Il Friday 30 November 2007 11:57:45 Deepak Shrestha ha scritto: > Hi, > > I am trying to play a movie clip in mplayer from my FC machine > which is shared by another windows machine and cannot get it to > work. > > =============================== > 1. I tried to drag and drop the movie clip in mplayer from the > share but no reaction in mplayer and no error message. > 2. right clicking the movie clip file and tried to open with > mplayer gives me following error message: > > "No stream found to handle url smb://server/share/movie_clip.avi" your mplayer was compiled without support for smb protocol > > =============================== > > I am bit confused here because, the file transfer to and from linux > and windows machine between these shares is perfectly working fine. > > Do I have to mount the share to my local drive to be able to play > this clip? yes if you don't recompile mplayer yourself > > By the way I can play the movie clip in my windows machine (with > various players including mplayer) which is shared form this FC > machine why? What's missing? > a means to permit mplayer to access that file
