[xine-bugs] [ xine-Bugs-1258099 ] Xine-lib 1.1.0 does not play streams from SMB

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Bugs item #1258099, was opened at 2005-08-12 18:20
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Category: xine
Group: xine failure
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gian Paolo Mureddu (thetargos)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Xine-lib 1.1.0 does not play streams from SMB

Initial Comment:
Xine-lib 1.1.0 does not support streaming files through
an SMB network connection (1.0.2 does this fine). I'm
currently running Fedora Core 4; and the packages I've
tried from FreshRPMs and Livna, both exhibit the same
problem. I've tried to build from source both rpms as
well as the tarball in the official site, with the same
results.

I make heavy use of SMB streams, since I've got a media
server for both Linux and Windows machines (while it
would have been possible to have the same share made
into an NFS share, I've been experiencing problems when
exporting the share through NFS on the Linux media
server). This only started to occur with version 1.1.0,
1.0.2 and earlier work just fine.

I've checked ./configure --help to see if SMB was a
configure option, but I did not see even an option to
hint to SMB support.

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>Comment By: Gian Paolo Mureddu (thetargos)
Date: 2005-09-01 02:29

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Sorry for the late response, but I had to test two different
packages: Xine-lib-1.1.0-0 from Livna RPMs and
xine-lib-1.1.0-1 from freshrpms to see whether they both
included said plugins, here are my findings: Both RPMs do
include xineplug_inp_gnome_vfs plugin, but do not include
xineplug_inp_smb. The result is that both these libraries
are unable to handle
smb://<server>/<share>/<file>.[wmv,avi,wav,mp3,ogg...]
constructs from, say Nautilus. So having pinpointed this
out, the next step is to see how to enable the appropriate
plguin in the source code.

An interesting note, though. The package that DOES work
(xine-lib-1.0.2), doesn't inlcude the xineplug_inp_smb
plugin either, so something must be foobared either in
gnome-vfs libs or the plguin itself; or this particular
funcitonlity was left out of xine's gnome_vfs plugin,
delegating functions to xineplug_inp_smb instead, and since
it is not included in either packages, this was the omision
by the packager(s).

I've launched the ./configure script from the source tree of
Xine I've got, and I do not see any references to anything
resembling samba in the options (or I suck at the
grepping... ./configure --help | grep samba returns nothing
as does | grep smb).

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Comment By: Frantisek Dvorak (valtri)
Date: 2005-08-30 10:22

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Moving away local xine's gnome_vfs plugin can be quick test.
Do you have both plugins? xineplug_inp_smb and
xineplung_inp_gnome_vfs?

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Comment By: Gian Paolo Mureddu (thetargos)
Date: 2005-08-30 00:40

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Thank you for your comments. I do have smb support in GNOME
(that's how I access my shares). I do have libsmblcient in
/usr/lib, and regardgin gnome_vfs, should I look at the
global VFS install or is it local to Xine? Because I have
several packages:

gnome-vfs
gnome-python2-ghomevfs
gnome-vfs2-smb

Any insights? I will re-download the tarball and see if the
--disable-samba option is listed in ./configure --help

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Comment By: Frantisek Dvorak (valtri)
Date: 2005-08-29 11:23

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SMB input plugin should be built if libsmbclient if found
and if isn't used option --disable-samba.

Another way to use smb is via gnome_vfs plugin. gnome_vfs
have bigger priority for GNOME applications after xine
release 1.0.1. I guess workaround for you will be deleting
the gnome_vfs plugin or installing smb support to GNOME.
Does it help?

Cheers,
  Frantisek

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Comment By: Gian Paolo Mureddu (thetargos)
Date: 2005-08-17 03:29

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Actually that's what I'm currently using, since 1.1 would
not do any SMB streaming. It says there is no plugin
installed to handle smb:// constructs.

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Comment By: Darren Salt (dsalt)
Date: 2005-08-16 18:28

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They're the same thing. BTW, could you try 1.0.2?

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Comment By: Gian Paolo Mureddu (thetargos)
Date: 2005-08-14 12:14

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I do have GNOME VFS, as for the other AIUI I've never heard
of it.

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Comment By: Darren Salt (dsalt)
Date: 2005-08-13 14:34

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AIUI, GNOME VFS is needed. Do you have libgnomevfs2 installed?

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