[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: MPlayer-dev-eng digest, Vol 1 #1363 - 5 msgs

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:42:03AM +0300, Vladimir Moushkov wrote:
>  >I have too :)
>  Yeah, you right, but let me tell ya: 

>  why nobody needs NFS, ftp and such will be included in MPlayer as part of
> code (for ftp I am little disagree), so my oppinion is that NFS is used in

Yeah, ftp would be more funny to be supported nativly in mplayer THAN smb.
This is because ftpfs support in kernel space is very uncommon and it's
quite unstable. Maybe you haven't got enough space on your harddisk to download
and you would like to watch the movie on-the-fly (well, in theory maybe you
can even seek by aborting ftp transfer and send other ftp command from a certain
byte position, though I guess it can be sloooooooow), while smbfs is very
common, since it's part of the official kernel.

> share named films, on next day he changed the name or removed it. Let me
> note that there not only one server where are you can find films... so the
> situation going to be more complicated more and more... So believe me the
> mounting is not decision (every time you think to watch film you have to
> find the film -> http://moushkov.hit.bg/crawler is answer, when you find
> it have to download it <- dummy, or mount the share <- to mount you need
> root!?!?!!!, once mounted, if the host left, you probly forgot to unmount
> ... so let me explain whats happening while trying to use [TAB] in
> directory where are mounting points with disconected mount point). I think
> smb:// must be include but ... You all take the decision.

OK, so the only goal is to make some user's life easier. Hmmm, why not,
probably I won't compile in smb support, but this can be the decision of
mine, others may require it. Please note that I did not say "it's stupid",
I was only interedted in your points to implement this feature and that's all.

>  >Not for me :) But if somebody wants this, you don't need to hack up source
>  >of mplayer just for this functionality. 
>  >
>  >- G?bor (larta'H)
>  Please try to show me this thing ... but I really wondering is this the best ???? I don't know

Yes, it was only a wild idea of mine :) But here you are:

equinoxe:~$ apt-cache show smbwrapper
Package: smbwrapper
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 508
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy at debian.org>
Source: samba
Version: 2.0.5a-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
Description: A shared library that provides SMB client services
 The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that
 implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve
 files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol
 is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol.
 .
 This package contains prelodable shared library that provides SMB client
 services for existing executables. Using this you can simulate a smb
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 filesystem.

Though maybe I should not suggest it since I've never tried it, only heard about
it ...

 
- Gábor (larta'H)