MP4 Videos are not streaming correctly from internal server

[BES]

Hello,

• OpenMandriva Lx 25.02 (ROME)

• KDE

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I am just trying to play the video files from my internal Windows server …not download the whole video… is there something I can install to get it to do that?, I already tried a few video players.

[daemonx]

Have you try other players or just that option? maybe QMplay2

[WilsonPhillips]

If I am reading this correctly, you are trying to stream from a SMB share on a file server. You would need something running on Windows to serve those files. Something like Plex. I used to stream using Windows Media Player, but I don’t know if you can still do that.

[LeeTalbert]

Those are large files, and the naming scheme makes me think it is security camera footage. How have you been viewing it prior to installing OpenMandriva?

[rugyada]

Try the other way around: start the player and select the file to play.
If you do from the console, also it may return the reason because it won’t play the file, if such case.

[BES]

I was using Garuda Linux and it would play them directly off the server with the same mpv media player shown in the image, it’s why I was confused about it trying to download the whole thing to my computer instead of it just playing.

[BES]

Well, I don’t access to the server through the network section in Dolphin, I made a desktop shortcut

[Desktop Entry]
Icon=unknown
Name=smb://server/d
Type=Link
URL[$e]=smb://server/d

I made one for each partition on the server and then the file is named smb:/BES@server/d.desktop and I change the drive letter for each partition.

it works perfectly it prompts for a user and password and then im in and can access the files copy and paste and play all the video files.

that is until this openmandriva and now it’s not working.

But I opened a few video players first like you say but they don’t have direct access tot he server, trying to find it doesn’t work the way I have it set up.

One of them gave me an error though, Haruna player:

When I tried accessing the network section in Dolphin

[WilsonPhillips]

Since Zeroconf is not running, I am guessing it may not be installed.

┌──[wilson@heisenberg] Thu Feb 27, 12:59:25 [~] 
└──[ <$> dnf search zeroconf
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:25 ago on Thu 27 Feb 2025 12:59:09 PM CST.
============================================= Name & Summary Matched: zeroconf =============================================
kio-zeroconf.znver1 : KIO worker to discover file systems by DNS-SD (zeroconf)
kodi-python-zeroconf.noarch : Zeroconf Python scripts for Kodi
plasma6-kio-zeroconf.znver1 : KIO worker to discover file systems by DNS-SD (zeroconf)
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf.znver1 : Zeroconf support for the PulseAudio sound server
================================================== Name Matched: zeroconf ==================================================
python-zeroconf.noarch : Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python
zeroconf-ioslave.znver1 : DNS-SD Service Discovery Monitor
================================================ Summary Matched: zeroconf =================================================
kf6-kdnssd.znver1 : Network service discovery using Zeroconf
kodi-texturepacker.znver1 : Zeroconf Python scripts for Kodi
lib64KF6DNSSD.znver1 : Network service discovery using Zeroconf
perl-Net-Bonjour.noarch : Module for DNS service discovery ( Zeroconf )

You may need to install something from here.

I would think that if the files were ready to play, you would see thumbnails of them and not just the plain icons.

[WilsonPhillips]

BTW, an easy to use gui to check for services is a flatpak called sysd-manager. You can grab it from Discover, or do

flatpak install sysd-manager

[BES]

ok, I ran that and this is the result:

[bes@beast ~]$ dnf search zeroconf
Brave Browser                                                                           263 kB/s |  48 kB     00:00    
OpenMandriva Rolling - znver1                                                           2.4 MB/s | 5.3 MB     00:02    
OpenMandriva Rolling - Extra - znver1                                                   800 kB/s | 1.4 MB     00:01    
OpenMandriva Rolling - Restricted - znver1                                               24 kB/s |  23 kB     00:00    
OpenMandriva Rolling - Non-free - znver1                                                 33 kB/s |  30 kB     00:00    
=========================================== Name & Summary Matched: zeroconf ===========================================
kio-zeroconf.znver1 : KIO worker to discover file systems by DNS-SD (zeroconf)
kodi-python-zeroconf.noarch : Zeroconf Python scripts for Kodi
plasma6-kio-zeroconf.znver1 : KIO worker to discover file systems by DNS-SD (zeroconf)
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf.znver1 : Zeroconf support for the PulseAudio sound server
================================================ Name Matched: zeroconf ================================================
python-zeroconf.noarch : Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python
zeroconf-ioslave.znver1 : DNS-SD Service Discovery Monitor
============================================== Summary Matched: zeroconf ===============================================
kf6-kdnssd.znver1 : Network service discovery using Zeroconf
kodi-texturepacker.znver1 : Zeroconf Python scripts for Kodi
lib64KF6DNSSD.znver1 : Network service discovery using Zeroconf
perl-Net-Bonjour.noarch : Module for DNS service discovery ( Zeroconf )

