Il Tuesday 15 January 2008 22:39:26 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu ha scritto: > Hi All, > > Apparently, mplayer can play files on a smb share without the file > system being mounted. I've tried it, but mplayer keeps telling me: > "no stream found to handle url ...". So, either I'm typing the > command incorrectly, or something else is screwed. > > Here's what I'm entering on my Fedora Core 7 box (samba is running > on a CentOS 5 server): > > mplayer smb://user:password@server/media/videos/misc/blah.wmv > > I can play the video just fine if I mount the smb file system. > > What's wrong? > > Regards, > > Ranbir before compiling mplayer you need to install libsmbclient-devel, if you don't already have it.