Bug 16395 – Please add samba support to mplayer ebuild

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description James Athey 2003-02-26 03:20:03 UTC]

When I try to play a movie hosted on an SMB share in mplayer, I get the
following message -
MPlayer was not compiled with SMB reading support
I looked in the ebuild, and samba is not mentioned in the IUSE= field.  Would it
be possible to add samba support to mplayer, based on the samba USE flag?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run mplayer smb://hostname/sharename/filename
2.Watch the movie not come up.


Actual Results:  
I get the error message "MPlayer was not compiled with SMB reading support".

Expected Results:  
Streamed the movie over the network. :-)

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-03-06 16:38:19 UTC]

Err, how do you enable it ?  There seem to be not ./configure flag ...

[Comment 2 James Athey 2003-03-06 19:42:19 UTC]

From http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-November/024170.html -

According to the changelog:
  * smb:// URL support (disabled by default, ./configure part not yet done!)

I don't know how to manually enable it, though.

-Corey

gabor wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hi,
> 
> is the smb:// support implemented or not?
> 
> because when i try to open a samba-file, like:
> 
> mplayer smb://georgi/media/my.avi,
> 
> mplayer says:
> mplayer was not compiled with smb reading support.
> 
> but ./configure --help doesn't show anything about 
> enabling/disabling samba support...
> 
> so how can i enable it? or was samba support rejected?
> 
> thanks,
> gabor
> 

I guess this means this will just have to wait.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 10:44:14 UTC]

Support in 0.90

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 10:51:45 UTC]

Added to mplayer-0.90-r1.