Bug#622879: vlc: please add smb as supported protocol to .desktop file (needed for KDE)

Zsolt Rizsanyi rizsanyi at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Apr 15 13:54:47 UTC 2011


Package: vlc
Version: 1.1.9-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream

In its desktop file vlc specifies with 'Exec=vlc %U' that it can open
URIs. KDE for some time assumes that only http and ftp are supported by
such an application unless the destop file specifies an explicit list of
supported protocols. Unfortunately this needs to be specified in a KDE
specific manner using X-KDE-Protocols.

As a result of this when I try to play a file from a samba share from
KDE Dolphin it first tries to copy the whole video file to a temporary
folder before passing it to the VLC.

My patch fixes this problem. Please apply it.

I have added some more protocols I found that are supported by vlc, but
probably there are others too. You can add them if you want.

Thanks,
Zsolt


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vlc depends on:
ii  libaa1                  1.4p5-38         ascii art library
ii  libavcodec52            4:0.6.2-1        Libav codec library
ii  libavutil50             4:0.6.2-1        Libav utility library
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.4-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0             0.19.2-1         Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.0-2        GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.10-4           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.7.2-3        Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.7.2-3        Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libsdl-image1.2         1.2.10-2+b2      image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6.1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-2          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtar                  1.2.11-7         C library for manipulating tar arc
ii  libva-x11-1             1.0.12-1         Video Acceleration (VA) API for Li
ii  libva1                  1.0.12-1         Video Acceleration (VA) API for Li
ii  libvlccore4             1.1.9-1          base library for VLC and its modul
ii  libx11-6                2:1.4.2-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libx11-xcb1             2:1.4.2-1        Xlib/XCB interface library
ii  libxcb-keysyms1         0.3.6-1          utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-randr0           1.7-2            X C Binding, randr extension
ii  libxcb-shm0             1.7-2            X C Binding, shm extension
ii  libxcb-xv0              1.7-2            X C Binding, xv extension
ii  libxcb1                 1.7-2            X C Binding
ii  libxext6                2:1.2.0-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxpm4                 1:3.5.9-1        X11 pixmap library
ii  ttf-freefont            20100919-1       Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  vlc-nox                 1.1.9-1          multimedia player and streamer (wi
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages vlc recommends:
ii  vlc-plugin-notify            1.1.9-1     LibNotify plugin for VLC
ii  vlc-plugin-pulse             1.1.9-1     PulseAudio plugin for VLC
ii  xdg-utils                    1.1.0~rc1-2 desktop integration utilities from

Versions of packages vlc suggests:
ii  mozilla-plugin-vlc            1.1.9-1    multimedia plugin for web browsers
pn  videolan-doc                  <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on:
ii  liba52-0.7.4            0.7.4-15         library for decoding ATSC A/52 str
ii  libasound2              1.0.23-2.1       shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libass4                 0.9.11-1         library for SSA/ASS subtitles rend
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.29-1         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.29-1         Avahi common library
ii  libavc1394-0            0.5.3-1+b2       control IEEE 1394 audio/video devi
ii  libavcodec52            4:0.6.2-1        Libav codec library
ii  libavformat52           4:0.6.2-1        Libav file format library
ii  libavutil50             4:0.6.2-1        Libav utility library
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcaca0                0.99.beta17-1    colour ASCII art library
ii  libcddb2                1.3.2-2          library to access CDDB data - runt
ii  libcdio10               0.81-4           library to read and control CD-ROM
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.4.6-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdc1394-22            2.1.3-1          high level programming interface f
ii  libdca0                 0.0.5-3          decoding library for DTS Coherent 
ii  libdirac-encoder0       1.0.2-3          open and royalty free high quality
ii  libdvbpsi6              0.1.7-1          library for MPEG TS and DVB PSI ta
ii  libdvdnav4              4.1.3-7          DVD navigation library
ii  libdvdread4             4.1.3-10         library for reading DVDs
ii  libebml3                1.2.0-2          access library for the EBML format
ii  libfaad2                2.7-6            freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - 
ii  libflac8                1.2.1-3          Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.4-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0             0.19.2-1         Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.0-2        GCC support library
ii  libgcrypt11             1.4.6-5          LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26             2.10.5-1+b1      the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0           1.10-0.3         library for common error values an
ii  libkate1                0.3.8-1          Kate is a codec for karaoke and te
ii  liblircclient0          0.9.0~pre1-1     infra-red remote control support -
ii  liblua5.1-0             5.1.4-5          Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii  libmad0                 0.15.1b-6        MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libmatroska3            1.1.0-2          extensible open standard audio/vid
ii  libmodplug1             1:0.8.8.1-2      shared libraries for mod music bas
ii  libmpcdec6              2:0.1~r459-1     MusePack decoder - library
ii  libmpeg2-4              0.4.1-3          MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder libr
ii  libmtp8                 1.0.6-2          Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr
ii  libncursesw5            5.7+20100313-5   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0                 1.2.0~dfsg-1     Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.44-2         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpostproc51           4:0.6.2-1        Libav video postprocessing library
ii  libproxy0               0.3.1-2          automatic proxy configuration mana
ii  libraw1394-11           2.0.7-1          library for direct access to IEEE 
ii  libschroedinger-1.0-0   1.0.10-2         library for encoding/decoding of D
ii  libshout3               2.2.2-5+b1       MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming
ii  libsmbclient            2:3.5.8~dfsg-1   shared library for communication w
ii  libspeex1               1.2~rc1-1        The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-2          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libswscale0             4:0.6.2-1        Libav video scaling library
ii  libtag1c2a              1.6.3-1          TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii  libtheora0              1.1.1+dfsg.1-3   The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libtwolame0             0.3.12-1         MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar
ii  libudev0                167-1            libudev shared library
ii  libupnp3                1:1.6.6-5        Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, ver
ii  libv4l-0                0.8.3-1          Collection of video4linux support 
ii  libvcdinfo0             0.7.23-4+b2      library to extract information fro
ii  libvlc5                 1.1.9-1          multimedia player and streamer lib
ii  libvlccore4             1.1.9-1          base library for VLC and its modul
ii  libvorbis0a             1.3.2-1          The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2           1.3.2-1          The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libxml2                 2.7.8.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libvlc5 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libvlccore4                   1.1.9-1    base library for VLC and its modul

Versions of packages libvlccore4 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.4.6-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  vlc-data                      1.1.9-1    Common data for VLC

Versions of packages vlc is related to:
ii  libavutil50                   4:0.6.2-1  Libav utility library
pn  libavutil51                   <none>     (no description available)

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