[dolphin] [Bug 449744] Opening a video from an smb:// location downloads the file rather than streaming

[Nicolas Fella]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449744

Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de> ---
This behavior is somewhat intentional, but of course not ideal. The challenge
is this:
When setting up a SMB share in Dolphin it will save the credentials so that you
don't have to enter them all the time. KDE apps/apps using KIO all can read
these credentials, so e.g. when opening an image on a SMB share in Gwenview
works without entering the credentials in Gwenview again. 

The problem arises with apps that don't use KIO but understand smb URLs, like
smplayer or VLC. Dolphin could directly pass the smb URL to smplayer, but then
smplayer would need to ask you for the share's password, which isn't ideal.
Therefore Dolphin triggers kioexec to download the file and pass that to
smplayer. However that's trading one issue for another :/

That said, there is a better alternative in place, KIOFuse. Instead of
downloading the whole thing an passing it as a local file like kioexec KIOFuse
exposes a virtual file system. This should solve both problems. The question
here is why KIOFuse wasn't triggered in your case. Can you make sure you have
KIOFuse installed?

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