SMB, can play music but not movies

[martigan]

my samba share is working fine.
i can see the files, i can play music but no movies.
when i start a movie after 0.5 sec the playback quits and go back to the title list.

any suggestion, advices?

[xbox]-----[gateway]-----[linux-box]

thanks

mauro

[Copper]

i had the same problem with xbmc only playing a movie for a second using smb, but this works.

<bookmark>
<name>movies</name>
<path>smb://"username":"password"@"computer name"/"share"</path>
</bookmark>

[jfgeiger]

<path>smb://"username":"password"@"computer name"/"share"</path>
is the important part of that the quote marks?

thanks.

[Gamester17]

<path>smb://"username":"password"@"computer name"/"share"</path>
is the important part of that the quote marks?
no, please ignore the quotation marks, please read as:

<path>smb://username:password@computername/sharename</path>
or
<path>smb://username:password@computeripaddress/sharename</path>

[martigan]

sorry guys but i am using this syntax, otherwise i could not log into the samba folder and play mp3s.
so, i believe there should be another issue here.
the video quits after a couple of seconds.
any other idea?
thanks for your answers though


martigan

[tslayer]

yes, i have the same issue with videos.

i can browse no problem, but playing does quit after a second or so.

try using relax in the meantime.


ts

[Gamester17]

is this linux only or? which version of linux/samba or windows? using what settings?
ps! please rememeber that xbmc smb solution will be totaly replaced latest on

[tslayer]

i was using windows smb.

i was actually just testing it because poing asked me to. otherwise, i've been using relax.

ts

[jfgeiger]

i made a test, and i was able to play video from a windows share to completion.

the same file stopped after about 1 second from a linux smb share using samba 3.0.1.

(although i did have the same issue with samba 3.0.0 as well)

right now, xbms is working fine for me, but i would like to be able to use smb (which works fine with mp3s)

[DeeJam]

i had a similar problem with xbmp and made some changes on samba and i have no problems with xbmp or xbmc since. i don't remember exactly what change helped me so i'll paste whole my global part of smb.conf.

[global]
workgroup = x.x
netbios name = x
server string = gateway running slackware 9
interfaces = eth1
security = share
encrypt passwords = yes
map to guest = bad user
null passwords = yes
ssl ca certdir = /etc/ssl/certs
log file = /var/log/samba.%m
max log size = 50
deadtime = 15
keepalive = 0
wins proxy = yes
wins support = yes
guest account = ftp
invalid users = root
admin users = x
hosts allow = 192.168.0.
dos filetimes = yes
dos filetime resolution = yes

[Hullebulle]

frodo submitted a fx for this issue to the cvs today.