vlc does not play video from afp share
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When trying to play a video from a mounted share, I get : Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'afp://<email address hidden>
The default "Video player" has no issues opening the file, just playback is darn slow.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: vlc 2.1.2-2build2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Apr 24 21:00:01 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-06 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140303)
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
There are no plans to add AFP support to VLC on Linux, at least not until the Linux kernel itself supports AFP natively (which I think it does not).