[MPlayer-dev-eng] Added new protocol smb://

[Gábor Lénárt]

Sorry if I miss something but I would like to ask: why?
In general, UNIX is about modularity. Thus since Linux already supports
mounting SMB shares why do you need this? It's like you include full NFS
client in user space just because you don't like mounting NFS exported
directory first, than use that. It would turn into VERY complex and large
code to include several (networked) filesystem direct support into mplayer
while the certain fs is already supported by Linux (kernel).
Also, if mounting is not good for you, there is a library (however I forgot
its name) which can be forced to use with LD PRELOAD and it will handle
some libc file functions on its own to allow to use //machine/share ... etc
like "paths" as you expect like native "unix paths" without a single line
changed in the source of the application.

AGAIN this mail is not against you work, it's only a question about it.

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 10:03:29PM +0300, Vladimir Moushkov wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've made this patch (not exactly patch - included whole files - 3) to support reading films from the local net. The files are from 0.90pre8.
> I really hope someone going to merge them to CVS. I haven't ever work with CVS and have no inet traffic (this is cost money!!) to apply the patch by my self. These patch is very well working open/seek/close stream support.
> Currently I am working over subread.c -> if find really difficult to patch it  for reading subtitles from the lan... I hope somebody going to help me.
> 
> regards to team of best movie player: vlindos
> ps. for using of the patch you may need to recompiler your samba with --enable-libsmbclient 
> 
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- Gábor (larta'H)