Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Can't watch videos over ftp with mpv, using KDE but it worked on XFCE?

Re: Can't watch videos over ftp with mpv, using KDE but it worked on XFCE?

dummy@example.com (PedroReina) — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 11:52:20 +0000

steve_v wrote:

The bigger question might be why you're using FTP to stream from a local server to begin with, when things like NFS and SMB (or even SSHFS) exist...

Understanding that the OP could need/want some different, I would add to the range of posible solutions setting up a DLNA server:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U … nd_clients

Re: Can't watch videos over ftp with mpv, using KDE but it worked on XFCE?

dummy@example.com (steve_v) — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 04:34:10 +0000

At a guess (haven't used XFCE in a while), thunar uses GVFS/FUSE user mounts for FTP or copies the file to a temporary directory, so there's a real filesystem path MPV understands. Dolphin (and the rest of KDE) uses KIO for transparent FTP, which only works with applications that understand KIO URIs.
With so little detail provided, a guess is the best you're likely to get.

The bigger question might be why you're using FTP to stream from a local server to begin with, when things like NFS and SMB (or even SSHFS) exist... ~~Or if you must use FTP, why it's not set up as an FTPFS mount.~~ curlftpfs removed as of bookworm, reasons unknown
FTP is designed for contiguous file transfers over the internet (or dialup BBS), not the kind of random-access one expects directly accessing files (i.e. NAS-style) on a local fileserver.

Can't watch videos over ftp with mpv, using KDE but it worked on XFCE?

dummy@example.com (recklessswing) — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:54:14 +0000

As I say I recently installed KDE. I watched movies from my local FTP server. On XFCE with MPV it worked. With KDE it doesn't work.