I have a network smb share with different videos that I want to watch over network on my devices. Today I’d tried to watch a video on my Kubuntu laptop with VLC. It prints errors like:
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'smb://10.0.0.1/Share/video.mkv'. Check the log for details.
I’d checked logs and found nothing. I’d tried to set username and password in the settings as
suggested on the Internet with no
results. I’d also tried to install kio-fuse as
described on Reddit
— nothing changed. So I think, there is some bug in the VLC, that is why I used a different
solution:
- Open
/usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop. - Remove line
X-KDE-Protocols=ftp,http,https,mms,rtmp,rtsp,sftp,smb. - Make sure that
kio-fuseinstalled.
X-KDE-Protocols instructs Dolphin to pass smb URLs directly to VLC. Without this line, kio mounts
smb share and allows VLC to work with a local file.