On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Shawn Tan wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 23:00:14 Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> 3. Samba network share problem with media playing. Finally >> solved with VLC. Other media player does not work with >> KDE very well, they tend to copy the whole file before playing. > > This is almost certainly not a KDE problem (unless you meant Dragon). Most > other players do not leverage KDE code. Neither does samba. Google tells me it is a KDE problem or the KDE file system/file manager problem. Interestingly I have similar problem with KDE 3 (Ubuntu 8.04) and XFCE 4 with Thunar. LXDE (using pcmanfm) seems to work. More info: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/5411 http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/850487.html The recommended solution is to mount the shared drive. I tend to think this is not a very good solution. For now, VLC solved the problem. Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist