play videos on smb server with mplayer

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Tuesday 15 January 2008 22:39:26 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu ha scritto:
> Hi All,
>
> Apparently, mplayer can play files on a smb share without the file
> system being mounted.  I've tried it, but mplayer keeps telling me:
> "no stream found to handle url ...".  So, either I'm typing the
> command incorrectly, or something else is screwed.
>
> Here's what I'm entering on my Fedora Core 7 box (samba is running
> on a CentOS 5 server):
>
> mplayer smb://user:password@server/media/videos/misc/blah.wmv
>
> I can play the video just fine if I mount the smb file system.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir

before compiling mplayer you need to install libsmbclient-devel,
if you don't already have it.