@WilsonPhillips

I would think that if the files were ready to play, you would see thumbnails of them and not just the plain icons.

It’s always been like that, have always been able to stream them directly from the server with a raspberry pi, other Linux computers and even another windows computer if they are on my internal network.

maybe resolving this zeroconf issue will fix it though, but it seems like things are running already, doing a search in the “find additional applications” section shows multiple types of zeroconf though

Only the Plasma 6 version is installed, but I would think thats is enough for it to work.

[WilsonPhillips]

What about avahi-utils ?

[BES]

I did a search for avahi-utils specifically and no results, but searching for avahi by itself brought up a bunch of stuff.

avahi.znver1 : Avahi service discovery (mDNS/DNS-SD) suite
avahi-dnsconfd.znver1 : Avahi DNS configuration server
avahi-x11.znver1 : Graphical tools for Avahi
lib64avahi-client-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-client
lib64avahi-client3.znver1 : Library for avahi-client
lib64avahi-common-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-common
lib64avahi-common3.znver1 : Library for avahi-common
lib64avahi-compat-howl-devel.znver1 : Avahi devel compatibility library for libdns_sd for howl
lib64avahi-compat-howl0.znver1 : Avahi compatibility library for howl
lib64avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel.znver1 : Avahi devel compatibility library for libdns_sd
lib64avahi-compat-libdns_sd1.znver1 : Avahi compatibility library for libdns_sd
lib64avahi-core-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-core
lib64avahi-core7.znver1 : Library for avahi-core
lib64avahi-glib-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-glib
lib64avahi-glib1.znver1 : Library for avahi-glib
lib64avahi-gobject-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-gobject
lib64avahi-gobject0.znver1 : Library for avahi-gobject
lib64avahi-libevent-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-libevent
lib64avahi-libevent_1.znver1 : Library for avahi-libevent
lib64avahi-qt5-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-qt5
lib64avahi-qt5_1.znver1 : Library for avahi-qt5
lib64avahi-ui-gtk3-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-gtk3
lib64avahi-ui-gtk3_0.znver1 : Library for avahi-gtk3
libavahi-client-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-client (32-bit)
libavahi-client3.znver1 : Library for avahi-client (32-bit)
libavahi-common-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-common (32-bit)
libavahi-common3.znver1 : Library for avahi-common (32-bit)
libavahi-compat-howl-devel.znver1 : Avahi devel compatibility library for libdns_sd for howl (32-bit)
libavahi-compat-howl0.znver1 : Avahi compatibility library for howl (32-bit)
libavahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel.znver1 : Avahi devel compatibility library for libdns_sd (32-bit)
libavahi-compat-libdns_sd1.znver1 : Avahi compatibility library for libdns_sd (32-bit)
libavahi-core-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-core (32-bit)
libavahi-core7.znver1 : Library for avahi-core (32-bit)
libavahi-glib-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-glib (32-bit)
libavahi-glib1.znver1 : Library for avahi-glib (32-bit)
libavahi-gobject-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-gobject (32-bit)
libavahi-gobject0.znver1 : Library for avahi-gobject (32-bit)
libavahi-libevent-devel.znver1 : Devel library for avahi-libevent (32-bit)
libavahi-libevent_1.znver1 : Library for avahi-libevent (32-bit)

These are the installed things to be specific.

[WilsonPhillips]

Is there an zeroconf or avahi service that is not running?

[BES]

It was off, I turned it on, will restart and test it

[BES]

Progress, I can see the files using Haruna video player, but clicking on them nothing happens

and the server still wasn’t showing up on the network list under SMB, I manually added it, but still doesn’t let me stream any video using any of the video players.

if I VNC into it though I can view them so I will use that as a work around and stop trying,lol