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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Since Zeroconf is not running, I am guessing it may not be installed.
┌──[wilson@heisenberg] Thu Feb 27, 12:59:25 [~]
└──[ <$> dnf search zeroconf
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:25 ago on Thu 27 Feb 2025 12:59:09 PM CST.
============================================= Name & Summary Matched: zeroconf =============================================
kio-zeroconf.znver1 : KIO worker to discover file systems by DNS-SD (zeroconf)
kodi-python-zeroconf.noarch : Zeroconf Python scripts for Kodi
plasma6-kio-zeroconf.znver1 : KIO worker to discover file systems by DNS-SD (zeroconf)
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf.znver1 : Zeroconf support for the PulseAudio sound server
================================================== Name Matched: zeroconf ==================================================
python-zeroconf.noarch : Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python
zeroconf-ioslave.znver1 : DNS-SD Service Discovery Monitor
================================================ Summary Matched: zeroconf =================================================
kf6-kdnssd.znver1 : Network service discovery using Zeroconf
kodi-texturepacker.znver1 : Zeroconf Python scripts for Kodi
lib64KF6DNSSD.znver1 : Network service discovery using Zeroconf
perl-Net-Bonjour.noarch : Module for DNS service discovery ( Zeroconf )
You may need to install something from here.
I would think that if the files were ready to play, you would see thumbnails of them and not just the plain icons.
[bes@beast ~]$ 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 )
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
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.