[Bug 69504] Cannot play movies on shared network drive (SMB) using Totem

[Panagiotis Issaris]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: totem

When adding a network share using "Places->Connect to server" and
accessing that drive, I noticed that I cannot play movies on the remote
drive. Viewing pictures on that same drive works fine (using EOG by just
clicking in Nautilus), as does opening textfiles (using gedit by
clicking).

When clicking a movie though, it won't work and shows the following message:
"Totem could not play 'smb://EDM;pissaris@katana/public/test.avi'.
Could not read from resource."

gnomevfs-ls, gnomevfs-info and gnomevfs-cp work fine on the files.

I've tested this on two separate systems.
Bug 26819 at first seemed the same, but it isn't, as that user can play some files, but not all. Apparantly due to some characters occuring in the filename or so.
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/26819

In my case _no_ movies are playable if they are accessed through SMB.

Screenshot:
http://static.flickr.com/121/284655481_b31d52bc32_o.png

My system:
Ubuntu Edgy on x86
totem-gstreamer 2.16.2-0ubuntu1
libgnomevfs2-0 2.16.1-0ubuntu2
libgnomevfs2-common 2.16.1-0ubuntu2
libgnomevfs2-extra 2.16.1-0ubuntu2

** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Cannot play movies on shared network drive (SMB) using Totem
https://launchpad.net/bugs/69504