Playing video files off of a network HD

[arist]

Re: Playing video files off of a network HD

Arist, he is trying to mount a NTFS drive, NFS won't work.

Ah, I missed that. Were you able to infer NTFS from the fact that he connects to the drive with Samba?

[Detonate]

Re: Playing video files off of a network HD

He never said it was a ntfs formated drive, I just assumed that. I could be wrong.

[sithlord48]

Re: Playing video files off of a network HD

the format of the disk should not matter. since samba will host the files the same way reguardless of the disks real formating.

[Detonate]

Re: Playing video files off of a network HD

True. But as I posted earlier, he only needs samba if he wants to access windows shares, or other shared folders on a network computer, in this case he can merely mount the drive using whatever file system it is using to have full access to it.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Playing video files off of a network HD

You know Jeremy makes a good point - VLC does have an option to "Open Network Stream". Maybe using this option (it's under the "Media" tab or crtl-n) would solve the OP's issue.

[Detonate]

Re: Playing video files off of a network HD

Another way he might play the file is to simply open it in his web browser and see if his browser plugin automatically handles the file. Simply enter in the location bar file://path to file.