Please help me solve these problems in Kubuntu

[jean gruneberg]

dgray_from_dc wrote:
> I am having a similar problem with Kaffeine.  I have a large repositiory
> of music vidoes, AMVs (Anime Music Videos), mp3s and other media content
> on an external USB HDD.  I can play them fine one-at-a-time with MPlayer
> however, this is very inconvenient for creating playlists of music
> videos on-the-fly.  From my USB HDD, Kaffeine tells me that it can only
> open local files.  I copied a few of the files down to a local partition
> and Kaffeine played them without a hitch.  I'm using a dual-boot machine
> with limited HDD space and am planning on building a server to store my
> media content.  However, without the ability to play back my content in
> a polished app, I may need to move away from KDE in search of a native
> media player with all of the features I want.  I love KDE and would
> rather figure out how to make this work for me.
> 
> 
Would VLC not work in this situation.

Jean