[gst-devel] Playing remote file

[Stefan Kost]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> Stefan Kost wrote:
>   
>> Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>>     
>>> I play a sound file on the local machine using playbin2 by setting the
>>> uri
>>> parameter to file://path.to.file.  Where can I get information about what
>>> other network protocols can be used here?  I would like to be able to use
>>> the uri parameter to specify a sound file on another machine on the same
>>> LAN.  Both machines run Ubuntu.  I suppose that I could copy the file to
>>> a temporary directory on the local machine and then play it from there,
>>> but I suspect that there is a better way to do this.
>>>   
>>>       
>> you can iterate the gstreamer registry and find all features that
>> provide GstURIHandler. Check what "gst-inspect-0.10 -u" is doing.
>>
>> Stefan
>>     
>
> Whether I use ftp or sftp as the network protocol, I get the same result:
>
> gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=ftp://jeffbarish@quartet:/home/jeffbarish/00.ogg
> (gst-launch-0.10:4633): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple 
> times
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
> ERROR: from element /GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstGioSrc:source: Could not open 
> resource for reading.
> Additional debug info:
> gstgiosrc.c(321): gst_gio_src_get_stream (): 
> /GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstGioSrc:source:
> Location ftp://quartet:0/home/jeffbarish/00.ogg not mounted: The specified 
> location is not mounted
> Setting pipeline to NULL ...
> Freeing pipeline ...
>
> I presume that I don't have the servers configured correctly, but I can't 
> find any information about how they need to be configured for GStreamer.
>   

I guess passing the credentials like this is not supported. Check the
debug log for giosrc and also search in bugzilla (imho there is a bug
for it).

Stefan