Re: about smb:// in konqueror (ioslaves does not support file system functions)
On Friday 09 January 2004 07:04, Amit Shah wrote:
> Is there any way to make konqueror not download files from the network when
> using the smb:// ioslave? Watching movies, playing songs, etc. is a pain,
> since it starts copying them to a local file and then plays them.
No.
I ain't sure about this, but I just skimmed the documentation on IOSlaves, and
as far at I can tell, this is not possible.
The thing is that to be able to play multimedia directly from a file system,
you need to be able to get the data in particular size chunks for decoding,
also you need to be able to scan around inside the file, for instance if you
want to fast forward or rewind.
These operations are not supported by ioslaves. All you can do (essentially)
is to list directory contents and copy files. Therefore you always need to
get a local copy of the file before you can watch it in your media player.
A way around this is to mount smb shares directly into your filesystem using
smbfs. This is what I do.
This is something I think needs to be improved, since this bugs me a lot as
well.
Regards
Anders E. Andersen
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