location and protocol would be proper.

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