#997791 mpv: Playback from SMB shares no longer possible

Package:
mpv
Source:
mpv
Description:
video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
Submitter:
Gregor Riepl
Date:
2021-10-24 12:51:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#997791#5
Date:
2021-10-24 12:39:03 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The mpv (or possibly libav*) version provided in Debian was capable of playing
directly from SMB shares in the past.

This is no longer possible, instead I get error messages similar to this one:

[ffmpeg] Protocol not found. Make sure ffmpeg/Libav is compiled with networking
support.
Failed to open smb://server/share/file.mkv

I'm not sure when this stopped working, but it means I can no longer play media
files on SMB shares directly from a file manager.

I tried with both libavformat58 and libavformat-extra58, but neither worked.
libsmbclient is installed.

Please consider fixing this regression. Perhaps it's a dependency issue in mpv,
caused by moving SMB support into libavformat-extra?

Thanks.